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

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Originally posted by m0omo0:
Pushed in the back by Gordon...

Stuart Staples, Leaving Songs

So beautiful that it leaves me speechless every time.

Indeed!

Schoenberg - Piano Music - Maurizio Pollini

Bought this years ago after hearing Pollini's classic Stravinsky/Prokofiev/Webern/Boulez recording, and greatly enjoying his fire and passion (and control) with that modern repertoire.

Surprisingly, the Schoenberg is much 'mellower', even though it's more atonal than Stravinsky or Prokofiev, but Pollini, again, manages to bring meaning to what, in other hands, could (and frequently does) sound like atonal plink-plonk. For me, it's an unusual choice for a Sunday morning, but seemed to work.

On CD:-

Love it.

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Originally posted by Voltaire:
Indeed!

Thank you by the way. It was too long since I last played it.


(Jeff, one more for the list. On top this time )

Il n'y a plus de poinçonneurs a Paris maintenant. Dommage.

Le Poinçonneur des Lilas

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Love it.

Lontano, which disc do you find yourself playing more frequently: 1 or 2, i.e. 1976 or 1987 remix?

On CD:-

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Originally posted by Voltaire:

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Originally posted by Voltaire:


Tindersticks - Waiting for the moon

I have have always held them in high regard but I am rapidly upgrading Tindersticks to one of my most important bands of all time.

(In case any forum members who know me are wondering, I still consider 'The Doors' to be the most influential band in MY musical history)

As to Tindersticks, listen to 'My Oblivion, Travelling light, Dying Slowly or All the Love'

The second LP is a particular favourite of mine. I too have a soft spot for Travelling Light, and also for Mistakes and the duet with Isabella Rossellini on Marriage Made in Heaven, which I think is a good example of their humour (often overlooked) which is on this compilation (may be somewhere else too?):



Are they taking an orchestra on tour with them this time?

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Originally posted by tpia:
Il n'y a plus de poinçonneurs a Paris maintenant. Dommage.

Reminds me of the Mechanical Wonder I was listening to yesterday. Le Composteur des Lilas, the soulless counterpart for the last decades of the 20th century. Not to mention Le Portique magnétique des Lilas for the 21st.

Another beauty, spectral and oneiric.


The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward

Inspired by patk.

On vinyl-side 4 what a run of great tracks:

Cherry Blossoms
She's Gone
Mistakes
Vertrauen III
Sleepy Song

Fabulous mix of Rock 'n' Rap with Bladerunner, Robocop and Terminator samples throughout.






Dean...

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Originally posted by m0omo0:
re: Stuart Staples

(Jeff, one more for the list. On top this time )

Noted, thanks.

I feel a Michael Stanley fever coming on today, so will start with this:

Michael Stanley "Eighteen Down"

Eighteen Down refers to it being his eighteenth release, I believe it is #25 due out the end of this month, I have owned all at one time or another.

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:

You lucky blighter.

Michael Stanley "The Ground"

includes a cover of Bill Deasy's "Bound To Be"

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Originally posted by dave brubeck:

Lol. I should still have it on a tape somewhere - gonna have to see if I can find it.

(Edit: see my later post. I meant to quote this one and somehow edited it?!)

Yes. Brahm's finest work.

Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation, H 21 no 2
Johannes Weisser (Baritone), Maximilian Schmitt (Tenor), Julia Kleiter (Soprano),
René Jacobs, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, RIAS Chamber Chorus