1987 US pressing. Just picked this vinyl up used. Really liking this. I’ve spun my original CD version countless times and it sounds good. This vinyl version looks/sounds like new and it has been stored in a mo-fi sleeve. It is pressed on a dark trans-black vinyl. Very little surface noise. Onward to side two. Sweet.
Midnight Oil- Diesel And Dust. This is a very well produced album , this original from 1987 sounds phenomenal, but 10-1, Red Sails are equally sensational and I prefer them to this album, they had a great run from 10-1 till Blue Sky Mining.
Was reading a bit of The House that Trane Built today and they have a 2 page spread throughout the book about a particular Impulse album with comments from the artists/producers etc. This album was recorded at the Village Vanguard and Danny Johnson is a Painter not a musician , but Keith basically told him to play bells and chimes at the gig so he sort of sits in the back and jingles away .
Gotta say I was a bit underwhelmed by this on first listen a month or so ago, gonna give it another spin as these J- Jazz reissues have been some of my favourite purchases over the last couple of years, so maybe I was mistaken!??! Topology.
Yeah, except the 1st track which is on the comp and the last track, this is a bit boring for me, for people that have Animal Garden , what do you think? I don’t really want to spend money on something I won’t listen to, I need Excitement !!
I'm playing through my roughly top 20 favourite records of 2019 to come up with some kind of definitive(ish) ranking. This is actually in about 17th place before the listen but with the kids home rap and raucous jazz are probably out! This sounds mighty fine and is up there with his best album (Jama Ko for me, before this). He got some attention on previous albums for electrifying his Ngoni giving the fairly basic instrument a sounding rather like some kind of Malian Jimi Hendrix. But on this album he went back to acoustic basics, and it's gorgeous.
