"[31], In the late 1990s, when Becker and Fagen were putting together a remastered version of the album as part of a series of reissues on compact disc, they found that the original two-inch multitrack master tapes of "Aja" and "Black Cow" were both missing, precluding a version of either song in 5.1 surround sound for home theaters. "[8] He has long claimed it was named after a South Korean woman a high school friend's brother married after serving in the Army in that country. probably know that centuries ago, the Troubadour was a very special breed of man. As Michael Phalen famously comments in the liner notes of Steely Dans sixth studio album, Aja signals the onset of a new maturity and a kind of solid professionalism that is the hallmark of an artist that has arrived.. pl.n. There could be a certain boilerplate aspect of the bebop language, a way of looking at chromatic passages. AFS L38:Great Basin: Paiute, Washo, Ute, Bannock, Shoshone. The "Michael Phalen" byline in the Aja liner notes is a total sock puppet forwhat Walt and Don wrote, right? [d] He plays variations for the first eight bars, actually a repeated four-bar figure. anything else listen, think, play, practice, improvise, rehearse, compose, analyze,
Steely Dan had gotten off to a promising start with their debut album, 1972s Cant Buy A Thrill, from which the two hit singles Do it Again and Reelin In The Years Billboard charted at number six and eleven respectively. It was a cryin' disgrace
Up on the hill. Highlights of the auction include Becker's 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic, - which can be seen in a photograph with Becker in the liner notes for Dan's seminal album, Aja, from 1977 - his #1 Sadowsky signature model, a 1928 Martin 00 model, alongside two Fender Precision Basses, from 1958 and '59 respectively. Has the dynamic duo ever written about this? She's the raw flame
Backup Vocals: Michael McDonald, Clydie
European magazine had folded. Shine up the battle apple
They just don't care. whereabouts of these missing two inch tapes should contact HK Management
Label variation, issued on ABC starburst labels without musical note logo; no "STEREO" printed underneath side indicator on left side. [58], Jazz writer Ben Sidran considers "Aja" a seminal recording. She's the raw flame,
Joyce in 1922, and educe from it new insights - especially within the narrow scope
Backup Vocals: Donald Fagen, Tim Schmit, This is the day
Recorded and Edited by Willard Rhodes. While you run around
This is your big debut
All Rights Reserved by original artists or copyright holders. Liner notes: Blood On The Tracks Released 01/20/1975. haunting tenor work and a tasty chart by Scott. Posted May 24, 2015. Breathe easy. [51], "Aja" was released as part of the eponymous album in September 1977; it would soon reach No. Michael Phalen, when we called back the next day we were told that he
"[25], Aja Brown, mayor of Compton, California, was named after the song, since her mother was a fan. Your parties are all present now. -Donald
Fagen:
Gadd's drumming came in for praise; the reviewer also noted that "Fagen's mellow vocals are at their best. all over the United States and in many other parts of the world. pianistics of Victor Feldman, whose labors are capriciously undermined by Walter Becker's
of ABC Records, who informed me that the "guys" had specifically requested yours
Half as much as
He was very intent on not doing that, on forging a novel approach to the piece. uh.
You should know
As you scroll, you'll find footnote and bibliography entry templates and examples of citations for real sources for the following types of liner notes: Digital liner notes Print liner notes Digital program notes Print program notes Digital liner notes Digital liner notes footnotes: Digital liner notes bibliography entries: Print liner notes Break away
Read on for the skinny on each lot, and head over to Julien's Auctions for more info on the sale. I guess that I'm the lucky one
Highlights include Becker's #1 Sadowsky signature model, a 1928 Martin 00 acoustic, 1958 and '59 P-Bass, plus a 1957 Duo-Sonic, as seen in the liner notes for the Dan's seminal Aja album. "Aja," Fagen and Becker's sixth LP, only amplified the carping. purchased "The Royal Scam" reissue. Memiliki mental yang kuat dalam menghadapi pelanggan. We're gonna rev up the motor scooters
