Reduced, cautiously, emotional, intimate - a young genius caught a really good day!

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Neil Young has to promote both the oeuvre and the status which allows it gradually more documents from the past to light, without this would degenerate to the exploitation or moneymaking. No, Young is one of the greats of music history, where one is pleased about each additional minute that you may be a witness of their work.
Against this background, the joy was indeed great, as "Live at the Cellar Door" was announced - a remarkable in many ways a small concert in Washington Club. Remarkably for a for the intimate atmosphere, partly because of the fact that it has succeeded in retaining them on tape. Remarkably continue because of the obvious devotion of the young (haha!) Young - and finally noteworthy because here a particularly beautiful, even "raw" version of "Old Man" can be heard, which was to appear two years later.

Young plays alone, he uses only the piano and the guitar. Something only works if you have both musically and lyrically something to talk about, because all too soon, the extremely reduced acoustic boring, repetitive or unoriginal act - which happens to the best! But of course that does not happen Neil Young. No, on the contrary, that you can only the two "instruments" (voice and piano / guitar), it does indeed easier to follow them as they are, so to speak naked, laid bare, but that's when Young is no demand, but a huge advantage. Because the laying bare of voice and accompaniment with the result that one clearly perceives each harmonic twist, each melodic maneuvers. And in fact act so even when many were, familiar songs that have long since become classics, some swings intense, stronger, eg "Do not Let It Bring You Down", "Bad Fog Of Loneliness" or "I Am A Child ".
The recording or remastering is really good. It characterizes both the nuances and the force of the instruments out - this circumstance contributes to precisely what was said when, if the deep root note of the chord is struck with the guitar, is a the in the joints and marrow, and one can of atmospheric direction by is specified, do not close.
The above examples are all guitar pieces - but that does not mean that the piano is not working. I personally feel that the acoustic guitar a little better than does the piano, but who wants to be convinced, that the piano has been wonderfully captured, only "Cinnamon Girl" must listen. The first light, lilting accompaniment keyboard is 2:25 against short intense, vigorous, used more deeper fundamentals and plays from then on steadily with the dynamics - all this sounds really good. Another, somewhat fuller example would be the final piece "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong". What the piano but - perhaps because the instrument itself - a little lacking in contrast to the guitar, is the reverberation, the "booming". It is a little flat, a little short of breath. But hey, that's bleating at a high level.
Finally his voice: And I have to actually say something? I mean, Neil Young's voice is not a secret or anything, one could hear among the thousands of votes and his songs seem like written for his delicate, high, a penchant for Quitschigen sometimes yielding pitch. She emerges on the recording clearly and in all subtlety, with any emotional facet and regardless of the recording Neil Young had apparently a really good day, was recorded as this little gem. He remains calm, but plays within the rest with little nuances of despair, of doubt, of devotion, of swarming. It is a festival.

And so it goes throughout the album, in the interrupt only three times, before the first, second and the last piece, a few words the raw musical enjoyment. It's intimate and consistently with proper volume, plant and atmosphere you have the privilege and pleasure to stand in the second row, with eyes closed, and imzuge this journey a giant live to experience.

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Young Neil Young plays with gentle force in an intimate atmosphere a very reduced version of his repertoire, which mainly includes the songs "After The Goldrush ', thereby reversing the essence outwards.

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Almost nothing is as subjective as music. For each it sounds different, everyone noticed and like different. That's great! The reviews of Re: Zensionen try to take this into account and still somehow find a objectified judgment on music in consideration of compositional elements, innovation, ingenuity and recording as well as technique. Why? Well, so perhaps one or the other interested parties will help in choosing his next purchase. But in this context is considered in the first place: Best of it is always to make yourself a picture, because perhaps I am in the end the only one who finds a specific album very well or failed.