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;
Naim Gary posted:CD rip : WAV. I know it's been remastered, but it always amazes me how music recorded 50 years ago can still sound so good.
Borders Nick posted:
Great album Borders Nick. I have it on vinyl and love taking it for a spin.
Love the opening track of 'Remember'. It so puts me in a happy mood.
Have you tried his Workout? The almost same lineup as Soul Station but add Grant Green's mellow guitar work and snappy Philly Joe Jone's drums substitutes previous Art Blakey.
Perlman/Barenboim: Mozart Violin Sonata No.32 K.454 1990 recording
Sensively played and both soloists behaving extremely polite try not to step on each other’s toe. Somehow it does not have much fun or less rapport than I expect from this duo. An even mix between violin and piano but the final movement gets a tad too busy.
Moravec/Turnovsky/Vienna Symphony: Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 1963 recording
This whole box set dedicated to Moravec's Beethoven repertoire but the only performance I really liked was this Op.58.
Sensitive, emotional and delicate. Excellent micro details and attention to small details for placing notes. Maintaining clarity and lucidity throughout yet never gets over romantic and he knows when to be incisive. A good timing and pacing. He gets the proper dynamic contrasts. Warm and spacious orchestra with a lot of strings instrument textures.
One of the most natural sounding recording for realistic tonal colour plus excellent frequency extensions top and bottom to get that deep tone of Bösendorfer. Piano is close mic'd but there's enough ambience for hall acoustics to create a spacial illusion. There is absolutly no peak or distortion of any kind in this pressing.
Eric Clapton. Unplugged. Original CD from 1992. One of my favorite live performances. Reading the Wikipedia page, this has sold an astounding 26 million copies!
Some Texas Red Dirt Country music this morning.
I still don't like it that much....
(1971)
Tidal HF
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(2012)
Modern old school Berlin that's quite dark in places, Mark Lawler who is "Arcane" always does a great job of capturing the feel of 70's Tangerine Dream like sounds.
Original vinyl...
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(2015)
Lighter themed and more uptempo than "a tale of unease".
Raise! by EW&F, on 1981 Japanese vinyl. Boogie on down!
Tidal...
kuma posted:Naim Gary posted:CD rip : WAV. I know it's been remastered, but it always amazes me how music recorded 50 years ago can still sound so good.
Borders Nick posted:
Great album Borders Nick. I have it on vinyl and love taking it for a spin.
Love the opening track of 'Remember'. It so puts me in a happy mood.
Have you tried his Workout? The almost same lineup as Soul Station but add Grant Green's mellow guitar work and snappy Philly Joe Jone's drums substitutes previous Art Blakey.
Just gave it a spin on Tidal - more great stuff - another for the wish list. Cheers
Played this in the car earlier & now on the main system. Love the dirty guitar sound and the lyrics eg "Romeo Rodriguez squares His shoulders and curses Jesus, Runs a comb through his black pony-tail" CD rip : WAV
EW&F Gratitude, double vinyl. A couple of boring ballads, but mostly state-of-the-art funk-soul-jazz.
In the same sleazy vein as my last post 
. CD rip
Streaming | WAV
(1971)
Listening to Abel Ganz very fine self titled prog album yesterday evening with its Canterbury set undertones prompted me to add this classic from Caravan to the playlist.
Prompted by Steve's post, on original vinyl.
CD rip - WAV
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(1988)
Not one I play much these days but it's a good live double album and one that takes me back to seeing them on this tour when they were in New York in '89 at the Nassau Coliseum.