Magenta - Live at Real World Studios 2024 - Part 1
Magenta - Live at Real World Studios 2024 - Part 2
"Live At Real World" is an acoustic concert by Magenta recorded at the famous Real World studios owned by Peter Gabriel. It took place on November 21st of last year and was combined with the filming of a video, which is also being released on DVD. On the small stage, in addition to the band, there was room for a string quartet and an oboist.
What can be said about this album? That it sounds great, convincing, and is wonderful to listen to? That's nothing new for Magenta. That it's an example of sincere and perfect artistic expression? That's a trademark of this band. That it's another attempt to capitalize on the excellent run of studio albums by this group? It's hardly surprising that Magenta, having so much good material, tries to present it again and again in ever-new versions: whether live (the album "Live At The Point"), or remixed (the collector's edition "The Collection"), or instrumental (the recently released album "Seven – The Instrumentals," featuring music from perhaps the band's most famous album without vocal tracks – although not entirely, as the famous "cha cha cha" remains in the recording of "Gluttony"), or expanded and newly mastered (the album "Seven – Special 2 Disc Edition"), or – as now – acoustic.
If one wanted to be exceptionally malicious, one could even formulate the accusation that Magenta is trying to sell the same material in several different ways. But perhaps it's good that this is happening. As long as there are buyers for these subsequent albums, there's nothing wrong with it. Even more so, the acoustic album "Live At Real World" truly sheds new light on some well-known songs from our heroes' repertoire. I was most surprised (and at the same time very pleased) by the new, acoustic versions of the compositions "Hate You" (a song from Christina's solo repertoire, included on her album "Broken Lives & Bleeding Hearts" released this year, but under a different title – "Hanging By A Thread"), "Anger", "Demons", and above all, "Metamorphosis". They present the work of this highly accomplished band in a completely new light and show that Magenta excels both with a full instrumental setup and in an unplugged version. Translated from: https://mlwz.pl/recenzje/plyty/5783-magenta-live-at-real-world
What can be said about this album? That it sounds great, convincing, and is wonderful to listen to? That's nothing new for Magenta. That it's an example of sincere and perfect artistic expression? That's a trademark of this band. That it's another attempt to capitalize on the excellent run of studio albums by this group? It's hardly surprising that Magenta, having so much good material, tries to present it again and again in ever-new versions: whether live (the album "Live At The Point"), or remixed (the collector's edition "The Collection"), or instrumental (the recently released album "Seven – The Instrumentals," featuring music from perhaps the band's most famous album without vocal tracks – although not entirely, as the famous "cha cha cha" remains in the recording of "Gluttony"), or expanded and newly mastered (the album "Seven – Special 2 Disc Edition"), or – as now – acoustic.
If one wanted to be exceptionally malicious, one could even formulate the accusation that Magenta is trying to sell the same material in several different ways. But perhaps it's good that this is happening. As long as there are buyers for these subsequent albums, there's nothing wrong with it. Even more so, the acoustic album "Live At Real World" truly sheds new light on some well-known songs from our heroes' repertoire. I was most surprised (and at the same time very pleased) by the new, acoustic versions of the compositions "Hate You" (a song from Christina's solo repertoire, included on her album "Broken Lives & Bleeding Hearts" released this year, but under a different title – "Hanging By A Thread"), "Anger", "Demons", and above all, "Metamorphosis". They present the work of this highly accomplished band in a completely new light and show that Magenta excels both with a full instrumental setup and in an unplugged version. Translated from: https://mlwz.pl/recenzje/plyty/5783-magenta-live-at-real-world
