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

Last one for tonight, despised by their hardcore fans but a true gem to me;

Kate Bush - Lionheart (1978) - vinyl

Another from the Canal Trust Shop raising funds (£7) for the restoration. Sounding very good and rolling back the years to 1982 when I spent 6 weeks working in Antwerp at Bell Telephone capturing requirements for the configuration of Links and Linksets for CCITT signalling No 5 and 6 for ITT’s System 12 public exchange. I was into Object Oriented Design which became a central part of C++ and Java in the late 1990. We just used data structures to implement in PL1, but I seem to remember it all worked without much hassle less than a year later. 

My family joined me for the last few weeks. The 2nd floor flat we borrowed from a friend on a long assignment with Bell during his summer holiday had lots of Kate Bush cassettes. I don’t know why we hadn’t bought any of her stuff before, but we certainly did after.

Excuse my meanderings, but music is for all of us full of the emotional associations in our lives. 

A year earlier (1981) working on one of the first distributed system designs to exploit the newly invented Ethernet I had been introduced to OOD, and identified the need for what I called synchronous and asynchronous procedures which I needed to support client server distributed applications. We even used OOD for the protocol stacks, including application layer 6. I also used mathematically formal methods (Vienna Development Method of Cliff Jones of Manchester Uni) to specify the Calendar application.

Synchronous procedures emerged about the same time as remote procedure calls. I pointed my then close friend Tim Berners Lee towards the RPC and also Teletex word processing that is behind the electronic document exchange that solicitors were needing. Teletex was characterised by a very rich character set and document formatting. One concept was to be able to display and print identically. A bit like http! Things have come a long way since! 

Phil

In Toulouse airport there is a mini grand piano in the area immediately behind the security area, which is open to the public. I have heard people playing it on a few occasions, but today there was a young girl playing the first Gnossienne among other pieces. I decided to enjoy it again this evening, although it lacks the spontaneity I heard this afternoon.

Stevee_S posted:

seakayaker posted:

Eoink posted:

Seamus Heaney and Liam O’Flynn - The Poet & The Piper, WAV CD rip

Famous Seamus reads his own poems, and Liam O’Flynn adds a haunting piece of music after each ine to illuminate the poem. I love Heaney’s poetry, his reading of these is mellifluous and enlightening, and the playing of the great master piper adds to each work. For poetry lovers only I suppose, but highly recommended to such, wonderful poetry and music, what can go wrong?

I own it and played it recently, actually in the car on a road trip.  

He also released a 15 CD set, Seamus Heaney - Collected Poems (ISBN 978-0-57-124707-3) which features the poems from his first 11 books. No music, unless you find the spoken word in the form of poetry being music ..... with Seamus reading his work it is certainly music to me. 

Thanks, Seakayaker all new to me and something I'll delve into, not sure that i'll go for the whole 15 CD set straight off though!! 

There are plenty of videos to be found on uTube with Seamus reading, to see/hear a sample of his work you can find them here at the Guardian. 

Crusaders - Best of the Crusanders - double LP

Another from the Canal Trust Shop yesterday for £2. I must admit that I got them confused with the Chieftains! Anyway I ended up with some really good jazz music, and it sounds great. The band was best known for its single Street Life Sung by Randy Crawford. 
A1 Put It Where You Want It  - Joe Sample
A2 Stomp And Buck Dance -  Wayne Henderson
A3 Greasy Spoon- Stix Hooper*
A4 Scratch- Wayne Henderson
B1 So Far Away – Carole King
B2 Hard Times – P.F. Mitchell*
B3 So Far Away (Live)  – Carole King
C1 Don't Let It Get You Down – Joe Sample
C2 Keep That Same Old Feeling – Wayne Henderson
C3 That's How I Feel – Wilton Felder
C4 Soul Caravan – Wilton Felder
D1 Chain Reaction – Joe Sample
D2 Ballad For Joe (Louis) – Joe Sample
D3 Do You Remember When – Joe Sample
D4 Way Back Home – S. Hooper*, J. Sample*, L. Carlton*, W. Henderson*, W. Felder*

Wonderful thing serendipity!

Phil

Ese & the Vooduu People - Bootleg Series, Vol. 1  - 16/48 WAV download

1st listen, she’s got a superb voice. The band are good, strong songs, the noise from people in the club is audible, but doesn't distract because the music is so captivating. I’ll give this a proper listen tomorrow when I’m less knackered, but so far I’d say it reinforces my view  after listening to Dynamite, she’s a serious bluesy rocky souly singer, the band is good, they have real potential to go far. 

Filipe posted:

Crusaders - Best of the Crusanders - double LP

Another from the Canal Trust Shop yesterday for £2. I must admit that I got them confused with the Chieftains! 

That must have been a shock when the first track started . Glad you enjoyed it anyway.

