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:
A collection of the great Argentinian's finest themes, on 1996 German vinyl.
Now Playing.......
Aoife O'Donovan - In The Magic Hour
Streaming on TIDAL....... Taking this out for a spin, this Aoife 2016 album release, she is new to me an exploring what I can find of her releases. Enjoying her work......
Time for a vinyl workout for the great Chris forsyth and his Solar Motel Band's latest offering:
Something relaxing and ethereal from the Cocteau Twins from 1984 to round off the work this afternoon. Playing on Compact Disc
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Misha Mengelberg - Solo
I find it difficult to desribe this music. I guess it is a mix between jazz and modern classical music (like Schoenberg). When you listen to this music you will hear the style of Keith Jarrett (when he is improvising) and Theloniuos Monk. And some classical influences. And in the last track I thought I heard of tiny bit of Ellington. This music does not work as background music. You really need to listen. But when you do this becomes rewarding.
Listening to Misha Mengelberg play solo piano is like eavesdropping on a highly subversive mind at work. Everything is laid bare. Unlike Keith Jarrett, who endeavors to find a flow in solo-improvising, Mengelberg sets up expectations, then delights in sabotaging them. What starts out as a jaunty folk song of the sort one finds in a child's piano method book, "Koekoek" suddenly sprouts "wrong" notes, then collapses into crunching thumps. "Bill Evans in Dán begins, appropriately, with an oceanic pull but devolves into scary fits of isolation. Difficult, knotty, contradictory, and disjunctive, Mengelberg is suspicious of any sort of music making that creates or sustains illusions. Like an abstract painter, he wants you to see that a line is a line, not a figure or a face. Yet there is a passion -- and playfulness -- running beneath this often atonal and dissonant astringency that, if given the chance, inexorably draws the careful listener in. Technically, Mengelberg's blunt attack and clanging tone, as well as his teetering rhythmic hesistations, are inspired by Thelonious Monk. Yet he also has developed a lightly skittering, oblique keyboard approach all his own, one that suggests subconscious trains of thought rising to the surface or knocking on the side doors. Solo is one of Mengelberg's finest albums, and a grand introduction to one of the cleverest minds in jazz.
1969 - vinyl - UK first pressing...
(1979)
The late lamented Gary Moore Back on the Streets complete with all those great old rock n' blues ballads and rockers he played so very well.
North Mississippi Allstars - World Boogie Is Coming.
Turning into something of a bluesfest here today, and what better than this album of Hill Country blues?
It takes you right back to the origins of the blues, with everything from heavily amped electric guitars to fife and drum hollers.
Highly recommended, and since it's on Tidal, why not have a listen .............. oh, and turn it UP! 
I seem to have a thing for one-sided vinyl LPs today. Here's Yello live in NYC, on an original 1984 German pressing.
dave marshall posted:
Martin Scorsese Presents : The Blues.
Watching this seven film boxset of the history of blues music ............... a "must see" for all blues fans, (you know who you are).
Posting this also in the music thread, since, surprise, surprise, it's got some great music to listen to.
Indeed great!
I always enjoy your album cover photos, Gianluigi, happy listening to you in 2018. 
Stevee_S posted:I always enjoy your album cover photos, Gianluigi, happy listening to you in 2018.
Thanks Stevee! Happy music to you too!
Art Pepper - Intensity
An old favourite of mine that I've had for more than 20 years and know inside out. But I never get bored with it. One of Mary's best.
Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:dave marshall posted:
Martin Scorsese Presents : The Blues.
Watching this seven film boxset of the history of blues music ............... a "must see" for all blues fans, (you know who you are).
Posting this also in the music thread, since, surprise, surprise, it's got some great music to listen to.
Indeed great!
And + 1 more. Well made, each disc a different approach to the subject and packed with great music. I often return especially to ‘Red, White and Blues’ for the new light it throws on a variety of great artists, in particular, Jeff Beck, Van Morrison and Tom Jones and why they are so good at what they do.
(1972)
Family - Bandstand
This one is an extended reissue (2007) which has not been overly compressed or loudness biased and adds three great live tracks: No Mule's Fool, Good News - Bad News & The Weavers Answer.
dave marshall posted:
Martin Scorsese Presents : The Blues.
Watching this seven film boxset of the history of blues music ............... a "must see" for all blues fans, (you know who you are).
Posting this also in the music thread, since, surprise, surprise, it's got some great music to listen to.
Blimey, that's a good shout, Dave.
Continuing on the Yello kick. Original 1986 UK vinyl:
dave marshall posted:
North Mississippi Allstars - World Boogie Is Coming.
Turning into something of a bluesfest here today, and what better than this album of Hill Country blues?
It takes you right back to the origins of the blues, with everything from heavily amped electric guitars to fife and drum hollers.
Highly recommended, and since it's on Tidal, why not have a listen .............. oh, and turn it UP!
Great choice Dave. Suspect this album might be a bit hardcore for some, but agree it’s worth letting it persuade you. A fine band and Luther Dickinson in particular is a guitarist of consummate good taste.
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn (1972) - Vinyl
Another from the Canal Trust Shop. I believe it’s from their prog rock phase. Sounding very good, and I’m sure I’m going to be playing it a lot more.
I have Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Could anyone give recommendations for others.
Phil
