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
Keeping the PT theme going...
After:
Vinyl
Not played for a while, must give it a spin. Brilliant album. Possibly followed by Infected.
After:
Vinyl
Not played for a while, must give it a spin. Brilliant album. Possibly followed by Infected.
Think I might give Mind Bomb a go later as well.
On Vinyl . Similar but different Artwork
"During The The's more prolific period of releases, from Soul Mining (1983) to Dusk (1992), most artwork used on the albums and single releases was produced by Johnson's brother Andrew Johnson, using the pseudonym Andy Dog. The artwork has a distinctive style, and sometimes courted controversy, most notably the initial release of the 1986 single "Infected" which featured a masturbating devil and was withdrawn from sale and re-issued with an edited version of the same drawing."
Emily and Amy.
Beautiful music. CD £0.50 used on Amazon 
Graham.
The Late Great.
CD.
Graham.
Vinyl. Sounds fresh as first listen.
On vinyl
Only bought this for living in the city and higher ground but now can't stop playing the whole album
Well it looks like a full on evening, the wife is out with some Strictly Come Dancing dudes in York and I am home with:
I woke up this morning
I thought what am I doing here?
My brother he starts raging!
Watch him rising see him howling!
And he sucked her and sucked her dry
And he bit at me and said goodbye
Up on the twenty-ninth floor
I was lying there with just my brother
We could hear someone rattling the locks
I was lying there with just my brother
Do you think that it might be the cops?
And we sucked her and he sucked her dry
I was a Mickey Mouse. He was a Big Bad Wolf!
Next thing you know
I'm looking down below
See a lupine child
With her hair on fire
Little burning girl!
Looking up at me!
Running to the elevator!
Getting in the elevator!
Sixth floor! Seventh floor!
Eight floor! Nine!
Come on baby
Blow my mind!
....and now what else but....
Looking forward to....
Well it looks like a full on evening, the wife is out with some Strictly Come Dancing dudes in York and I am home with:
I woke up this morning
I thought what am I doing here?
My brother he starts raging!
Watch him rising see him howling!
And he sucked her and sucked her dry
And he bit at me and said goodbye
Up on the twenty-ninth floor
I was lying there with just my brother
We could hear someone rattling the locks
I was lying there with just my brother
Do you think that it might be the cops?
And we sucked her and he sucked her dry
I was a Mickey Mouse. He was a Big Bad Wolf!
Next thing you know
I'm looking down below
See a lupine child
With her hair on fire
Little burning girl!
Looking up at me!
Running to the elevator!
Getting in the elevator!
Sixth floor! Seventh floor!
Eight floor! Nine!
Come on baby
Blow my mind!
Nice one. Good o'l Nick. Time for a spin!
On ltd edition marbled vinyl...
| "Savall's recording was made in Salzburg Cathedral and takes advantage of four of the organs in there. The sound is beautiful and splendid and, indeed, moving. We are transported to a beautiful world without pain - a glimpse of Heaven, in fact. The opening Marcia Funebre gives one the opportunity to wind and brass of Le Concert des Nations in the Salsburg Cathedral space. What a sound! It is worth buying the disc for the March alone. The Requiem in Concerto which follows is a beautiful and radiant work - full of hope for the afterlife and great grace and beauty." |
Currently listening to this on vinyl - giving my spare turntable a try out with a Nait 3 that I picked up cheap on Ebay (but don't really have a use for yet!).
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away - on vinyl (Bad Seed Ltd. - B000AJLHTT0). A gorgeous set of rich, dark ballads...
Over the past 15 years, Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has assembled a relatively small but profound body of work. A skilled improviser who refuses to be part of the historical authenticity argument, Brahem works from the same trio setting that performed on Le Pas du Chat Noir in 2002, with pianist François Couturier and accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier. The dialogue between these players is, despite the sparseness of the music and the considerable space employed, intense. The deep listening necessary in the improvised sections allows for a natural flow of ideas to emerge from silence. The compositions themselves are skeletal, with repeating, slowly evolving vamps and lyric lines. They offer, on the surface, a contemplative approach, and indeed can be heard that way. However, when dynamics, timbre, and chromatics are listened for, what takes place is rather astonishing. Each player walks to the middle of a composition, steps back and reenters after ideas by the others are introduced, producing a kind of organic improvisation seldom heard. This is not to say that the most structured works here, such as “Vague/E la Nave Va,” aren’t full of meditative delight as well. They are, and there are vast spaces into which the listener can enter and disappear for a while — not so much to drift and dream as to be absorbed in their hypnotic and repetitive beauty. “Les Jardins de Ziryab” begins with Matinier’s accordion, which is answered by the oud and Brahem’s voice, accompanying them both. It unfolds from the center out. “Le Chambre, Var.” begins, for this ensemble, at a trot. Couturier’s chord voicing and Brahem’s percussive approach create a winding musical narrative that Matinier’s accordion underscores rhythmically. The keyboard and air pulse create a terrain where intricate melodic lines come out of modal and chromatic tensions. Ultimately, Brahem has given listeners another of his wondrous offerings, full of deceptively simple compositions that open into a secret world, one where beauty is so present that it is nearly unapproachable, and it is up to the listener to fill in the spaces offered them by this remarkable trio.
from All Music Guide
One of the truly underrated songwriters of the past several decades.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away - on vinyl (Bad Seed Ltd. - B000AJLHTT0). A gorgeous set of rich, dark ballads...
Hook,
I did not think this was available on vinyl until March?
Richard
