NICK CAVE - Idiot Prayer

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First of all, I wish a HAPPY 2022 to everyone. :hey:


About Idiot Prayer...(a Christmas gift)
It was for this that I immersed myself in the incessant search for the Holy Grail of sound. To feel/listen to beauty more closely. To amplify the capture of emotion, to the point where not only music but also sound participate in this beauty.
As it happened with “Idiot Prayer” in which, in the first few songs, in the first audition,I found myself thinking how beautiful the piano was. Which led me to look in the booklet but where I didn't find anything. For what I had to look up on the internet. Where more than the fabulous Italian piano brand (Fazioli!), I learned of Nick Cave's enormous passion for its sound. Alongside I found the curious and amusing story of how he tried to get one for free:cool:, but on the other side of the telephone line, someone did not even recognize who it was and will have disconnected the call, considering that the request for an offer of a 220,000 € piano could only be a joke.:)

A must for anyone who likes music!
Mandatory for anyone who likes audio!

Straight to the group of the best albums of my life…

Feel the Fazioli piano…
 
If you have not listened to Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ soundtrack to La Panthère Des Neiges, rush to your streamer and hit play. You can thank me later. Stunning.
 
MPW said:
If you have not listened to Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ soundtrack to La Panthère Des Neiges, rush to your streamer and hit play. You can thank me later. Stunning.
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Couldn’t agree more, Morgan. Love this soundtrack. Am a Nick Cave tragic
 
Spock said:
First of all, I wish a HAPPY 2022 to everyone. :hey:


About Idiot Prayer...(a Christmas gift)
It was for this that I immersed myself in the incessant search for the Holy Grail of sound. To feel/listen to beauty more closely. To amplify the capture of emotion, to the point where not only music but also sound participate in this beauty.
As it happened with “Idiot Prayer” in which, in the first few songs, in the first audition,I found myself thinking how beautiful the piano was. Which led me to look in the booklet but where I didn't find anything. For what I had to look up on the internet. Where more than the fabulous Italian piano brand (Fazioli!), I learned of Nick Cave's enormous passion for its sound. Alongside I found the curious and amusing story of how he tried to get one for free:cool:, but on the other side of the telephone line, someone did not even recognize who it was and will have disconnected the call, considering that the request for an offer of a 220,000 € piano could only be a joke.:)

A must for anyone who likes music!
Mandatory for anyone who likes audio!

Straight to the group of the best albums of my life…

Feel the Fazioli piano…
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Oh wow. Didn’t know about this release. Loving it!
 
Listening now. Fabulous. Love Sad Waters.

Thanks for the recommendations.


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MPW said:
If you have not listened to Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ soundtrack to La Panthère Des Neiges, rush to your streamer and hit play. You can thank me later. Stunning.
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From what I've heard on You tube it´s amazing and this will be my next purchase (I'm a caveman who listens to CDs :D). Thanks a lot! :thumbsup:

Mike said:
Listening now. Fabulous. Love Sad Waters.
Thanks for the recommendations.
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Mike, it's hard for me to pick the best song because I like them all. I'm listening to these 2 CDs in repeat mode since last year!:) I just change from Cd1 to Cd2 and vice versa.
I already knew most of them, but these deconstructed versions (as Nick Cave himself says) expose all the beauty of the songs. “Into my arms” is perhaps the most beautiful love song ever made. “Higs Boson Blues” makes me goosebumps by the emotion of the voice, supported by the energy of the attack on the piano and the harmonics it releases.

I've already consulted more about Fazioli pianos trying to understand why Nick Cave would have said he would be willing to sell his soul for one. There are in fact many people who say they are the best pianos in the world. Listening to this record, I have to agree.
 
I'm enjoying it more and more day by day.
Clearly one of the best albums of my life. Eventually “The one that i've been waiting for”.

Soooo beautiful…
And so sad…

Vinicius de Moraes (*) used to say that "all great love is only great if it is sad"
That's why so much beauty and sadness come together.

(*) Brazilian poet and singer
 
just finished my 4th listen to this album ...wow!

brilliantly conceived project and inspired choice of performance space ...and the audio engineer (dom monks) just knocked it out of the park!! this now has to be the gold standard for how to record a piano.

cannot say enough how good and pure this recording sounds on my system.

thanks for posting
 
aKnyght said:
just finished my 4th listen to this album ...wow!

and the audio engineer (dom monks) just knocked it out of the park!!
this now has to be the gold standard for how to record a piano.

cannot say enough how good and pure this recording sounds on my system.

thanks for posting
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Thanks for the audiophile answer.
I was thinking it was just me.
This is an amazing record that gives you a tremendous feeling of presence of the singer and instrument.
 
Just listened to it again with some old vintage Electro Voice speakers from 1961 I had restored a few years back with an EL84 amp. I literally listened to the speakers today for the first time since restoration, thinking they would sound somewhat pedestrian, with this album. If you can believe it, the vintage system made Nick’s voice and piano sound more real, resonant and emotional than on my modern, far more expensive rig. Dennis Had of Cary fame believes music sounds best with high efficiency speakers and low power tube amps. He might be on to something there! Great recommendation, Spock!
 
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