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

Jon Anderson ' Olias of Sunhillow', Chris Squire 'Fish out of Water', continuing my Yes binge.
I tried Steve Howe 'Beginings', but was very disappointed.

On Black Wax.

Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
(original pressing Warners 1980)

Hazel O'Connor - Sons and Lovers
(original pressing Albion 1980)

Joan Baez - The Best Of
(original pressing Hallmark 1976)

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Originally posted by Joe Bibb:

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Originally posted by ewemon:

Good album. Ewen, you have mail.

Joe

Nothing yet Joe mail wise.

Martin Dahanukar - Garuda

On vinyl:-

Einojuhani Rautavaara - Cantus Arcticus - Leipzig RSO - Pommer

Cantus Arcticus is lovely--modern, but unchallenging classical mood music (perhaps that sounds derogatory?) overlaid with bird sounds. It works.

Unlike my computer.

I was someway into String Quartet No. 4 (another piece on this album), when my server (where my hard-disk based music lives) died. I think the power supply died. There were two (it's a proper server, with a backup power supply), but the first one died many years ago (it's an old server!). Serves me right. I just hope the HD read head thingameejig didn't go crashing into the disk and kill it, 'cos I've got no backup (besides re-ripping all the CDs).

On vinyl:-

David Sylvian and Russell Mills 'Ember Glance', Brian Eno 'Thursday Afternoon'.
Late last night when too tired to do anything really, a couple of ambient albums, both created for art exhibitions/installations. The Sylvian is OK, but is a little dark.
Eno's 'Thursday Afternoon' is a lovely piece of music, neither happy, nor sad, the easiest way I could describe it is the musical equivalent of floating in a clear blue pool, on a sunny day. Not music to do anything other than create a pleasant background.

Something similar Eno made as an entertainment with similar music is Fireflies, gentle music, and just click your cursor on the image, release, move. It is great entertainment for little children, and big ones too.

Fireflies

On vinyl, with some snap, crackle and pop thrown in for free.

Well I started with this, and I quite liked it when I bought it a few years ago. There is a certain verbal inventiveness even if Mike Skinner has a touch of the mockney about him. There is also a sample of the New World Symphony in there which lent it a little credibility. But now, in the here and now, it just seems too juvenile. Must be my metabolism is slowing down.



So naturally I fled to this - Pergolesi Stabat Mater on the HM Sacred Music box set.

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Originally posted by markah:

Good one - been enjoying this a lot recently.

Now back to CD, snap crackle and pop free

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lontano:
Now back to CD, snap crackle and pop free


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And doesn't the cover make the music sound so much nicer !

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Originally posted by tpia:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lontano:
Now back to CD, snap crackle and pop free


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And doesn't the cover make the music sound so much nicer !

She is rather lovely and plays a mean fiddle.

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Originally posted by tpia:
Good one - been enjoying this a lot recently.

tpia, you are a man of good taste.

Loud, yeah its f#*king LOUD.






Dean...

One of my favourite albums of the year.

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Originally posted by Lontano:
One of my favourite albums of the year.

A very nice recording indeed.

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Originally posted by Lontano:


tpia, you are a man of good taste.

...and that comment proves you must be a man of fine judgement QED...(or could it be circular reasoning)

~<>~ Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) ~<>~

Piano Trio no.2 in E minor Op.67 (1944)

String Quartet no.1 in C major Op.49 (1938)

Piano Quintet in G minor Op.57 (1940)

ST PETERSBURG STRING QUARTET
Alla Aranovskaya violin
Ilya Teplyakov violin
Alexei Koptev viola
Leond Shukaev cello
Igor Uryash piano

Recorded in the St Petersburg Recording Studio in December 2003

[DDD] Hyperion cd @ 2006

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Originally posted by KeanoKing:

What do you think of the sound quality?