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

Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2013

Posted on: 14 August 2014 by Stevee_S

Eric Clapton ~ 24 Nights (At the Albert Hall 1990-1)

Watching this prerecorded on Sky Arts 1 HD. It's so good watching the man do his stuff.

Jeff Beck said a few years ago when welcoming EC onto his set, and I paraphrase, "now, here is a man who really knows his way around a Stratocaster" who could possibly argue with that statement.

Posted on: 14 August 2014 by Stevee_S

Originally Posted by Andy Piercy:

Elvis at Stax.
Listening on a Samsung Galaxy tab through Sennheiser px100 (mk2) in a tent in St Ives while enjoying a bottle of rum.

Excellent!

Posted on: 14 August 2014 by Jeff Anderson

Elliott Smith "XO"

Posted on: 14 August 2014 by Jeff Anderson

Greg Tannen "Rocket"

Posted on: 14 August 2014 by joerand

Paul Simon. There Goes Rhymin' Simon. On vinyl from 1973. In the mood for something mellow and laid-back tonight. This fits those terms nicely.

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by kuma

Maazel/Berlin Philharmonic: Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances.

It stills feel like a soundtrabut this time fast forward from lush Hollywood to a TV mini series costume drama soundtrack. Sax solo is sufficiently schumultzy. Ditto for strings.

Complete with 5 handkerchiefs Vocalise.

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by Char Wallah

Fugazi - Repeater + 3 songs - cd.

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by Bert Schurink

First listen after blind buy yesterday when I heard Dances....., very much impressed by the guy...in high res...

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by Clive B

Giving Solti a run out today. Current order of preference on Parsifal: 1. Knappertsbusch (Bayreuth '62); 2. Solti; 3. Karajan.

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by Char Wallah

KING CRIMSON - Lizard - on cd.

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by Char Wallah

THE ENID - TOUCH ME - on cd. Their idiosyncratic sound, love or hate it.

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by Jeff Anderson

Alexi Murdoch "Time Without Consequence"

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by GraemeH

Great start to a long weekend.

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by Bert Schurink

On high res, great album, great debut...

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by m0omo0

Something for those Crim' buffs who weren't paying attention lately (like me):

Julie Slick, Terroir [2012, Bandcamp]

Julie Slick was the bass player in Adrian Belew's band, and also during the Crimson projecKt 2014 tour (still mad I missed them, but the venue they played was so unexpected that I never thought checking... until too late).

She's got a few albums out already. This one is from 2012 and features usual suspects like Belew and Pat Mastelotto, but no Fripp this time. The music will sound familiar, but it nevertheless sounds fresh to my ears and it's easy to get absorbed into it. Of course, great playing all along as one would expect. Overall I'm impressed, like the music very much and can't stop coming back to this album.

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by Char Wallah

bass communion

1.shopping

2.drugged

3.sleep etc

4.orphan coal

5.drugged

on cd :

"drugged also features a seven second

sample of robert fripp | looped

transposed, layered, filtered, and

processed into infinity | the sample

is taken from a tape of soundscapes

improvised by robert in no-man's land in 1993"

this type of music always reminds me of coming across very familiar architecture at night which suddenly seems transfigured amid the neon lights and stars.

Posted on: 15 August 2014 by Jeff Anderson