What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2017
On the eve of a new year, it's time for a new thread.
Last year's thread can be found here:
Playing on Compact Disc - Nice mellow US Hip Hop from Del La Soul from 1989
Bill Evans - Everybody Digs
I've just been reading one version of how Peace Piece came about from a trance-like state Evans fell into whilst playing the two chord ostinato. It makes reference to Chopin's Berceuse in Db, Opus 57 too. Curiously it doesn't mention Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1, which I am reminded of everytime I hear the piece.
(1970 | 1994)
Trespass
A bit of afternoon Genesis while watching the heavy rains wash away the snow and icy slush...
Now Playing.........
Anouar Brahem - Thimar
Anouar Brahem (oud), John Surman (soprano saxophone, bass clarinet) and Dave Holland (double-bass).
Streaming on NAS........... opening the day with this fantastic trio, rain and cold outside, warm and sunny inside........... sweet!
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
This had long been my all time favourite album. That was until I got the triple CD set, which places all the music in the set order as played on the day. However, I was impatient to hear the piece, My Foolish Heart, which is placed as the opening track on this album. Divinely gorgeous in every respect, even the noises from the audience, which I have concluded didn't realise that it was present at the pinnacle of piano trio achievement.
Playing on Compact Disc - Good infusion of Hip Hop and Jazz featuring the artsts on the cover
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January 1972 - Listening to the Quartet in B-flat Major, K589 from the CD box set.
Beak - >>>
Now playing..........
Anouar Brahem - Le Voyage de Sahar
Anouar Brahem (oud), François Couturier (piano) and Jean-Louis Matinier (accordion).
Streaming on NAS........ continuing on with Anouar with another terrific trio this Tuesday morning! ........ different member of the trio with different instruments but the same result......... sweet music!
Fine for a miserable wet day
Playing on Cassette on Maxell ULS C60 - Great album by San Franscisco's Flaming Groovies from 1976 with Dave Edmunds producing.
Original Vinyl:
Playing on Compact Disc - It's dark outside and windy and raining hard what better than being teleported to the heat and sun of a fine day in Mali 
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A great blues album.
A brilliant Barry White album. Be careful as there are a couple of versions of this album with different songs. The original cd used to go for a lot of money.
Tabby cat posted:Playing on Compact Disc - It's dark outside and windy and raining hard what better than being teleported to the heat and sun of a fine day in Mali
Great album.
Who says men can't multi task as this is playing in one room and in another I am working on debut album for some friends that is due out next year sometime.
(1975)
Scheherazade and Other Stories
One of those that has just caught my eye in the virtual library, It's been a long while since I listened to this album by Renaissance (their opus magnum?) ably aided and abetted by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Another one I have had for a while - not sure I have listened to it all before
She did have the voice of an angel !?
Again lovely on a miserable wet day!
From that brilliant SHM-CD box set, which has a lot of fans on this forum, the first album.
From Zep's first album to their last. This is an odd one, and album that divides opinion. It's completely different from all their other albums, which is why I like it.
That, and the fact that it's so... weird (my favourite track here, the epic "Carouselambra", was certainly the strangest thing they ever recorded)."All My Love" is the most heartfelt thing they (Plant) ever did, but something strikingly at odds with the rest of the canon. "Hot Dog" is a stinker, perhaps the worst thing thing in the catalogue, and "South Bound Suarez" isn't much better.
Apart from "In the Evening" and "I'm Gonna Crawl", Page is barely present - this is really JPJ's album, and his keyboard and bass playing is monster throughout (the bounce he gets on "Carouselambra" is just unbelievable).
Perhaps that's why it sounds so out of kilter with the rest of the canon. One thing that unites it with the rest of the Zep albums, however, is the sheer magnificence of Bonzo's drumming, nowhere more so than on the superb (but criminally under-rated) "Fool In the Rain", where he puts in a simply-jaw dropping drumming masterclass.
Another Japanese SHM-CD.