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Music : Live: The Loom's Desire
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Live: The Loom's Desire by: Laura Nyro |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0011661318625 Format: Live Label: Rounder / Umgd Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Rounder / Umgd Release Date: May 07, 2002 Studio: Rounder / Umgd Sales Rank: 127390 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Most listeners were introduced to the songs of the late Laura Nyro through 1960s hits by the likes of the Fifth Dimension ("Wedding Bell Blues") and Blood, Sweat & Tears ("And When I Die"). Such mainstream exposure didn't hint at how strikingly (sometimes stridently) original and passionately obsessive her own performances could be. These 1993-94 recordings from Nyro's annual Christmas Eve concerts at New York's Bottom Line show her music in its most suitably intimate setting, backed only by a female harmony chorus and her spare piano accompaniment. Her incantatory rendition of "Save the Country" and her rapturous signature tune, "Emmie," find her early material maturing with her, while she transforms classic ballads such as the Everly Brothers' "Let It Be Me" and Smokey Robinson's "Ooh Baby, Baby" into personal testament. Though some of her later songs are more didactic and narrowly focused--she plainly wasn't concerned about commercial potential with "Lite a Flame (The Animal Rights Song)" or "The Descent of Luna Rose" (her ode to the menstrual cycle)--her material retains its melodic warmth. In Nyro's musical progression, the soul sister and the earth mother became one. --Don McLeese Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Captures Laura Nyro's Great Voice and Kind HeartThis spectacular 2CD gem captures Laura Nyro's amazing vocals, piano playing and the song list includes many of her social causes. "Lite A Flame" and "Wild Word" wonderfully showcase her strong committment to animal rights and why we must respect nature. She also sings tunes regarding spirituality, the plight of native Indians, love and loss and feminism. Laura Nyro was incredibly talented and she was a vintage writer, composer, vocalist and musician. It must be noted that her best records were live performances such as the 1993 and 1994 Christmas Eve concerts on these discs. God Bless her benevolent soul. Rating:  - A Mature NyroLaura Nyro was known as a bit of a mystery, yet she was one of those performers whose evolution was transparent through her music. This two-CD set is composed of consecutive Christmas eve performances at the Bottom Line in 1993 and 1994. It is at once a holiday album, Laura at her vocal prime, and a mature reminiscence. Compared to the fire of her youth, these performances seem almost mournful (premonition?). It's only towards the middle of 1994 show that she seems to pick up some of the earlier spirit, on Louise's Church, Wedding Bell Blues and Ooh Baby, Baby, in particular. It's also on the 1994 set that the smaller harmony group more often comes to life. Laura seems to have used the backup voices as a surrogate for an orchestra, and ... Read More: Rating: - Wonderful!These are recordings of some of Laura's last concerts. By this time, the intense brilliance of her initial 20-something period (late 60s-early 70s) was replaced by a mature, deeper, richer artist who, now in her mid-40s, perfected her completely distinctive style as a writer, singer and interpreter of other's material. You now know immediately by the phrasing and unique chord structures that you are listening to Laura Nyro. When she performs her childhood favorites ("Dedicated To The One I Love", "Ohh Baby Baby", etc) they sound like she wrote them! Her later originals, while again less intense than her material from her early days, has a serene dignity that is remarkable. Her voice is better than ever. On ... Read More: Rating: - a good yarn (the loom's desire?)Laura Nyro was not the Lord's gift to Ticketmaster, but she did have a penchant for sharing a Christmas Eve gift with her faithful each year at The Bottom Line (which incidentally closed in January of 2005 after nearly 30 years in operation) in New York's Greenwich Village. 'the loom's desire' features two CD's, each presenting one of Laura's last two concerts at the 400 seat venue in 1993 and 1994. Laura was diagnosed with ovarian cancer about six months later, and passed away in 1997, never to perform at the Bottom Line again. In that respect, these recordings are certainly historic. The recordings are also exemplary, from a technical as well as a musical perspective. Laura is in fine voice, despite a cold which she alludes to ... Read More: Rating: - Absolutely gorgeous albumThe Loom's Desire is so rich and beautiful I had to walk away from it several times as it truly overwhelmed me emotionally. This is just heavenly music. Buy it now!!! It deserves 10 stars. Laura, I love you and miss you. |
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