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
Future Islands
"On The Water" (2011) SP
Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix
Originally released in 1977, mine is a Polydor mid-price release, catalogue number 2482 488. Notwithstanding this fact, it's a cracking recording and a good pressing.
An excellent album. That reminds me:
Another cracker IMO.
Not my favorite version, but definitely entertaining...
How do you like this one, I love it ?
LP - Legacy/Sony 2008 reissue : )
Browsing my CD rack this caught my eye and I realised I'd not played any Tull for quite a while. This 40th Anniversary version is as fine a CD reproduction of this classic album as I've heard. So many great songs on here: Cross-Eyed Mary, My God, Wond'ring aloud and of course Locomotive Breath
I downloaded this a couple of days ago - it's a terrific album. I was a bit apprehensive over how the orchestration would work with the Oud, but there was no need for concern, it's super.
How do you like this one, I love it ?
You're right, it's excellent, both the Pictures and the Fantasie. Schumann's Fantasie is one of my yardsticks: hard to play technically and hard to bring off musically with so many interpretative choices. A true test for any musician. I have countless recordings of this work, but if I'm in a really critical frame of mind, not many that completely convince me. I'll give it a few months for a verdict, but it looks like Lewis may end up with my top favorites. (But both these works are like diamonds: by emphasizing facets, others remain unseen. So a ranking is really not so useful.)
Cheers,
EJ
As some of you may have detected I am not only a Dylan fan but also a reggae fan.
Will soon see him live, I am having high hopes...
Have you Seen him live allready?
Disc 2 from this splendid album. Superb reproduction of a live performance.
Sting
"Soul Cages" (1991) SP
Will soon see him live, I am having high hopes...
Have you Seen him live allready?
No never will be my first time..
Always enjoyable...
Frequency Drift - Summer
https://frequencydrift.bandcamp.com/releases
Good songwriting, playing, singing and erm, good listening
Gentle and nice
IMHO Tharaud is not a top class pianist.
True there are better ones - but still the playing on this CD is enjoyable...
Yes, but his style of play and his pianism bores me too fast
Listening to Sokolov is an other world, no doubt.
Beg to differ. I think that Tharaud delivers here a brilliant performance, capturing and expressing the varying waltz colors with plenty of depth and lyricism.
2 x LP - Nonesuch 2014 release : )
Pat Metheny
electric and acoustic guitars,
guitar synth, electronics, synths, orchestrionics
Chris Potter
tenor sax, bass clarinet,
soprano sax, clarinet, alto flute, bass flute.
Antonio Sanchez
drums and cajon
Ben Williams
acoustic and electric basses
Giulio Carmassi
piano, trumpet, trombone, french horn, cello, vibes,
clarinet, flute, recorder, alto sax, wurlitzer, whistling and vocals
Recorded June 2013 at MSR Studios, New York
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