What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2016
2016 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread (and links to previous years) can be found here;
Streaming | WAV
(1995)
A great tribute album to his friend and guitar hero Peter Green, much, if not all of it beautifully played on PG's 1959 Gibson Les Paul.
wenger2015 posted:Stevee_S posted:Streaming | WAV
(2012)
Because I can't stop playing this excellent album.
Not heard of this group, Can you let me know a little more, what type of genre is the music, looks intriguing just going on album name and cover...
Hi Wenger - my apologies for not replying to you sooner but I have only just noticed your posting. Gazpacho are very much in the progressive rock genre but being a relatively modern band (since 2003), they are tagged as post-progressive art rockers which I think is fair. A Norwegian band of friends their music is very interesting and multi-layered with a variety of electronic and non-electronic instruments, they can rock but they mainly prog'. Personally I think that they are excellent and if you have a streaming service like Deezer you will be able try out most of their albums. If you want to start trying them then this Album is a good place to start even though its recent one.
Steve
Original vinyl...
Streaming | WAV
(2008)
This was the first of three "Boston Tea Party" albums recorded live over three nights. The original tapes were found thirty six or seven years after the event in 1970, re-mastered and released, this was the last time that Peter Green played live with the band leaving a few short weeks after this. Nice to hear Danny Kirwan's excellent guitar on this series of recordings.
jmtennapel posted:Steal of the week: http://www.eclassical.com/perf...tos-nos-5-6-etc.html
very convincing performance of Brautigum on a fortepiano. He plays the left and right hand like you are hearing two instruments. Absolutely top notch and the kind of recording that makes you want to air-piano-play
I'm not too fond of the orchestra. I'm missing the clarity of a Frans Brügen or Nicholaus Harnoncourt, or the mastery of a Philip Herreweghe.
Seconded, a brilliant eleventh installment of this series. There is not a single dud amongst Mozart's piano concerto body of work, which really starts with nr 5 on this disc, and Brautigam and Willens have delivered the goods big time. Unlike jmtennapel, I very much enjoyed the contribution of the orchestra throughout the series, initially perhaps a bit tentative (the late works can easily handle a bigger band), but always partnering Brautigam well.
As always with a fortepiano and other old instruments in these works, it takes a switch of mind to appreciate the leaner, smaller sound, but personally I find this may be the best Mozart piano concerto series money can buy.
One more issue to go, with Mozart's first four numbered concertos. Like the JC Bach transcriptions on this disc, these are not original works and although I fully expect Brautigam to give his all, that issue won't make or break the series.
The cover photos provide a series by themselves, and illustrate the building of a fortepiano, from the sawmill to the finished instrument.
EJ
Traveller
First impressions, this is the best so far, great singer ,superb album. Will defiantly audition more of his albums in the next few days.
Edward
CD rip - WAV
Stevee_S posted:Streaming | WAV
(2008)
This was the first of three "Boston Tea Party" albums recorded live over three nights. The original tapes were found thirty six or seven years after the event in 1970, re-mastered and released, this was the last time that Peter Green played live with the band leaving a few short weeks after this. Nice to hear Danny Kirwan's excellent guitar on this series of recordings.
* Edit. they were not 3 albums recorded live, they were live recordings of those 3 nights that 38 years later were released in three volumes
Because it is luverly.
On 24/96 WAV.
CD rip - WAV
On CD:-
Curved Air - Phantasmagoria
Tidal...
Two widely different albums, but both great. First up is Slow Meadow, similar to Stars of the Lid, really interesting mix of neoclassical and ambient, but don't let that put you off...
to Applewood Road, country / folk, very simply played and recorded, as the album says, on a single microphone with no clever stuff....
Delicate playing 1st run...
Original vinyl (mono)...
CharvilJon posted:.
to Applewood Road, country / folk, very simply played and recorded, as the album says, on a single microphone with no clever stuff....
Giving this a whirl on a Tidal - very nice harmonies and a refreshingly simple production from their stripped down recording set-up. Bit like Gillian Welch. Good recommendation 
Another run, great
Great playing but not my favourite Brahms. The third movement is good but won't need another version.
A delicious very early recording of the departed Chris Anderson and his trio. Two LPs reissued in a very goos sounding CD.
Friendsound - Joyride, 1969.
Former Paul Revere & The Raiders members form to create pyschedelic music that would have been at home in the Munich Krautrock scene.
1981
1973
Bruce Springsteen. High Hopes. On 2LP from 2014. Been a while since I played this energetic album.