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

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Originally posted by JWM:
PS When whoever it was recommended it (I'm afraid I can't remember who), I'd just like to stress that it wasn't the artwork that got me interested, but the recommendor's description of the music... Hope that's clear!

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Originally posted by JWM:

PS When whoever it was recommended it (I'm afraid I can't remember who)

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by tpia:

Did you go to the Paris concert? I was at the London.

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Originally posted by tpia:
I do go to a lot of things at the Pleyel...

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Originally posted by Lontano:

I saw Keith Jarrett at the Salle Pleyel once with his trio and that became the album Whisper Not. I am very impressed with the calibre of artists that appear there. You are very lucky to have that one on your doorstep.

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I'll protect you from the hooded claw,
Keep the vampires from your door.
When the chips are down, I'll be around,
With my undying, death-defying
Love for you

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Originally posted by Whizzkid:
Little picture, Big music.



Dean...

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As a singer-songwriter, Joshua Kadison reveals a variety of classic influences, but he might strike some well-travelled listeners as the spiritual offspring of Billy Joel and Edie Brickell, sort of an itinerant piano man cum bohemian romantic. Projecting nomadic images of wandering, the search for identity, and desultory romance, PAINTED DESERT SERENADE depicts a profound, worldly romanticism for the 1990s.
Kadison's opening track "Jessie" sums up his appeal. She's an oldflame with a habit of turning up at the most inopportune times, and with his keen eye for narrative detail, Kadison conveys his character's sense of longing and futility, as the moody melodic details leave listeners suspended in doubt, is this a long goodbye or will it all work out?
"All the callers call in, but the thing that's so strange, It's all the same story, just the voices that change on", Kadison sings on "Beau's All Night Love Line", evoking the haunting imageryof Elton John and Bernie Taupin at a perfect power pop tempo, as mandolin and harmonica toll away suggestively. The sense of yearning and liberation Kadison conveys on PAINTED DESERT SERENADE belies the singer's quiet approach--there's real fire and rage in Kadison's reflective cool.