Crescent (Vinyl LP) Hard RockSandwiched between two of the Coltrane's greatest masterpieces 'Live at Birdland' and 'a Love Supreme' 'Crescent' is often forgotten. But this album of four ballads and one blues is full of understated beauty. 'Crescent', 'The wise one' and 'Lonnie's Lament' are three of the Coltrane's most beautiful compositions;. These are some of the first ballads in the later Coltrane style, with the saxophone playing the theme in free time over the rumbling
The album explores different regions of his galaxy
Yasuke tells the story of a samurai warrior of African descent in a fantastical alternate universe version of feudal Japan full of magic
Hotly tipped and rarely skipped
and after close to a decade after release
lurching pop rattles it's chains and drags you along in an effluence of happy songs like a mesmerised cult follower of melody
It was released on November 16
Not only containing the world hits Personal Jesus (later beautifully reinterpreted by Johnny Cash) and Enjoy The Silence (with its epic video)
its very creation an act of rebellion in the face of the hopelessness
The majority of tracks are taken from the two 1970 Island/A&M albums
better known as Sonny Terry
in the depths of promoting Devotion and recorded soon after the birth of her first child and shortly before her second child was born
more a combination of the standouts at a time when the band was at the peak of its powers
