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;
Followed by...
On vinyl...
Note: This is 45rpm vinyl but can't find it written anywhere!
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(1973)
What...is in Between? defies categorization. World, electronica, dance, indie rock, there is something of all of these in this endlessly surprising album...Take the risk of buying this CD, you won't be disappointed... £1.76 used on Amazon.
Quad 33 posted:
What...is in Between? defies categorization. World, electronica, dance, indie rock, there is something of all of these in this endlessly surprising album...Take the risk of buying this CD, you won't be disappointed... £1.76 used on Amazon.
I've just ordered it Quad, your post grabbed my interest thanks! 
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On to the second CD of this really enjoyable TYA concert. Originally released in 2001 over forty years after the gig took place, this one is the 2012 remaster.
The Complete Columbia Recordings: Miles Davis & John Coltrane
Had a few mates round for a Scottish evening.
Physical Graffiti Format: SHM-CD
Tarantino curates some great soundtracks.
Can't help but think Bowie would be saddened by what has been happening to his country this week. And I'm not talking about football.
Egberto Gismonti: 8-string guitar, piano, wood flutes, voice
Nana Vasconcelos: percussion, berimbau, corpo, voice
Recorded forty years ago at Talent Studio, Oslo
Egberto Gismonti’s first ECM appearance is also his most understated. Dança das Cabeças (Dance of the Heads) was to be a solo album, due to the fact that the Brazilian government had inflated travel expenses for he and his band to the questionable figure of 7000 dollars a head. Gismonti was the only among them able to make the journey, but as fate would have it, he met Nana Vasconcelos quite by accident while in Norway to prepare for this recording. According to Alvaro Neder, when Vasconcelos asked him to describe the concept behind this project, Gismonti told him it was “the history of two boys wandering through a dense, humid forest, full of insects and animals, keeping a 180-feet distance from each other.” It was a history the two musicians shared without articulation, and Vasconcelos immediately agreed to join, thereby bringing another visionary into the label’s fold. (ECM)
Wishbone Ash. Argus. On original vinyl from 1972. I know nothing of the band and bought this at a s/h shop only because of the frequency I see it posted here. Old music to most, new music to me. I found it immediately likeable - rock with a progressive bend and good SQ. Thanks to all that posted it in the past.
joerand posted:
Wishbone Ash. Argus. On original vinyl from 1972. I know nothing of the band and bought this at a s/h shop only because of the frequency I see it posted here. Old music to most, new music to me. I found it immediately likeable - rock with a progressive bend and good SQ. Thanks to all that posted it in the past.
Their best album IMHO.
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(1973)
Another one from the Tangerine Tree Project, this one sounding very experimental and much more like their very early work Zeit and Alpha Centauri. Shortly after this concert they went into the studio and recorded Phaedra which was to bring them to the attention of a far wider audience.
Start off this monring with some guitar jazz.
Forgotten I had this
New Intervention Record's Joe Jackson's Night and Day reissue (Kevin Gray remastered) is outstanding.
Game over in just a few seconds compared to my US original pressing. ( albeit it is not a first pressing )
Much improved dynamics and frequency extensions. Nicely balanced without any distortions or thinness. Even the inside gate fold photo is colour corrected. My copy is severely yellowed as you can see from the photo.
This is the definitive version to have.