Anything by Caballero Reynaldo is excellent, ran across him via his Zappa cover albums (the UNmatched series). In The Lounge Of The Naldo King is a disc of King Crimson covers; Ringomania is a collection of Beatles covers, but only songs sung by Ringo.
Plong42 - Nguyen Le album is still available at eMusic. ACT is one of the few decent labels actually left there. I downloaded it a few weeks back, good use of my limited credit!
@greg - thanks, just used up most of the monthly budget to get the rest of Nguyen Le's albums from eMu (while the lights are still on). Homescape and Saiyuki are both excellent.
I purchased Nguyên Lê & Ngo Hong Quang, Ha Noi Duo from iTunes, probably my favorite. His cover albums are fun too.
Just to say, you can buy it, listen, but DL is not possible. Emu support has given up I'm thinking, is The Leaf Label on it's way out ?
Further: I got my money back and subsequently found out that everything except track 6 worked. I then bought track 6 from Bandcamp for 0,79 €. - A bit tricky perhaps, but track 6 is still bad, so i guess "the trick" still works.
Speaking of Kraftwerk:
Klingklang is the private music studio of the band Kraftwerk, taken from the first song on the Kraftwerk 2 album. Back in 2016 I was invited to contribute to a CD accompanying a popular music magazine with a tribute to this fine group. I chose to cover this tune from 1972, which unusually featured flute, guitar, violin, bass but strangely no synths! To reflect this I decided to perform it completely live, without tidying up the recording. Unfortunately due to legal issues the album never came to light so hope you will enjoy this rather special mix that has never been heard before.
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- Awesome indeed !
atom™ & lisokot // be bop a lula
16 Horsepower - Bad Moon Risin'
released June 18, 2018
In case you were wondering how to swing a pop ballad on the Hammond B3 in 1966, here you go. 45 version, with crackles and all..
The cover version that I dare not speak it's name
Don't tell anyone
Barack Obama - Amazing Grace
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
living life in peace
ooooh
You may say I’m a dreamer
I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world
will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
sharing all the world
yeahhh
You may say I’m a dreamer
I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world
will be as one
I purchased Nguyên Lê & Ngo Hong Quang, Ha Noi Duo from iTunes, probably my favorite. His cover albums are fun too.
Kraftwerk cover . . . Awesome indeed !
I'm thinking, is The Leaf Label on it's way out ?
- A bit tricky perhaps, but track 6 is still bad, so i guess "the trick" still works.
Speaking of Kraftwerk:
Klingklang is the private music studio of the band Kraftwerk, taken from the first song on the Kraftwerk 2 album. Back in 2016 I was invited to contribute to a CD accompanying a popular music magazine with a tribute to this fine group. I chose to cover this tune from 1972, which unusually featured flute, guitar, violin, bass but strangely no synths! To reflect this I decided to perform it completely live, without tidying up the recording. Unfortunately due to legal issues the album never came to light so hope you will enjoy this rather special mix that has never been heard before.
- John Cage
- A Cole Porter cover.