Cat Stevens - Majikat (Earth Tour 1976) [Audio Fidelity 180g DoLP, mastered by Hoffman/Gray] 24-bit/96kHz

Cat Stevens - Majikat (Earth Tour 1976)
Audio Fidelity DoLP / AFZLP2 040
Mastered by Steve Hoffman & Kevin Gray @ AcousTech
Vinyl rip in 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC | cue, m3u & Log | Artwork
~1.5 gb incl. recovery | RS & FF | Pop; Vocal | 1976

Allmusic.com rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars

During his popular heyday in the 1970s, Cat Stevens did not release a live album, so it was some surprise that, nearly 30 years later, a live recording turned up on both DVD and CD. The performance captures Stevens on his 1976 American tour, just past his commercial peak. (Numbers, the album he was promoting, broke a string of six consecutive Top Ten albums in the U.S. by peaking at number 13 in Billboard.)
Supported by the same musicians who had played on his records, including guitarist Alun Davies and keyboard player Jean Roussel, he had a repertoire of hits and other favorites, and the audience can be heard cheering enthusiastically, not only for the chart singles, but also for tracks from albums like Mona Bone Jakon, Tea for the Tillerman, and Teaser and the Firecat. Stevens performs faithful versions of eight of the 11 hit singles he had scored in the U.S. up to this point (omitting "Morning Has Broken," "Sitting," and "Ready"), interspersing them with equally familiar songs such as "Where Do the Children Play," "Tuesday's Dead," and "Father & Son."
For most of the show, Stevens says practically nothing, but toward the end he becomes much more talkative, saying of "Sad Lisa" that he may have been writing about himself rather than the woman of the title; admitting that his recent single "Two Fine People" is musically a rewrite of his earlier hit "Wild World"; and revealing that he actually wrote "Peace Train" on a train, although he was thinking of Alfred Hitchcock (and presumably, of the film Strangers on a Train) at the time. More such revelations would have been welcome, but as it is the album constitutes an excellent Stevens best-of.


Track listing

All songs written by Cat Stevens except, where noted.

Side A:

"Wild World" – 3:03
"The Wind" – 1:38
"Moonshadow" – 2:43
"Where Do the Children Play?" – 3:20
"Another Saturday Night" (Sam Cooke) – 2:35
"Hard Headed Woman" – 3:54

Side B:

"King of Trees" – 3:28
"C79" – 3:08
"Lady D'Arbanville" – 3:47
"Banapple Gas" – 3:08
"Majik of Majiks" – 4:27

Side C:

"Tuesday's Dead" – 4:06
"Oh Very Young" – 2:24
"How Can I Tell You" – 4:10
"The Hurt" – 4:54

Side D:

"Sad Lisa" – 3:26
"Two Fine People" – 3:47
"Fill My Eyes" – 3:01
"Father & Son" – 4:10
"Peace Train" – 3:58

Personnel

Cat Stevens: Guitars, Piano, vocals.
Alun Davies: Guitars, Vocals.
Mark Warner: Guitars, bazouki.
Bruce Lynch: Bass guitar.
Jean Roussel: Hammond organ, clavinet, electric piano, synthesizer, piano.
Gerry Conway: Drums, percussion.
Chico Batera: Percussion.
Larry Steele: Percussion, flute, acoustic guitar, bass guitar.
Kimberley Carlson: Backing vocals.
Angela Howell: Backing vocals.
Sue Lynch: Backing vocals.

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