Rhythmically the pair had also dove deeper into the locked grooves of American r&b and soul. fact, any kind of information which serves to bring them and their music just a little
"Steve Gadd, being a fantastic drummer, is a fantastic sight reader and didn't really need to rehearse; neither did the rest of the band," Becker told Steely Dan historian Brian Sweet in 2007. Memiliki penampilan yang menarik. Fagen:
"[61], Gadd's work on the track has also been influential. Fagen adds accents at one point with two toots of a police whistle. Just when it seems so clear
that is the hallmark of an artist who has "arrived". shuts off, allow us to see the flow of artists' activity and help us to try to know their
many sides on a career and personal basis. [39] In another song, "Glamour Profession", the narrator refers to another character's "Eurasian bride" and later describes having "Szechuan dumplings" at the Mr. Chow Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles. Through the suburban streets
[34], Like many Steely Dan songs, the lyrics of "Aja" are sung from the point of view of a character in a narrative, rather than a universal first person as is common in most other modern popular music. It was
It will come back to you
you want to call it. GARLANDIA,
and the desire from fans, the music community in general, regarding major artists and
Not wishing to add greatly to the bulk of verbiage expended so far, we would like to make the following announcement: That's the kind of double- talk they were giving me towards he end. [50], The 12-bar interlude ends as the vamp returns for four bars, over which Becker plays a bluesier solo on an overdriven guitar. Darling if you only knew
Listening to Aja, Its hard not to see the albums musical complexity as a riposte to the conservative rock sensibility. Having just put the finishing touches on a rather lukewarm review of the Leo Sayer
Musicians: Tony Brown -- Bass Buddy Cage -- Steel Guitar Paul Griffin -- Organ Eric Weissberg & Deliverance. ASSISTANT ENGINEERES: Lenise Bent;
You are likely to find ridiculous boasts (One of my favorite Hollies compilations, For Certain Because, features the line "FaveRaveFabbestGear, this is the tops!", or something equally as hagiographic) or boring accounts of [43], Following what Breithaupt calls a "discernible musical logic" to the order of the album's songs, most of the piece is in the key of B major, one step up from A major, on which the previous track, "Black Cow" had ended. chorus". A very different kind of liner notes can be found on Steely Dan - Aja. [45] Near the end is another segment of chromatically descending chords (Fm11, Em11, Em11 and Dm11). Suckers? Damn
Aja ( / e /, pronounced like Asia) is the sixth studio album by the American jazz rock band Steely Dan. recognition and respect, there exists a reserved place for Steely Dan. At slightly over nine minutes, it the longest track ever recorded by Steely Dan. BECKER: Walter Becker, Dorothy A. almost twenty years before. their recordings are neither new or unusual. Make love to these women
If you, kind
Drums: Paul Humphrey
Here at the dude ranch above the sea, [Chorus:]
minor marvel of poetic grace and structural economy. She's the raw flame
In your hand
With those of my kind
insurance may have gone up again due to excessive claims for vandalism,
So what is so unique about Aja? Tenor Sax: Tom Scott
ENGINEERS: Roger Nichols; Elliot
This quality I call the
In
But Bernie is one of the best along with Kevin Gray, Bob Ludwig and Ryan K Smith. satisfaction but importantly, for his own self as well. I have preferred a full frontal nude picture of Denny Dias instead. I'm afraid
When Josie comes home to stay
I crawl like a viper
"Everyone had their head into it like probably it was going to take a long time to get it, if we ever would get it. You call me a fool
"I
Fagen plays synthesizer fills while Gadd continues his solo, more in the tradition of jazz drum solos than rock. New Releases. To
Drink your big black cow
The part attributed to Steve Diener ("President ABC Records", he may . PLUS NEW LINER NOTES BY
The longer set, purportedly written by music journalist "Michael Phalen" a pseudonym for . Columbia Records, Inc.
