It 'really impossible to choose between the beautiful album of Cat Stevens in the early '70s. Among the "Mona bona Jackon," "Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and Firecat, Catch Bull at Four" and "Foreigner" is simply impossible to determine which is best: are all little masterpieces. So I chose some Solomon, opting for a little-known , gorgeous, live '74 that actually represents a collection of the best of the early years of the singer.
And that, more than any sterile collection, offers the advantage of perhaps the best versions of those in the study (still to be had). Album, released quietly and almost impossible to find (but the web is a mine that rarely disappoints), in fact, little is known, however, that what counts, what interests us, we it tells the song in it.
Here is the lineup: "Wild World" "Oh Very Young", "Sitting," "Where Do The Children Play," "Lady d'Arbanville," "Another Saturday Night," "Hard Headed Woman," " Peace Train, "" Father and Son, "" King of Trees "," A Bad Penny "," Bitterblue. It's enough to completely describe the universe of music and art of this strange character representing (he was born in London from greek father and Swedish mother) a strange melting pot of cultures and influences.
The Cat Stevens we know and love is curiously including between "two other" Cat Stevens with "our" have little to do. The "first" had released two albums of pop and beat between '67 and '68, before being nailed to two years in a hospital bed from tuberculosis.
was released from the hospital singer delicate moments that have remained in history and in our hearts: "Father and Son," "Lady d'Arbanville" dedicated to his ex, the painter Patty Arbanville, "Morning Has Broken "" Wild World "," Sitting, "" Where do the children play "...
Finally here's the late 70's third appearance that sonvolgendo millions of fans, throwing to the winds name, artistic identity, rights to old records and, ultimately, a lifetime to call Jusuf Islam, devote himself to Islam and return to be talked about only in connection with statements death sentence to an offender writer to think differently, and love to "brother" Sadam Hussein.
Obviously we are interested in the second (and perhaps the first, just as curiosity). And this is a live good compendium of the best phase of the Cat we love (in the second half of '70 would have produced album is not the highest, indeed, and recently came back without exaltation). If you fly over on
guilty lacking a fundamental episode ("Morning Has Broken," so to speak) this live, despite its short duration, leads Stevens at his best.
In the new arrangements, drier, more brilliant, his songs shine like little gems . Just a few sounds and a few tools left in the foreground the poetry and sensitivity of these songs.
was the direction in which Stevens would have to work, but since the later episodes, made the mistake of stifling their vein with too many sounds and too many instruments. Until the turn of religion that would have wiped out too.
rating 8
Lucio Mazzi 
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