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
Very long time since I've played any Hootie. A browse through CD rack and I thought why not?
Think I first came across this band on a Jools Holland show.
This is a fantastic album, rended unlistenable by compression & loudness wars 
What ever happend to Hootie 
I agree the quality isn't great and it was particularly poor on my previous system but somehow my naim system, despite the higher resolution, makes it better.
Goodness knows what has happened to the band, though.
Streaming | FLAC rip
Eat Static - Back To Earth - cd, comes in nice fold-out cardboard sleeve,with interesting artwork and information, and picture disc. 
A rather old CD I've had many years
Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Teil I - Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Klavier)
Ah! Bach. This music fascinates me. It only gets better with each listen countless times over many decades. Beyond that of the best aged wine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...ge&v=aYSG8AQO3tw
Fantasy: Danae Dörken (Klavier)
Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C-major, op. 17
CPE Bach: Fantasia in F-sharp minor Wq 67/H 300
Franz Schubert: Fantasie in C major op. 15 / D. 760
From Schubert's own Lied, Der Wanderer, which is quoted again in his C major fantasie:
The sun seems so cold to me here,
The flowers faded, the life old,
And what they say has an empty sound,
I am a stranger everywhere.
Very long time since I've played any Hootie. A browse through CD rack and I thought why not?
Think I first came across this band on a Jools Holland show.
This is a fantastic album, rended unlistenable by compression & loudness wars What ever happend to Hootie
Thought they had some great tunes but the problem for me was that the album sounded the same all the way through. Darius Rucker (singer) left the band and has made 5 solo albums to date.
The band perform 4 charity concerts a year but won't be recording any new material for the foreseeable future.
This is the most vivid rendition of Mahler 5 to date like the cover art.
Rich and colourful.
Boulez’s Mahler makes Lenny’s set a child play.
Interesting that the score does not even sound like the same one Lenny was conducting. It's fascinating even more because it's the same Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
On CD:-
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Needed something light weight after heavy Mahler piece.
Billy Cobham's light fusion jazz from GRP Label.
Rainer made great recordings I have his collection
Wow!!! More great stuff from Bakersfield CA's own!!
Smoooooth.
Very long time since I've played any Hootie. A browse through CD rack and I thought why not?
Think I first came across this band on a Jools Holland show.
This is a fantastic album, rended unlistenable by compression & loudness wars What ever happend to Hootie
Thought they had some great tunes but the problem for me was that the album sounded the same all the way through. Darius Rucker (singer) left the band and has made 5 solo albums to date.
The band perform 4 charity concerts a year but won't be recording any new material for the foreseeable future.
Thanks for the update, ewemon.
Well if you were disappointed in his first solo disc like I was then I can promise you won't in this one. Promised potential realised. Stunning album. Another guitar god is born.
For dance music fans. Excellent stuff.
Playing the CD in anticipation of its imminent vinyl release.
Liz Vice. This came out earlier in the year.
Live in Montreaux July 2014