Steely Dan - Aja (cover) include Steely Dan, the one or other of my readers know, one of my favorite bands. Their blend of rock, pop, funk, R & B and jazz in the seventies was a fairly own story. The seven studio albums, the first and most important phase of 1972-80 Band Can not Buy a Thrill (1972), Countdown to Ecstasy (1973), Pretzel Logic (1974), Katy Lied (1975), The Royal Scam (1976), Aja ( 1977) and Gaucho (1980) are among the best (and best produced) albums of the decade and still sound absolutely perfect. And even though Steely Dan was in some ways deeply rooted in the musical culture of the 1970s, their music sounds absolutely timeless, even after over 30 years.
Among these seven great albums stands the six-album Aja (pronounced like English "Asia")) out again. Seven perfect songs, perfectly arranged and produced, recorded by some of the best musicians who were active at that time (including Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, Steve Gadd, Jim Keltner and Wayne Shorter). Can you Sun covers a stroke of genius? Can we ever in a reasonable manner or you are not automatically the ridicule and the wild protests award of the fans?
Aja interpreted by The DarcysNun, the Canadian band The Darcys has done just that: You have covered the entire album in which they are the seven songs on the album (1st Black Cow, Aja 2nd, 3rd Deacon Blues, Peg 4th, 5 . Home at Last, 6 I Got the News, 7 Josie) entjazzt, entfunkt, entpopt and they have put into a contemporary rock sound image. Without the groove, the rhythm section with strong jazz irresistible appeal of the original and at the same time without really add much to the arrangements they have illuminated the rock classics from scratch. The result is surprising: surprisingly good and surprisingly dark and moody, almost a little as if Radiohead would be dealt with in the depths of Canadian winter Steely Dan. Instead of trying to Steely Dan.Sound-copy (and thus fail to grandiose, The Darcys have gained from the album is a page that would have hardly have expected someone to the songs.
On the website there is also the same way, highly recommended debut album with the Darcy's own compositions, also as a free download. Who wants to support the band can also order the lossless audio files, or the respective outputs of the two vinyl albums. In Porto CDs much cheaper but there are not (yet).
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