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Label:
   Chesky - http://www.chesky.com/
Serial:
   SACD242
Title:
   Rebecca Pidgeon: Retrospective
Description:
   "Retrospective"

Rebecca Pidgeon
Details:
   1. Spanish Harlem
2. Underground
3. Texas Rangers
4. 24 Hours of Love
5. Fhear a Bhata
6. Seven Hours
7. Primitive Man
8. Kalerka
9. The Four Marys
10. Grandmother
11. MacDougall's Men
12. Hey How My Johnnie Lad
13. Auld Lang Syne/Bring It On Home To Me
Genre:
   Vocal
Content:
   Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
   Hybrid
Recording type:
  
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Related titles: 2
 
Reviews: 3
Review by Taiko January 10, 2006 (1 of 2 found this review helpful)
Performance:  Sonics (S):
If you are looking for a female voice on SACD - buy this one. "Spanish Harlem" will
give you the heebie-jeebies (if you got good hifi equipment). The sound is phenomenal.

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Review by Oyster May 21, 2007
Performance:  Sonics (S):
Delighted to add my recommendation to those of the previous reviewers, this is a very enjoyable record indeed. A compilation from her three albums, it's real mix of styles, from outright pop, to jazzy, to traditional folk - the lady is nothing if not versatile. I too enjoyed "Spanish Harlem" but I wouldn't have rated it the best on the album, "Underground" is more rhythmically exciting but my outright favourite is "Fhear a Bhata" which although there are no song notes with the album, I understand is a traditional Scottish song from the Isle of Lewis with the verses in English but the lilting chorus left in Gaelic. Haunting melody, crystalline vocals. Stereo tracks only reviewed, sound quality excellent, voice well presented, quite forward on the sparsely instrumented traditional tracks, all instruments clearly defined. Well worth having.

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Review by gcnmah1 January 20, 2007
Performance:  Sonics (MC):
I bought this on sale, knowing nothing about the artist. "Spanish Harlem" is a reference grade piece and every song on the disc is simply penetrating. She does a version of Auld Lang Syne that I can not quit thinking about. Great vocals, the recording is masterful. Best $7.99 I ever spent.

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