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
On CD:-
On Vinyl:-
From the stereo box set.
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Stephen Stills ~ Stephen Stills 2 (1971)
LP - RAK © 1976 : )
Motor bikin' - motor bikin' - motor bikin' - motor cycling
Moving on the Queens highway looking like a streak of lightning
If you gotta go go gotta go motor bike riding
Listen to me and I'll tell you no lie
Too fast to live too young to die
I bought a new machine today say
It takes your breath away.
Motor bikin' - motor bikin' - motor bikin' - motor cycling
Moving on the Queens highway looking like a streak of lightning.
Oh baby won't you come with me
I'll take you where you want to be
Well here I am again I'm dressed in black
I got my baby she's a riding up back
A we're doing about ninety five
Whoo it's so good to be alive.
Motor bikin' - motor bikin' - motor bikin' - motor cycling
Moving on the Queens highway looking like a streak of lightning
If you gotta go go gotta go motor bike riding
Motor bikin' - motor bikin' - motor bikin' - motor cycling
Moving on the Queens highway looking like a streak of lightning
If you gotta go go gotta go motor bike riding
~<>~
Had a bit of a Who fest following ewemon's pointer to 'The Seeker' yesterday morning. Following a few individual tracks I moved onto this:
Which was followed by all of this (I'd forgotten how great this is!):
And then all of this masterpiece:
Is Townshend a rock god, or what?!
Daniel Hope presents a mix of neo-Baroque, minimalist and soundtrack favourites, including works and arrangements by contemporary masters like Ludovico Einaudi, Arvo Pärt, Karl Jenkins, Max Richter, Gabriel Prokofiev and Alex Baranowski.
I saw Daniel Hope play with Max Richter at the Albert Hall last year. They performed the whole Four Seasons Recomposed, to rapturous effect and a significant standing ovation. (They actually performed part of it again, and I don't think it was planned). A terrific evening.
Oh, and now rocking to some of this:
After which will be all of this:
Sheer joy!
Sarah Jaffe
"Don't Dosconnect" 2014 SP
Paul Young - No Parlez (1983)
Original vinyl
Classic fretless / slap bass by Pino Palladino
Recent vinyl reissue. Sounds quite lovely. A well done reissue in fact.
Great album. Got my copy in Paris on the Champs De Elysee.
Tom Waits - Closing Time (1973)
Original vinyl
A delicious treat if you come home and want to relax...
Portland has declared Tuesday, January 20, 2015 as "Decemberists Day".
http://www.oregonlive.com/musi...and_festivities.html
Therefore, it seems appropriate to play:
The Decemberists
"Castaways and Cutouts" (2002) SP
I was at their very first-ever live show opening set in a small Portland club, opening for Jerry Joseph. Talked to bass player Nate Query that night and he told me "this is the band that is going to make it". Prophetic. Good people, they have worked hard for many years. And made some wonderful music.
On vinyl, rarely played around here.
Wow.
This is pretty intense. Has anyone tried Weinberg's work?
It's going to take me repeated listen to get a handle on it but this is a bit like lost in a dark forest in a dream.
Originally Posted by Bert Schurink: No, I listened to it - but it was too far away for me to appreciate it. For this type of music I need more mainstream type of stuff otherwise I disconnect.
Avant-Garde free form jazz or atonal classical music are new territory and these for sure aren't for every day listen.
One thing tho, the great digital recording by ECM engineers help these tunes more life and colours.
A lots of double stops but Kremer produces beautiful tonal blend with a tight rhythmic tensions to keep the tune moving at all time.
There is a sense of effortless and pitch black digital background suits this bleak score. His scores demand 100% attention all the time and I need to be totally immersed in them otherwise they quickly turn into series of inconsequential annoying noise.
Originally Posted by dave4jazz:
One of my all time favourite albums.
Not sure of the benefit of the "super audiophile quality" compared to the standard CD for this 1956 recording though?
My one and only high resolution format. 
Wow.
This is pretty intense. Has anyone tried Weinberg's work?
It's going to take me repeated listen to get a handle on it but this is a bit like lost in a dark forest in a dream.
Originally Posted by Bert Schurink: No, I listened to it - but it was too far away for me to appreciate it. For this type of music I need more mainstream type of stuff otherwise I disconnect.
Avant-Garde free form jazz or atonal classical music are new territory and these for sure aren't for every day listen.
One thing tho, the great digital recording by ECM engineers help these tunes more life and colours.
A lots of double stops but Kremer produces beautiful tonal blend with a tight rhythmic tensions to keep the tune moving at all time.
There is a sense of effortless and pitch black digital background suits this bleak score. His scores demand 100% attention all the time and I need to be totally immersed in them otherwise they quickly turn into series of inconsequential annoying noise.
Compared to Ustvolskaya, Gerhard, Ferneyhough, or Carter or Schoenberg at their worst, this is positively easy listening! 
EJ
This album had the distinction of being the only music on my iphone during a recent business trip. But as I've learned the hard way, apple devices do not play hires natively, and without telling me, VLC downsampled the hires FLACs to a distorted mess. On the main system, it sounds pretty good, fortunately. Musically, after her uber-romantic Bach album, I'm really pleased with Queffélec's Scarlatti. This is really good if straight up (no Tharaud-isms let alone the superb Pogorelich or Kamenz, who bring a unique imagination to partly overlapping sets of sonatas).
EJ