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

A bit up and down, but a fairly unique record, I'd have thought...



Some great sounds and Karin Dreijer Andersson's pretty amazing singing.

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Originally posted by munch:
It likes to be played a bit on the loud side.
Great words.
Give him next door a treat.

Stu

Yeah and a night in the Cells for you.

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Originally posted by Chief Chirpa:


Some great sounds and Karin Dreijer Andersson's pretty amazing singing.

If you like Karin buy her Fever Ray album if you haven't already.



Dean....

And for the hat trick.....






Dean....

Peter Gabriel - Passion

My introduction to the Armenian Duduk.

The centenary of Olivier Messiaen's birth provides an occasion for surveying his place in the landscape of musical creation. This recording, which brings together some relatively neglected pieces from his abundant output, represents both an act of homage to the composer and a reflection on the special position his works occupy in 20th-century music. In three segments, it presents compositions of three different types, each written at a difficult time in his life and emphasizing the fundamental role of the piano in his oeuvre.
The present recording features highly contrastive aspects of Messiaen's personality. The composer was a visionary who retained his independence throughout the 20th century and invited us in the process to rethink the way in which we listen to music. As a man, he was secretive by nature, with the gentleness and modesty of some of his Préludes. He also had the capacity for marvelling at the world around him, which, together with his powers of listening, finds expression in his Catalogue d'oiseaux. And he was intellectually inquisitive, a quality which, like his sense of order, is reflected in his Études de rythme. I hope that this homage in the form of a portrait will encourage others to share my love not only for this great creator of time and colour but also for this mysterious and radiant man. (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)

Willie Nelson - American Classic; Lyle Lovett - Natural Forces; John Prine - Fair & Square; Jack Johnson -Sleep Through The Static

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Originally posted by Whizzkid:

quote:

Originally posted by Chief Chirpa:


Some great sounds and Karin Dreijer Andersson's pretty amazing singing.

If you like Karin buy her Fever Ray album if you haven't already.



Dean....

Thanks Dean, I'm really not sure about it, and haven't played it much - I'll have to give it another go. I like the first single though:



Overall, I think I prefer the songs Karin sings on the (not so good) Röyksopp album released the same week as Fever Ray.

Oh, and What Else Is There? (Any excuse to see that video!)

Quatuor Ebène: Mathieu Herzog (Viola), Pierre Colombet (Violin), Raphael Merlin (Cello),
Gabriel Le Magadure (Violin)

1. Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 10 by Claude Debussy

2. Quartet for Strings in E minor, Op. 121 by Gabriel Fauré

3. Quartet for Strings in F major by Maurice Ravel

Johann Sebastian Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869, Maurizio Pollini (Piano - natürlich ! )

Paul McCartney disc 1

quote:

Originally posted by munch:
]Haim,
Thats now 5 albums of yours i have.
Have you got this?
Stu

No, Stu.

That is the only album that you have and I don't..

Haim

AC/DC - If you want blood (you got it)

Hey you, yeah, you, let there be rock.

(shhhh, it's late).

Matthew Ryan

Jim Brunberg

Kuma snap - freak out

No no no no. It's Chic Mystique.
't was fun on the Briks.
Now listening to something a bit more mellow.

'63 Release. Original Us Verve pressing. Mono.

~<>~ Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) ~<>~

The Late String Quartets

Quartet no.12 Op.127 in E flat major

Quartet no.14 Op.131 in C sharp minor

The Juilliard String Quartet
Robert Mann violin
Earl Carlyss violin
Samuel Rhodes viola
Joel Krosnick cello
Freya Pumpkin feline-soprano *

~<>~

playing disc 1 of 3 x cd box-set
This complilation @ 2002 Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.


* My cat likes to sing-along sometimes, always out of key, sounds painfull too, but there is much purring so she must be having lots of frolocking fun ...which is more than i can say! : (

Debs

On vinyl of course.

Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson
'71 Release. Orignial RCA Dynaflex ( crap ) US pressing.
Lovely tunes.
But no 'me and my ARO', tho.