Word: basses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practiced, or owned a piano, for four decades. He had not even looked at the music, Liszt's lengthy, difficult Legendes, in more than half a century. Yet when his ringers touched the keys, there came a burst of musical thunder, exploding octaves and a bass of such power and sonority that the Baldwin threatened to shake apart...
...best - as in Liszt's Ballade in B-Minor, on the IPA/Desmar record - the massive rumbling bass is an effective counterpoint to the ethereal run-work in the treble. It is an inspired interpretation; method and material work in harmony...
...nicely the first time you hear it, so you stop and think about what you just heard and place the stylus back a bit so you can hear it again. Street Hassle is more than just a collection of songs. The first side is a fluent cavalcade of melodic bass and brash guitar and, of course, the twisted, driving vocals of Lou Reed...
...title cut comes next, backboned by an acoustic bass line that reverberates with classical elegance and never stops through this rambling, lyrical, apocalyptic 11-minute street poem. "Street Hassle" is divided into three movements, each with the same bass line, intermittently using piano, sax, electric bass and quixotic female background vocals to supplement the poetics of Lou Reed. "Street Hassle" is an honest expression of life in the city street--a confusing apocalypse of frightening anonymity and frustration...
Reed wrote all the songs for Street Hassle, and he plays guitar, bass, piano and vocals on the album. Reed and Richard Robinson produce the album with impressive finesse and vision, mixing the cool female vocals behind Reed's harsh sounds at all the right times. They even connect the second and third movements of "Street Hassle" with a baroque soprano solo...