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

Good light-hearted stuff to start the day and to drive away a week of restricted iPod listening

Kate Walsh

McKinley "Gracie and the Atom"

Grace Jones

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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!)

I think Silent Shout is more 'up' than Fever Ray - it used to get me through workouts at the gym. Properly weird group - great stuff.

A slow chilled out start to the weekend.

Justin Sullivan

Japanese Melodies - Isaac Stern, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Yo-Yo Ma

Three titans of classical music collaborating to play traditional Japanese tunes to surprisingly good effect (if occasionally a little 'sweet').

Been a good morning of vinyl starting with great man himself - as I tell my 17 year old son - everything you need to know about life is in a Leonard Cohen song..

Sequentia’s Hildegard von Bingen Project: Initially in collaboration with the West German Radio Cologne (WDR Köln) Sequentia made a series of recordings of the complete works of Germany’s most important medieval composer, the abbess and visionary Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179).

In celebration of the legend of the noble martyr, Saint Ursula, and her 11,000 virgin companions, who were murdered in Cologne by the barbarian soldiers when they refused to renounce their Christianity. The cult of this Virgin Martyr spread widely and was well-known to monastic women. Here, Sequentia’s ensemble of ten women’s voices, directed by Barbara Thornton, in joined by fiddler Elizabeth Gaver. This is the only Sequentia recording in which Benjamin Bagby did not participate.

Just back from the library,the first of a couple of VM:-

Shelley Short

The Postal Service - Give Up

The other library CD:-

Will Hoge