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

Posted on: 12 March 2015 by ewemon

Live at the It Club Vol.2

Posted on: 12 March 2015 by ewemon

Big Beat

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by ewemon

Yesterdays late night lsitening. Been awhile since I have played much jazz.

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Bananahead

Originally Posted by Dougchch:

Our 17 yr old daughter is so excited that she is going to see them tomorrow night.

having grown up going to bed listening to them and others she declares they are her favourite band.

Philip Larkin got it right it seems

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Bananahead

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

During workout I listened to Steve Hackett with his Genesis thing in the Royal Albert Hall

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by EJS

The follow-up to the Madrigal Company's celebrated first book of Marenzio's madrigals.

Cheers,

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by JBGWild

+1 Never, Never Land , for the ultimate live experience,

checkout Finland Freakout, on CD only, recorded in 1971

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Stevee_S

Streaming | CD FLAC rip

Pablo Casals ~ J.S. Bach's Cello Suites [1-6]

Variously recorded in Paris and London between the late '20s and early '30s, these original 78s were carefully transcribed in 1999 to very good effect.

"Fine transfers of these landmark recordings of the Cello Suites. There have been many great interpretations of these pieces since, but for all their virtues, none can ever quite live up to the beauty of Casals' reading."

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by FangfossFlyer

My wife and daughter are away in Rome and I have the day off work so I am starting the long weekend with:

Richard

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Huwge

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Bert Schurink

This morning at breakfast...

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Nick Lees

Strange Flowers - Ortoflorovivaistica

From 2006. Italian neo-psych band with melodies somewhere between Syd Barrett and the more melodic Velvets. Ish. They have a couple of lead guitarists who let fly at each other on the longer tracks such as The Ghost In Your Room:

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Stevee_S

Streaming | 16/44.1 FLAC download

Logic Gate ~ Voyages (23rd September 2008)

Effectively Steven Grace, this is ambient, electronic, Berlin School; once again downloaded from Bandcamp.

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Stevee_S

Originally Posted by Gary Shaw:

Strange Flowers - Ortoflorovivaistica

Always so nicely described, thank you.

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Iconoclast

Nice ''soft'' discovery. I suppose if you like Damien Rice chances are you'll like this.

Favorite tracks: 2, 8, 9, 11

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Tony2011

Originally Posted by Cdb:

Originally Posted by Tony2011:

Originally Posted by Cdb:

Originally Posted by Tony2011:

Anyone own this and is it worth the 60 quid the river is asking for?

Do you mean musically or this pressing? It seems to be continuously reissued and I imagine it's a digital source now. Musically, it's essential if you like blues/rock with jazzy elements and two brilliant lead guitarists!

I mean sonically, Clive. I know it's one of the greatest albums ever but if the pressing is really bad it's not worth the investment. Besides, I rarely buy reissues unless it is really worth it.

Apologies for stating the obvious, Tony - on the basis of what you post on this thread I was fairly certain you would know the music. I bought a Back to Black vinyl version a while ago and it wasn't particularly good although the pressing was quiet. My original version isn't in a great state unfortunately, but I think when I compared it still was better than the B2B. I imagine this is likely to be the same source as the B2B. I'm not sure where you stand otherwise on sources but the money might be better spent on the CD super deluxe set that came out about a year ago which has more music on it.

Clive

Thanks Clive. The B2B series seems to devide opinion quite a bit and I appreciate yours since I have not listened to any of it. I would rather invest on the 4 vinyl set if the quality was any good than the CDs although it is tempting. Once again, many thanks.
Tony

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Tony2011

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Richard D

Music from a significant occasion. Zoot Sims was the first of the American class acts to appear at Ronnie Scott's. This cd captures the music played over the 2 nights in Autumn 1961. Fontana Records were present and produced 2 lps of the event: Zoot Sims Live at Ronnie Scott's and Solo for Zoot, both highly sought after and reflected in the asking price! This cd is a good compromise.

Posted on: 13 March 2015 by Gianluigi Mazzorana