Sid Bass - From Another World
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Music CD Cover Artist: Sid Bass Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2004-11-16 Music Label: RCA Fs Imports |
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Free Music Notes for From Another World Album
Free Music Review: A few problems with the sound
Hit: 3 Stars
Other reviewers have aptly and accurately commented on the musical content so I will simply add that, yes, it's all like mid-fifties Big Band sounds with some electronic sound effects, a la "Forbidden Planet", added over the music.
No one has commented on the recorded sound however and here is the slight weakness of the disc. This was originally recorded for Vik, which if memory serves me right, was one of RCA's budget labels and the recording definitely did not benefit for the advances in sound that RCA was developing for their premium "Living Stereo" label. The sound is boxy, closed in, cramped in both the base and treble and generally sounds wooly and opaque. It is never less than listenable and your ears gradually adjust to the sound but you also will be constantly aware of the recording's sonic shortcomings. Some mid-fifties recordings can sound wonderful (see my review of Georgie Auld"s "Sax Gone Latin" for one such.) but this disc truly shows its age.
Despite my reservations, this is still an essential CD for the collector of Lounge, Electronica or Space-Age Pop, since it is one of the first, if not the first Space-Age Pop recordings. It belongs in the collection of everyone who collects these genres. You will just want to know that the sound isn't what it could have been.