[78-L] Contemporary 20's music

[David Lennick]

On 1/9/2013 6:23 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
> On 09/01/13 23:02, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> C'mon - this is not a competition. It's a couple of guys having fun
>> marrying musical styles and times. Just like they did in the 1920's:
>> Gershwin, Antheil, Milhaud, Satie...
>> And doesn't the arrangement of "The Bogus Man" sound very much like some
>> of Ellington's minor key-mysteriosos from the late 1920's?
>> Funny that no one has noted the soundof the recording: low-fi without
>> being muffled. One of the better efforts in the genre, I think.
>> Kristjan
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> I don't have much time for recreations, including ones brought in
> "through the back door"--the sugar-coated variety.
>
>        Julian Vein

Speaking of low-fi re-creations, one of the best variants I know on this is 
Mary Hopkin's "Love Is the Sweetest Thing" (it also happens to be the only 
thing I can stand by her). Sounds as if they used carbon mics.

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