What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)

Playing on Vinyl on Ichiban Records 2006 - Fabulous Blues from the late Gary B.B Coleman - The Sky is Crying is bloody brilliant.

A splendid version, with the late great Montserrat Figueras : (

Pat Kelley - Moonlight Dance

Sherman Robertson - I'm The Man.

1968 - US first pressing...

Nice album

Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin, I was reminded of this whilst discussing the drink of the same name 

Bert Schurink posted:

Nice album

 

very good album, from bandcamp on 24 bit.   I share with you Bert.

Now Playing.......

June Tabor - Angel Tiger

Streaming on TIDAL.........  Going with a mention from CLIVE B above and taking June out for a spin, and agree with Clive that June has an "exquisite voice" and the music accompanying her fantastic. One sweet album!

Duke Ellington - And His Mother Called Him Bill

I started with the Duke, I shall end with the Duke. But I might just squeeze the Far East Suite in before retiring.

Rainbow: Long Live Rock and Roll, Back in Black reissue.

New highs but lacks lows. 

Cleaner but hardly crisp and ultra dynamic.

Shame. Love the lyrics and the melodies. 

RB on his medieval folk rock quest prior to Blackmore's Night.

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'  and this concludes tonight's listening. 

Brian Eno - Ambient 1     Music For Airports

The end of a great evening.

Nick Lees posted:

If you made The Beatles up in a story, people would say it’d be ridiculous that they could come up with what they did in those few years...and then follow that up with another three amazing ones. 

And still you come across the odd swivel-eyed loon that will claim they were overrated.

Nick, as (I think) Danny Baker once said, if anything, The Beatles are underrated. I'm sure there are people who think they're being clever by saying the Fabs are "overrated" but most sentient beings will think they're either deaf or just being foolish.

French Rooster posted:

yes, the sound quality is average.   You wrote «   nous avons beaucoup travaillé pour que la qualité sonore soit excellente «   ( we worked hard to get a very good sound quality ).

You are from the bandcamp stuff?   or you just reported what they wrote ?       I appreciate bandcamp, Ese, and a lot of their albums.   But my download of this album ( only one tune) is not sounding very good.  Curious..      The other albums i downloaded from bandcamp have excellent sound quality.

That is very disappointing to hear [@mention:56335183628232089]. I do not work for Bandcamp but I am Ese's co-manager and I run a record company. We spent a lot of time and money making sure the sound quality was as good as it could possibly be.

We recorded "Silver Spoon" and all other tracks on the album live (apart from a couple of vocal overdubs due to excessive drum spill) with some very skilled engineers and a very good producer at one of London's best studios (RAK) on a Studer A800 MkIII 24-track analogue tape machine, through a 1976 analogue API console. The album was mastered using 1950s/60s Decca, Studer, Maselec and Telefunken gear to give it a very full sound. No ProTools anywhere to be seen (or heard)!

The album was cut on a 1967 Haeco Scully lathe and is being pressed at Optimal in Germany (Europe's best pressing plant). I haven't had a test pressing yet, but all the songs - including "Silver Spoon" - sounded stunning in the studio; at Gearbox Records' mastering lab; and at home on 24/96 through my system: very "beefy and rich and chunky", as we English would say.

You should have the option to buy a high-res 24/96 FLAC from Bandcamp, and it's also on Tidal.

The album which opened for me the door to Roland Hanna's world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0whroGzImg