Gist of the Gemini

Gino Vannelli | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000002G9M
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,847 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Fix For '76... or 2007?, June 16, 2004

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This review is from: Gist of the Gemini (Audio CD)

Jun 16, 2004

The most ambitious Vannelli's work to date! A superb work with highly improved dinamics, flashy drum breaks, percussive ambients, accurate guitar leads and many complex line vocals are the estructure for an intense, sexual, moody and soft dimed musical atmosphere. An extrordinary work that shows efficently the higher levels of Love and responsability: Love of my Life, Omens of Love, To the War, Carnal Question...

"If I came back
Just a cripple from the war
Would you hold me close
Just like you did before?
And what in the world would you do
If I could not make love to you..."

As well as soft songs with existencial regrets and highly questioned thouths inside our minds:

" If God is good
then God be cruel,
Take back the world
You've granted the fools...
Where are the summers of my life?..."

Through this intense atmospheres, Gino Vannelli is supported again by his fellow brother Joe Vanelli on Keyboards, Graham Lear on Drums (Former member of Santana), Richard Baker on various Keyboards, John Mandel on percussion and Dido on Congas...

Here in Mexico on early 90's Gino Vannelli and his brother came to play live and on a T.V. show, and I remember that neather the host Veronica Castro nor anybody, never ask anything (in that disapointed interview) about the Gist Of Gemini album, and Gino didn't say anything as well. So it was obvious that nobody (and I mean nobody!) really knew who was Gino Vannelly the man, the musician and his Work!... ain't that a pitty!

THE GIST OF THE GEMINI (1976) is Vannelli's best work to date and an effort seldomly reached, a "One in a million" recording and a must for the vannelli's REAL FANS. Another excellent past musical efforts were the "Powerfull People" album (1974), a more jazzy ballad oriented; and "Storm at Sunup" (1975) that appears like a transitional album between Powerfull and The Gist... And I bet that nobody imagined the musical direction for the vannelli brothers in 1976 but they created a new Fusion mixture of Rock, Jazz, Classic, Bossa, Cruzeiro & Ballad; that reached unimaginated levels, an intense feeling and a new statement for the rock music,....A new fix for 2007. Good Luck!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars X 2 = 10 STARS, October 16, 2000

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gist of the Gemini (Audio CD)

One of the best albums of the 70's is Vannelli's "Gist of the Gemini." Soulful, passionate, and reflective, the artist weaves a musical work covering a variety of musical genres, from pop to R & B to classical. The man has it all.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unconventional brilliance, January 7, 2004

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[e-mail] (Downers Grove, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gist of the Gemini (Audio CD)

I have loved this work since it first came out. "Omens of Love" and "Fly into this Night" are two of my favorite songs, yet aren't - but should be - on any of his 'Favorites' CD's. The 6th through the 11th track are a continuous work. They lead us through thoughts about our responsibility - and the price we pay - for defending our liberty. This almost 30 year old set of songs is more relevant now than when it was first recorded. I not only have this work on CD, but also on its original LP form and still listen to it on my Linn Sondek LP12 with Dalquist DQ10 studio reference speakers. My my how it takes me back.