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

Just  a ..brilliant album from Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder - The guitar playing on Amandrai is fabulous - they really stretch out on that one.Playing on Compact Disc

Before - nice album...

Eoink posted:

Minh Nguyen posted:

dave marshall posted:

Eoink posted:

Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan  In Session WAV CD rip.

 

 

 Naim can be so revealing wherefore some recordings sound lacklustre compared to really finely refined recordings. It's sometimes really difficult for me to appreciate a recording unless it really grabs me by the gonads. I'd really appreciate your honest opinion.

 I’d been so dragged into the music I hadn't thought of SQ. Eoin.

Spot on.  Then regardless of what brand or specific equipment pieces someone has chosen, they have a great system.  I couldn't live with a system that made music I love sound bad.  And I wouldn't listen to a refined recording of music I don't care for, regardless of what system makes it sound great.  My weakness perhaps.  If a revealing system makes music you love sound bad, then you have a choice.  In that scenario, I choose listening to music I love every time.

Superb-sounding 2-CD, 1BD collection of Doors 45s.

Reba McEntire If You See Him enjoyable.

2013 - Tidal...

Nice relaxing music...

Leo Parker - Let me tell you 'bout it.

A few days ago I bought a second hand best of blue note CD boxset. It contains this CD bij Leo Parker. I had never heard of him before. But is's good jazz from the golden period of the Blue Note label.

This session (reissued on CD) was a comeback record of sorts for Leo Parker. Briefly one of the leading bebop baritone saxophonists (and an alumnus of Billy Eckstine's legendary orchestra), Parker shifted to rhythm and blues in the early 1950's and then mostly dropped out of sight until he recorded this set. After cutting a second album, he died of a heart attack at age 36 on Feb. 11, 1962. A guttural player who emphasized the lower register of the baritone and was influenced by Illinois Jacquet, Parker (who is joined by obscure sidemen) sounds in top form during his varied program which includes several hard swingers, the gospellish funk of the title cut and two selections not on the original LP: "The Lion's Roar" and a second version of "Low Brown."

Cara Dillion, as recommended by a couple of people last weeks CD turned up this morning ripped into the Core superb album.

2002 - CD...

Just in the mood for some more British folk music. Her husband produced the Carrivick Sisters’s above album. 

There's nothing like a bit of dead when you're working. On CD:

(1970)

King Crimson's Lizard to brighten up the afternoon. 

The Corries - Live a Live O - vinyl

A trip down memory lane. One of the great thing about Edinburgh was the regular live folk singing in the pubs of the sixties. Beer was somewhat restricted to Tenants Lager, McKewans Export and Newcastle Brown. I’m sure I must have gone to one of their concerts and bought this LP which is in immaculate condition, and sounding amazing. The Scots were very passionate about their history much immortalised in their folk songs.  Worth a listen if you can find it.

I’ve been playing vinyl today on the demo 252, and I must say Carol King - Tapestry , The Chieftains - Bonaparte Retreat, Clannad - Legend, Macalla, and now the Corries are sounding mighty fine. Better than the 282 with more body to the notes.

Phil

Now Playing......

Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers - Levitate

Streaming on NAS.......  Finished the day with a Bruce Hornsby album and enjoyed it quite a bit, so I decided to start the day with another....... Sounding mighty fine!

Love this album from The Byrds from 1967 - Playing on Vinyl on the CBS label

Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand - 16-bit CD Rip.

Their debut album and what a disc of pure energy it is! Easily understandable why it won the Mercury Music Prize gong for 2004.

Now Playing........

Bruce Hornsby - Big Swing Face

Streaming on TIDAL.......  When your enjoying something, why not keep on going?  I am enjoying Bruce's music at the moment......nice!

Lee Konitz - Live in Europe / meets Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker & Bill Evans.

This music was recorded in TV studio in Paris in 1965 before an audience. The sound quality is not that good. On two tracks it's just poor. However, the music is good. But not special (unlike what you might expect given the line up).

One of THE great live albums. On CD. Love how Jerry's guitar just SOARS about seven minutes into "Dark Star"...

Eoink posted:

naim_nymph posted:

 

 

Being musically eclectic can sometimes have the head scratching dilemma of deciding which genre one is needing to hear, and having worked this out for tonight; something suitably classical... the need to choose what exactly... i've been meaning to revisit some works of Haydn sometime soon SNIP

Debs

An ex-girlfriend of mine was browsing my record collection on her first visit to my place, and was making  light-heartedly disparaging comments about the random mix of genres. I claimed it was eclectic, to which she said “Eclectic, a wide range of no taste.” One of my favourite lines of all time. 

That's a good one, which I must remember to use at an appropriate opportunity. Presumably she used it again when she became your ex? 

(2015)

KAUAN - Sorni Nai

A powerful menacing and melancholy prog rock album that tries to capture the horror and terror of the still unexplained, mysterious, brutal deaths that befell a group of 9 very experienced ski-trekkers who were on a university expedition in the Dyatlov pass in the Urals at the start of February 1959. 

This was preceded by a very passable cover of The Floyd's Breathe, also by Kauan who are a prog rock/prog metal outfit from Kiev that I've been following for a few years now. 

Clive B posted:

bishopla posted:

Pink Floyd - Animals

Released 1977

One of my favourite PF albums. Despite having the original vinyl release as well as an early CD copy, I don’t get a satisfactory sound - it always seems slightly occluded as if it were being played behind curtains.  

The 'Discovery' CD version is pretty good, Clive

Stevee_S posted:

(1970)

King Crimson's Lizard to brighten up the afternoon. 

That has remained my favourite KC album for many years. 

Thought I'd remind myself of how good this album is while I thaw out and think about cooking dinner