long distance from L.A. by a man who introduced himself as Steve Diener. After their third album, 1974's Pretzel Logic, they decided to stop touring to focus on songwriting; the other remaining members left, although guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter continued working with Becker and Fagen on occasional tracks. Dari mana datangnya damai,dari selatan Angin membawa rasa damai, Ketika pikiran yang rusuh, datang mengganggu tak permisi. PayPal, Label and pressing variation, orange target-style labels, pressed by. [5], By the time Becker and Fagen began writing and recording the sixth Steely Dan album, Aja, in 1977, the two felt comfortable enough to focus on their songwriting. You will stagger homeward
world where people were mostly locked to their land, where art was not well understood by
She quotes Becker: He was very thoughtful and probing about the musical possibilities Wayne said that as a jazz musician there could be a stage where you'd see a certain harmonic thing going on and react to that in a programmed way. Payment Information: Having just put the finishing touches on a rather lukewarm review of the Leo . PDF, 22 pp., 9.18MB. Moving
A few bars in, Feldman begins playing the section's main melody on his vibraphone, beginning an 8-bar instrumental bridge that includes one bar in 24. Caribou Records. You been keepin' for years
No. Library of Congress, 1982. The interlude chords briefly return, and Gadd resumes keeping the beat, with a few more flourishes, while Shorter's solo continues. Dido, Dwight Yoakam, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, George Michael, Gloria Estefan, Heart, Neil Young, Phil Collins, REO Speedwagon, Rod Stewart, Supertramp, The Beatles, Tower of Power, Various, aja Format CD Release Title na Style 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Classic Rock Genre Rock UPC Not Applicable TT Hodge Podge 100% Positive Feedback Scheiner;
[28], Shorter recalled his decision to play the solo as "quite matter-of-fact". Bass: Chuck Rainey
This brother is free
tenor sax. It's the kind of record that can make you sweat just by listening to it -- and that's a recommendation. AJA is dedicated to ensuring your success with our products. musically. To your precious one
philosophize as to the music around. "Of course that didn't bother us at all." These girls are old spinsters by now,
I take one last drag
Left to their own devices the pair revelled in their ability to assemble a rotating cast of musicians, each of whom they could draft in for minor or major contributions as they saw fit. They could contain details of the recording, the song's lyrics, a message to fans, an image, or anything the artist wants to share. has a certain difference. "Aja" is a jazz rock song, with elements of jazz fusion and progressive rock, by the American rock band Steely Dan (by that time, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen) from the album of the same name, their sixth studio album, released in 1977. Tracks. studios and, on two occasions, attempted to inter- view the composers. Done up in blueprint blue
Libations
One opens with "Black Cow", a catchy disco-funk number that defies
As I write this, I
they made their recording debut in 1972, Steely Dan was more or less a conventional rock
19.2k members in the SteelyDan community. The result is a rambling
Beneath the attractive, effortless flow of words
I hear those lyrics, which often say or describe their
Tom Scott appears through courtesy of
[33] This complex musical structure is in contrast to the lyricsthree short verses, all beginning with the same line, and with the same chorus. It is reinforced by the "Chinese music" that begins the fourth line of the first and third verses. That it's
Gadd quietly works the cymbals behind him, as some bent guitar licks, and Sample's Rhodes electric piano, with delay and slight tremolo, sound above the chords. 1.1 Black Cow 1.2 Aja 1.3 Deacon Blues 1.4 Peg 1.5 Home at Last 1.6 I Got the News 1.7 Josie. with "Deacon Blues", an Edge City ballad enlivened only by Pete Christlieb's
Liner Notes. It sure looks good on you
"[47], After eight measures, the vocals enter. and music, one discovers a lyric presence and fineness of perception that is a rare thing
Left to their own devices the pair revelled in their ability to assemble a rotating cast of musicians, each of whom they could draft in for minor or major contributions as they saw fit. From the new liner notes of the 1999 re-mastered reissue: As for the Aja album proper, so much has already been written about this '70s blockbuster as to put it in imminent danger of becoming somewhat overrated. Highlights of the auction include Becker's 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic, - which can be seen in a photograph with Becker in the liner notes for Dan's seminal album, Aja, from 1977 - his #1 Sadowsky signature model, a 1928 Martin 00 model, alongside two Fender Precision Basses, from 1958 and '59 respectively. Guitars: Larry Carlton, Walter Becker,
to determine who was playing what on any given track (a practice that has persisted until
Just like cover art, there are two main ways of storing liner notes: embedded in the music file or stored alongside music files inside a folder, normally the folder for the release/album. Fagen claimed that it was inspired by a relative of someone he knew, who had married a Korean woman named Aja. He left the bulk of the keyboard parts to others; Joe Sample played the electric piano while Michael Omartian, who was amazed that Becker and Fagen had abandoned the idea of recording the "totally cool" (in his words) "Stand by the Seawall",[7] handled the acoustic piano. Phalen:
To be considered for 2 Minutes With, or to learn more about our Clio Music . I'll play just what I feel
Let's do it right, Up on the hill
Break away
Or so they say
That it's
him and converting them into song and music. The history of epic musical attempts to meaningfully engage with the vast sweep of American history is, to say the . is "about eight minutes", the song's running time. that, at that point, my relationship with the belligerent song writing duo had become so
Aja liner notes, by Steve Diener. Liner notes are additional information and text provided with a music album. And get out of here, Down to Greene Street
By George Saunders. We're gonna park in the street
[12][13] Chuck Rainey played bass. Soulful secret
"standard" music professionalism. Mempunyai jiwa sosial yang tinggi. That heart has not been dormant since their last album, "The Royal
It is an "almost necessity" to those who follow and
Fagen also played the minimal synthesizer parts the song required, as well as some toots of a police whistle during the instrumental break. [Chorus:]
Zembu Productions. I can't believe they used the entire inner gatefold for the notes. We are
Considering the somewhat pressurised atmosphere surrounding these sessions, its easy to see how this ethos carried over into the albums pristine sound quality. It was in-fact the most rhythmically focused songs, such as Peg, Josie and I Got The News, which proved most time-consuming in the recording process, as Becker and Fagen, of course, pursued the perfect backbeat with an almost maniacal attention to detail. So clueless as to the music or the recording process. Was I to know
What makes up this heart? Bass: Chuck Rainey
How
Find every record of yours that contains liner notes, and give 'em a good readin'. Chinese music under banyan trees. I got the news, Slow down
[48] "Aja was Becker and Fagen's half-step album," Breithaupt writes. harmonies, the whole thing propelled by an infectious, trendy beat. A&M Records, Inc.
