Music of Laura Nyro
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ローラ・ニーロの音楽
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Last Updated on August 10, 2009
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曲紹介
[1] ファースト・ソングス, 1967 [2] イーライと13番目の懺悔, 1968 [3] ニューヨーク・テンダベリー, 1969 [4] 魂の叫び, 1970 [5] ゴナ・テイク・ア・ミラクル, 1971 [6] スマイル, 1976 [7] 光の季節〜イン・コンサート, 1977 [8] 愛の営み, 1978 [9] マザーズ・スピリチュアル, 1984 [10] 抱擁, 1993 [11] エンジェル・イン・ザ・ダーク, 2001 [12] 飛翔, 2004 その他 History of Laura Nyro' life (略史) Art and Soul of Laura Nyro (楽譜) Soul Picnic (伝記) あとがき |
外部リンク
Laura Nyro Home Page (Official Site) Michele Kort (The Author of "Soul Picnic") 相互リンクサイト管理者の皆様に感謝申し上げます。 
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前書
ローラ・ニーロは1947年ニューヨークのブロンクス生まれのシンガーソングライターです。 彼女の音楽の素晴らしさは、一つに作曲のレベルが非常に高いこと、 もう一つはあまりに美しい歌声による情熱的な演奏が挙げられるでしょう。 このページによって、ご興味をもたれましたら、幸いです。 |
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Songs of Laura Nyro.....and me
(a personal history from 2002 t0 2009) |
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[New York Tenderberry] The following is a just random essay about my personal history while I had been obsessed too much with the songs of Laura Nyro since 2003. I should say that you may not find any useful information from my writings below. But please allow me to write a long essay, because I think that what I experienced with Laura's songs had been really important to me. Someday I will feel that the days spending with Laura's songs are one of greatest pleasure in my life. There is a reason why I am now going to start writing about an encounter with Laura Nyro music and me. I strongly recognize that my "music travel of Laura Nyro" had ended in June, 2009. Before the year 2009, I had already listened to all Laura Nyro albums except "Mother's Spiritual". And this spring from March to June, I had been listening so many times to the songs in the last album. Of course Mother's Spiritual is not the last album cholonologically, but for me, it was the very last Laura Nyro album. To begin with, I would like to write about what it was like when I first met "Laura Nyro Music". In my memory, it was in Octorber, 2002. At that time, I lived on a hill where I was able to look down the sea. It was Saturday afternoon, if my memory was correct; I was just turning on my small Sony radio. Since I was tired, I was lying down on the wooden floor in my room. Lying your body on a floor is not unlikely if you live in a Japanese house, because everyone should take off his/her shoes in a room and there are some rooms with Tatami mat in a house. Anyway I was half awaken and half sleeping in that afternoon not on soft Tatami mat but on hard wooden floor. At that time, my Sony radio was being tuned to BBC World. It must have been sounding British English. Although I could not understand spoken English (even now), I liked to listen to the program (or should it be programme?) in weekend afternoon. All of a sudden, what came into my ears from the radio was striking female vocal that I had never heard of. I thought that the recording of the songs was a little old, but the style of singing was quite new to me. In the program two person talked and one male introduced the songs and the singer. I tried my best to listen and to know the name of the singer because it was really difficult for me to understand what was being said in English. I barely listened to the name of the singer and wrote down it on a small sheet of paper in Japanese Katakana, "Ro-ra Ni-ro". Please don't point out that the first letter should be not R but L. It is impossible for ordinary Japanese to distinguish the difference between R and L. Unfortunately, I have not remembered the name of the song. The program was a kind two-person talk show; one female anchor and one male commentator. I think I might have heard "Gibsom Street", but I am nor sure. The male commentator recommended listening to songs of "The First Songs", so some of the songs from that album might have been aired. As soon as I heard the whole program, I got up from the floor because I really wanted to go get a any CD album of Ro-ra Ni-ro. I put my cloth to be proper to go to the downtowm, put my shoes, and went out to get on a bus to the downtown, even though it was a little late afternoon. It should be a tiny encounter with Laura Nyro song as the first time if you compared to what was written in the first page of "Soul Picnic" by Ms. Michele Kort. But anyway, The bus I got on was going down the hill and heading to a town where there are a railway station and a small port. As soon as the bus got to the city, I went into the so-called station building where some tenant shops were doing their business. I knew that there was a CD shop in the station building. Fortunately, the