What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.IX)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2013
With 2013 upon us, it's time to start a fresh thread. I've gone back to an earlier thread title because often the "why" is the most interesting part of the post.
Anyway, links:
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog.
Classic Nazareth what a great voice Dan McCafferty has.
More old vinyl. This one is new to me. Recording is a bit dark and moody, sounds like it was recorded in a room that just sucks the life out the music (over produced?).
Magnum - The Eleventh Hour
Great live concert recording.
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Something in prep for a Saturday night
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Sergei Rachmaninov: Nikolai Lugansky (Piano)
Préludes, Op. 23
Moments musicaux, Op. 16
Morceaux de fantaisies, Op. 3: no 2, Prélude in C sharp minor
Listening to music or watching someone else play music that is close to me is a pleasurable and emotional experience yet it is really only a substitute feeling. As good as it might be, the real "high" is finding those emotions deep down and feeling the power within that resonates through your own bones and gut when you are at the keyboard. Even in my own incompetent state when I fumble my way through these three pieces at a greatly reduced tempo it gives untold pleasure within. It is not at a Lugansky level but somehow it is so much better experience to have. The problem since the world of recordings and so much perfection, is that after listening / seeing someone like Lugansky it just makes the rest of us want to crawl in a hole and never come out (and yes, it is also so inspiring). When you have this group of elite players, who would lower their standards to listen to just about anyone else in the world. Alas, my four walls are a captive audience with little choice to break free and that is the OK.
The three pieces in the link below are the c-minor Prelude (Op. 23), the g-minor Prelude (Op. 23) and the Moments Musicaux in e-minor (op. 16, no. 4).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=engmjw5WqUs
This one was a trip down memory lane. Back in the day was heavy into Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream. Original vinyl still sounds great after all the years.
Now a trip down movie memory lane with classic tracks from the classic Clint Eastwood spaghetti western's. Again old vinyl that still sounds great.
Classic 80's with the Dream Academy, on vinyl, and a very good recording for the time.
Staying in the 80's with this classic from OMD. As always on vinyl and another $2 sidewalk sale special.
Just downloaded from Society of Sound.
A good piece of crossover soul and urban sounds...
Good start for a relaxed sunday morning.
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
CD
On CD while doing the Sunday chores.
"Vini Reilly" by The Durutti Column, limited edition remastered version with extra CD
