Raslo Layton - Rock Poet

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
This album of nine songs and three spoken word pieces is the first by the Rock Poet Raslo Layton. Whilst influenced by Dylan, Cohen, and the early works of Counting Crows, Raslo Layton has defined his own unique direction of provocative lyrics and music. For those of you - including Dylan - who thought modern music had lost its way, this album is a reassuring and thought-provoking collection.

Raslo Layton - Rock Poet
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Refreshingly rough
 Raslo Layton - Rock Poet

Manufacturer: Nosehair Production
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006JKZH
Release Date: 2002-08-15

Tracks:

  1. Portrait of an atheist on a very tall building
  2. Bleed me dry
  3. Night in the desert
  4. This fragile face
  5. Letter to Sheye
  6. Consider me a friend
  7. The second time I met Donn Deedon
  8. Pit of friendship
  9. What did I ever do to you so bad
  10. Woman from Nashville
  11. Drifting
  12. She asked "Who is Franz Kafka?"

Album Description

This album of nine songs and three spoken word pieces is the first by the Rock Poet Raslo Layton. Whilst influenced by Dylan, Cohen, and the early works of Counting Crows, Raslo Layton has defined his own unique direction of provocative lyrics and music. For those of you - including Dylan - who thought modern music had lost its way, this album is a reassuring and thought-provoking collection.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Refreshingly rough.......2003-04-01

I bought this album on a whim and have to say I was immensely pleased I did. I am a great fan of Counting Crows, and Raslo is moving in a similar direction though, if anything, has taken wordsmithing to the next level. The more I listen, the more layers are revealed. The arrangements are simple - though in some cases a bit forced - but the fundamental songs are gems, pure poetry. On first take, "Bleed me dry" has the hooks, but after a while it's songs like "Woman from Nashville" or "Letter to Sheye" that really touch you. The last song "Drifting" is a wild, Bukowski-esque story that just blew me away. The live spoken word pieces are pretty lo-fi, but the dynamic of the performance comes through. For all its rough edges this, for me, is a great album.

Music:

  1. Revisited [Import]
  2. Segmented Purity : The Remixes
  3. Sensitive Groove
  4. She Came Along to Me [CD-single]
  5. She [CD-single]
  6. Sideways Soul: In A Dancehall Style
  7. Sixteen Stone
  8. Slight Detour
  9. So Much for the Afterglow (14 Tracks) [Import]
  10. Soak

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'Round Midnight

Mozart: Violin Sonatas Nos. 378-380

Stardust [SACD]

Seven, Come Eleven [Enhanced] [Live]

Paintin' The Town Brown: Ween Live '90-'98 [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics] [Live]

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