Filipe posted:

Crusaders - Best of the Crusanders - double LP

Another from the Canal Trust Shop yesterday for £2. I must admit that I got them confused with the Chieftains! Anyway I ended up with some really good jazz music, and it sounds great. The band was best known for its single Street Life Sung by Randy Crawford. 
A1 Put It Where You Want It  - Joe Sample
A2 Stomp And Buck Dance -  Wayne Henderson
A3 Greasy Spoon- Stix Hooper*
A4 Scratch- Wayne Henderson
B1 So Far Away – Carole King
B2 Hard Times – P.F. Mitchell*
B3 So Far Away (Live)  – Carole King
C1 Don't Let It Get You Down – Joe Sample
C2 Keep That Same Old Feeling – Wayne Henderson
C3 That's How I Feel – Wilton Felder
C4 Soul Caravan – Wilton Felder
D1 Chain Reaction – Joe Sample
D2 Ballad For Joe (Louis) – Joe Sample
D3 Do You Remember When – Joe Sample
D4 Way Back Home – S. Hooper*, J. Sample*, L. Carlton*, W. Henderson*, W. Felder*

Wonderful thing serendipity!

Phil

Phil

You must be in that shop daily .As you have discovered the Crusaders aren't bad at all and if I can recomend to have a listen to the album version of "Street Life" - all 11 minutes  - it has an infectious groove and quality musicianship that will sound fab on your system

Alan

Eoink posted:

Ese & the Vooduu People - Bootleg Series, Vol. 1  - 16/48 WAV download

1st listen, she’s got a superb voice. The band are good, strong songs, the noise from people in the club is audible, but doesn't distract because the music is so captivating. I’ll give this a proper listen tomorrow when I’m less knackered, but so far I’d say it reinforces my view  after listening to Dynamite, she’s a serious bluesy rocky souly singer, the band is good, they have real potential to go far. 

Cheers Eoin. That was in fact their first gig together. Apart from a brief and rather tentative rehearsal the day before, that was their first real meeting. Quite impressive if I do say so myself, there's a real chemistry there. The band and most of the songs have come on in the past 14 months but I still thought it was a gig worth hearing.

I'm just mixing the second in the series (from February '18) as we speak, it'll hopefully be out in a month or so.

Last one for the evening,Rick Wakeman  - Piano Portraits, featuring Rick playing variations on well known pop,rock and classical themes .Not exactly groundbreaking but very enjoyable solo piano.

Alan 

Kevin-W posted:

Eoink posted:

 

Ese & the Vooduu People - Bootleg Series, Vol. 1  - 16/48 WAV download

 

Cheers Eoin. That was in fact their first gig together. Apart from a brief and rather tentative rehearsal the day before, that was their first real meeting. Quite impressive if I do say so myself, there's a real chemistry there. The band and most of the songs have come on in the past 14 months but I still thought it was a gig worth hearing.

I'm just mixing the second in the series (from February '18) as we speak, it'll hopefully be out in a month or so.

That really surprises me Kevin, they were good, and for what was in effect a scratch band at that point, amazingly good. She really can sing.

ALANP posted:

Filipe posted:

Crusaders - Best of the Crusanders - double LP

Another from the Canal Trust Shop yesterday for £2. I must admit that I got them confused with the Chieftains! Anyway I ended up with some really good jazz music, and it sounds great. The band was best known for its single Street Life Sung by Randy Crawford. 

Wonderful thing serendipity!

Phil

Phil

You must be in that shop daily .As you have discovered the Crusaders aren't bad at all and if I can recomend to have a listen to the album version of "Street Life" - all 11 minutes  - it has an infectious groove and quality musicianship that will sound fab on your system

Alan

 

They took nearly 20 boxes of my mother-in-law’s books which we took in two journeys. I seem to be buying up quite a lot of their better vinyl! More to be posted. Will look out for Street Life. They have a very mellow style with good sound effects.

Just playing the first side of DSOTM on vinyl before bed. Took the grills off the speakers earlier, which I forgot to do after the recent visit by grandchildren. Adds detail.  Sounds great.

Phil

Eoink posted:

That really surprises me Kevin, they were good, and for what was in effect a scratch band at that point, amazingly good. She really can sing.

That's very kind. I shall let Ese and the boys know on Friday when I see them.

Now Playing........

Karen Lovely - Still The Rain

Streaming on TIDAL......  Going with the mention from NIGELB & TONYM, placed in the TIDAL Queue and now taking it out for a spin. Right from the first song it grabs your attention and the second track "Sunny Weather" sounds fantastic, great voice and music. Thanks Nigel & Tony!     Nigel I see what you mean by the CD pricing is quite expensive on the river. Will have to keep an eye open in the used shops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb1n3ePUxZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFzyBX3sI7E

Now Playing......

Karen Lovely - Fish Outta Water

Streaming on TIDAL.......  Giving Karen another spin, great vocals .....

E.S.T - Live in Hamburg

Released 2007

Tony2011 posted:

2012 - vinyl...

 

Played that myself yesterday. Duquesne Whistle is such a great track…

Tony2011's post made me play this - You Should Be So Lucky by Benmont Tench, the composer of Duquesne Whistle. A great version on this album as well.

Some early morning jazz.

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Southern Accents. On original vinyl from 1985. Love it for the music and also among the best LPs I own for pure SQ.

1996 - CD (rip)...

Superorganism: Superorganism. 24-bit – 44.10 kHz HD. Download.

The international members of this truly unique band have brought together a fascinating cross pollination of ideas and influences to create an intriguing debut (experimental) album. It will mix opinion I’m sure, but I think its thoroughly refreshing. 

Laura Veirs - Warp and Weft

Inspired by the possibility of Naim introducing a SuperLumina loom so we can make our own audiophile curtains, see elsewhere.