What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)

Another live recording : "Speak Of The Devil"  -  Ozzy Osbourne.  Anyone who doesn't like seeing a pissed up lunatic running around on stage Is taking life too seriously.

"Muzio Clementi (24 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Rome, he spent most of his life in England.

Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford who took him to England to advance his studies. Later, he toured Europe numerous times from his long-time base in London. It was on one of these occasions in 1781 that he engaged in a piano competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord school and Haydn's classical school and by the stile galante of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent and technical legato style, which he passed on to a generation of pianists, including John Field, Johann Baptist Cramer, Ignaz Moscheles, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Johann Nepomuk Hummeland Carl Czerny. He was a notable influence on Ludwig van Beethoven.

Clementi also produced and promoted his own brand of pianos and was a notable music publisher. Because of this activity, many compositions by Clementi's contemporaries and earlier artists have stayed in the repertoire. Though the European reputation of Muzio Clementi was second only to Joseph Haydn in his day, his reputation languished for much of the 19th and 20th centuries."

I really stopped listening to Genesis after Duke, It seemed to me at the time, to be getting more like the "Phil Collins Experience" after this but now trying to get to know the later stuff.

A really great live album from the Cabs, recorded in 1982. Vinyl:

I saw them live at this time, 1982 and 1983, and they were sublime. Great music and unsettling light show. 

Joff

Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle by Bill Callahan

Drag City vinyl

Fortunate enough to see him play an astonishingly brilliant set to a sell-out crowd at St George's in Bristol last week.

Having been attending concerts for over 40 years, this was easily one of the all-time best.

So did I Joff, in April or May '82 at the old Venue in Victoria. Great gig!

Streaming FLAC rip. Worth it just for The Deserter. Simon's voice it's usual rich self.

I'm playing the game so listening to the soundtrack.

floating like never before....

Nice old double vinyl album on Impulse. Coltrane in mellow mood:

Original vinyl. I haven't played this in many a year.

Ordered this recently on the basis that others on here recommend it. Have just given it a first listen and I'm impressed. This has got energy and subtelty . Rock but not in the conventional sense. I'll be playing this some more.  

I can recommend this excellent reissue...The Return of the Durutti Column, housed in a revised version of the iconic sandpaper sleeve first issued by Factory Records in January 1980. 

One of the ten best albums ever made G. IMO of course.

From earlier today - Original vinyl.

& this vinyl reissue..

SNAP!! Rotating images of PoW camps springs to mind.

Joff 

Must buy just to top up Vinny's retirement fund. 

Joff

Mediaeval Baebes - Illumination

Fancied a change of pace after We Are The Fallen 

   Virtuoso, sadly missed!

Just beautiful. The sax feels like it is being played in front of me and I can almost smell Melody's perfume.

Houses Of The Holy [Import]

Led Zeppelin | Format: SHM-CD

Tom Petty