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

On vinyl fro 1977:

ELP - Works

I always enjoy 3 sides of this double album, but side 1 (Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto No 1) always leaves me cold. I tried playing it again today, but lasted only 5 minutes before turning the LP to side 2.

As always, I enjoyed the rest of the album> Great vocals on "Lend your love to me tonight" on side 2,  and I love their version of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" on side 4.

On CD:-

On CD:-

Nice to know that someone else here enjoys Simon Posford. 

Stevee,

I decided to have a listen to some of his work after reading some of your earlier postings. Thanks.

Dave

In that case Dave, do try The Lone Deranger by Hallucinogen and give some of his other albums a go under the name of Schpongle another of his bands/projects, most of them are pretty good when in the right mood for this style. You can find some of those albums on the river and read some reviews to get an idea of what you might like. There are a number available to listen to on Deezer Elite so I assume Spotify and other streaming services will have them too. 

Steve

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=...29816%2Ck%3Ashpongle

Thanks Steve, i'll check some of these out.

Dave

If you get on with those Dave, yet another band / project of his is Younger Brother which is all of a similar style and standard The Last Days of Gravity Vaccine and Flock of Bleeps and are all very good and you can check them out on Deezer Elite etc.

Cheers, Steve

The Raconteurs, Consolers of the lonely on CD. First listen. Discovering Jack Whites various projects and quite enjoying it. SHMBA did tell me to turn it down though!

Early 80's Sci Fi rock classic from German band Eloy with great cover album cover art work by Rodney Matthews

The White Stripes, Elephant on CD. First listen. Oh Please let me turn it up!!

Vangelis - Albedo 0.39, CD rip.

CD quality download from Qobuz on my NAS:

Steve Miller Band - "Circle of Love"

followed by another CD quality download from Qobuz:

Steve Miller Band - "Let your hair down"

I think I had 5 or 6 Steve Miller Band albums in various formats, but I had never heard these 2 albums. Both are excellent, and excellent SQ despite not being hi-res. I'll be buying a lot more from Steve Miller's back catalogue, I think.

Great stuff from a much underrated artist.  

A beautiful album and a beautiful voice.

A bit of Jimi for my evening's listening. 

Same never seen that before.

Counterparts, Rush, because its Counterparts by Rush!  24 bit flac via Audirvana/Hugo 

Me too!

Currently streaming from the NAS;

Sooo 80's, Grace is cool. And sounds pretty good

Starting the evening listening with my only Springsteen record.

On vinyl. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-Hb7hWOrc

Quadro Nuevo, the German acoustic quartet which was formed in 1996 performing for a documentary of a Turkish film maker about his hometown.

Spyro Gyra's self titled debut album 1977 release 

Groovy Cascade is perfect for a hot summer evening. 

My favorite Quadro Nuevo youtube: Sultana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI5dlKNp0C0