The sensitive, sometimes explosive performance by drummer Steve Gadd may be his finest recorded work to date. The
After a long year-and-a-half of production, Aja would become Steely Dans definitive commercial success-story, selling over a million copies (their only record to do so) and sustaining its presence in the charts for well over a year after peaking at number 3. listened many times since. retrospect, I should have realized the assignment would not be all sweetness and light; in
"Even so," she concludes, "Wayne managed to tell a blockbuster story in just one minute". Classic Album Sundays. Solo Guitar: Walter Becker
You're a screamer
Logic album on which the intro to Rikki was missing (shades
To this day, the albums lasting appeal across cultural and musical barriers serves as the true legacy of a deeply complex yet ultimately irresistible record. performance by drummer Steve Gadd may be his finest recorded work to date. nobody in the "group" new or cared who I was or what I was doing there. In the confusion after the completion of the album, those masters were not stored with the others, they wrote in the liner notes that accompanied the reissue.
Phalen:
Was a book of numbers
There's an interview with Crenshaw about the album and additional liner notes from him. This, then was the raw material I had to work with. Marshall Crenshaw Rock-Pop Yep Roc. At this late date, it would hardly
exemplifies Steely Dan's remarkable versatility. When all my dime dancin' is through
The outro's layered use of synthesizers evoked, to him, David Bowie and Brian Eno. Breithaupt calls this intro an unusual "area of harmonic tranquility" in the album. When Josie comes home, When Josie comes home
You came ragin'
I run ", joined by a repeated long "u" (o): "through to you") Assonance is combined with consonance, a repeated consonant sound, as well: the combination of the short "a" (//) and "n" (/n/) recurs throughout the verses ("banyan", "ranch", and "angular banjoes") and then in the chorus's "dancin'". The application allows you to change settings and calculate storage requirements in a single screen with simple controls and a clear concise display. So useless to ask me why
The bridge is replayed, while the solo continues. Clavinet: Don Grolnick
These mixes have languished unreleased because of a dispute over some sleeve notes that Mark Blake has written for this new release. Steely Dan reissue CDs before reading further. Steely Dan. Perhaps
This information has been provided in different ways as music mediums have changed. So unintentionally funny. On the other hand, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and drummer Steve Gadd made their first appearances here. Other [Hemiolas, Hockets, Maneries Of Garlandia, Etc. "[23], According to Sweet, Gadd's playing was so visually appealing that some of the other players became distracted and had to rerecord portions of their parts later. Behind The Counter UK 2023: Truck Store, Oxford (Episode 11 of Gilles Petersons Top Five Sun Ra Albums Of All Time, The Story of Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, The Story Of The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, CAS Chicago presents The Velvet Underground & Nico. One one of these
Read more. Deacon Blues, My back to the wall
Steve:
"[12], An actual critic, Rolling Stone's Michael Duffy, saw it much the same way. Fagen and Becker performed it in concert after they reunited late in the 20th century and began touring again as Steely Dan. The Can't Buy A Thrill Ones read like a parody of 60s LP sleeve notes to me and I thought they wrote their own sleeve notes with a lot of sarcasm. Sorry, you must be logged in to make offers. "But mostly he related to the music itself." "The new one is coming
088 112 056-2. A 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic electric guitar which is being played by Walter Becker in a photograph used in the liner notes to the 1977 Steely Dan album Aja. Many artists, including Woody Herman, have covered it on Steely Dan tribute albums. [7] During a 2000 BBC online chat Fagen recalled discarding some other sections set aside for solos, "because nobody was comfortable with [them]. In today's world, liner notes are found in descriptions on Apple Music or Spotify. *If the opening
Languid and bitter sweet
Two finds vocalist Donald Fagen admonishing yet another lover in a danceable ditty
Your name in lights above it
This made for very few repeat signs," writes Breithaupt. Phalen:
living in Europe, and for all we know is basking poolside with the
Hilarious! She credits Gadd for inspiring him much as Tony Williams had when he and Shorter played in Davis's band. See more. Side
Of
truly to write the liner notes for the new album and that a cassette copy of same would be
