Ferrante & Teicher - Easy Listening Favorites
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Free Music Review: Easy Listening Favorites - Ferrante & Teicher
Hit: 4 Stars
Most of the tracks on this album originally were released on an LP entitled "Out of Nowhere," the remainder apparently outtakes not included in that release. Far and away the most unusual album the pair made together, it's notable for a variety of recording gimmicks (including hammering the strings and other sound effects) which strangely suit the material chosen. While it's great to have the outtakes one does miss the numbers omitted from the original and one can only hope that the folks at MCA will release the complete session recordings on an album in the future. The mastering on the current release is excellent.Free Music Review: Easy Listening Favorites - Ferrante & Teicher
Hit: 1 Stars
I have been a long time fan of Ferrante & Teicher and I have serious doubts that Ferrante & Teicher had anything to do with this CD. There are weird noises inserted into the tracks. I am very disappointed and plan to return the CD. The CD was wrapped in celephane but was not sealed????
Free Music Review: Okay F&T prepared piano pieces - but...
Hit: 3 Stars
Not a bad collection of standards done up in the inimitable F&T pseudoelectronic style, *but*... They omitted the two best songs ('Stardust' and 'The Moon Was Yellow')!!! What were they thinking?!?! It's just as well, I guess. Standards played in this style just don't seem to sound as good as more uptempo melodies like, say, latin music. The stereo version of 'Soundproof' is still much, much better than anything on this album. 'Tico-Tico' and 'Loose Ends Merengue' prove my point.Free Music Review: Reissue of 1958's "Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi"
Hit: 4 Stars
Though this looks like just another Ferrante & Teicher LP, it's actually a partial reissue of their stellar 1958 ABC Paramount release "Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi" (ABCS-221). Though the tracks are reordered, and only 10 of the original 12 are included (missing are "The Moon Was Yellow" and "Stardust"), this is still a nice buy, and the only place these tracks can be found together.1958 saw Ferrante and Teicher still experimenting with the techniques they'd worked on as faculty members at Julliard. Though they'd later reduce their work to slushy two-piano renditions of famous movie themes, in 1958 they were still outside, wedging things into their piano strings and extracting all manner of unusual sounds from their instruments.
A very listenable LP, mixing a romantic ambiance with edgy sounds.
Free Music Review: One More Thing!
Hit: 5 Stars
For those who didn't know, this is the only CD reissue of their 1958 LP "Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi". It was smack in the middle of their experiments with altering the pianos inside and out to widen the sound-making possibilities a la John Cage, but submitting standards to that avant-garde treatment. It's arguably the best of their LP's in this style. Unfortunately the cheap price precluded them reproducing the stunning original artwork. If you didn't know otherwise, there's nothing to make you think this is even a reissue. That said, enjoy!
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