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;
Arild Andersen, bass
Ralph Towner, guitars
Nana Vasconcelos, percussion
Audun Kleive, snare drum
On vinyl.
CD sounds excellent, some great music on this one. Great movie too!
One more, an oldie but a goldie!
A+ | Transcoded DSD
(2009)
Some good Berlin School electronica with lots of synthesiser sounds going on, well put together so as to be both relaxing and interesting.
Jim Croce. You Don't Mess Around With Jim. On early original vinyl from 1972. Funky American folk-based pop with wonderful SQ. Full of acoustic timbre and those tight, tuneful, bouncy bass lines that summon the PRaT.
BBC Radio 4 Front Row and then The Film Programme podcasts...
Hungryhalibut posted:I love this, Bach as jazz. Sounds like it would be crap, but it isn't.
I believe Jacques Loussier made a career out of playing Bach (jazzed) ?
dave marshall posted:ewemon posted:ewemon posted:dave marshall posted:ewemon posted:
HQ files. SQ is still not great but better than the cd.
Ewen,
Is it just my ears, or do some of the tracks (ripped CD version), appear to be in mono?
If so, this might explain the perceived poor SQ versus raw excitement of old, depending on which side of the fence one sits, re. The Stones.
So, it's either my imagination, or, if it truly is in mono, I'm just a bit slower to grasp what is obvious to everyone else.
Only been listening to it on my computer system at the moment . Will give it a closer listen tomorrow when I have more time Dave and let you know.
Soory Dave didn't manage to get a proper listen to it today as I babysitting my God Daughter who is 7 and when I put the album on I got told it was rubbish and could I take it off. SWMBO in the making.
Oh dear, trust you managed to play something more appealing to a 7 year old SWMBO ................ some Chicago Blues, perhaps?
Katie Perry on youtube.
Last Friday Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith hosted her first show of many more on NTS Radio live in LA.
Mixcloud (opens with Delia Derbyshire) - https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRa...h-2nd-december-2016/
Chrissie Hynde - "Stockholm" (2014)
DenisA posted:
Last Friday Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith hosted her first show of many more on NTS Radio live in LA.
Mixcloud (opens with Delia Derbyshire) - https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRa...h-2nd-december-2016/
Just found the Tracklist
Delia Derbyshire-Bachs Air (Extended)
Untitled-Untitled
Felix Laband-Savage Bush Hotel
Haruomi Hosono/ Tadanori Yokoo-Hum Ghar Sajan
Joe Hisaishi-A Ring Of The Air
Susumu Yokota-Kawano Hotorino Kinoshitade
Clifford White-The Rainbow Makers
John Wizards-Finally/Jet Up
Etoile de Dakar-Banana
Bernie Krause-Trout from Ipanema
Joe Hisaishi-A Virgin And The Pipe-Cut Man
Stereolab-Margerine Melodie
Isao Tomita-Crescent Moon
Barbatuques-Baiao Destemperado
Raymond Scott-Portofino 2
Erica Azim-Mbavarira
Nobuo Uematsu-Dogs On The Beach
Ghostwriters-Rococo Rondo
Otto Sieben-Untitled
Isao Tomita-Arabesque No. 1
Raymond Scott-Portofino 1
Lino Capra Vaccina-Antico Adagio
Walter Carlos-Two Part Invention No. 4 In D Minor
Ray Lynch-Celestial Soda Pop
Roberto Cacciapaglia-Sei Note In Logica
Tomita-Passepied
Ponyo Soundtrack-Flight of Ponyo
Suzanne Doucet-Shiva’s Dance
David Berman-On The Other Ocean
Future Islands - "Singles" (2014)
A+ | Tidal
(June 3rd)
I'm a latecomer to his new album but having my first listen now.
On CD:-
Katie Melua - In Winter
John Murray - The Graceless Age. CD rip.
Dark Americana.
"John Murry's would be a compelling story had he never made a record – grandson of William Faulkner, an addict who lost his wife and child and home, and almost his life, before cleaning up. And then you get to the record. The Graceless Age is extraordinary, a profound and moving meditation – the kind of album that answers questions you didn't realise you were asking. Musically, it's hardly unfamiliar – weeping Americana, backed with fuzzes of electric guitar and organ that slide in and out of focus, discomfiting and discombobulating – but expertly done. Lyrically, though, it's remarkable: brutal, frank and beautiful. Through stories that are partly his own – the centrepiece, Little Colored Balloons, ends with Murry's overdose ("I took an ambulance ride – they said I should've died, right there on 16th and Mission") – Murry invests the South with a necromantic realism, where decay is the one constant, but he somehow avoids self-pity or lachrymosity. I don't expect to hear a better album this year." Guardian Review.
Cheery stuff !
Spoon - "They Want My Soul" (2014)
A+ | Tidal
(1977)
Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey: Going Back Home. I'd forgotten just how good this is!
A+ | Transcoded DSD
(1993)
Their rather fab debut album Vemod which gave more than a nod to the early King Crimson sound, yet this is no KC rip off they have their own sound too, they play well and know how to rock or jazz it up.
Howard Eliot Payne - "Bright Light Ballads" (2009)