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
Uncle Acid is great. I still prefer the former album, but Mind Control is a good one too. This needs no introduction for those used to rock:
Tracks off of the new up and coming Ry Cooder Live album. Superb.
Glad to hear that. I have my LP pre-ordered.
Matt heres a taster for you. Just scroll down the page and listen to the video.
http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/live-in-san-francisco
Uncle Acid is great. I still prefer the former album, but Mind Control is a good one too. This needs no introduction for those used to rock:
Justed picked up a 1990 original CD.Couldn't find my copy must have lent it out at some point and not got it back.
On CD:-
A couple of sample tracks off of his up and coming album.
Not played this for a while...
On the blue vinyl.
Jon Hassell—trumpet
Ry Cooder—guitar
Jacky Terrason—piano
Ronu Majumdar—bansuri
Rick Cox—guitar, bass clarinet, samples
Jamie Muhoberac—zendrum
Joachim Cooder—drums
Rick Masterson—tambura
Rose Okada—tambura
album notes
After twentysome years of recordings and performances, this is the first time I've ever played someone else's song.
With this recording I locate myself squarely within that aspect of music which is fundamental and irreducible: the beauty of the sound. This is what Dane Rudyar calls "tone-magic"—a concept derived from ancient practice wherein the quality of the tone itself communicates meaning quite apart from any further arrangement of an "artifice" of music.
At the same time I celebrate here my first contacts with musical exotica in the form of certain songs and melodies heard as a child on the radio or in movie scores. This music created a kind of permanent technicolor oasis in my spirit—a place where I always want to stop for a cool refreshing drink, whether from Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol's 'Caravan', or Ravel or raga or gamelan or Gil, or João or Joujouka—and a place which became the underlying spring from which flowed my "fourth world" musical paradigm.
jon hassell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIz8IZA1e_k
Another steamy tubes recording from the Water Lily label.
Me too!
I couldn't get past the first track during my first listen, but I'll try again.
I guess I'm just not that "prog"
OMG Thank you I bought this last week based on the praise on this board. No disrespect Different strokes....But I also could not get past the second track. Worst of all was the drummer. But the whole thing sounds like a bunch of 10th graders chaneling King Crimson
Greg, I see that we are both in the States. I have concluded after 2 years on the boards here that there is something in the water in the UK that makes folks there much more tolerant of prog than we are here 
On vinyl.
Not as polished and sophisticated as his later sets, but this '54 recording with the USSR State Radio Orchestra and Alex Gauk is most passionate rendering by Richter of this piece. He's going all out with one exciting finale filled with raw emotions. In spite the poor fidelity, this is an amazing effort right up there with his Sofia live recording of 'Pictures at an Exhibition'.
Hello from Glasgow. Received my new NAIM/B&W set-up last week and have so far been limiting myself to some absolute favourites. Such as:
If you are into rock / metal, I can highly recommend all four.
Kyuss for making an entire genre surplus to requirements; simply listen to Kyuss and you don't need any other stoner / desert rock. Also of historical importance, given they were the band that spawned Queens of the Stone Age
My Dying Bride for many reasons, being my all-time favourite band, but especially for The Cry of Mankind, possibly the most a-typical and beautiful metal song ever?
Crippled Black Phoenix are the best band currently around, for me, a fantastic mix of Pink Floyd, blues rock, post rock, general musical adventure and a boundaries? what boundaries? attitude.
And Mastodon, well, Crack the Skye is a masterpiece of heavy, progressive rock, with a lot more melody than usual for these guys.
The soundtrack to the school summer holidays.....unfortunately.
I just don't get the common three star reviews this album constantly gets. It is actually pretty good imo.
