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

Kevin, do you know the band Snorkel ? If not, try Glass Darkly (on Bandcamp) if you have the opportunity.

Yep, all this JJ talk & I'm sure listening :-

I've checked out a couple of their tracks on YouTube. Fantastic! Will be buying that album - cheers for the heads up

Streaming | FLAC rip

Because I haven't listened to it in a few years.

Neu 75 by Neu! on vinyl LP. Fabulous!

On CD:-

I really enjoy their early stuff. Original Vinyl...

Hi Kevin,

Have you tried SANKT OTTEN?

http://sankt-otten.bandcamp.co...m/gottes-synthesizer 

This is the middle of 3 albums released, with fantastic artwork - Paintings / Drawings by SALUSTIANO

I know that Graham likes the band already.

ATB - Denis

Right now watching and listening to an NRK TV recording from a legendary concert at the University of Oslo from 1964. In Jazz circles this concert is refered to as "Mingus i Aulaen/Mingus in the Aula". This year it's 50 years since Mingus brought modern Jazz to Norway. Charles Mingus sextet also featured Clifford Jordan, Dannie Richmond, Eric Dolphy and Johnny Coles. Great fun to watch and listen to. Mingus also happens to be one of my favourite artists!

K . I have two albums by  sankt otten on Dennis recommendation.  IMO they are worth having for the artwork alone however, the music is also pretty impressive.

G

My pleasure.

Denis, thank you for the heads up about Sankt Otten. Must check that.

Good one. You inspired me to run out and buy this and 2 other Toumani Diabate albums.

Pleased to recommend, hope you enjoy them.

Joe Walsh. The Confessor. Limited edition pressing on Quiex II vinyl from 1985. It's easy to be overwhelmed by the sound quality; it's really impressive from an engineering, production, mastering standpoint. Great stereo imaging with a tall and wider-than-the-room soundstage. Easy for an audiophile to appreciate. The music is pretty good as well. "Rosewood Bitters" written by Michael Stanley is probably my favorite song from this LP.

Lynyrd Skynyrd. Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nerd. Their debut, on vinyl from 1973.  Great southern fried rock. Now I just gotta fetch me a six-pack and some smokes and I'll be set up for the evening .

Amen to that Joe. As debut albums go; it's right up there. Nice job with the textual accents!

Leonard Skinner who gave the band their name passed away in 2010. And of course some of the band members suffered a tragic fate in the 1977 plane crash.

http://rockturtleneck.blogspot...ple-kind-of-man.html

Thanks for the black gold boys.

John.

Very little new music moves me but I've just discovered this and it blows me away.

Iffy band name and cover art-work but Adam Granduciel echoes the bleak landscapes of Springsteen with Dylan, Tom Petty, Jackson Browne and Fleetwood Mac lobbed into the musical influences mix.

Expansive, claustrophobic, unsettling, swirling and melodically gorgeous.

John.

Sounds like a plan joe. At least the beer part.  No smokes since 1996.  Fun record.

Actually, I was kidding about the six-pack and smokes, Matt. No smokes for me ever. Good for you quitting long ago . Enjoy the music.

Borrowed from a friend.