Other covers in the same vein are on Vandross' albums: "Anyone Who Had a Heart" from Give Me a Reason and "Any Day Now" and "Are You There (With Another Guy)" from Luther Vandross. Never issued as a single, "A House Is Not a Home" was a popular radio-aired track from his double-platinum solo debut album, Never Too Much. Vandross' take on the tune haltingly milks every nuance out of the bittersweet lyric. Speaking of foundation, one of Vandross' show-stopping numbers is his rendition of the Dionne Warwick standard "A House Is Not a Home." The tune was one of the many Burt Bacharach/Hal David songs that he fell in love with while listening to Warwick during his youth. Vandross' strategy was to lay a "foundation" his fans would know that he puts on a good show. Such a task for the then-emerging singer was costly, no doubt adding red ink to the tour's profit margin. Shame I couldn’t choose them all.During his first tour, Luther Vandross heavily invested in an intricate set that resembled a living room. Das Lied Von Der Erde (6 th mvmt pt 3), written by Gustav Mahler in 1909 is such an extraordinary piece of music that it melted me. I chose the live version because there is a wonderfully captured warmth in the room.Īnd finally yet another discovery – the English singer Kathleen Ferrier. An unparalleled singer, songwriter, and producer, Vandross released 13 albums, recorded hundreds of songs, and won eight Grammy Awards in his lifetime. No track made me happier this week than John Martyn’s Small Hours, taking me back to student life in late-70s London. Today, July 1, marks the 1o-year anniversary of the death of Luther Vandross, who passed away in 2005 after suffering a heart attack. Check out Khusugtun and their recent song Mongol. Its human mimicry of nature’s sounds is essentially overtone technique – singing two notes at the same time, one vibrating deep in the throat. Mongolian throat singing is quite extraordinary. Mark died in 2014 having worked on seven of Björk’s albums as well as his own electronic music. The Low Frequency Oscillator – a synthesiser function – dominates their early rave techno hits including the Leeds Warehouse Mix of their first single LFO. LFO were formed in 1988 when Mark Bell and Gez Varley met in Leeds. This is an instrumental that tells a story. From their magnum opus Dark Side of the Moon comes On the Run, genius early electronica that goes from speaker to speaker, like the music accompanying a nightmarish video game. Radiohead made prog rock acceptable, where Pink Floyd once ruled. General CommentI heard a song called 'Slow Jamz', performed by Twista, Kanye West and Jamie Foxx, witch contains a sample of 'A house is not a home'. More recent guitar shudder echoes from my headphones as Radiohead thunder into Planet Telex and a shiver goes down my spine.
A revelation to me, as I’d never really listened to them properly before. My Bloody Valentine layered guitar effects on top of guitar effects to create the classic shoegaze wall of sound adored by the post-punk generation. Looped guitar, fuzz, tremolo, phasers set to stun. Mor Kabasi is of Moroccan and Persian heritage, born Israeli, currently living in Spain and singing in the Sephardic tradition – the music of the exiled Jews of Spain, in a language called Ladino. And I would have felt similar about comparing Luther Vandross’s version of A House Is Not a Home with something I heard on American Idolif Jacob Lusk hadn’t totally rocked it last night. Vibrato singing is treasured throughout the Mediterranean, transcending cultures, borders and religions.
On the Everly Brothers’ Price of Love from 1965 we get harmonica, guitar reverb and two voices singing so clearly and with such harmony that a kind of natural vibrato occurs between all four instruments. In the late 50s and early 60s is was illegal to record a tune without a guitar twanging around with vibrato. I have heard very few singers utilise vibrato with such taste. The quivering plea for his lover to be at home makes my eyes water every time I hear it. Luther Vandross’s finest performance is probably his cover of the Bacharach tune A House Is Not a Home. Released to critical and commercial success in 1981, Luther Vandross's first solo album Never Too Much remains one of the best albums he ever released. Her vocal technique is stunningly expressive here sympathetically joined on Wada Na Tod (Don’t Break Your Promise) by shimmering strings, wavering flutes and quivering organ work. On his birthday, we're revisiting a classic from the Luther Vandross arsenal of love songs: his rendition of 'A House Is Not A Home'. Luther Vandross: A House Is Not A Home - Live 1988 An excerpt from the 1988 NAACP awards, in which Luther sings A House is not a Home live. All Indian singers look up to the great Lata Mangeshkar who recorded more than 5,000 songs in a long career matched only by her sister Asha Bhosle.
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