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

joerand posted:

Suzanne Vega. Solitude Standing. On DMM vinyl from 1987. Still my favorite of anything I've heard from SV although I need to sample her "Close-Up" discs. Folks here seem to thoroughly enjoy them.

Give them a go Joe I'm sure you will like them.

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Melissa Etheridge. Yes I Am. On CD from 1993.  Melissa's coming out album rocks hard. Saw her sing the National Anthem recently at a US football event and she still has her signature raspy-yet-simultaneously-smooth vocal delivery.

Starting my morning with the finished ripping work from yesterday...

1st run, first impressions good..

Relaxing on a grey Sunday morning.

Two former members of King Crimson who heavily influenced the sound of ITCOTCK, still my favourite KC album.

Excellent soft prog with some excellent bass lines.

ewemon posted:

Finally I can write something about this. Wonderful record certainly IMHO up there with her best.

Been itching to get my hands on this - first impressions are very good indeed.  WAV : CD rip

Not exploring the edges but sounding good..., so pleasant experience...

Listening to my today's download from the society of sound...

Eight Black Birds whose concert we will attend this afternoon in the city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZFEuP_VPE8

Bert Schurink posted:

Not exploring the edges but sounding good..., so pleasant experience...

 

 

Bert,

Arriale had fifteen years ago some very nice recordings with her trio. I haven't listened to her in ages:

This. Again. It just gets better with every play. A real classic:

10" vinyl record released back in 2014, containing radically different recordings of two tracks that would end up on "Blackstar"

"1" on CD, from the "1+" CD/Blu-ray set;

Cdb posted:

FangfossFlyer posted:

Cdb posted:

FangfossFlyer posted:

Beautiful music, beautiful vinyl and beautiful SQ -  what more do you want for £4.99.

Issue 1 from classicjazzcolection.

I saw that magazine/LP in Smiths earlier on (and an ad in the Guardian) but I couldn't see the source/mastering/pressing info. Has it been made legitimately with Sony involvement, or perhaps by Music on Vinyl? Not that I need another copy of this!

Clive

Apparently for all of them they have"...gone back to the master tapes .... and re-released on 180g virgin vinyl"

It sounded mighty good to me and worth the punt at £4.99

Richard

Thanks, Richard - I found the Hoffman thread in the interim and see you have posted there too - unless someone else has stolen your username! I might get the Coltrane which is up next as I don't have that on vinyl.

Clive

Where are these being sold?

Thanks,

Clive

A very different Stan Rogers than what those who know his music are used to:

On this disk, the CBC has created two radio plays, the first one based on a Stan Rogers ballad called Harris & The Mare, about a conscientious objector after WWI and how life in the small town he lived in with his wife changed after the War. How he had never struck a person in anger until drunk veteran who wanted his wife attacked him and his wife in a bar.  None of his neighbours came to their aid, wife knocked unconscious, him stabbed and bleeding.  The drunk veteran lunged to make the killing blow with his knife, but the blow was redirected into his chest and he was killed.  Wounded, bleeding and unassisted, he carries his lifeless wife out of the bare and stumbles to the house of his only friend, for Harris to get his Mare and trap and take them home.  All of this set in the play, on a Good Friday, and the choice made by the the people back in Jerusalem on the fateful day long ago.

The second radio play, The Sisters, is a Romeo & Juliet style romance set in a small maritime fishing village in New Brunswick, Canada.  The music, was written to match the play by Stan Rogers and hence is another ballad. The story is as much folklore as fiction.  In a nutshell, there are two sisters (one young and vivacious, the other older and less attractive).  The younger sister is being courted in secret (she thinks) by a young lad from the neigbouring village but from a family were the father's had been best friends but had cross words at one point and hence were mortal enemies.  The trysts between the lovers were at night, the lad would row his dory to just outside the harbour, sit in the fog and whistle till his love swam out and climbed into the dory.  The older sister was aware of this and jealous.  On the night the two were going to elope, the older sister rowed her father's dory out of the harbour and whistled, the younger sister began her swim as usual, but the older sister continued to row and whistle out further away from the harbour and continued doing this until the younger one drowned. Meantime the lad from the neighouring village had rowed over, wondered why his whistles were not answered and went to the house via the woods.  The Father calls him out but shoots before he sees whoo it is, killing the boy.  The daughter, back from rowing is confronted as to what she and her sister were doing, confesses to what she has done and in turn is bound, placed in the lad's dory and towed out to the open ocean by her father where she left to drift out to open sea.  The father returns, in his sorrow turns his gun on himself.  The folklore is that the two rocks that are now at the entrance to this small harbour are the bodies of the two sisters turned to hard stone and have taken many a sailor that know not that they are there to his death since.

Actually somewhat depressing stories but Stan Rogers was the ultimate maritime ballader and with his band was able to weave a very good song, in one case to inspire the expanded radio play, the other to set a maritime folk story to music.  A very different and engaging CD released by the CBC and Stan Rogers in 1996.  Original radio broadcast dates were April 1, 1982 (before Good Friday that year) for Harris & The Mare and September 25, 1979 for The Sisters.

Worth a listen if you can find a copy.

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue vinyl: it should be available in Wiltshire! I saw it in Smiths, so it should be in newsagents, and it is in supermarkets, I believe. It's marketed as a magazine.

Clive

joerand posted:

Suzanne Vega. Solitude Standing. On DMM vinyl from 1987. Still my favorite of anything I've heard from SV although I need to sample her "Close-Up" discs. Folks here seem to thoroughly enjoy them.

Yes, Joe.  You should try the Close-Up album. It's delightful.  Solitude Standing remains a lovely album and I still enjoy it. SV does some of the songs from it on Close Up, but in a different style.  Very much worth have both versions.

Mike 

Kevin-W posted:

This. Again. It just gets better with every play. A real classic:

Bought the CD last week and it's sitting there looking at me but I can't quite bring myself to play it yet. I shouldn't be such a wuss!

Has its moments of good and so-so music - and variable recording quality.

WAV stream.

G

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A wonderful set, just listened to symphonies 5 and 6 which are in my opinion under-rated.  The performances are very alive and idiomatic, and the set is cheap, comes with a number of fill-ups.  Worth exploring

With apologies, picture not inserted correctly above, hope this works.  This is the set I was referred to just now.

MDS posted:

Kevin-W posted:

This. Again. It just gets better with every play. A real classic:

Bought the CD last week and it's sitting there looking at me but I can't quite bring myself to play it yet. I shouldn't be such a wuss!

Dive in - it's brilliant!

Got the NS01 to find the download at last, so can now listen to it while I return the LP for (hopefully) an unscratched one. I realise it's mostly left-overs from the H.C.E. album, but still quite enjoyable.