What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2013
On the cusp of 2014, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume IX: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...16#22826037054683416
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
One of my favourite German cities which i fist visited in 1958. Doesn't that make me feel very old.
Finished Grateful Dead Wembley Empire Pool show.
Now: Old 97's Blame It On Gravity
New vinyl. This LP is flavour of the month in some circles at the moment. First play shows why.
Rather good isn't it 
Listening to their 2nd album made me pull out this to play.
Kwiet Krautrock from Kluster on LP:
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Give The People What They Want
Lightnin' Hopkins with Sonny Terry - Last Night Blues
First time listening to Martha plays Bach. Pure and simple. Gentle but urgent. Bold but fragile. Precise and clean but there’s nothing mechanical about her playing. Surprisingly Argerich puts full of human emotions into the tunes.
Potent direct communicator.
Probably not for every one, but I find it very enjoyable.
Out of curiosity, Iv'e ABed with a CD reissue. This one gives a compelling argument for vinyl's sonic superiority over digital.
First time listening to Martha plays Bach. Pure and simple. Gentle but urgent. Bold but fragile. Precise and clean but there’s nothing mechanical about her playing. Surprisingly Argerich puts full of human emotions into the tunes.
Potent direct communicator.
Probably not for every one, but I find it very enjoyable.
Out of curiosity, Iv'e ABed with a CD reissue. This one gives a compelling argument for vinyl's sonic superiority over digital.
Kuma,
I will join you with an old favorite Argerich/Bach recording in the company of Maisky:
Usually/ Always
Haim,
Finally I am listening to your Bach CD.
I see why you like this. It sounds like Ma Recording! 
...and my old *stand-by* Gould's Bach.
1942 Berlin recording.
It feels tremendous heroic approach is employed here for Hitler’s birthday bash concert. Adagio does not have the feel of hopefulness as Toscanini set but a sense of doom. Perhaps due to the historical backdrop when this set was recorded. Chorus must have been tremendous. Even with the poor fidelity I can feel the power. The finale ends with the biggest bang out of any 9th I have heard to date.
Musically strong but politically poignant.
Delaney & Bonnie On Tour With Eric Clapton Live
The Doobie Brothers. The Captain And Me. On Warner Bros green label vinyl from 1973. I really enjoy the sound from the band's original line-up.
Best album they ever made
A couple of really enjoyable albums to start me off this morning from a couple of excellent bands normally branded as 'Alternative Country' (whatever that might mean).
and
Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder
Great production on this CD (ripped to FLAC)
Still on a Krautrock kick. I bought this double LP - a repackaging of the 'Werk's first two albums following the success of "Autobahn" - in June 1978, on the Vertigo "spaceship" label...
Haim,
Finally I am listening to your Bach CD.
I see why you like this. It sounds like Ma Recording!
...and my old *stand-by* Gould's Bach.
Kuma!
The thing must have been sitting in your IN tray for at least two years… You direly need a musical assistant. Is Riccardo Muti available?
Streaming | FLAC rip
A new S/H purchase because I had not listened to Little Feat for a very long time.
Still more Krautrock - this time it's Faust IV, on CD:
Streaming | FLAC download [16/44]
