"To someone
who hasn't heard it, this album is as colors to
a blind man ... The style of the music on this
record cannot be classified in the popular sense,
although its influences are discernible in the
songs themselves and in the background of the
musicians, all of whom have been classically trained
while experiencing, both individually and collectively,
the modern idioms of rock, country, blues, jazz
and folk. Extremes meet. The continuum reasserts
itself. And the result is a technical excellence
coupled with a spontaneous range of expression
that never lapses into inconsequential virtuosity,
but rather acquires a style and vitality all its
own ...
"The
lyrics which accompany Lou's songs neither contradict
the rich fabric of the music itself, nor are they
superfluous to it. They constitute an explicit
voice in the overall dialogue of instruments.
In their own dimension they are the faultless
rhythms of the experienced poet ...
"But you must
hear and feel for yourself . There is no overproduction
here; nothing had to be fixed in the mix. The
sound is incredibly alive . . . Add turntable
and stir."
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Recorded and
produced at Studio Six, Montreal, 1973
Published by Gentian Music, © 1973; The selections
are BMI.
Digitally rendered by Jon Rezin at City College
Sonic Arts Studio, New York, 2001
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