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STARSAILOR

Tim Buckley

 

Prog Folk

4.15 | 101 ratings

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jamesbaldwin
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5 stars Starsailor is a great album, an absolute masterpiece of rock music where Tim Buckely's voice reach expressive heights that perhaps no other rock singer has ever approached. It is not prog, it is a new genre, close to free jazz.

"Come Here Woman" is the most beatiful song of the disc (vote 8,5/9). The bass and the singing stand in a dissonant and polyrhythmic delirium, which joins the electric guitar and the piano in the background. It looks like a totally disconnected nightmare. Free jazz and avant-garde. "I Woke Up" begins slowly, but bass and guitar are very dissonant and follow the voice and and the trumpet. It is calm only in appearance, it seems a scene that wants to be romantic but is disturbed by schizoid behavior (vote 7,5/8). "Monterey" (vote 8) seems a canonic blues in the beginning but the voice take it to a unknown territory reaching overacute and expressionist sounds. "Moulin Rouge" is a silly song, alien to the others, a filler just to added two minutes at the duration of the disc (vote 6,5). "Song to the Siren" is maybe the first calm melody, near to romanticism. Again, the voice reaches peaks that only very few choosen can aspire. (Vote 7,5/8).

Side B opens with "Jungle Fire" "Jungle Fire" is similar to "Come here Woman", just dissonances but then a blues guitar try to mark the rhythm (vote 8+).

Starsailor distorts the melodies and transforms them into dissonant psychopathic delirium, where the singing tries to overcome the barriers of sound. It is the triumph of dissonance. "Starsailor", the song, is a cosmic exercise for the voice... with an avant-garde background... very arduous, (Vote 7,5). "The Healing Festival" is a festive delirium with trumpet dissonances and saxophone with the guitar to paint a semblance of rhythm. The drums are completely missing on the disc. (vote 7,5). "Down the borderline" is trumpet, jazz drums, and the singing to paint an obsessive atmosphere. Free jazz and avant-guarde. Another masterpiece (vote 8,5).

Medium quality of the songs: 7,83. (but 8,004 without Moulin Rouge) Much variety, a unraveling of instrumental and human sounds out of every classification, very ardous listened, a unique path. Vote: 9,5 Five stars

jamesbaldwin | 5/5 |

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