Laura Nyro - Seasons of Lights...Laura Nyro in Concert
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Artist: Laura NyroEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-08-12
Music Label: Iconoclassic
Soundtracks:
- Money
- Sweet Lovin' Baby (Bonus Track)
- And When I Die
- The Morning News (Bonus Track)
- Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp
- I Am The Blues (Bonus Track)
- When I Was A Freeport And You Were The Main Drag
- Captain St. Lucifer (unedited performance)
- Smile (Bonus Track)
- Mars (Bonus Track)
- Sweet Blindness
- The Cat-Song (unedited performance)
- Emmie
- The Confession
- Timer (Bonus Track)
- Midnite Blue (Bonus Track)
Music reviews of Seasons of Lights...Laura Nyro in Concert
Music Review: A superb documentation of Laura live
Rating: 5 Stars
When "Season of Lights", Laura Nyro's first live album, came out, the "punk revolution" and the resulting tightening of commercial radio playlists made it a tough time for expressive, feminine sucians like her. Her 1976 album Smile had reached number 60 on the Billboard chart, but "Season of Lights" only reached number 137 despite showing clearly that Laura was back as a musical force when she wanted to be.
Indeed, the performances on "Season of Lights" are in general better than those on Smile. Most especially clear is that Laura shows much greater focus than on most parts of that album and consequently her songs - though in a much different style from albums like Eli and Tendaberry. Most noteworthy are the versions of "Sweet Blindness" and "Captain Saint Lucifer" that amount to complete reworks from the original songs but the way in which Laura allows her backing band to jam out for several minutes on the latter song is really surprising as well as quite truly beautiful. On "The Confession", she sings as nearly like an angel as one has ever known her too and her wonderful vocal yet again transforms the song completely from its original album version to something, indeed, that we never expected from her. Not only that, but the beauty of the music more than matches the superb vocal.
Both "I Am The Blues" and "Money" are treated to superb performances that are distinctly more passionate than their studio versions. In the case of "Money", that is really fitting given the song's message, and it was only justice that Nyro included the song on her self-chosen "Stoned Soul Picnic" compilation just before she died - despite never in her post-1980 concert repetoire having played anything from "Smile". The only unique track, "The Morning News", is a very short but beautifully written story of social decay and business corruption that manages almost to show Laura was not completely out of touch with the message of the "punk revolution" even if her music was exactly its opposite in many ways. On the realtively well-known renditions of "Sweet Loving Baby" and "The Cat Song", Nyro shows a funny side quite at odds with her image as a private, serious figure, and "And When I Die" is also very impressive.
All in all, "Season of Lights" stands as the best album of Laura's comeback era with numerous exquisite performances that should not be missed.
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Description of Seasons of Lights...Laura Nyro in Concert
Originally conceived as a double live album, but released as a 10 song single LP in 1976, the Iconoclassic Records reissue of Season of Lightsâ?¦Laura Nyro in Concert restores the set to its full 16 song length. The single LP version as originally released contained a solo piano rendition of 'Timer', whereas a full band performance of that same song was slated for release on the double album version. The Iconoclassic CD includes both the solo and full band versions. One of the factors that makes this live release so compelling is the involvement of jazz players (John Tropea, Richard Davis, and Mike Mainieri) that had performed on Nyro's then-current studio album 'Smile'. As incredible as Laura was when performing live solo with just her piano as accompaniment, this is the place to experience her interaction with a full live band. Iconoclassic Records' deluxe CD reissue of Season of Lights...Laura Nyro in Concert features signature tracks from her early period ('And When I Die', 'Sweet Blindness'', 'Emmie', etc.) mixed with newer songs from 'Smile' and exclusive material like 'The Morning News', which was never recorded in the studio and appears only here. Over 75 minutes of music and including a 16 page booklet with full lyrics and new liner notes by Nyro biographer Michele Kort.Folk CDs
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