Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head [Atco SD 36-113 Vinyl rip] (1975)

Posted By : Virginia Plain | Date : 12 Mar 2009 01:35:19 | Comments : 5 |

Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head [Atco SD 36-113 Vinyl rip] (1975)
Flac (tracks) | LP Rip - No log, No cue | 24bit, 96khz | 976 MB | Covers

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Thomas Szirmay, Prog Archives wrote:
Diamond Head was not only a solo album for Roxy Music’s supremely talented guitarist but in retrospect a certainly defining groundbreaking recording. In many ways, the creative ideas that wouldn’t or couldn’t fit into the Roxy mold were simply retooled into a precursor of future genres that would soon pop up with vigor. On one hand, as with Eno’s two first solo albums (on which Manzanera was heavily featured), the tone is a wilder, punkier , way more raw effect than the sleek velvet of “For Your Pleasure” or “Stranded”. Some may even label it pre-New Wave. Secondly, Phil’s childhood roots in Colombia and Cuba are clearly introduced front & center with Spanish lyrics sung by the masterful Robert Wyatt on the opener “Frontera”, as well as on titles such as “Lagrima” and “Alma” .At the time, Hispanic rock had only the American Santana and little cousin Malo as spokesmen, yet this album is loaded with latino winks and nods (even on “Big Day”, Eno sings about “gay Peru”, pun central, if you ask me), opening the world music door even wider. This recording also highlights the incredible drumming prowess of the inimitable Paul Thompson, arguably the paragon of rock solid drumming with lots of substance and very little flash. Brian Turrington (as on Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy) keeps his bass busy, drilling deep markers on the musical road. Oddly, Eno is featured on the same album as the one who replaced him in Roxy Music, the illustrious Eddie Jobson. Both shine brightly. Throw in the trusted Andy Mackay on saxes, Ian McDonald of King Crimson fame on bagpipes and the afore mentioned Robert Wyatt and you have a sizzling lineup that can turn a tune. The title track showcases Manzanera’s typical unpretentious take on instrumentals, veering into the deepest realms of originality, full of effect-laden sounds that can only delight. His guitar experimentations are his hallmark, with no finer examples than on this recording. “Big Day” is more typical Eno of the time, full of playful doo-wop backing vocals and a lead mike that truly surprises, the man can sing convincingly. “The Flex” is propelled by tons of jaunty clavinet, a long wailing saxophone solo, choppy guitar slashes, beefy drums beats, bouncing congas and this effortless feel that is truly stunning. John Wetton also supplies his usual stellar bass work, having toured with Roxy at the time and tossing in a typical bluesy vocal duet with the famous session singer Doreen Chanter on “Same Time Next Week”, a Manzanera solo killing this one off nicely. “Miss Shapiro” is a superb classic driving track that sounds amazing even today, supremely drum driven, Thompson doing his Bonham thing (big fat beat) , Manzanera’s rhythm guitar weaving a jangled architecture, setting up the greatest monotone Eno vocal with the funniest lyrics ever (“Pom-pom charmers”). You sort of wonder how deeply the emerging New Wave artists were influenced by this very off –the-wall material and style. “East of Echo” is another driving, heat-seeking instrumental that combines all the various ingredients that make Manzanera so charming: quirky riffs, strange tones, effects galore, tons of experimentation, brief sumptuous lead bursts, all held down by that masterful and relentless Thompson beat. “Lagrima” is an acoustic guitar exercise, full of dreamy bravura and the supreme Mackay oboe, combining to exude images of Andalusian pain, musical tears welling restrained. “Alma” is a six-minute sweeping tale with lead electric guitar leading the melodic charge, growling, howling, searching and beseeching. Frankly, this is a needed cornerstone in any prog, rock or guitar fan collection.

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Tracklisting:
1. Frontera (4:06)
2. Diamond Head (4:29)
3. Big Day (3:47)
4. The Flex (3:35)
5. Same Next Week (4:50)
6. Miss Shapiro (6:34)
7. East Of Echo (5:51)
8. Lagrima (2:36)
9. Alma (6:50)

Total Time: 42:38

Line-Up:
- Phil Manzanera / guitars, keyboards, bass, fuzz bass, string synthesizer,
- Robert Wyatt / lead vocals, timbals, cabasa, backing vocals
- Brian Eno / backing vocals, guitar treatment, rhythm guitar, piano
- John Wetton / bass, lead vocals, mellotron
- Brian Turrington / bass
- Paul Thompson / drums
- Eddie Jobson / strings, fender piano, electric clavinet, synthesizer
- Andy MacKay / soprano sax, alto sax, oboe
- Bill MacCormick / fuzz bass themes, vocals
- Charles Hayward / percussion
- Dave Jarrett / keyboards
- Ian McDonald / bagpipes
- Sonny Akpan / congas
- Doreen Chanter / lead vocals
- Chyke Hainu / drums
- Danny Heibs / bass
- Mongezi Feza / trumpet

Pressing: Atco SD 36-113

Technical details:
Music Hall MMF2.2 turntable
Benz MC20E2L cartridge
Denon AU300LC step-up transformer
Bellari VP-129 tube phone preamp
M-Audio MicroTrack II recorder

Software:
Click Repair 2.1
Adobe Audition 3.0

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Posted By: esaf Date: 12 Mar 2009 10:36:43

Спасибо!

Posted By: carrak Date: 15 Mar 2009 07:27:10

Thanks a lot!

Posted By: hermanthegerman Date: 17 Apr 2009 13:24:53

Thanks for this album of areally great musician. I never came across this album before.

I have serious problems with the flac-files, though. Downloading and Unpacking is OK (9 flac-files received); but I can´t play them neither with foobar-player, WinAmp or VLC player. Also turning them to wav-files will not work. flac-files have 3205 kbps bitrate, which I much more as I have ever seen before.

My question(s): Is everything right with yóur files?
or:
How do I listen to them?

Sorry for sounding silly, I am really wondering what encoding I face here...

Posted By: Virginia Plain Date: 17 Apr 2009 17:29:19

I'm playing the album now through Foobar2000 and it works fine. Note that I have the 24-bit sound enabled in the preferences and I have a 24-bit soundcard in my computer though.

The reason the bitrate is so high is because the resolution on the files is a lot higher than CD quality. The bit-depth is 24 bits, rather than 16 bits, as CD is. And the frequency is 96,000 hz, rather than the standard 44,100 hz of CD. FLAC can handle much higher resolution than just 16/44, so vinyl rippers take advantage of that, as vinyls have much higher frequencies in their sound.

If you cannot get the album to work on your PC, I would suggest burning a DVD and playing the album on a DVD player. There is a handy little way to do this. You can use this program to create an ISO file from the 24/96 flac files:

http://audioplex.sourceforge.net/download/lplex-0.3_console_alpha_testing_win32_070516.zip

Extract the ZIP file into the root folder of your C drive.

Drag the entire folder containing the 24/96 or 24/48 FLAC files onto the lplex.exe file in Windows Explorer. That's it. It will open a command prompt window and do its thing, eventually resulting in an ISO file, including an EXTRAS folder with any other content that was in the original folder, i.e., logs, graphics, info.txt files, everything other than the original FLAC files, along with the folder structure of the ISO, which you can delete right away.

Burn the ISO to a DVD using IMGBurn or NERO and the resulting disc will be able to be played on any DVD player.

:)

Posted By: Henriness Date: 13 Feb 2010 01:47:12

Awesome...

Many Thankz

Did not need to use----Password: www.AvaxHome.ru

Plays ok in Winamp

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