Back from two weeks in France

Thanks Simon and fellow fans of Sandy Denny.     Luckily many, if not most of her recordings are easily available now.    Have any of you heard the "new" album "I've Always Kept a Unicorn"?

As far as taking renewed pleasure in your system following a trip; either for work or pleasure, this is always a nice recognition.    In my experience, it is very easy to access the same sort of feeling, where the posture is one of taking pleasure in what your system offers you by simply making time to listen to it with fresh ears.    For me, this is sometimes easier when I play music I don't yet know well as it can heighten the sense of hearing the music unfold as if happening in real time in my living room, but it can certainly be done with old favorites as well.    I think the key thing is to try to be fully attentive rather than diving back so quickly into the contemporary fixation on multi-tasking, which seems to rob music, like many other things in life, of much of the beauty and grace in the process of trying to do something else.

Good listening, 

Bruce

Bruce, you are right about multi-tasking. For me when I listen to music, that has to be the main focus, and I often shut my eyes to enjoy.. occasionally at most I will watch the news or some other current affairs programme with subtitles only... but that is the extent of it...

GraemeH posted:

Off to SE Majorca in a few days. A holiday and 'the equivalent of a black box upgrade' to look forward too now!

G

free holiday with an upgraded PSU?

bdnyc posted:

Thanks Simon and fellow fans of Sandy Denny.     Luckily many, if not most of her recordings are easily available now.    Have any of you heard the "new" album "I've Always Kept a Unicorn"?

As far as taking renewed pleasure in your system following a trip; either for work or pleasure, this is always a nice recognition.    In my experience, it is very easy to access the same sort of feeling, where the posture is one of taking pleasure in what your system offers you by simply making time to listen to it with fresh ears.    For me, this is sometimes easier when I play music I don't yet know well as it can heighten the sense of hearing the music unfold as if happening in real time in my living room, but it can certainly be done with old favorites as well.    I think the key thing is to try to be fully attentive rather than diving back so quickly into the contemporary fixation on multi-tasking, which seems to rob music, like many other things in life, of much of the beauty and grace in the process of trying to do something else.

Good listening, 

Bruce

 

Hi Bruce, I have the I've always Kept a Unicorn acoustic set, arrived on pre-order on release day. It's a lovely set, as I suggested earlier about the demos album from Boxful of Treasures, the stripped back recordings allow the voice and the songs to shine through. At 40 or so songs, it's a bit to much to listen through in a single sitting, but each CD makes for a fantastic listen. I woudn't use it as my only Sandy set, the band based albums also add a lot, even Rendezvous when you listen past the production. The 5 Classic Albums set if available where you are is a good chep way of getting the 4 studio albums and Gold Dust to supplement the pared back acoustic collection.

(A quick check tells me tthat on vinyl I have the 4 studio albums and Gold Dust, the Original Sandy Denny compilation and the 4 disc Who Knows Where the Time Goes, on CD the 4 studio albums, Gold Dust,  Live at the BBC (3 disc CD/DVD), Boxful of Treasures (5 CD), and Sandy Denny Trevor Lucas the Attic Tracks 1972-1974, as well as the 2 Fotheringay albums on vinyl and the complete Fotheringay CD box set, and lots of Fairport tracks. )

spacey posted:

GraemeH posted:

Off to SE Majorca in a few days. A holiday and 'the equivalent of a black box upgrade' to look forward too now!

G

free holiday with an upgraded PSU?

I wish! (Too many 'o's in 'too' I notice too)

G