![]() ![]() I like this song, but it’s a little bland to me. Lyrically, it’s pretty nice, but sonically, it’s just not my taste. Okay, I know this song is beloved, but I just don’t love it. This sounds like it would be on Take Me Home, which isn’t a bad thing, but I just think this song is on the wrong album. I associate Midnight Memories with pop-rock and pop-folk songs, and this isn’t either of those. This isn’t a bad song, but I don’t really think that it fits with the rest of the album. I hope you enjoy my ranking, and feel free to let me know if you agree or disagree! 18. In this post I’ll be ranking all of the songs from One Direction’s third studio album, Midnight Memories, from worst to best. Midnight Memories says goodbye to bubblegum pop and hello to rock-influence and even some folk-flavor (see Something Great, Story of My Life, and Through the Dark). The growth from those two albums that is evident in this one makes me very proud. Up All Night and Take Me Home were both fun and charming and cute, but I wouldn’t call them great. Not to be missed.Midnight Memories was One Direction’s first great album. Connoisseurs of improvised piano should regard this album as essential listening. As a piece, The Hills Shout is grippingly captivating from first note to last. Demierre's rearrangement of the concert recording ensures that there is plenty of variety throughout the piece, with some daring juxtapositions as well as some surprises. That tranquility is soon broken by a percussive assault on the frame of the piano which leaves it resonating, before the zither returns. So, the opening minutes could easily be mistaken for a zither recital in an echo chamber, followed by a performance of a long-lost Satie piece characterized by its sparse melodic passages. No new music is added, but all the sound material that was once produced is being reconsidered through the immediate and present experience of my listening imagination." As it often has, Demierre's piano playing ranges far and wide, exploring every conceivable extended technique, and coaxing every imaginable sound from the instrument. ![]() Demierre said of that process, " The Hills Shout sounds like the live memory of a past concert. During the 2020 lockdown, he worked on the recording of it. On January 31st 2020, Demierre gave a live solo piano concert at Offene Ohren in Munich. As on past solo albums, Demierre named the track after a poem, this time by the American poet Robert Lax (1915-2000). The Hills Shout comprises one forty-minute track which shares its title with the album. Since Assemblance (Unit Records, 1987) Demierre has also recorded occasional solo piano albums, with The Hills Shout being 2023's offering, following The Well-Measured Piano (Creative Works Records, 2019). Along the way, it includes collaborations with such luminaries as Cyril Bondi, Sylvie Corvoisier, d’incise, Barry Guy, Insub Meta Orchestra, Hans Koch, Urs Leimgruber, Lucas Niggli, and Barre Phillips, in such fine recordings as Brainforest (Intakt, 2006) by the Demierre-Guy-Niggli trio. Swiss pianist Jacques Demierre has a relatively small recording history considering that it dates back to June 1984. ![]()
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