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
On vinyl from 1973: Gregg Allman - "Laid Back"
Released in 1973 - the same year as the release of one of my favourite Allman Brothers Band albums (Brothers & Sisters). If you like the Allman Brothers, Gregg's solo stuff is just as good!
Continuing my Joni Mitchell quest. I haven't played some of these for a while.... All streamed from NAS in FLAC format.
"Hejira" - I didn't know what to make of this when it first come out (1976?). Longer songs and the rather forward bass of Jaco Pistorious. I think you have to be in the mood for this - but if you are it's wonderful.
"Shadows and Light" - another live double album. This has a band to die for but I think it drags for the most part. I think this was truncated when first issued on CD but the full version as on vinyl is now available.
"I think it drags for the most part" What?!! To quote John McEnroe, you cannot be serious! This and Hejira are both spectacular albums and Pat's solo at the end of Amelia on the live album is guitar playing of the finest calibre.
If you don't have these two albums in your collection fellow Naimites, please ignore Vlad's comment regarding these two albums. They are both stunning!
There you go, enough said. QED!
Howe Gelb
"The Coincidentalist" (2013
Continuing my Joni Mitchell quest. I haven't played some of these for a while.... All streamed from NAS in FLAC format.
"Hejira" - I didn't know what to make of this when it first come out (1976?). Longer songs and the rather forward bass of Jaco Pistorious. I think you have to be in the mood for this - but if you are it's wonderful.
"Shadows and Light" - another live double album. This has a band to die for but I think it drags for the most part. I think this was truncated when first issued on CD but the full version as on vinyl is now available.
"I think it drags for the most part" What?!! To quote John McEnroe, you cannot be serious! This and Hejira are both spectacular albums and Pat's solo at the end of Amelia on the live album is guitar playing of the finest calibre.
If you don't have these two albums in your collection fellow Naimites, please ignore Vlad's comment regarding these two albums. They are both stunning!
There you go, enough said. QED!
Oh dear! If we all liked the same things, it would make Christmas shopping and selling records so much easier!
I stand by my comments; Hejira IS a great album but spectacular it isn't. The songs are all moderate to slow tempo and deeply introspective. It's not an album I could play every day. The musicianship is wonderful!
On "Shadows and Light", one great guitar solo does not a great double-album make. I still think it drags!
On now to the much maligned 80's Joni..........
Regards,
Vlad
24/192 FLAC download of the expanded 6CD boxset.
Hungry Lucy
"Pile Of The Earth" (2010)
24/96 FLAC download. I'm listening to the few hi res downloads I have to assess the recent upgrade to my Mac Mini. Playing them directly through Audirvana the upgrade seems worthwhile. 
An oldie, released 17 years ago, perfect for a late Sunday morning. Peter Orth on the piano with the Auryn Quartet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-j6LLkpQYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3DDu6Dngks
Doug, do you have this recording?
Not surprised. Excellent cast including my favourite drummer Bernard Pretty Purdie.
But I just adore his hit single 'Every Kind of People'.
This is also a perfect tune for vinyl. So groovy. 
Ramsey Lewis "Sound of Christmas" and, someone should be interested . . I got it because I sow it on Kuma's Blog!!!! 
LP - RUF / 2011 : )
Mixed & mastered by:
Ron Keck & Greg Spencer, SubCat Studios
Basic tracks recorded at White Cottage Studios Dec 2010
Engineered by Kim Simmonds
Additional Overdubs recorded at SubCat Studios May 2011 by Ron Keck (engineer)
Kim Simmonds - guitars, vocals on track 5
Joe Whiting - saxophone, vocals
Pat DeSalvo - Bass
Garnet Grimm - drums
Additional musicians:
Andy Rudy - keyboards
Ron Keck - percussion
~<>~
This Ruf vinyl has better SQ than those Decca original reissues : )
Debs
I like this one a lot. He has now created two top albums. I am very much looking forward what his next album will bring.
It really pays off here to have the 92hkz version is much more airy and gives you a real feeeling. While the older recordings still genes to sound a bit thin ....
Tangerine Dream ~ Alpha Centauri
This one from a 2008 remaster of the '71 original, pre-dating their years with Virgin by about three years. Alpha Centauri was John Peel's imported album of the year for '71 and their album Stratosfear was his album of the year in '76. I never realised he was such a big fan of theirs until now.
As others have remarked, their best years are through the 70's into the (very) early 80's culminating at around about the time of Exit in 2001.
It really pays off here to have the 92hkz version is much more airy and gives you a real feeeling. While the older recordings still genes to sound a bit thin ....
Didn't really know him, but a great album - and quite modern for the time he created it.
Music on Vinyl x3
Music Matters 33rpm vinyl.