CD review: Hamelin in a State of Jazz, performed on keyboard

[general disarray]

This is Hamelin's worst CD ever issued.

Sound
Instead of performing on a Steinway concert grand, Hamelin performs on a digital keyboard.   There is hardly any reverb so it's very dry.  The middle register sounds most like an acoustic but the upper register tinkles with the upper partials clipped off.  This works best for Weissenberg's Sonata where the range stays right in the middle registers but it works the most against the transcriptions of the songs sung by Trenet.  The tonal atmosphere is entirely absent.  It's lifeless.

"Off-topic" -- and I refer to the supposedly hijacked topic of internet rudeness that YOU YOURSELF brought up, and gave to it your sanctimonious imprimatur?  Now you have the nerve to become a pregnant dog over it because I challenged your sophistry?  You are, indeed, a pompous ass.

Fine.  Let's go back to the beginning.  Here's the opening salvo of your totally bizarre review of Hamelin's latest.  Everyone was baffled.  "Hamelin used a digital piano?"  That was the incredulous query.  It arose because your attempt at satire bombed totally.  Re-read your opening paragraph.  You're not nearly as clever as you think you are.  Hardly anyone understood your "point."  You lost your readership in the first paragraph.  That makes you an ineffective writer.  And that's just for beginners.

Dickweed, indeed.

 

[faulty_damper]

This review reminds me of one of industrial's posts:
faulty_damper, you are a dickweed.

Do you want more M&Ms with your beer?

[faulty_damper]

"Off-topic" -- and I refer to the supposedly hijacked topic of internet rudeness that YOU YOURSELF brought up, and gave to it your sanctimonious imprimatur?  Now you have the nerve to become a pregnant dog over it because I challenged your sophistry?  You are, indeed, a pompous ass.

What are you even talking about?  Go stuff yourself with more M&Ms.

[tompilk]

What are you even talking about?  Go stuff yourself with more M&Ms.

wow. you're 26. when i went to click on your profile I expected a number half that!

[faulty_damper]

wow. you're 26. when i went to click on your profile I expected a number half that!

Wow.  And you're 18?  It figures.  You haven't yet learned how to capitalize.

[franzliszt2]

Hey, it's the internet. You don't have to respect anyone, really. You don't see anyone face to face, so you have really nothing to go on but a username, which doesn't necessarily mean you're talking to the same person twice.

Or that you are scared to say things to peoples faces?

[thalbergmad]

Massed piano street punch up.

[tompilk]

Wow.  And you're 18?  It figures.  You haven't yet learned how to capitalize.

i spend so long typing responses to people like you that it's inefficient use of my time "capitalizing".
oh, and another point, i don't think the verb capitalize can be used in this context, or at least not usually.
anyway, feel free to check through all my past posts. I think you'll find my grammar and spelling is all in order, Mr. Damper.
About the age issue - from your responses, you act like a kid. That's the point I was making. My age has no relevance to the way you act.
One last thing. I'm sorry for making the age jibe, it seemed the thing to do at the time. But I still think the majority of what you have written is egocentric drivel... with a smattering of jealousy.

[pies]

faulty_brain *burn*

[tompilk]

Wow.  And you're 18?  It figures.  You haven't yet learned how to capitalize.

and I'll let you off for the american way of spelling learnt.

[rc]

Why is it good to act civil even on the internet?  Because it's better than having to create a new username everytime I act like a dickweed (I miss that word ).  It's really no different than if you used your real name, because I can look at the made up username and remember "oh, that person, I remember that he's a dickweed" and it stains every post under that username.

Reputations exist here too.

[pies]

Thought I'd bump a crappy thread:  I just listened to Hamelin's recording of Antheil's Jazz Sonata from this CD.  Awful.  Annoyingly Hamelin-esque and clinical.

[tompilk]

Thought I'd bump a crappy thread:  I just listened to Hamelin's recording of Antheil's Jazz Sonata from this CD.  Awful.  Annoyingly Hamelin-esque and clinical.

you're surely saying that to annoy people? his is definitely the least mechanical recording of the work out there, although I have to say it is the kind of work which the mechanical treatment works quite well on...

[thalbergmad]

Thought I'd bump a crappy thread:  I just listened to Hamelin's recording of Antheil's Jazz Sonata from this CD.  Awful.  Annoyingly Hamelin-esque and clinical.

For once, i would agree with you

Thal

[quasimodo]

oh my...
I don't understand... I love Hamelin's playing and I love the CD.
Maybe what I would want to hear more in Hamelin's non-live recordings is more reverberation, using a larger room to get a sound that's closer to what we would hear live.