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;
Neil Cowley Trio - Radio Silence. I'm having a Cowley resurgence this evening. When I run out of Neil Cowley tracks, I'm going to wind down with Tord Gustavsen.
On vinyl...
2016 reissue, on 45rpm vinyl...
A gamble, but attracted to the cover! CDR from hires download (the hires is a bit of a waste as I downsample to redbook, but at small extra outlay I figure I can do at least as good a job as the studios themselves, and retain flexibility to play hires files over USB if I want)
cheers,
EJ
Bill Deasy - "Spring Lies Waiting" (2000)
A+ | Transcoded DSD
(8th January)
Prog rules !
Quite impressed with this one on repeated playing - the vocalist does sound uncannily like Peter Gabriel (someone's going to tell me it is Peter Gabriel ...)
2003 - Tidal...
Forgot how good this album is.
A guilty pleasure. Generally considered as too commercial but "Vigil" still gives me goosebumps ever since I heard it on Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show in the late 70s.
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Raising Sand" (2007)
Slim68 posted:MDS posted:apye! posted:
On vinyl...
Love that album. Indeed I think it might be her best.
This is the only Tori Amos album I own and it is a cracker.
Agreed, Silent All these Years and Precious Things still give me goosebumps now, brilliant
Borders Nick posted:
Prog rules !
Quite impressed with this one on repeated playing - the vocalist does sound uncannily like Peter Gabriel (someone's going to tell me it is Peter Gabriel ...)
...his twin brother .....
EJS posted:
A gamble, but attracted to the cover! CDR from hires download (the hires is a bit of a waste as I downsample to redbook, but at small extra outlay I figure I can do at least as good a job as the studios themselves, and retain flexibility to play hires files over USB if I want)
cheers,
EJ
And what is the verdict. Was quite pleased with his earlier album ?
Peter Gabriel Scratch my Back
A+ | Transcoded DSD
(2015)
One half of a pair of albums (the other being Perihelion), this one produced used digital instruments as opposed to the other's analogue. A lovely 30 minute, four track release of Berlin School electronica by excellent modern day English exponents.
A+ | Tidal
(1990)
Via the wonders of Tidal I'm trying this RT album for the first time, not one of his best but listenable nonetheless.