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

Temperence Movement Live album

That's the hardest to like. But give it some time. It's a good one, too.

Norah Jones First Sessions.

Schubert Piano Sonata No.21 D960 : Horowitz's 25th Anniversary live concert at Carnegie. 1953 recording

This is an interesting piece as they don't become a mear program and lots of creative expressions happening throughout. Altho I can't help to think Vlad is playing for the audience and not much from within or context of the tunes themselves. Virtuoso playing is getting the way.

Meredith Brooks. Blurring The Edges. On CD from 1997. Her debut album. A talented artist, she wrote or co-wrote all songs. Perhaps a kinder, gentler Alantis Morissette though you might not know it from her hit "Bitch".

(1967)

I don't usually partake of 'Floyd at this time of day but was just in the mood for this near 50 year old prog' wonder.

Nice start of the morning...

Artur Rubinstein: Schubert Piano Sonata D960: 1965 recording

After Horowitz he does come off dull and safe. His assured manner always reminds me of a dependable good friend. The trouble is it's no where near compelling as Richter who was able to extract much deeper insight off the melancholic surface.

This isn't potent enough for me.

Streaming | Deezer Elite

(1968)

I'll leave it to someone else to better describe this album, it's good to hear it again as it immediately transports you back to those days of the late 60s where everything seems to be changing.

"By 1968 they had become the quintessentially English rock group, chronicling the lives of ordinary people with extraordinary insight, making the mundane glamorous."The Village Green Preservation Society" runs like a series of pictures, sepia tinted photographs of an idyll that was already in decline. The band utilise a basic rock format of drums, guitar, bass, piano, without the big brass arrangements etc that are employed on a number of later albums. The album is lightly produced, under-produced even, giving it a stripped, open feel. These songs don't need fancy costume to stand out from the crowd. They shine all the more brightly for their near-nakedness.Throughout there is an underlying air of sadness and regret in these evocations of a world gradually slipping from view." ~ An Amazonian Comment

Norah Jones. Feels Like Home. On CD from 2004. My wife's CD and my first listen to NJ (I'm culling out the CD shelves). She has a great voice and musical lineage, but this is possibly the slowest-paced album I've ever listened to in entirety.

Surely you're not thinking of culling one of your wife's CDs Joe? 

Not worth it for the half dollar I'd likely get for it at the s/h store, no. But it's getting moved to a lesser place in the unlikely event my wife ever asks "Hey, what happened to ....

Got to make a little room for more shelf-worthy titles.

I haven't heard this one before I think, because it's part of the complete collection of Murray. Anyhow a delightfull album.

That made me laugh this morning. Thanks, Joe. Norah Jones is like Diana Krall but one of them is on Prozac. 

A superb 4CD boxset. Really enjoying this.

I played this to death in my teenage years on my LP12. Unfortunately i managed to warp the record after leaving it on a stationary platter with the stylus lamp over it. I still find i miss the 'whoosh' of the stylus going over the warp every rotation on the first two tracks on my rather more pristine digital version

During my woak out, quite sophisticated jazz. Not the kind for enormous foot tapping, but still very enjoyable....

This whole collection is a pearl, I find myself every now and then getting back to it....

Bit of bombastic rock for the post lunch slump...

+1 Had me chortling too.

Disc 1 contains Mal de pays, which has a contemporary literary connection. It is key to Murakami's novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, which I recommend. I have only listened to Disc 1 but it has some excellent Liszt solo piano which I wasn't familiar with.

Clive