You bastard, you stay the fuck away from my car! and approach a place is theirs - because they have it down, totally covered or whatever
Matthews, Venetta Fields, I've seen your picture
explain that specialness that surrounds Steely Dan I know from personal contact. They had somehow become separated from the other boxes, which
They are also found in cassette tape cases. COVERT OPERATIONS: Karen Stanley
"Time out of Mind", the album's second single, references a "mystical sphere direct from Lhasa / Where people are rolling in the snow / Far from the world we know". Released in 1977, the year that both the lighting force of punk and the carefree abandon of disco were enjoying cultural hegemony, Aja found itself strangely out of time and place; an irregular jigsaw piece in an often polemic commercial environment. contempt for pop music critics was well known to myself and my colleagues. Of course we wish him all the best, and it's good to know that there is
I know they're gonna love it. employ of the reluctant interviewees. She prays like a Roman
Echoing Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, the pair were disillusioned by the obligations and restrictions of live performance, gravitating towards the creative reclusiveness enabled by the recording studio and its increasingly powerful tools. [32], The Neapolitan sixth chord Everett highlighted at the end of the chorus is held for two measures, creating a short break before the beginning of the instrumental section. Steve D__ who sat in our conference call was a hapless realtor from
Backup Vocals: Donald Fagen, Tim Schmit. group comprised of six active members. June 16, 2014. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and Piano and Vibes: Victor Feldman
The live wire
A truly lush and all encompassing audio experience, each instrument boasts a rich glossy veneer, penetrating and tessellating with an almost surgical precision. or so, I came to understand that this garrulous gentleman worked for ABC Records and was
Call me Deacon Blues
at (415) 485-1444. In their own style
She prays like a Roman
Backup Vocals: Michael McDonald, Paul
"Aja" is the longest song the band recorded before they disbanded in 1981,[a] running for approximately eight minutes. I haven't read the ones for Aja for years, if ever. "[38] Two years after Aja, Gaucho had three in two songs. [44] With the exception of occasional measures, the song is in 44, or common time. Synthesizer: Donald Fagen
I only mention this because it may
[18], With everything else laid down, only the tenor saxophone solo remained. Incidentally, we subsequently learned that the
As such, they began to decentralise the notion of Steely Dan as a solid group of musicians into something amorphous and indefinable, thus commencing the period of uninhibited creativity that birthed. Roger Waters has published the redacted liner notes for the long-awaited remaster of Pink Floyd 's Animals. After a long year-and-a-half of production. Talk it out till daylight. "He helped signal to the pop world that Becker and Fagen, the kings of wry understatement, were not averse to a little untethered improvisation. Surface noise will not overpower the music. For otherwise similar pressing with "STEREO" on labels, see Aja. Denny Dias's guitar work, including a solo, marked the last appearance on a Steely Dan record by any other founding member of the group. RHYTHM CHARTS PREPARED BY: Larry
So good
Aren't Steely Dan's sleevenotes all ironic pastiche? Victoria Aja: Liner Notes : 2005 : Juan Crisstomo de Arriaga: String Quartets: Camerata Boccherini: Liner Notes : 2005 : Escudero: Illeta (Funeral Oratorio) Juan Jos Mena: Liner Notes . I later found out that this
am listening to a tape of the latest album. He called it "a really strange and beautiful arrangement." With her eyes on fire, Drums: Jim Keltner
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In
I'll make it this time
Becker was one of three guitarists on the track, along with Larry Carlton, and Dias. a unique musical venture, not like the one before nor the one to follow. Waters also alleges that Gilmour "has for the last 35 years told a lot of whopping porky pies about who did what in Pink Floyd when I was still in charge". It directs and feeds the steady pulse of their creative energy;
And when you smile for the camera
In late 1977 the pair had revealed Aja, an album which would come to define their legacy as a stubborn yet accomplished musical powerhouse, as they staked their territory in an increasingly fragmented and contradictory musical landscape. Living
Written by journalists, critics, copywriters, fans, or other interested parties. into possession of a valuable collector's item. the producer had abandoned here and there (studios, storage lockers,
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