katakana charactors "Ro-ra Ni-ro" didn't make any problem to find out her CD, because the shelves for compact discs were tagged by not alphabet but Katakana. The only Laura Nyro's CD on the shelves was "New York Tenderberry" with black photo cover on the CD case. There was no other CDs. I of course bought it. It has nothing to do with Laura Nyro, but that CD shop was closed several years later. It seemed very difficult to run CD shops thesedays, you know, because internet shopping has become very common and easy to buy CDs. There is no need to go to CD shops to get your favourite music CDs. In addition to that, since Japan has been long suffered from economic recession, I remember that no new shops of any kind was opened at the space that was used to be that CD store for a while. I don't know at all whether the space is now used for other store or still empty, because now I live in a town that is very far, hundreds miles away from that town. Since it was six years ago, I don't remember how I felt at the fisrt time when I put the CD onto player and listened to the songs of New York Tenderberry. I think I couldn't listened to the whispering "Two main streams died" at the beginning of the album. But I remember that "You don't love me when I cry" hit my soul. I think that the tile per se is very impressive. If I could sing and play a piano, I would really like to play that song with sqeesing my voice at the end of the song "In the hours of my crying days". Songs following after "You don't love me" were also quite surprising. I have grown up with hearing 80's pops through my junior high and high school years. And until that time, I have already listened to the most albums of Carole King and James Taylor, although they are not singers in my generation. Since I listened to so many songs, I just thought that there might not be songs to listen to no more. But I was wrong. Listenening "New York Tenderberry", I changed my mind and thought that I should listen to more songs of Laura Nyro. That was autumn of 2002, I guess. In retrospect, of all Laura Nyro's album, New York Tenderberry seems to be unique. I feel some parts of Laura's vocal sounds inaccurate in pitch, altough her vocal has almost perfect pitches in other her albums. But it may not be a big problem, simple and sophisticated her singing with her piano accompanyments in New York Tenderberry seems to be different from other albums before and after. Actually, in recent year, I have not listened to that album so much, rather, I prefer later album after "Gonna Tanke a Miracle" to New York Tenderberry. I feel that in order to listened to "New York Tenderberry", I should concentrate on, not relaxed but stressed to some extent. I never underestimate the value of the album, though, since I am really exhausted in mental condition, something makes me avoid to listen to that album. But I would like to say, strong vocal at the end of "Tom Cat Goodbye" is very impressive because such a strength seemed to be rare. And elevated mood with rubato in "Save the Country" has unbelievable heightening. That was in autumn. I still lived on the hill. Everyday I saw the sea several miled away from the widow in my small apartment. At that time, I was busy for preparing to move to a place very far from there. It was not sure that what organization would accept me, because my English was very poor to get my project done. Undecided future made me worry, and I was alone on the hill, I listened to New York Tenderberry on my CD player like zillion times. |
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[Eli and Thirteenth Confession] It was late autumn in 2002 that I bought "Eli and Thirteenth Confession". I don't remember in what city in Kansai Region I bought it. The CD I bought was for sales in Japan, so there was Japanese booklet inside. The opening of the album was enough to blow me away. That was strong vocal of "Yes I'm Ready, So Come on Luckie". Instantly I noticed that the album was different from "New York Tenderberry" Still I was living on a hill and I liked to walk down the road to get to the sea shore. Some people were doing fishing; some were just walking like me. The wind from the sea was smelling and salty, but I didn't care. There are waves on the sea and small and big ships slipping on the surface of water. Looking at them made me feel better, although I have to walk two miles from my apartment to get to the sea shore. And since I didn't have mp3 music player kind of things at that time, I didn't bring her music all the time. But without walkman or mp3 player, Laura's songs sounded in my brain over and over and over again. (to be comtinued, sentenses above were written in August 14, 2009) |
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