njc, my thoughts:
Every musician, every instrument has his own space, even the smallest tonal details are excerted.
Some motion of the violin arch, a small push from the accordion, and you’re in. But never analytic. But the best thing is how everything gets unified with a controlled matter of course to amazing music full of dynamic. Or dramatic art, or just simple beauty.
The clear voice of Magda Kozena or the sound of Willy deVille. You won’t miss anything, even when you love the 62. Its timing is perfect, its rhythm is unimaginable in any other way, its arrangement is stunning, its bass not too present, fine.
Great art, great work! Respect, Neil! Those cards are an adventure, absolutely.
Regards, Fred
my music:
Tanita Tikaram: The sweet keeper (it all come back today, little sister, consider the rain)
Esther Ofarim: I’ll see you in my dreams, live 2009 (my lagan love)
Magdalena Kozena: Vivaldi (sonno, se pur sei sonno, und gelido in ogni vena)
Manfred Leuchter: zina (beata solitudo, >La Brume de L’Hivernage)<
sometimes:
Andy McKee, Art of motion: drifting.
Peter Doherty, Grece/Wastelands: Arcady, english roses.
KTU: Quiver and 8armed monkeys. Tara Bouman and Alex Buchholz: Contemporary. Manfred Leuchter & Ian Melrose: vis-a-vis, reel d‘Alphonse.