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

King Crimson     -   ISLANDS   -     cd.

Some good ol' Noo Orleans soul-funk on Soul Jazz double vinyl.

Lupine Howl     -   The Bar At The End Of The World   -         cd.

original Liberty vinyl. Time to boogie. 

Tony,

Good call. I had this and most of Ronnie Lane's albums until I sold my Linn in the early nineties. I have all the RL/Slim Chance stuff again now, but this one is scarce!

Richard,  I bought this one and Slim Chance  together from a guy who was "downsizing"  and there were quite a few other gems in there too, one of them being Mahoney's Last Stand. Great record!

Great record Steve. Played my copy just the other day!

The White Album from the beautifully-presented Mono CD box set. Sounding glorious...

FUGAZI     -     " The Argument "    on cd.

Second listen to this recent acquisition. On CD

Mary Black's most recent album, and a very fine one. 

1974 [Discreet] 1st press vinyl....

Wolf People - Fain. Brilliant album Prog Rock with a slightly vintage feel. Well worth a listen.

Porcupine Tree  -  In Absentia   -     on cd.

Beethoven done in a Wagnerian scale.

David ( Ashkenazy ) & Goliath ( Solti/CSO )

Dear Kuma,

No doubt that the ever enthusiastic Wagner would himself have been enthusiastic for a big scale of performance and drama in his much revered senior colleague!

I wonder though ... After all we don't serve Beethoven up in Brahms sized loaves, as a rule, and sometime I think Beethoven's Concertos at least have as much in common with Mozart's as anything that followed Beethoven.

But the prospect is fascinating all the same.

Neither Solti nor Ashkenazy are artists I warm too, and not even Solti in Wagner, but i would bet that the two together might make a supreme case for a romantic [thessis/antitheseis] reading of the classical Beethoven's Piano Concertos!

Thanks for the heads-up as I had never heard of these long ago made recordings!

My latest recordings - this weekend on CD though replacing LP parted with 24 years ago -  are the Klemperer legacy EMI "bleeding chunks" of Wagner, and very dramatic and powerful they are from a real Beethoven exponent!

ATB from George