The same year that Blues Creation gave us their amazing second album DEMON & ELEVEN CHILDREN, they recorded this collaboration with Carmen Maki. While it’s not as consistently great as the aforemntioned album, it is a damn good seventies hard rock record. There’s too much mellowed out stuff for my taste here, but Maki has a great voice, the bass is pummeling, and tracks like “Understand” and “Motherless Child” are truly great. There’s a sort of Led Zep feel to the whole record, and the production is excellent. On the reissue we also get some great live material as well, so this is certainly something any student of old school heavy would want to own.
by cirithungol, rateyourmusic
Tracklist:
01. Understand (05:00)
02. And You (02:59)
03. Lord, I Can’t Be Going No More (03:33)
04. Empty Heart (08:32)
05. Motherless Child (06:57)
06. I Can’t Live For Today (04:37)
07. Mean Old Boogie (05:01)
08. St. James Infirmary (06:45)
Musicians:
Carmen Maki – vocals
Hiromi Osawa – vocals
Kazuo Takeda – guitar
Masashi Saeki – bass
Masayuki Higuchi – drums
EAC extraction logfile from 22. November 2013, 20:30
カルメン。マキ / Blues Creation
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GH22NS50 Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:Program Files (x86)Exact Audio CopyFlacflac.exe
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TOC of the extracted CD
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Track 1
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Track 5
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Track 8
Filename C:EAC Rips8 – S. James Infirmary.wav
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All tracks accurately ripped
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End of status report
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log date: 2015-10-16 01:55:42
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Analyzed: Carmen Maki & Blues Creation / Carmen Maki – Blues Creation
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 -0.80 dB -13.31 dB 5:00 01-Understand
DR13 -2.01 dB -18.38 dB 2:59 02-And You
DR12 -0.80 dB -15.66 dB 3:34 03-Lord, I Can’t Be Goin’ No More
DR12 -0.80 dB -16.79 dB 8:32 04-Empty Heart
DR10 -0.80 dB -13.56 dB 6:57 05-Motherless Child
DR10 -0.80 dB -13.84 dB 4:37 06-I Can’t Live for Today
DR10 -0.80 dB -13.36 dB 5:02 07-Mean Old Boogie
DR12 -0.80 dB -15.20 dB 6:43 08-St. James infirmary
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Number of tracks: 8
Official DR value: DR11
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 751 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Track [ CRC | V2 ] Status
01 [3fbfd574|99bdec1f] (0+4/4) Accurately ripped
02 [4910dd19|375c2475] (0+4/4) Accurately ripped
03 [f7db4210|91320051] (0+4/4) Accurately ripped
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– 91,2 [56E16F3A] [B1460FDE]
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02 79,3 [DDA0B812] [CCE8D75B] CRC32
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All thanks go to the original releaser
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