Ms. Jordan, 83, whose career had some promising starts but only took off in her 60s -- looked and sounded vivid and joyful.
The acoustic itself has problems — the sound is vivid but hazy, suggesting an incredibly good but not quite lifelike stereo system — but the hall seduces the eyes with its mahogany veneer.
For others it will sound splendidly vivid and true.
The sound quality, vivid and detailed, befits the exotic, colorful contents.
On the same year's Loud City Song – the one inspired by Gigi – field recordings rubbed shoulders with astonishing songs: the intense, deliberately over-saturated arrangements of Maxim's I or City Appearing managed to sound simultaneously vivid and feverish.
These little mutations all contributed to the evolution of Hudson Mohawke's trademark sound: a vivid, psychedelic melange of J Dinstrumentalnstrumental hip-hop, space-age R&B, bass boom and old-school rave euphoria, garnished with effervescent FX from unexpected sources ("I used my iPhone to record the Australian traffic-light noise because it sounds like lasers," he grins).
In her review, the CBC's Denise Ball said of the recording, "the sound is vivid and fresh, and the orchestra plays with remarkable depth of colour and rhythmic drive".
They never sold enough to generate even a minor trend, but they sounded amazingly vivid.
They all share the Beasties' smart and stylish double-cool swagger and real humor but also include crushing sound, ultra-vivid samples and vocal treatments and, dare I say it, fresh beats!
Impossible as it sounds, his vivid outline of the human-generated Apocalypse careening toward us was better than dessert!
