Laura Nyro - More Than A New Discovery
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Artist: Laura NyroEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-01-29
Music Label: Rev-Ola Uk/Zoom
Soundtracks:
- Goodbye Joe
- Billy's Blues
- And When I Die
- Stoney End
- Lazy Susan
- Hands Off the Man
- Wedding Bell Blues
- Buy and Sell
- He's a Runner
- Blowin' Away
- I Never Meant to Hurt You
- California Shoeshine Boys
Music reviews of More Than A New Discovery
Music Review: RevOla did indeed mess up
Rating: 2 Stars
I'm a huge Laura Nyro fan, and love this album, so this review address the CD and it's problems, not the content.
Where to begin? RevOla did screw up here, but not quite to the extent that the previous reviewer has stated.
Let's start with the positives --
1)The restoration of the original packaging is top notch. No complaints there.
2) The sound quality is significantly different from "The First Songs" CD. When "More Than A New Discovery" was re-issued as "The First Songs" in 1973, I vaguely remember reading that it had been subjected to not only a title and cover change, but a remix. There is a credit on "The First Songs" for Production Supervision: Rich Chiaro that isn't on any other version of the album. I think that he might have supervised the remix. The RevOla CD seems to confirm that memory: the distortion that plagued Laura's vocals on "The First Songs" CD has been significantly diminished (thank God), but the sound quality itself is also quite changed. There is a lot more reverb and echo on the both voice and instruments, and it really now sounds like the early stereo recordings of the `60's with a great deal of separation between instruments. Not much seems to be placed into the center of the sound spectrum. There is also a slight, though not upsetting amount of hiss back - but with it comes more dynamic range on the instruments. It's a fair trade off. This is what RevOla probably means by the Sound Restoration credit. It's a matter of taste to what you prefer, but I like the less distorted, more narrow sound spectrum of this release.
The screw up -
Although they promote a restoration to the original running order starting with Goodbye Joe and ending with California Shoeshine Boys, the disc itself adheres to "The First Songs" running order, starting with Wedding Bell Blues and ending with And When I Die. Whoops!
I'm going to write to RevOla to see what they plan to do about rectifying this issue. If I send this disc back to Amazon UK (where I purchased it), I'll only get back a disc with the same problem. This is a manufacturing defect, not a shipping problem. I'll let you all know how they respond. I also notice a new listing for what looks to be a non-import version with a March street date. Now I'm confused.
I hope this information is helpful to people considering purchasing this CD.
Description of More Than A New Discovery
2008 release, a reissue of the album which introduced the wonderful talent of Laura Nyro to the world! More Than A New Discovery (AKA The First Songs) is informed by the styles of Laura's youth. She had just turned 19 when she recorded the album in early 1966, and the songs retain a youthful exuberance and glisten with beautiful Pop melodies and then-fashionable, sturdy '60s NY arrangements. Laura's lyrics are as poetically-charged and mature as at her peak, from the wise 'And When I Die' to the observational approach of 'Buy and Sell'. Musically, the album was obviously tailored to fit the prevailing landscape of '60s female Pop singers and it often has the same soulful atmosphere of Dusty Springfield and Evie Sands or the brash, bravura Pop of Barbra Streisand, who was to take 'Stoney End' to the charts three years later. Rev-Ola.Folk CDs
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