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
Simply the best singer /songwriter around right now. Teary eyed after listening to this.
On CD:-
On vinyl.
Chris Whitley
"Hotel Vast Horizon" (2003) mp3
Haven't played this Led Zep album for a while. Disc 1 this evening before dinner. The opening track, Custard Pie, has always left me a bit cold but more than compensated for by In My Time Of Dying and Kashmir
The 
Craig Charles Funk and Soul show on 
Playing some Banging Tunes.
Great recording. And the sound is also not bad, while it's typical recording with instruments allocated to the left and right channels.
Bill Deasy
"A Different Kind Of Wild" (2008) mp3
Frédéric Chopin: Ingrid Fliter (Klavier)
24 Preludes, Op. 28
Finally, Santa delivered this LP to me. I didn't think it would come this year.
Here we have a Fliter that plays an understated, reflective Preludes. A grey canvas on which you paint images, thoughts, ideas, emotion in monochrome of what this music is. Bright colours and constantly speedy tempos are not fitting here as this music is mostly pointing to melancholy. The back cover photo is a perfect creation to visually reflect this. The link below actually will reflect better in Fliters own words than I could ever explain this astounding set of works. I believe she is right on the mark in her assessment of the music. It is light and darkness; it is hope and despair; both personified.
Fliter's interpretation of the music is quit unique though in comparison to the pack. Surprisingly, the overall picture is darker and bleaker than most other in the field of comparison. This is a positive comment from me as I prefer this type of view if I have my druthers. Fliter doesn't push the points and in a level way just lets them happen in a low key fashion. It is more of a psychological analysis of the music.
The total antithesis to Fliter here is another fellow Argentine pianist from Buenos Aires - Martha Argerich. At times, Argerich is quite preferrable when in the mood with all its fire and brimstone pushing the boundaries like no one else on earth can. It is nice to have so many nice versions with every different viewpoint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...ge&v=rCPnZn4LRvk
I do like this version a lot, while there are other versions which are enjoyable as well. My 192 version will most probably not sound so real as the vinyl version, but it's still very good.
Canto Oscuro: Anna Gourari (Klavier)
Orgelbüchlein: Ich ruf'zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 by Johann Sebastian Bach / Busoni
Chaconne by Sofia Gubaidulina
Suite for Piano, Op. 26 "1922" by Paul Hindemith
Orgelbüchlein: Nun komm'der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599 by Johann Sebastian Bach / Busoni
Partita for Violin solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: 5th movement, Chaconne by Johann Sebastian Bach / Busoni
Transcription of J.S. Bach Prelude BWV 855 for piano in B minor by Alexander Siloti
Dark Songs
Fink
"Distance and Time" (2008) mp3
On vinyl.
And onto disc two. I must confess to forgetting how good some of this is. Note to self: don't always go for I, II, or III when you fancy a bit of Led Zep.
My wife has nipped out for an hour or so with the kids....don't expect I would otherwise get away with this.....
And onto disc two. I must confess to forgetting how good some of this is. Note to self: don't always go for I, II, or III when you fancy a bit of Led Zep.
By far their most enjoyable album MDS, if not the most iconic one, there are at least 3 epic tracks on there that I can think of.
listening to now : frank black - honeycomb - c.d.
the song remains the same, it's just played more gently and softly on this album.
Keith Urban
"Fuse" (2013) mp3
Hookworms - The Hum (2014)
Streaming: CD FLAC rip
Indie band from Leeds; this album reminds me a little of very early Hawkwind, early Krautrock, with a dash of drone rock and some Spiritualised thrown in. Worth a listen
Vinyl.
A guy at the top of his game. Moving on from the Beatles, in love with Linda, two great kids and the world at his feet. Making effortless music on his own terms. I don't think he ever topped his work through of first half of the 70s....
The photo album with this record is one showing a family at peace.
It never fails to amaze me that McCartney gets such stick for the odd bit of dross (Mull Of Kintyre, Frog Chorus et al.) while Lennon gets the cool vote for bitter rock n' roll retreads).
OK, I exaggerate, but I agree that the early 70s output from Macca (S/T, Ram, Band On the Run) is excellent in its own right.
I do like Lennon's stuff, but thought McCartney's and Harrison's early post-Beatles efforts were superior.
Whatever the differences in opinion, surely no-one could argue that the next two Beatles albums, had they not broken up, would have been AMAZING.
And +1 to Macca's niceness - my daughter went out with the son of his security man - a lovely lad who's carving his own pop career (his band The Propellers will be releasing their first pop album in 2015 https://soundcloud.com/propellers but refuses to engage Paul in promoting himself) - and he loves Paul, and he grew up loving Linda. His thoughts on Heather are censored.
Gary,
My ex wife's cousin marred Pauls long time PA's daughter a few years ago at Jools Hollands place a few years ago.
My daughter went with her grandmother and couldn't speak when he first spoke to her.
She did manage to get some words out later that evening though.
He gets loads of stick in the press.
No two ways about it ?
He is a really nice bloke.
Elizabeth and the Catapult - The Other Side of Zero
(2010)
AIFF
Was really struck with her 'Taller Children' album (2009) and have liked her subsequent releases.