Laura Nyro - Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat flac album

But Nyro’s astoundingly expressive voice and stark, insistent piano playing more than compensate. Co-produced by Arif Mardin and the Rascals’ Felix Cavaliere, the album mixes R&B/rock arrangements with exotic touches (such as the Middle Eastern instrumentation on Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp ). Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat was the last album of new material Nyro released before her (temporary) mid-‘70s retirement. Christmas and the Beads of Sweat (Accompanying Herself On the Piano) Laura Nyro. Tenement arias, dreamy vignettes and political ruminations give Laura Nyro’s Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat its distinctive charm. This 1970 release was overshadowed by Nyro’s previous albums, particularly Eli And The Thirteenth Confession. Judged on its own, though, it’s an entrancing song collection filled with the emotional fireworks that characterize her canon. The moods here are extreme - Nyro careens from the serene city landscapes of Brown Earth to the harrowing drug nightmare of Been On A Train and the erotic vistas of Map To The Treasure like a vision-possessed sibyl.

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Laura Nyro's third Columbia effort is easily the equal of her previous two. The overwhelming strength of her song writing and distinctive arrangements fuel Christmas and the Beads of Sweat. Her unmistakable style of delivery maintains the continual examination of herself as a performer. The results are uniformly interesting and provocative as she continues to draw upon her love of jazz, folk, and R&B - which would inform Nyro's next album,Gonna Take a Miracle, featuring the soul vocal trio LaBelle.

Gonna Take a Miracle is the fifth album by New York City-born singer, songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro, with assistance by vocal trio Labelle. It was released on Columbia Records in November 1971, one year after its predecessor, Christmas and the Beads of Sweat. The album is Nyro's only all-covers album, and she interprets mainly 1950s and 1960s soul and R&B standards, using Labelle as a traditional back-up vocal group.

Get the Tempo of the tracks from Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat (2008) by Laura Nyro. This album has an average beat per minute of 125 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 86/172 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Tracklist Christmas and the Beads of Sweat.

Laura Nyro was still in her creative prime here, and this album is on par with Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry. Fortunately for us, Analog Spark has released outstanding new vinyl versions of Eli, Tendaberry, and now Pure Pleasure Records has released Christmas and the Beads of Sweat. These are beautiful, near-perfect pressings (my copies, anyway) with stunning sound, the best I've ever heard.

Nyro had originally hatched the idea to do a covers album during 1970, and on her tour to support the Christmas and the Beads of Sweat album she introduced several of the songs that would later appear on Gonna Take a Miracle, including "Spanish Harlem" and "Dancing in the Street". In 2005, music magazine The Word voted Gonna Take a Miracle among the 60 Best Underrated Albums of All Time. Impressions (Laura Nyro album). Impressions is the first compilation retrospective album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. It was released in the UK in 1980 and features material from her first four albums for Verve and Columbia Records, completely omitting material after 1970.

When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag. Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp. Christmas in My Soul. MusicBrainz: Christmas and the Beads of Sweat.

Laura Nyro - Up on the Roof 03:15. Laura Nyro - Been On A Train 05:49. Laura Nyro - Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp 05:34. Laura Nyro - When I Was A Freeport And You Were The Main Drag 02:41. Laura Nyro - Map To The Treasure 08:07. Laura Nyro - Brown Earth 04:08. Laura Nyro - Beads Of Sweat 04:47. Laura Nyro - Christmas In My Soul 06:59. The Essential Laura Nyro - Laura Nyro. Laura Nyro In Concert - Laura Nyro. Eli And The Thirteenth Confession - Laura Nyro. Mother's Spiritual - Laura Nyro.