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;
Heavy rock......................played LOUD!
If you like either The Black Keys or The White Stripes, these two chaps are right up your strasse.
dave marshall posted:
Heavy rock......................played LOUD!
If you like either The Black Keys or The White Stripes, these two chaps are right up your strasse.
I like that album. Very nice.
spurrier sucks posted:Clutch-Earth Rocker
Lemmy lives!
Well, sort of, I've just given it a quick blast on the Tube, will Tidalise it when Royal Blood finishes..........again LOUDLY!
Good shout from across the Pond. 
dave marshall posted:spurrier sucks posted:Clutch-Earth Rocker
Lemmy lives!
Well, sort of, I've just given it a quick blast on the Tube, will Tidalise it when Royal Blood finishes..........again LOUDLY!
Good shout from across the Pond.
If you like it then check out Crowbar, Corrosion of Confomity and Down.
dave marshall posted:
Heavy rock......................played LOUD!
If you like either The Black Keys or The White Stripes, these two chaps are right up your strasse.
Oh, yes! That's an album that can only be played loud. Best reserved for when the neighbours are out.
Never a great recording (nothing unusual for U2) but this is an album that just reveals more as the playback system gets better.
SQ aside this is still great music. 
CD rip. Inspired by seeing this one mentioned earlier
Which I don't have and it's not on Tidal (grrr..) so it was essential to splash out £2 at the usual place.
This is yet another fine example of Kenny Barron's superb chops in a small-group setting. A recent arrival from Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xu1YsPIAuQ
A+ | Transcoded DSD
(2007)
Time for some of those rocking blues done nicely on the acoustic.
Claude Debussy: Alexei Lubimov (Piano),
Préludes, Book 1 | Préludes, Book 2 | Nocturnes (3) for Orchestra (2nd piano Alexei Zuev) | Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1st piano Alexei Zuev)
A wonderful musical experience for me every time. I sometimes forget how lucky I am. I have found most of the composers who wrote specifically for solo piano and chamber music involving a piano and my next favorite thing (a cello) and who gave me perfect music to live with. Next to the music itself, I just cannot get enough of the sound of a beautiful piano and / or string instrument. The combination leaves me wanting nothing else in this life. The only earthly thing that has not nor could ever let me down.
An old promo ep originally given away at concerts but then later released.
A boot I got sometime ago from the old Hip fans site.
Definitely in a proggy mood today. Lending this an ear.
G
Acoustic blues from one of my favourite artists, Joe B, mentioned by STEEVE_S above, so here's some more, again, one of my top chaps.
Van Der Graaf Generator 'Pawn Hearts'
Getting extreme now. 250DR coping admirably.
G
Tidal - I play this so often I really should download it in Hi Res.
Borders Nick posted:
Tidal - I play this so often I really should download it in Hi Res.
I think that you should too 
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Vinyl
Streaming Qobuz 16/44.1/MBP/A2+
Erich posted:
Streaming Qobuz 16/44.1/MBP/A2+
Lovely to see her being played here Erich, she was a heartthrob of mine when I was living and working in Cairo in the late 70s.
Mendelssohn is known as a precocious, but light-hearted composer; but in most of his chamber works and some of his larger scale works as well, there is a lot of unrest, sweeping drama, self-doubt, and other wonderfully arch-romantic self-centered misery. The Escher String Quartet digs into these works with bare teeth and claws outstretched, and like in the earlier volumes of this series, leave me in no doubt that Mendelssohn was perhaps the greatest composer for string quartets after Schubert and before Bartok.
Cheers
EJ
One of my favourite Dire Straits albums.