Mettle

Mettle Artist: Hugo Largo
Label: Thirsty Ear
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 700436603829
EAN: 0700436603829
ASIN: B00000I59H


Release Date: 2001-05-08

Mettle


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Tracks:

  1. Turtle Song
  2. Hot Day
  3. Martha
  4. Halfway Knowing
  5. 4 Brothers
  6. Ohio
  7. Jungle Jim
  8. Never Mind

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  1. Drum
  2. Soak
  3. Drum

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Beautiful, but strangely detatched........2004-11-19

This album is one of those that keeps percolating up through my CD collection. Four Brothers and Hot Day are standout tracks, but frankly, they are all very similar. That's not a bad thing; it has that Dark-Side-Of-The-Moon-ish feeling where all the tracks run together and wash over you as a single entity. The otherworldly lyrics, deliberately disjointed and vague, add to the feeling of letting your ordinary life completely behind when you listen to this album. The instrumentation has a subtly dramatic, nearly too-sparse, hollow feeling, with little melody. You won't walk away whistling anything from Mettle. The result is an album that takes us to someplace where we can look back on our everyday lives and emotions with fresh but strangely detached eyes, In the process, Mettle doesn't replace that connection with much of anything. It's obviously the intended effect, but it's like caressing a loved one with hands covered in bubble wrap. It's interesting, but too desensitizing to get addicted to.

5 out of 5 stars A former Hugo Largo groupie is still interested.......2002-08-16

I lived in NYC at the time Hugo Largo was playing there and still wish they were around. I have magical memories of the times I went to their shows. This album is a wonderful reminder of those great days.

4 out of 5 stars Like floating in water..........2001-12-06

Recorded under Brian Eno's Opal Records in 1989, this second album by Hugo Largo contains the unmistakable beautiful singing of now-popular Mimi (recognized for her participation with Moby and her solo album). It will blow your mind... Their sound feels like floating in water, or sitting in your mother's womb.

5 out of 5 stars A Rolls Royce of an album!.......2001-09-01

I bought this when it was released (by chance I ran into a rare new copy) and it has ever since been my most treasured album. I spent years trying to find a "back-up" disc in case mine failed, but was unsuccessful. Lucky for me and all of you, it is now available brand new! I can't even express to you how much this album simply captivated my emotional and aesthetic senses. It is a true "work of art". Despite what some may think, this album is even better than the excellent Drum album, which I had bought around the time of it's debut. Mimi is a gem and stands among the other great women vocalists, Elizabeth and Lisa.

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. My Child ~ Delilah , Emmylou Harris , and Judy Collins
  2. Psychedelic Psoul/Hard Rock from the Middle East ~ The Freak Scene & Devil's Anvil
  3. Big Tobacco ~ Joe Pernice
  4. Blood in the Ink ~ Until the End
  5. Mott the Hoople - Greatest Hits Live ~ Mott the Hoople
  6. Bring It Down ~ Madder Rose , and Mary Lorson
  7. More Talk About Tonight ~ Slang
  8. There's a New Dawn ~ New Dawn
  9. These Are the Days ~ Saybia
  10. Testing Superstition ~ The June Spirit

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Swingin' on the Town ~ Roy Eldridge

Me and You ~ Count Basie Orchestra

Complete Small Group, Vol. 2 ~ Johnny Hodges

The Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet ~ Lou Donaldson

Best of Count Basie ~ Count Basie

Vom Stadion Ins Studio ~ Various Artists

Vows Prayers & Promises ~ Andy Cooney

Caramelbox Soundbook: Openings ~ Various Artists

Memories from Russia ~ Volga Boatmen