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;
"New York native and avant-garde composer Morton Feldman composed this work just two years before his death in 1987, and it haunts the listener into a prism of melancholy. Shifting, unsettling, and yet every bit hypnotic, pianist Aki Takahashi and the world-renowned Kronos Quartet conjure up the ghost of Feldman to wander the streets of New York as if they were abandoned. This single piece, over 79 minutes in length, is like an icy flower that blooms almost undetected. Takahashi is so delicate on the piano as to whisper quiet clusters of notes, reverberated by the Kronos Quartet for further contemplation. Feldman often preferred his performances and recordings to be very quiet, almost inaudible at times. Truly, it would make no sense to play a Feldman piece at volume ten on the stereo -- it would be like shining huge spotlights on a Rothko painting. The beauty is in the shadows, and the chill of "Piano and String Quartet" opens it's vast arms and pulls the listener in alongside the darkness. Breathtaking." (ALLMUSIC)
King Crimson - Islands
On vinyl. Discs 3 and 4 tonight.
dav301 posted:On CD:-
Absolutely love this. For George Duke/Jazz funk aficionados this is a must. More jazzy than funk, but that is how I like it.
Nice tip dav301. 
Trying out som forte piano. Sometimes it's more special then the normal piano, but overall more difficult to appareciate for me...
(2010)
Klyde posted:Nice one Kevin. I'm listening to "The Pearl", by Harold Budd and Brian Eno now, on Tidal. Rather higher than "ambient" volume. Tape hiss and overdubs are quite apparent, and the insect sounds on "Stream with Bright Fishes", are as I've never heard them before. The piano notes seem to fade into infinity on this album.
Harold Budd is a great one for having those piano notes float and fade off into infinity, lovely.
I may have aged (only a bit though) over the 25 years since this came out, but it still sounds as fresh as the day i first heard it.
1st run....
A+ | Transcoded DSD
(2006)
Because one Harry Manx wasn't enough.
"Quality music delivered honestly and with skill. This album contains an honest and fresh blend of different musical traditions... yet with none of the snobbery of many east-meets-west explorations. The blues elements are true, gritty and 'straight out of the delta'... the indian ragas are deep, soulful and full of integrity." ~ Some Blurb
"To capture the true feel of Harry Manx's music, this project was recorded live in the studio with only harmonica and the occasional guitar solo overdub. Harry Manx lap slide guitar, Mohan Veena, harmonica and vocals "I'm a blues player mostly…but…India always finds her way into my music..She wants to seduce me..to make welcome one of her sweet ragas..and I do make her welcome" ~ More Blurb
A fine recording...
Another great recording of this trio....
As usual difficult to access will need a couple of runs more...
A+ | Tidal
(2003)
Just finished listening to my last one of Harry's played this morning, recorded live in Canada it has a really nice feel to it in front of an appreciative audience, a good mix of his earlier music, blues and ragas, via Tidal.
On CD:-
Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost