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Clive Gregson & Christine Collister: Home & Away
In the February issue, <I>Stereophile</I> scribes pen their <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/records2die4/">Records 2 Die 4</A>. Now it's your turn: give us the one or two discs that topped your list in 2004.
My two records 2 die 4 for 2004 are CDs. First Michael Nyman's Decay Music, Nyman at 60. A three selection set with Michael playing solo piano on two and with help by Nigel Shipway, a percussion set in-between. Subtly powerful and moving. With choral music being amongst my favorite, I choose Bjork
The sound quality on the Classic reissue of CSN&Y's Deja Vu is amazing. Especially the bass guitar at the beginning of "Carry On" and the end of "Woodstock." I wouldn't bother to recommend a 30-year-old record as a R2D4, but this makes it on sonics alone. It clobbered a blues record from a well known audiophile label (not saying which) that I played right before Deja Vu yesterday.