Laura Nyro - The 1994 Broadcasts (2019)

TWO SUPERB LIVE BROADCAST RECORDINGS FROM LAURA NYRO IN 1994 Laura Nyro s ninth studio album Walk the Dog and Light the Light was released in the late summer of 1993, more than nine years after its predecessor, Mother's Spiritual. It followed Nyro's 1989 live album Laura: Live at the Bottom Line, and the atmosphere of the new record was similarly laidback It was the last album of new original material that Nyro released during her lifetime: although she began recording another album in 1994, it was not completed prior to her death from ovarian cancer in 1996. The newer recordings were released posthumously in 2001 as Angel In The Dark. Laura went out on the road in early 1994 to promote Walk The Dog.... and on February 22nd that year she performed at The Kintetsu Hall in Osaka, Japan, where she gave an extraordinary concert which was recorded for both FM radio broadcast and for TV transmission. Later in the year, in June, she was back in the US and played at Pittsburgh s Point State Park, another show recorded for radio broadcast. Both these superb concerts are now featured in full on this CD, providing fans of this enormously talented singer and composer with an audio illustration of the strength and beauty of Laura s live performances so near to the end of her sadly short life.