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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:49 pm 
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Today I have listened to:

Mazda Kaleidescope
Fancy Planets
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and a mystery album......but I can't talk about it yet :wink: :twisted: :mrgreen:

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Have had to listen to 'Darkness L'Immoraliste' a few times yesterday and once today. :) :shock: :) 8)


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alec wrote:
Have had to listen to 'Darkness L'Immoraliste' a few times yesterday and once today.


In many ways, a precursor to the orchestral epics found on 'The Alchemical Adventures Of Sailor Bill,' and certain tracks on 'Golden Melodies Of Tomorrow' and 'Fables And Dreamsongs.' The blueprint was already on the drawing board, even back in the early 1970s...so there's no excuse for some fans being wrong-footed by recent advances...the future was already in place back then. :wink:


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alec wrote:
Have had to listen to 'Darkness L'Immoraliste' a few times yesterday and once today.


In many ways, a precursor to the orchestral epics found on 'The Alchemical Adventures Of Sailor Bill,' and certain tracks on 'Golden Melodies Of Tomorrow' and 'Fables And Dreamsongs.' The blueprint was already on the drawing board, even back in the early 1970s...so there's no excuse for some fans being wrong-footed by recent advances...the future was already in place back then. :wink:


But of course.............makes perfect sense to me :wink: 8)

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Have had to listen to 'Darkness L'Immoraliste' a few times yesterday and once today.


In many ways, a precursor to the orchestral epics found on 'The Alchemical Adventures Of Sailor Bill,' and certain tracks on 'Golden Melodies Of Tomorrow' and 'Fables And Dreamsongs.' The blueprint was already on the drawing board, even back in the early 1970s...so there's no excuse for some fans being wrong-footed by recent advances...the future was already in place back then. :wink:


But of course.............makes perfect sense to me :wink: 8)


The singing is so fantastic and the way it builds and swells, and takes off, bursts through black clouds of night, seems opera and/or classically-trained singers would enjoy singing 'Darkness (L'Immoraliste)'.


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The singing is so fantastic and the way it builds and swells, and takes off, bursts through black clouds of night, seems opera and/or classically-trained singers would enjoy singing 'Darkness (L'Immoraliste)'.


You know Alec, I think you may be right there........

It has the right balance of emotion and musicality to make it worthy of classical appraisal and treatment....

All without a hagiography of course :wink:

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'Darkness' actually has a real operatic choir on it, as well as a large orchestra.

It was a thrill hearing them play and sing on the piece when I attended the recording session where their parts were dubbed on to the band track.
It's their contribution that really gives the piece its drama. In my opinion my voice lets it down. I now generally find my vocals on Axe Victim to be an embarassment...they sound, to me, like some weedy school boy. Very light and emotionally superficial. I much prefer my current vocal style which is much more mature in its approach, more subtle and textured. There are many years of real life experience behind the voice now. It has content and emotional context to express.

Listen to the vocal, (for instance,) on 'The Ceremonial Arrival Of The Great Golden Cloud' from the 'Sailor Bill' album. It begins with a quite revealing emotional fragility. There's a tenderness and tremulousness as I sing about my late father 'loving the sea.' It sounds as if it might break in two at any moment.
Then, as the piece builds there's a gathering of forces leading to a lovely moment where the vocal soars on the line 'how high we fly' which then sets up the chorus and song title lines. The melodic twists and turns of the vocal lines are far more sophisticated than anything I would have been capable of back in the '70s.

I used to really dislike my vocals in the past but, these days, I have grown to respect my singing style and enjoy singing much more. I'm not an 'orthodox' vocalist but, hopefully, make good use of what little ability I have in that area. :)


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felixt1 wrote:
Today I have listened to:

Mazda Kaleidescope
Fancy Planets
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and a mystery album......but I can't talk about it yet :wink: :twisted: :mrgreen:


Of course it was my genuine original copy of The Alchemical Adventures Of Sailor Bill that I was listening to..........more on this another time :wink:

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I now generally find my vocals on Axe Victim to be an embarassment...they sound, to me, like some weedy school boy. :)



Axe Victim vocals embarrassing do you say? Absolute tosh man, your vocal acrobatics were spot on then... :shock:

...and by the way you, WERE a weedy school boy, back then Bill! 8)

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Listen to the vocal, (for instance,) on 'The Ceremonial Arrival Of The Great Golden Cloud' from the 'Sailor Bill' album. It begins with a quite revealing emotional fragility. There's a tenderness and tremulousness as I sing about my late father 'loving the sea.' It sounds as if it might break in two at any moment.


Not only that, but the fact that Bill has managed to fit the lyric - The ceremonial arrival, of the great, golden cloud into a melodic line that makes sense, is a small wonder all to itself 8) :wink:

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