nick65

I bought it yesterday! I listened to it (superficially) only once, and from the various reviews I've read over these two years since its release, I expected only voicevoicevoice. Instead, it starts from vespertine and continues along the stylistic path interrupted there... beautiful cover, but can you satisfy my curiosity?? How the heck do you read the lyrics and titles in BLACK ON BLACK BACKGROUND??????? XD Well done, Janis!!!

beautiful album, almost perfect, definitely the best of the nassau trilogy (following this were livin' my life, the previous warm leatherette, all with the significant contribution of sly dunbar and robbie shakespeare!) ... I let slip "the complete nassau recordings" (or something like that) from 1998 ... sigh :=(

damn the voteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :=)

brilliant Eurythmics, one of the few bands from the eighties with something truly to say, great voice and interpretation (her), talented musician (him), together they wrote some really interesting pieces (underappreciated "Savage"), separately they haven't been the same... I also believe they didn't take anything at all from Kraftwerk, using electronic instruments does not mean having inherited anything from the fathers of vocoder-synth-drum machines, it can't be that simple... the beginnings of the Eurythmics are darker, more new wave, and gradually they crossed through rock, pop, and soul, for them too (from my point of view) every album has its own story... :=)

well, I would have written the same things about lovesexy, then that year (1988) I had the luck to see him at the then palatrussardi in Milan and it was an incredible live!!! I agree with ringostarfish (and coffee???), prince is so complex, controversial, and brilliant that you can really say everything and its opposite about him. the latest album? 3121 is a great album, slipping out of the darkness and the little visibility of recent times, and perhaps "te amo corazon" is indeed the calmest (flat?) track on the entire CD.

great woman, great personality (actually with little recognition in Italy, who knows why), a life not so easy (young mother and wife, a career that, despite her incredible singing talent, struggled to take off) to the point that she must have etched some of the "pain" of the blues on her skin... absolutely extraordinary! I really love this album, the initial "drinking again" makes me over the moon, she interprets it brilliantly, just like everything she does, even though in her last albums, produced by trendy musicians/songwriters, she hasn’t shone... I have other albums of hers (really nice "live at the olimpya" recorded in Paris in 1967, as Frantz rightly noted, "one lord, one faith, one baptism" where she, with great humility, puts herself at the service of the music and the choir almost as a supporting character, introducing her friend Mavis Staples, another great singer (also revived by Prince in 1990), giving space to Reverend Jesse Jackson and his invocations.
coming back to BOMBA (sorry for the off-topic), beautiful review and beautiful album!

................ and I must add, it's worth listening to "garota diferente," a remix album of the tracks from "garota moderna." Generally, I don’t have much faith in these immediate and makeshift reinterpretations, which are often very commercial and dance-oriented, but in this case, the added electronics and special arrangements do not diminish the flavor and freshness of the original, quite the opposite!!! They start from here and travel towards beach clubs at dusk ... in sarongs and flip-flops ... :=)

I saw Rosalia de Souza in concert in Padua in July 2003, a very friendly girl (!) who interacts with the audience and stands for an hour and a half of concert despite her advanced stage of pregnancy (eighth month!). Live, she’s much more “brazil” than jazz or electronic, the influence of Conte is barely felt, while the spirits of Jobim, Gilberto, and the other fathers of the great Brazilian music linger. I listened to this album after seeing the girl "live," and I really enjoyed it a lot!!! Good review, Mauri, it truly makes you want to rush out and get the album!!! :=)

beautiful album, amazing bjork, a character beyond any scheme, someone who has ideas, DARES to put them into practice, doesn’t give a damn about those who denigrate her, makes the music you dream of at night (... nightmares from "nightmare"?...), dresses as she pleases, moves to nyc and then, finding it too constricting, returns to her icy iceland! well done, electronic, ethereal, insubstantial but absolutely REAL! P.S.: I don’t know what horrible sin the punisher has committed, but all this chaos of fights and off-topic discussions in many de-reviews doesn’t seem very fair or ethical to me... :=)

"(all) around the world" is not a cover of a Barry White track; it’s part of "affection" by Stansfield from 1989. They both did a duet of it in '92 :=) It’s clear you really liked this album; I don’t know it, but I have always followed her singles (I did have her first "affection" gifted to me...). It’s indeed strange that she was so little followed in Italy, considering she lived in our country for years (5 or 6, say the gossipers!): anyway, great voice, beautiful music, a lady of music even though she was young; I always find myself comparing her to Amii Stewart!