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
Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on CD. Is it me ot the CD? I am just not feeling it today. Disc 2 will not be going on.
It's definitely a tough listen to do both discs at once. Several brilliant tracks, but the overall oppressive sound combined with the long-term grating nature of Billy Corgan's vocals can readily become long in the tooth.
The Beatles. Let It Be... Naked. On 2CD from 2003. I like the cleaner, less embellished mix of this versus the original vinyl. Closer to the music.
Nice balance between Ben and Oscar, relaxing album...
Also during workout, nice rounded bass tone. Don't know if that's the album or the 24/192 but it sounds good...
Breakfast piano, great playing...
Tom Petty. Echo. On CD from 1999. The "Petty sound" is here with a level of refinement, but perhaps without the same sense of excitement many of his earlier albums elicited?
A gift. Jean-Claude Pennetier displays an enormous range and palette in Fauré's piano music - under his fingers, the music matches Chopin in urgency and tragic inevitability, beneath a veneer of elegance. I've never heard these works played at this level - stunning.
EJ
Not arguing I just will have a listen to this, but did you ever hear the baracolles of Delphine Bardin..., I love this music.
Hi Bert,
This is personal - but I did not connect with Bardin's approach at all, far too civil and monochrome.
EJ
Streaming | FLAC Download from Bandcamp
(2010)
Something to relax to. This ambient electronica sends out waves of lovely chilled psychedelic tones.
UK fifth press (A10/B9 Harry), acquired today for just a tenner. Vinyl is mint and it sounds terrific. I have 10 different pressings of this and I think it may be my favourite.
Thick Pigeon, Two Lonely Cowboys. Picked at random. Original UK press on Factory records (1984). One of the typically bizarre albums the label was releasing at the time, haven't heard in in 20 years...
Streaming | FLAC Download | Bandcamp
(2014)
More chilled psyambient from Androcelli with this one called Imbue, its good stuff to drift way to now and again.
Wonderful - and beautifully-packaged - 2-CD compilation of stuff from America's pioneer of electronica. Just because:
CD rip AIFF, a firm favourite over the decades:-
Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence
Something a little different:-
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Trilogy.
Not a 'classic' but I enjoy this album, and it's nicely engineered.
FLAC via NDX/Hugo.
G
Streaming | FLAC
(2006)
Nice relaxed listening and probably my favourite album of theirs.
Original Vinyl.
On CD:-
Fancied some Fabs. So this, on triple vinyl:
Streaming | FLAC
(2010)
Because I have absolutely "lurved" listening to this one of theirs for years and its still my favourite album from them.
"If we're talking comparisons, I can only say - for whatever it's worth - that it's head and shoulders above Wider Angle (as great as that was) and closer to my all-time favourite, Morning Sci-fi, for brooding drama and in the way it unfolds like an Icelandic weather system.
From the opening bars of Empire, feeling energised, it's hard not to say to yourself: "Bloody hell, I love Hybrid" - dark breakbeat energy which reminds you of Crystal Method's (sparse) moments of brilliance back in the 90s. This mood is picked up again later in Original Sin, a kind of Gravastar Mark II.
Apart from that, there are a series of impeccably crafted vocal tracks. No, not just tracks, but SONGS, all stamped with Hybrid's signature orchestral/breakbeat, um, hybrid." - One Amazonian's Comment
Sacd
This was my days listening.
Friday night happy music! : )
LP - Atlantic [Germany] 1976 reissue : )
Seite 1
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting [ 5:39 ]
Cryin' Blues [ 4:58 ]
Moanin' [ 8:01 ]
Seite 2
Tensions [ 6:27 ]
My Jelly Roll Soul [ 6:47 ]
E's Flat Ah's Flat Too [ 6:37 ]
Charles Mingus – bass
John Handy – alto sax
Jackie McLean – alto sax
Booker Ervin – tenor sax
Pepper Adams – baritone sax
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Willie Dennis – trombone
Dannie Richmond – drums
Horace Parlan – piano, except for "E's Flat Ah's Flat Too"
Mal Waldron – piano on "E's Flat Ah's Flat Too"
Recorded: 29th January 1960, Atlantic Studios, New York City
Great recording, with sometimes strange instrumentations, but it works really good...
