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pretty pretty pretty pretty....pretty
But why oh why couldn't we get a live video version of ASFAS???  The performance I saw in MA in October was wonderful.  I do love the DVD as did the friend I watched it with.  We had to make an evening out of it.  I also lapped up all the interviews and extras.

ps I will have to try the surround sound!


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...meanwhile found this on youtube:



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They did a show at Glasgow last week with Curved Air.  Anybody from PA attended and how was it?
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The DVD can now be purchased from the band's Bandcamp store as well, with digital live album download included
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*bump*  Did anyone get a chance to listen to the DVD?  Tom Brislin goes on a tear on Ashes Are Burning, evoking (for me) Chick Correa and going well beyond where the reticent Tout stopped.  Believe he was only on the latest instalment of Cruise to the Edge. Very interesting chords played by Tesar on the Ashes..improvs too.  Instrument wise one of the best live versions of Ashes Are Burning.

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now I'm really looking for ward to hearing it when I return home from an extended absence.
The band is now at sea I think, on the Moody Blues cruise, or maybe it's the Yes cruise, I can't keep track!
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Holy sh*t, I just tried the surround sound setting and it got even better!  In this setting, Annie's voice is so close to what it was like in the 70s recordings.  Well, would that there had been surround sound in the 70s! I have to commend the band on spending the money they collected from fans through the fundraiser well.  I was initially a little skeptical about the need for another DVD other than that it was a Europe tour after so long but they have delivered something 'extra' with this DVD that makes it worth.
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To my great good luck, my aunt who lives in IL is here in India to attend a family function.  And since she kept asking me what I'd like for a gift, no prizes for guessing what I asked! Wink  Whatever I have watched/heard so far, it's definitely better produced than the Cards/Scheherazade DVD of 2011.  Incredibly, Annie seems to be singing Ocean Gypsy even better on this concert!  Even more delicate phrasing, brava!
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Mein gott!

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I'm supposed to get it in the mail automatically but I was a late addition to the crowdfunding campaign, so I hope there are no glitches.  Sorry rogerthat, but I think the US$ will see leaner times ahead.  It has had a few years in the sun and should now wither a little
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Oh man, that's a tempting review.  But with the greenback appreciating so much, it's going to cost a bomb what with overseas shipping charges. :(  Let's see, parking this for the time being, maybe couple of months down the line I will bite the bullet.
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Live at the Union Chapel DVD and digital live album are out: 


Stereo soundtrack is LPCM, and also includes the band's first-ever Dolby Digital 5.1 track. Lossless digital audio download (FLAC, ALAC) available from band's website. 

In my biased opinion, the video quality, lighting, and editing are a big step up from the 2011 DVD. Rave Tesar's audio mix is is superb, as always. 
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There is a way in which operatic sopranos modify the vowel sounds to produce a more open tone.  This sound is the same that you hear on the last sustained ScheherazAAAde.  But Annie uses that sound very sparingly.

Here's a link to the Bent Knee thread:
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Nice music!  As for the vocals, she/they sound accomplished alright but I am personally not fond of the operatic 'ouiiii' syllable.  It always surprised me that in spite of learning singing from an opera instructor, Annie emphasised more of an 'aaaa' syllable which agrees more to my Hindustani moorings, I guess.  A good example is when she sings "Emotion smoulders, starts to burn in hAAArmony" in Touching Once; would have expected a classically trained singer to inflect that ouiii sound there.   I am (still) looping Bent Knee's Shiny Eyed Babies which is as different as it gets from Renaissance.

hmm that track certainly sounds operatic to me which I usually don't like, but I can't quite get the "aa" vs "ouiiii".  That track is also not very typical for Corde Oblique.  I will see if I think of another that is more typical and post it.  How about posting "Bent Knee" here
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Nice music!  As for the vocals, she/they sound accomplished alright but I am personally not fond of the operatic 'ouiiii' syllable.  It always surprised me that in spite of learning singing from an opera instructor, Annie emphasised more of an 'aaaa' syllable which agrees more to my Hindustani moorings, I guess.  A good example is when she sings "Emotion smoulders, starts to burn in hAAArmony" in Touching Once; would have expected a classically trained singer to inflect that ouiii sound there.   I am (still) looping Bent Knee's Shiny Eyed Babies which is as different as it gets from Renaissance.

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here is a band I love called Corde Oblique that features a number of excellent female singers.  This track, while not quite sounding like Renaissance, might appeal to fans of that band, plus I wanted to give this thread a bump
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Originally posted by fudgenuts64 fudgenuts64 wrote:

Man, I have The Winter Tree playing now and I forgot how much I loved this song. Should have charted better. I mean, it's just a folk pop song but the bass is so good and the chorus is inescapable really. As much as I love the output from 72-79, I feel like had they tried a more commercial approach earlier in the decade they might have made it big. By 1979 though an album like Azure d'Or appealed to very few listeners.
Azure d'Or isn't a complete wash. I can put it on once in a blue moon for a warm, fuzzy listening experience.
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Winter Tree could have still charted had they filled out the sound. Like when Annie sings "I'll go back there" and sustains the last word it kind of sounds flat. Backing vocals and/or more accompaniment would have helped. Even Warner Bros didn't help their production, seemingly.

I think with the exception of "Jeckyll and Hyde", "Golden Key" and "Kalynda" the whole album sounds flat.  Heck even those songs are only saved by Annie.  I could never get into Winter Tree at all


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