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

Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:

ewemon posted:

Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:

40 years.

 

He had a great live band on the tour I went to see him on. Think there was only about 200 in the audience out of about 1500 seats and we were congoing up and down aisles and at one point on the stage. What a night that was.

You Make me Feel will be in my head all night now.

 

That's one of those pieces you find yourself suddenly thinking of without knowing why! It's simply perfect!

Yeah great single.

Last one for tonight. Have a listen to him Tony you might like him. 

This is due out later this week.

Iron Maiden - Live after Death

I recall having this album on double cassette and playing it continuously on my Sony Walkman purchased from Comet with paper round earnings of £3.00 per week.

Now Playing.......

Guy Clark - Old No. 1

Streaming on TIDAL........  Just a gruff voice, guitar and some lyrics to get through this afternoon. Guy will do just fine.

John Grant - Marz (from Queen of Denmark).

John Grant is single-handedly responsible for some of the most spectacularly beautiful musical moments of my life, recorded and live. This is hypnotic, gentle and lovely...

ewemon posted:

Last one for tonight. Have a listen to him Tony you might like him. 

This is due out later this week.

Cheers, Ewe. Never heard of him but found of couple of albums on Tidal and will keep an eye for this one. Thanks again. 

Amsterdam - Does This Train Stop on Merseyside? (from The Journey).

Played in fond memory of John Peel - this song famously reduced him to tears (although many songs did, of course)...

Continued the journey with the 2nd one

For the right moment good music...

Veronica Falls - Tell Me (from Waiting For Something To Happen)

I read that Patrick Doyle of Veronica Falls (and various other bands) died this month aged only 32. He seems to have been a one-man indie institution. This is a rather fine jangly guitar epitaph.

I was out walking in the mountains today and for some bizarre reason, couldn't get 'Fallen on Hard Times' out of my head...so naturally giving it a listen (along with the rest of the album!).  Streaming CD rip.

But not last the test record!

Having enjoyed one Mary Black album I had to have another. You can't have too much of Mary.

Incidentally, this is my second CD of By The Time It Gets Dark as my first one suffered CD rot after very many years.  This is the only time I've ever experienced this.   

MDS posted:

Having played some Cara Dillon yesterday evening when I likened her to Mary Black, I thought I should play the original. This is one from Mary's early years and one of her best in my view.

That's my wife's favourite of hers, which we first heard in Grahams in London when I was auditioning a NAC82. That was a long time ago.

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing.......

Guy Clark - Old No. 1

Streaming on TIDAL........  Just a gruff voice, guitar and some lyrics to get through this afternoon. Guy will do just fine.

An absolute stonewall classic album.

First play of this CD, which arrived today. Ripped to NS01, streamed through NDS. This is quite a different experience. I realise already that I'm either going to fall in love with it or hate it!

Now playing this; because I saw reindeer in the mountains today and this is mellow enough to see me through to an early night!

Wings  - Back to the Egg.The last Wings album which has a simpler rockier sound ( "Spin It On " is almost punkish ) that is lauded more now than at the time of release.

Alan

Clive B posted:

MDS posted:

Having played some Cara Dillon yesterday evening when I likened her to Mary Black, I thought I should play the original. This is one from Mary's early years and one of her best in my view.

That's my wife's favourite of hers, which we first heard in Grahams in London when I was auditioning a NAC82. That was a long time ago.

Bright Blue Rose is one of my all time favourite songs, a lovely composition from Jimmy McCarthy, Mary sings it perfectly and Declan Sinnott’s guitar work is sensitively beautiful, there’s a line he plays that has brought a tear to my eye more than once.

On a sad note, Thom Moore who wrote Carolina Rua and The Fog in Monterey from No Frontiers died on St Patrick’s Day.

joerand posted:

Filipe posted:

Comment welcome from anyone who knows more about him than me.

Phil, If you enjoyed this one I'd encourage you to explore more of Browne's albums. I consider him among America's most talented songsmiths. He has an endearing voice, thoughtful lyrics, and his albums are well-produced with very good SQ. I have most of JB's albums and ROE is probably the least listened to of the bunch for me, so I'd say go further into his discography. His earlier albums are my most listened to. Cheers!

Agreed well worth exploring JB.... The Pretender an all time classic near perfect album for me...

ChrisR_EPL posted:

Finally succumbed to an itch that needed scratching last week and found a cassette deck on Preloved, a Rotel 955AX. One replacement drive belt (Maplins coming up trumps even if it was over a fiver for a rubber band) and a couple of hours 'working from home' on Friday afternoon stripping it down and swapping the belt + a head clean & demag, has seen it back to decent working order.

What's playing now? Radio 1's Saturday Sequence from September 1989 with Roger Scott, and it's magnificent. Not so much for the sound although it is pretty good - the pile of tapes I've kept for the best part of 30 years were recorded off-air via a NAD tuner (4225 iirc) onto a Technics twin tape deck that had optical auto-reverse timer recording onto both tapes sequentially, so 3 hours recording time. That's enough for a lot of what Radio 1 was putting out at the time, away from the daytime output. Roger Scott knew how to do a programme.

So far on this bit of The Sequence we've had Elton, Buddy Holly, Kirsty MacColl, a Radio One news bulletin complete with the stereo news intro and now it's The Stones and an interview with Stephen Tyler from Aerosmith. The first tape out of the box had a snatch of John Peel on there, a clip from Out On Blue 6 that Mark Radcliffe used to do I think on Monday nights, a bit of R Leicester football commentary from Wembley (1993 play-off v Swindon with the two goals that bought it back from a 0-3 deficit to 3-3) and a bit of a Friday Rock Show. There's also a pile of complete Alan Freeman Saturday Rock Shows, but all from the late 80s not the proper 1973-78 version.

This is going to be enjoyable. The plan always was to record stuff not with a view to hearing it back in the car a few days later at a more convenient time, but exactly this - to dig them out many years later in whatever circumstance I might find myself in and hear them properly. Nice when a plan comes together.

That's brilliant, great story and glad that you are enjoying your old tapes. Last year I got a preloved Sony Walkman Professional WM-D6C and got out my boxes of tapes of old radio concerts  recorded off FM radio and was staggered how good some of them sounded.

Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff, WAV CD rip.

Popped through the door last week, 1st play of the rip. If I understand this, it’s a reperformance of the original Rachmaninoff recordings, taking a digital extract of the originals and using it to drive a piano. The CD has stereo and binaural stereo versions of each. I’m enjoying the playing, but will look for the non-transferred RCA recordings to hear the real thing.

Blurb from the transfer company : 
Zenph Studios takes {original} AUDIO RECORDINGS and turns them back into live performances, precisely replicating what was originally recorded. The Zenph software-based process extracts every musical nuance of a recorded performance and stores the data in a high-resolution digital file. These re-performance files contain every detail of how every note in the composition was played, including pedal actions, volume, and articulation - all with micro-second timings.

The re-performance files are played back on a real acoustic piano fitted with sophisticated computers and hardware, letting the listener "sit in the room" as if he or she were there when the original recording was made. The re-performance is then recorded afresh, using the latest microphones and recording techniques, to modernize monophonic or poor quality recordings of great importance.