| davidlzimmer |
I'm looking for some tracks to intertain myself. I particularly enjoy tracks that make you feel like the band is in the room.
Basically, tracks where the engineer just let it happen.
The best examples I have found yet are Nora Jones "The Prettiest Thing", any OLD Brubeck, and beleive it or not, Johnny Cash "Hurt".
You can put these tracks on at a volume that makes the vocals sound natural and you start seeing faces.
Anyone have material to suggest?
PS. I love Rock but, you just can't put a rock band in a living room.
Well, not since I stopped playing :-) |
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| b-square |
the whole johnny cash american recordings series, from which his cover of hurt comes, fits the bill. you can also try ani difranco's albums "not a pretty girl" and "dilate". i also like miles davis "sketches of spain". i haven't heard many albums that were produced like that track by track: either the whole thing is live or close mic'd or none of it is.
is classical allowed on your list? |
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| lndm |
| Credence, Beatles, sound better than most. |
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| davidlzimmer |
"Is classical allowed on your list?"
Maybe chamber music. To me, all classical recordings try to put you in 10th row center aisle. Which is fine and I love it. But for this thread I'm talking about a small combo in the room that you feel you can reach out and touch. |
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| Wombat |
Tom Waits - Alice
On some songs it sounds like the piano he sits at is in front of you and the other musicans nearby.
Poor Edward is my famous piece :) |
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| davidlzimmer |
Thanks B-Square and Wombat.
I think the Tom Watts is the type of track I'm looking for. Like some of the Nora Jones sets. It sounds as if you are leaning over the piano and she is whispering a song just for you.
THAT could make a guy's day!
I'll try to find some MP3s or a CD.
Thanks!
Keepem comming folks! |
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| Wombat |
I hope you won´t be dissapointed by Alice cause it is darker coloured in sound like lets say Norah Jones "Come Away With Me"
If you like Tom Waits Alice i´d suggest Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis.
He also sits in front of his piano sounding like 20 years of heroine and for sure relaxed :) The recording itself isn´t that great but the atmosphere it spreads is unique! Like imaging silence with music.
I love it!! |
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| bottom_feeder |
I totally agree with the Miles Davis 'Spain' recording - any of his live recordings do the job for me (Funny Valentine, his stuff with Milt Jackson, etc.) .
Another favorite: a Charlie Byrd 'Direct to Disc' recording that sounds so real you can touch it - recorded on Crystal Clear Records Label on white Vinyl. CRAZY flute and guitar work on this one.
Here's one out of left field: Mad Season - it was a Alice in Chains side project back in the 90's - very jazzy, very minimalist recording. I know what your saying - ALICE IN CHAINS??? TRUST me . . . it's gooooood :) |
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| davidlzimmer |
Modern Jazz Quartet. Lonely Woman
1962
Excellant recording! |
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| SY |
| Band in the room, dry acoustic? Grisman/Garcia/Rice, "The Pizza Tapes." Grisman/Rice, "Tone Poems." Garcia/Grisman, "Shady Grove." All recorded in Grisman's studio, all acoustic strings. |
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| Shoebacca |
| If small jazz combo's are your thing try Patricia Barber. Her voice is huskier than Norah Jones, and she is a very good pianist as well. Her disc "Modern Cool" is a good place to start. |
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| davidlzimmer |
Thanks Shoebacca. I'll look into it. It's not that I am favoring small jazz combos. It's just that those recordings seem to be the best as for as sounding like the group is in the room. Can't hardly do that with an orchestra.
I should have started this thread with "soundslike THEY are there". |
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| pinkmouse |
| A little off topic, but a superb example of something similar is Suzanne Vega. I have seen her live many times, yet wether it was in a crowd of 50 000 at a German Rock festival, or in a tiny marquee with 200 people, and every time I knew she was singing just for me. Magic. |
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| bluebeard |
quick trivia,
since they both popped up in the same short post...
what's the connection between norah jones and the beatles? |
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| davidlzimmer |
pinkmouse,
Not off topic at all. Now if I can find a RECORDING of her that has the same magic, I will treasure it.
I stumbled across another track, Merle Hagard, "Wishin all these old Things were New".
Norah Jones, Beatles, Ravi Shankar ???
Don't let that one drop. Let's hear it!!!! |
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| infinia |
Did I win?
She is the daughter of renowned Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and American Sue Jones.
Norah Jones was born in New York but raised by her mother near Dallas, Texas... She rarely speaks about Shankar in public; according to a 2002 article in The Guardian, "She saw her father a few times a year until she was nine, and then not until she was 18"... Ravi Shankar was a favorite colleague of The Beatles, in particular of George Harrison. |
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| davidlzimmer |
One word, one syllable.
WOW! |
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| Netlist |
There is a LP release as well. I'd prefer that above the SACD version. Mainly because I don't have a SACD player and secondly because I prefer to see my vinyl collection grow. :)
/Hugo |
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| davidlzimmer |
Thanks Karlw,
Called an old friend who is into Patricia Barber. He is going to rip the CD "Night Club" and send it to me.
Thanks! |
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| renfrow |
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Great Summit: The Master Takes
Tom. |
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| Scottmoose |
| PJ Harvey: Wedding Dress. |
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| infinia |
I like Polly Jean too!
check out PJ Harvey with Giant Sand's Howe Gelb doing a rendition of "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline" Written by X -xcerp of lyrics "She was spreading her legs and didn't mind dying"
La petit mort?
LoFi music at its best
Howe Gelb
http://www.qujunktions.com/asp/main...5&style=article |
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| Scottmoose |
| Ha! A man of taste! Yes, Polly is one of my favourites. OK, I confess, my favourite rock musician of the past 15 years, period. I particularly like her semi acoustic rendering of The Fall's 'Janet & Johnny & James' ... |
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| francis varkey |
My take,
"The Dance - Fleetwood Mac"DVD; nice recording overall though the glitzy bells sometimes coming from the surround channel(ought to have come from the front right) probably the best DVD I've heard(haven't heard too many;) ) |
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