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

It is about time that I starting delving back into my jazz collection again. Need it after skidding off the road into a deep ditch on black ice this morning. That and a good cup of tea calms the nerves.

On CD. Great in headphones.

Great music to start the Sunday of with

Has this been commercially released at last? I really hope so. I've heard some of these versions on Youtube and have found them to be very enjoyable. Like discovering BOTT all over again. 

On vinyl - Isaac Guillory Live:

Isaac was a fantastic guitarist and an amazing live performer!

On vinyl:

Drums are very much in the forefront, but nice jazz

On vinyl:

to be followed by (again on vinyl):

finally (again on vinyl):

I have quite a few more albums by Leo on vinyl and CD, but I think 3 is enough for now!

SYSTEM 7 - POINT 3  - WATER ALBUM  - on c.d.

Even being a very intellectually stimulating, sophisticated and complex "concept" album, belonging to a network of interconnected albums, and sounding lush and calming, to really enjoy this music properly, at the end of the day, you need to be stoned. If "getting stoned and turned on" is not permitted in your particular moral and ethical world view of pleasure, don't bother listening to music such as this as you won't like it very much.

Ok, but will not land on my collection 1000 albums for an Island

Till four weeks ago I wasn't aware about him, now like his music very much

Bert,

You might as well try the other sister. She is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIMR4x5nXFM

Alina Rotaru: Froberger (1616-1667)-Suites & Toccatas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVkPb8OGeu8

Johann Jakob Froberger (baptized 19 May 1616 – 7 May 1667) was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. He was among the most famous composers of the era and influenced practically every major composer in Europe by developing the genre of keyboard suite and contributing greatly to the exchange of musical traditions through his many travels. He is also remembered for his highly idiomatic and personal descriptive harpsichord pieces, which are among the earliest known examples of program music.

Only two of Froberger's many compositions were published during his lifetime,^[1] but his music was very widely spread in manuscript copies and he was one of the very few 17th-century composers who were never entirely forgotten. His works were studied in the 18th century (although perhaps not very extensively), and certainly not without influence on the emerging Classical style by Handel, Bach and, extraordinarily, even Mozart and Beethoven. (from Wikipedia)

Nope not yet but it is supposedly in the pipeline

A lot of drive as aspects from a drummet...

Thanks will have a look at this before my new batch of buys :-)

On vinyl,

Alan Parsons Project - "Eye in the Sky"

a steal for less then 40 euros with Qobuz in high res.

Impatience has cost me a lot over the years.  I had the Mari Kodama on my list of Beethoven sonatas Wish List for a while.  A year or two ago I decided to pull the plug.  I liked what I heard enough that I ended up buying one by one at full price until I had it complete.  I have no doubt that this set is one of the most expensive Beethoven Sonatas that I have (and I add about 6 per year).

Shortly after I was done out comes this reasonably priced box set.  Doh!

That's a shame: I really like this, and its predecessor.

I love the album "O" and was privileged to see him live when he was touring that album.  One of the two or three best concerts I have attended.

However, I personally would suggest caution with his other albums (not the new, I haven't heard it yet).

I think I am pretty open minded but, although "9" has some very good songs on it, there is something about the overall lyrical tone of that album I found distasteful.   I found the same situation with "B-Sides" release.  Probably just me.

My solution was to make a playlist with my likes on "9" and "B-Sides" and delete the others.  The discs are on the shelf and could be listened to again if I ever chose.  I would be interested in others perspectives on those album.

I have the new available, I am actually a little afraid to listen to it.  "O" and a few of his other songs are so very very good but for me the distance between those and the ones I dislike is just so far.

Not trying to sway you, Pat, just giving you my perspective.  I know I can trust you to make your own judgements.

best regards, Go Pios 

Jeff A

Johann Sebastian Bach:  Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass

Passacaglia and Fugue for organ in C minor, BWV 582

I do not own this album - yet.  I heard it last night in the car over sat radio.  Broadcasting this type of music should be illegal considering the new wave of distracted driving laws we have now imposed on us.

This is a good example for the what is allowed and what is not file.  What would Bach think of an organ work being transcribed for wind ensemble?  For myself, my love of this music and this particular work, it just put me in 7th heaven to hear this music - in any form.  I felt no sense of lack or betrayal.  The music is there in all its glory and hearing it in a different light than the usual organ not only made it exciting but informative as my ears perked up and I listened intently at all the interesting voicing and surprises through all the twists and turns of the variations.

Now:

If anything, listening to transcriptions fuels my own love for particular music and the music in original form.  This morning, just randomly grabbed a set of organ recordings and cranked up the volume.  Currently is Marie-Claire Alain with the Passacaglia & Fugue.  It is interesting for me to learn (directly off of Wikipedia) that Alain herself believes the themes found throughout this Passacaglia & Fugue come from various Cantatas - and I quote....

Bach performer and scholar Marie-Claire Alain suggested that the 21 variations are broken down into 7 groups of 3 similar variations, each opening with a quotation from a Lutheran chorale, treated similarly to the Orgel-Büchlein written at a similar time:^[13]

• Bars 8–12, the top part spells out the opening notes of "Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland"
• Bars 24–48, a cantilena spells out "Von Gott will ich nicht lassen"
• Bars 49–72, the scales are a reference to "Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar"
• Bars 72–96, recalling the "star" motif from "Herr Christ, der Ein'ge Gottes-Sohn"
• Bars 96–120, ornamented figure similar to that in "Christ lag in Todesbanden" accompanies theme in the soprano then moving successively to alto and bass
• Bars 144–168 "Ascending intervals in bass recall the Easter chorale "Erstanden ist der heil'ge Christ".

Alain also points out that the numbers (21 repetitions of the Passacaglia ground and 12 statements of the fugue subjects) are inversions.

 

Knowing this does not really change anything for me at a macro level.  My sense of the music comes only from listening and playing and from this alone you realize its greatness.  Adding this knowledge above is only the icing on the cake and the confirmation that I am on the right path going in the correct direction (in my own personal journey).

I just have to end by posting the first page of this music.  It is extremely exciting for me to look at this copy of the score.

Enjoying the 2nd play of Frequency Drift - Over...

Good songwriting, musicianship & vocals from Isa Fallenbacher.

Review - http://www.seaoftranquility.or...content&id=15648