i can spend years night after night, no, not years, A LIFETIME searching for undiscovered rare lives by Jeff and i will never ever get tired of it, he is from another world, just the most amazing miracle that happened to music
This is almost certainly the recording made at the 1995 Meltdown festival at the Queen Elziabeth Hall in London, organized by Elvis Costello. It was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary in March 2010. This is one of the cleanest versions floating around on the web that I've heard.
Sofia how do you know Costello filmed the performance? Surely it would be in the public interest after 20+ years since Jeff passed away to release any such footage. I suspect he has a better audio but I'm not so sure about any video.
Fantastic! You've made the sound so much better, Camran. After listening dozens of times, it still manages to move me deeply and bring me to tears.... What wonderful sounds might we have heard if Jeff had lived longer?!?!
i find it hard to find that words to express the deep emotions i feel when I hear this beautiful man with his angelic voice that resonates deep inside of me, a place I thought I buried. I only discovered his music a few months ago and to say it has changed me would understate the profound impact his music and who I am learning about the man who has a way of reaching into us and touching and re awaking emotions long stuffed down. thank you for posting this.
one of my favorite arias and jeff buckley’s father, tim buckley, was one of my favorite performers in high school in the ‘60s ... amazing to hear the combination... thanks
Noticed the other night, in a doco about 20 years since death of Princess Diana that a soft orchestral version of Purcell's "When I am laid in earth" was being played as coffin entered Westminster Abbey. Very appropriate -remember me forget my fate.
I think Jeff Buckley at the beginning introducing the song but I cant work out what he says. Maybe afterwards the host is saying: "see they didn't invent the blues in the 1960's " " I can tell you that, as i am sitting amongst the vocalists tonight, that none of us want to sing next "
Actually I think the version at the end of the Everybody here wants you doc. is a soundboard recording. This one is definitely taken from the audience. But the good part is there is a better recording. Hopefully it will be released one day
I don't know if this one is any better or the same>> Henry Purcell: "Dido's Lament" (1688), performed live by Jeff Buckley - remastered by Danny C. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jrdqSZWQzqA.html
I'm working on a remaster of this. And it sounds like in the beginning he says "Dido's Lament,Is the name of the song. Which is the same as,I'm Loco." *Crowd Laughs* "Its getting a little smokey." Just my thoughts as I'm working on this. Tell me what you all think.
@Michael Hays Alright cool. There are a lot of different techniques that go into it. To sum it up though,I went in and removed the hissing/backround noise. Then changed up the equalization to bring out the frequencies in his voice for more clarity. It's up now,if you want to give it a listen.
welcome back to life my friend and hey, gues what? it takes quality to recognize quality... there's a little Jeff inside of you my friend, please know this... as a Fact! ;+)))
The words of this beautiful piece mirror Jeff´s own tragic destiny: "When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create, No trouble, no trouble in thy breast; Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate". It´s as if his emotion is real because he knows what would happen to him. We will always remember Jeff.
Both Jeff Buckley, although 300 years apart, and Henry Purcell had tragically short lives.I remember reading a long time ago, that Purcell's wife was responsible for his death: he had gone out drinking with friends on a very cold winter's night, got home totally drunk, knocked on the family door and wife refused to let him in, spent the night outside, got pneumonia and died! Not sure what killed Buckley. Was it suicide or accidental?
You really shouldn't be insinuating any horrible and ridiculous suggestion that Jeff may have meant to drown, when you obviously know very little about him but still see fit to write that rubbish in a public forum. Hang your head in shame. Incidentally on your retelling it sounds to me that Purcell was 'responsible' for his own death, but it's easy to scapegoat the wife several hundred years later.
Such an unusual voice. He doesn't sound like a woman, nor does he sound like a man. I've never heard a human sound like this. He did a pretty great job, altho clearly not operatically trained.
