What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (VOL V)

England Dan and John Ford Coley

Mike Oldfield - Crisis

Prompted by a previous discussion...a masterpiece. I am particually humbled by 'Song to the siren'....although the album version is perhaps the crudest, most honest rendition. There are definitely more musical versions out there but none more emotive.

Barbara Streisand w/Barry Gibbs

no guilt here, either

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Originally posted by Jeff Anderson:
no guilt here, either

Moving Jazz into free and clear waters are Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Bill Higgins and friends.

On the black stuff.






Dean...

On CD:-

Light up a phat one, nod head and enjoy.







Dean...

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Originally posted by Andy1912:
Just the LP for a mellow autumn night. Great soundtrack; great film.

Agree with both.

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Originally posted by Lontano:
I see Tindersticks are playing Dec 16 at Union Chapel London but sold out. I am going to have to try and track down some tickets.

+1 please.

Horslips - Short Stories Tall Tales:

30 years ago. Going to a bash in Dublin to celebrate tomorrow, all 5 'slips expected and sure they might even play a tune or two.


SJB

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Originally posted by Lontano:
This is a very good re release. A compilation of tracks from three ECM albums from the seventies no longer available.

Thanks Adrian, I'll add that one to my list. How is the new Bollani trio?

Post-rock for me tonight!

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place

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Originally posted by droodzilla:
Thanks Adrian, I'll add that one to my list. How is the new Bollani trio?

Not played it much yet so will porbably play it tomorrow night now. Initial impressions favourable. Released on Monday in UK.

The Schoof has a Kenny Wheeler feel to it.

Think I'll play it now - perfect for late night listening

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Originally posted by BigH47:
On vinyl:-

I have been hammering this one too a lot recently, wonderful album.

Apparently the track 'Spectral Mornings' was to be a vocal track. Hackett played the vocal line to the band on the guitar, and they more or less said 'that is it', so that is why the guitar is so emotive on that track.

on my new-to-me absolute mint condition
NAC62/NAP140 into my Ergo IX monitors:

Paul Simon

Discovered through BBC4 earlier this year, and following on from Jimmy Cobb on Jools Holland this evening.

" Kim Kashkashian’s new album following her Spanish and Argentinian songs on „Asturiana“ is a carefully composed prgramme addressing fascinating connections between three contemporary composers from Israel and Armenia. With five pieces respectively based on traditional laments of the Near East, Armenian chant and Hasidic melody, the focus is again on essentially vocal expressivenss. “What we hear in this music touches off resonances below the level of our acquired expeience”, writes Paul Griffiths in his liner notes. “Singing these songs, in a hybrid register that embraces male and female, Kashkashian’s viola sings for us all.” Betty Olivero started work on “Neharót Neharót” under the impression of the suffering and pain caused by the war in Lebanon in 2006. Olivero’s hypnotic lament for viola, accordion, percussion, two string ensembles and tape draws on allusions to Kurdish and north African songs, traditional oriental music and Monteverdi. The instrument’s singing abilities come even more to the fore in Tigran Mansurian’s “Three Arias (Sung out the window facing Mount Ararat)” which articulate the Armenian people’s longing for the holy mountain beyond the border. “Rava Deravin” by Israeli Eitan Steinberg is based on a melody for a poem by one of the greatest traditional kabbalists and was first conceived in a version for voice and instrumental ensemble. According to the composer, Kashkashian “manages to cry the prayer from within the strings, to murmur the sacred text with no words”."

Murray Perahia - one of the greatest living pianists today. His Bach, Beethoven, Mozart etc. recordings have very few rivals (either dead or alive)...

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Originally posted by Florestan:
Murray Perahia - one of the greatest living pianists today. His Bach, Beethoven, Mozart etc. recordings have very few rivals (either dead or alive)...

Doug,

I think that you should check this out:



http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classi...Nr-1-24/hnum/2527215

Regards,

Haim

At least she is playing the instrument for which the music was conceived and written ...

Michael Stanley