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Wait Orea, I didn't really enjoy the Dylan live but 'Time Out Of Mind' is from the '00s, I can't remember the exact year: for me it's an extraordinarily intense album with a voice that has become a metallic thread, moving in its reckoning with a death that (apparently) Dylan believed was imminent; a great album... the live performances instead (based on what I've experienced as an example) are hermetically ugly, for me...

I saw one of his concerts in Rome a few months ago... (premise: I also love 'Time Out of Mind') classically it was two colossal pains with the distortions of the songs, which all sounded the same... but maybe I didn't get the gesture from a conceptual point of view, I don't know...

The simple yet sophisticated lady on the cover resembles Caroline from Beautiful (stuff from ten years ago... since then I've been forced to endure it at the table, and then they blame me when I get the dogs to bark...)

Me, josi, I don’t know why but I imagined that if I pulled out a quote it would be from 'autumn sweater'... what can I say, a beautiful review for those who already know the album, like me, among others ;) and an enchanting album, capable of warming you up, dense with a charm and a calm and a truly extraordinary beauty (and I've run out of obvious remarks...)

Ah, about the unspecified metamorphoses: Scott Walker - try listening to what he was doing in the '60s and then check out the samples from 'tilt' on de-b; Ian Mackaye - a shift to a semi-acoustic and drier style (clean guitar and drums) of Fugazi structures; Ian Brown - from the sixties-guitar sound of the Stone Roses to a version of the more groovy side of the Roses in often lo-fi electronic tones; Miles Davis - he was over forty when he put out albums that were strongly distant from, say, 'kind of blue', like 'in a silent way' and 'bitches brew', innovative not only within his career (electrification of jazz, transposing an elliptically rock approach, innovative cut-up techniques in dealing with long jams to be recorded, etc. - I don’t even know the rest ;)) and I'm heading toward total-global frustration so I’ll stop here ;D if you want I can start searching... tomorrow...

I beg your pardon for the many mistakes...

Ok, I’ll proceed... morphologically obviously everyone (well, what a load of crap); psychologically I think many: from my personal experience I can mention my father... artistically (the field that I believe interests us the most...): I think of examples like Scott Walker, Ian Mackaye (I saw him recently with his new band, The Evens, and while he still has that Fugazi influence, it’s a significant mutation in his journey), Miles Davis, Ian Brown (the solo stuff, while not particularly original, is definitely not just a photocopy of The Stone Roses), Julian Cope (like it or not, he often changes...), Fabrizio De André, I mean he made 'Creuza de Ma', for instance, after his forties (and whether the originality of the project was due to Paganini or not, it was definitely the result of another (ultra)forty-something, I believe), etc.

A Marzullo-style punch! But can life not be art???

I put a 'don't think' that has nothing to do with anything, sorry...

but why just noise? recently I happened to hear a CD of polite songs from medieval China, it was something quite original to my ears... ;) as I mentioned elsewhere, in any case, no one is 'definitively' original (whether we're talking about current artists like Television, artists from the '60s, or those who first hit a drum at the dawn of time - maybe they wanted to reproduce the sound of galloping animals or thunder...), there's a lot of original music even today, you just have to want to dig deep and avoid overthinking; I add that one can be original even by revisiting highly abused stylistic elements, but giving it a personal voice (I’m thinking of Nirvana...)… in that case, it's up to us to judge what is sufficient to define a work as original (I prefer to say personal): it can be just the lyrics, the production, or even just reproducing a sound in new circumstances, like with the so-called pre-war folk musicians... regards