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;
One of my favorite movies .. I don't usually collect sound tracks of movies but this one was just too good to pass up. In a word it's excellent.
Great music, now over Tidal, but will have to get it on my NAS...
Because I play his latest album "Fever Dream" so much, I really should give his previous solo albums a decent listen.
Not long until Christmas.
ewemon posted:
Streaming Tidal 16/44.1/MBA/A2+/Hugo/HD800
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(1967)
On original ('88) Cube label CD made in France, liking it a lot on this early Mono release.
Tidal via A+
(1967)
Coincidentally another album from 1967 but of course totally different in style to Procol Harum's, in their own styles they were both landmark debut albums.
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(1967)
Playing the 2009 stereo remaster, not a bad output in 1967 from the fab four / five this and Sgt. Pepper's.
Chocolate Chip (1975 on ABC records.
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(1967)
Just to finish off this morning's listening to albums from '67 and from the fabs, the 2009 stereo remaster by Guy Massey and Steve Rooke.
Uk first press vinyl. We were talking about him in the pub last night:
UK vinyl from the 1980s. Prompted by someone upthread posting that they were listening to it...
Sounding glorious this fine Saturday Morning.
G
The late great Dame's finest, on Japanese vinyl (1982 orange label RCA reissue), sounding fab:
In the Frescobaldi, Leonhardt shapes phrases and sections of music to sound as if they were spontaneous dialogues and conversations between refined intellectuals. The sophistication of the music is all there, and so is the sense of improvisation. (ALLMUSIC)
Saturday afternoon easy blues from Mr H.
This guy certainly influenced so many of today's bluesmen.
One of a bundle of CD's I've just had delivered today from an eBay (UK) seller, MusicMagpie, which at prices ranging from £1 upwards, with free postage, is a great way of filling in those gaps in the collection.
Haim Ronen posted:
In the Frescobaldi, Leonhardt shapes phrases and sections of music to sound as if they were spontaneous dialogues and conversations between refined intellectuals. The sophistication of the music is all there, and so is the sense of improvisation. (ALLMUSIC)
I'm personally a great fan of Leonhardt / Koopman. If you get bored listening to a certain composition, listen to their recordings and many secrets can be revealed. You can't get closer to renaissance or baroque. It's alive.
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Not even close to being a patch on their debut album, It's A Beautiful Day were sadly only ever a one (album) hit wonder. I'm not surprised that I haven't sat through this one for nearly fifty years!
Working my way through today's package.
Some of these are no longer in print, so can be had only at silly prices on "collectors" sites.
As I mentioned above, at prices from £1 upwards, they're a steal........(trust this advice doesn't contravene forum rules..........surely not?) 
Stevee_S posted:A+ | Transcoded DSD
(1969)
Not even close to being a patch on their debut album, It's A Beautiful Day were sadly only ever a one (album) hit wonder. I'm not surprised that I haven't sat through this one for nearly fifty years!
At some degree I have to disagree e.g Don and Dewey is a great song. David LaFlamme really knew his violin…
But of course White Bird is in the league of its own.