What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XI)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2014
On the cusp of 2015, we start a new thread...
Anyway, links:
Volume X: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...-be-interested-vol-x
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
Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase
Hmmm. So far, so alright. On first listen it hasn't grabbed me as much as Grace or Raven did, but it's probably a grower.
I'm loving it. Picked up from Burning Shed on Monday afternoon. Better than 'The Raven' or 'Grace' for me. Nice bit of R. Twerk too.
A friend and fellow SW devotee has informed me that the album is based upon this tragic life.
John.
Dipping my toe into Haydn's sonata pieces.
His work is whimsical as this CD cover illustration.
CBS vinyl
Now there is a band that I need to catch up on again.
Cant remember the last time I played something by them, seems like a hundred years ago.
Donkey's years ago I used to have The Cry Of Love on vinyl and when I spotted a CD version yesterday I thought I'd reacquaint myself with the album. I was expecting to be disappointed with the reproduction, partly because I don't remember my vinyl being that good, but in practice this CD's reproduction's ok. And the songs Drifting, Ezy Rider, Angel and In From The Storm are every bit as good as I remember.
MDS,
Glad to hear you're enjoying the CD. I bought the remastered vinyl version not long ago. The music is great. Don't have an alternate format to compare it to, but I did not think the sound quality was quite on par with the vinyl "People, Hell & Angels", which was excellent. I have the remastered LP version of "Blues" on order, will post my findings when it arrives.
During workout
Also during workout
Average album...
During breakfast, for this album I less like the typical Lang Lang effects...
Continuing with Grieg. An early recording by Leif Ove Andsnes and it's not difficult to hear why he became hot property. Grieg's sonata risks sounding like a sequence of four short pieces, but not with Andsnes - he infuses the work with life. The selection of lyric pieces that follows each get their due, too.
Cheers,
EJ
A J-pop from the past. One of my guilty pleasure disc.
They are vocal group active back in the 70s in Japan.
It's amasing amount of rich harmonization and layering of instrument/voices coming through I haven't noticed before unearthed from the grooves via Kandid./ARO.
Different snippets in different places...., I am not yet decided if I like it or not...
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Brian Eno & Harold Budd ~ Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980)
A relaxing and soothing ambient journey, remastered in 2004
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Ulrich Schnauss ~ A Long Way to Fall (2012)
"Rich, warm analogue soundscapes.Ulrich has blended a masterpiece of uplifting melancholy building on his previous work. Songs have a more recognisable structure but all have the trademark Schnauss glisten and chime." ~ From an Amazonian's comment
CBS vinyl
Now there is a band that I need to catch up on again.
Cant remember the last time I played something by them, seems like a hundred years ago.
Me too until yesterday. Some very good tracks and a few poor ones.
'80s DMM Blue Note vinyl whilst I await the imminent arrival of the Music Matters 33rpm reissue.
Grateful Dead - Fillmore East 13-14 Feb 70 (Dick's Picks Vol 4 - 1996)
Streaming: CD Rip
On spotify...
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Ulrich Schnauss ~ A Strangely Isolated Place (2003)
Probably my favourite of his to date along with a collaboration he did with Mark Peters Underatted Silence.
CBS vinyl.
Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase
Hmmm. So far, so alright. On first listen it hasn't grabbed me as much as Grace or Raven did, but it's probably a grower.
I'm loving it. Picked up from Burning Shed on Monday afternoon. Better than 'The Raven' or 'Grace' for me. Nice bit of R. Twerk too.
A friend and fellow SW devotee has informed me that the album is based upon this tragic life.
John.
Thanks for that John - very interesting to have the background. What a sad story and very well captured in the deluxe book, even after only an initial brief rummage. First listen and think it may turn out to be my favourite of his solo LPs. The Demo disc is also very good.