Be Honest! What are the last 5 pieces of music you listened to? And Why?

Cheers. I have this (Shri Durga) I think it's brilliant.

Check out www.waterlilyacoustics.com for the Ali Akbar Khan stuff. I have got the first Ali Akbar Khan album, the first LP that water lily did and will be happy to CDR it for you as it is long out of print. The others shoudl be available.

Also on the Ali Akbar Khan tip are the signtaure series (recorded by MArk Levinson of all people in the late 60's). These CD's are avaliable in Tower Records in London and are excellent.

If you are in London feel free to pop round sometime for a listen.

cheers

Dev

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Also on the Ali Akbar Khan tip are the signtaure series (recorded by MArk Levinson of all people in the late 60's). These CD's are avaliable in Tower Records in London and are excellent.

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I've just ordered Vol 2 from www.hmv.co.uk (vol 1 not in stock). Any idea where the Waterlily stuff can be found on line? I can't even find the titles you mention on their site, let alone pay by credit card!

Tony.

When you come round (finally) to listen to my well-hung - i'll burn them for you.

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Eberhard Weber - Fluid Rustle (vinyl)

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Is that not one of the all-time great works of music? For so many reasons, not the least of which is introducing a wider audience to Bill Frisell.

This record always lands in my top "x" list; an album of profound beauty.

• Red Snapper - Making bones
  
• New Order - Movement
  
• Metallica - Re-load
  
• The Cure - mixed up
  
• Jansen Barbieri Karn - seed

Nah - coz subtlety and finesse have left the building whilst the primary source is at the doctors, and in stead the DVD is doing duty (I can't really say 'don' the biz' in this case) when I get tired of XFM or Radio 2.

Rico - Save the Kans!

Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite LP
(not essential Duke,i know,but I love the 'portrait of Wellman Braud' and the whole bluesy feeling throughout)

David Bowie - Hunky Dory re-mastered CD
(Queen Bitch-nuff said?!)

Food - forever is a dream CD
(beautiful melodies ,dreamy psyche-perfect late night listening)

Blue Oyster Cult - 1st LP
(Kick out the jams,melon farmers!!!!)

and last but not least
Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton - Katanga LP
(bought for the ferocious title track but delighted to find some great sounds throughout)

such are the rewards of an attempted re-organization...

Cos they are new ones.

cheers

Nigel

• Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centuri. Classic chunk of early space rock, really trippy.
  
• Cosmic Jokers - Planetin sit-in. Really weird stuff, but obviously in a good way.
• Neu! - 75. The similarity to the later instrumental sides of Bowie's Low and Heroes was duly noted. Neu! were congratulated in their use of time travel to get good ideas.
  
• Kraftwerk - #1. Stunning album, one of those that came absolutely from nowhere and seems influenced by nothing. Does not resemble their later work much at all.
  
• Ash Ra Temple - #1. Fantastically stoned and trippy space rock. This is a hell of an album, and actually manages to transcend the crappy pirated vinyl I own. I would kill for a real copy of this. I moaned for years about the lack of quality Neu! reissues, then they happened and are great. I will now moan for Ash Ra Temple reissues…

Tony.

Still waiting for the Ali Akbar Khan to land in his mailbox…

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• Luna – leyfðu mér að Þegja Þögn Þinni. Sort of GYBE/Mogwai, but the drummer has more to do with Pink Floyd than Dianogah so they’re less, um, studied. Gorgeous soundscapes. Really special. Listened coz it just dropped through the post from Bad Taste (Sigur Ros’s original label in Iceland).

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Sounds great. It better be as I've just ordered it!

Tony.

- Bruckner's 9th with Giulini (one of my favourite),

- Buddha Beats (from the very enjoyable Buddha Bar series, one of my latest discoveries; till then I was rather into classical and jazz; I think it's still the Mykonos-syndrome and -virus of this summer holiday),

- Handel's Alexander Balus with the King's Consort,

- St. Germain's Tourist,

- Buddha Bar II (....).

Christian

The Buddha Bar series, as well as Nirvana Lounge, Flying Carpet, Chill out in Paris and Sun sound absolutely great on my Naim system! (not far from getting me into trance... with a lighted incense stick I float under the ceiling)

Christian

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Sun Ra - Liquidity

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Is this a good 'un? I am embarrassed to say I own no Sun Ra, and don't know where to start. I realise I should own some, but with an artist who has produced well in excess of 100 albums where the hell do you start? I notice that Liquidity can be found on 180g vinyl…. Hmmm.

Tony.

I have the Evidence Cd and really like it. I'm a bit wary of the Sun Ra Lps because the sound on the originals is bad enough and its not always clear by who or where the transfers have been done.

I have a few Sun Ra records and very much like Languidity, Monorails and Satelites, Heliocentric Worlds 1 and 2, Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy and the Singles(!). It's all good. There is an Evidence greatest hits CD which has a selection from each of their rereleased albums which is a nice taster and lets you plan which to get next. I have to say I prefer the 50, 60s work and haven't really dipped into the later stuff.I may try some of the vinyl, I believe the stuff on the Delmark label is good.

Johna

It has encouraged me to listen to many things I already have and at the same time provided me with a very varied shopping list.

Alex.

My last 7:

Dreadzone: Sound. Thanks Nick.
Porcupine Tree: Lightbulb Sun.
Dreadzone: Second Light. As above.
Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen. Thanks Andy.
Wolfgang Press: Funky little Demons. Thanks Dave.
Shriekback: Big Night Music.
Wagner: Lohengrin. Took some doing.

Echo & the Bunnymen - Crystal days box set
Echo & the Bunnymen - Flowers.
Eels - Beautiful Freak
The Died Pretty - Out of the Unknown EP
Dark - Round the Edges LP
Sonny Clark - cool struttin'

2. Mogwai, Rock action - inspired by above

3. PCO, Signs of life - inspired by above

4. Kate Rusby, Hourglass - Saw her last night as KR trio (with John McCusker & Andy Cutting). Some fantastic playing, and her voice is gorgeous. She's also a cracking good laugh.

5. William Jackson, Notes from a Hebridean Island - Keeping up the folkie theme. Picked this up from Linn Records for a tenner. I'm a big fan of this blokes work, and his new album is no disapointment.

Will.

John
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Why? I dunno, just wanted to.

Hollow Bamboo, Ronu Majumdar-Bansuri/RyCooder/Jon Hassell

Little Black Numbers, Kathryn Williams

Tutu, Miles Davis

Mezzanine, Massive Attack

Stewart

(Any other "Late Junction" listeners out there http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/latejunction.shtml ?)

Roy Orbison - Black Night and White
Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler - Neck and Neck
Carly Simon - Anticipation
Crystal Gayle - The Singles Album
Linda Ronstadt - Winter Light

Very conservative, I know! I hardly ever mix classical with others, but am happy to mix rock/pop/country/folk. Tend to start with the more delicate sounds, then progress to the more robust. Linda Ronstadt achieves this transition in tracks 8 and 11 on Winter Light!

Never liked Jazz

Cheers

Don

Oops thats 6

John

35 years of music loving and i'm still an ignorant ba***rd! gee whizz!

Cheers

Don

John

Jazz bore