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:
An afternoon of Jump, Jive, Swing blues.
William Bell - This Is Where I Live
Somehow William Bell manages to bring old school Soul right up to date with this one. Great voice, memorable choons and decent SQ. if you like your Soul with a bluesy edge, you will love this.
On vinyl...
Put your hands together for this...
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I was on my way to the Colour of Spring but stopped here instead. The brilliant Spirit of Eden.
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
nickpeacock posted:Drikus posted:Brian Eno / John Cale - Wrong Way Up
Both Brian Eno and John Cale have always flirted with conventional pop music throughout their careers, while reserving the right to go off on less accessible experiments, which means they've always held out the promise that they would make something as attractive as this synthesizer-dominated collection, on which Eno comes as close to the mainstream as he has since Another Green World and Cale is as catchy as he's been since Honi Soit. The result is one of the best albums either one has ever made.
Loving this. That song ‘The River’ - it’s in a film or TV programme, right? But which one?
Maybe you meant By This River from his 1977 album Before And After Science which appears on the brilliant Y Tu Mama Tambien movie.
GraemeH posted:
Put your hands together for this...
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I’ll just tap my foot if I may.
Now Playing.......
Hommage À Eberhard Webber
Eberhard Weber (electric bass, synthesizer [from tape]), Pat Metheny (guitars), Jan Garbarek (soprano saxophone), Gary Burton (vibraphone), Scott Colley (double bass), Danny Gottlieb (drums), Paul McCandless (English horn, soprano saxophone), Klaus Graf (alto saxophone), Ernst Hutter (euphonium), SWR Big Band: Michael Gibbs )conductor), Helge Sunde (conductor), Nemanja Jovanovic (trumpet, flugelhorn), Felice Cititareale (trumpet, flugelhorn), Karl Farrent (trumpet, flugelhorn), Marting Auer (trumpet, flugelhorn), Rudi Reindl (trumpet, flugelhorn), Marc Godfroid (trombone), Ernst Hutter (trombone, euphonium), Ian Cummings (trombone), Georg Maus (bass trombone), Klaus Graf (alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet), Matthias Erlewein (alto saxophone, flute, piccolo flute, alto flute), Andi Maile (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto flute, clarinet), Pierre Paquette (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet), Klaus-Peter Schopfer (guitar), Decebal Badila (bass), Guido Joris (drus, percussion), and Klaus Wagenleiter (piano, keyboard).
via CD player......... Sitting back with a cup of coffee and relaxing to this beautiful music. Bought this album and certainly do not play it enough......
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The Undertones - Best of.
Something lighthearted for this afternoon, these boys really did have the knack of writing great 3 minute pop songs ..............
"Teenage Kicks", "My Perfect Cousin", "Jimmy Jimmy", "Here Comes The Summer" ............... classics, every one. 
Recommended by Nigel Finn (of Chord cables fame) via his excellent album review page in Hi-Fi Critic magazine. A firm favourite in this house.
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Just listened to another three from the KW Catalogue 3D vinyl box: Trans-Europe Express, Man Machine and Computer World. For some reason I had a hankering to listen to them them his morning. I've listened to a toal of five LPs from this box, so I guess it's time to move on to something else...
I do not usually prefer the compilation that much but this one covers certain period of time quite nicely.
Thank you Kevin for the inspiration for the next album to go on my playlist
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Time to change tack completely, from Dusseldorf city to Kansas City. From the 15-LP Atlantic Jazz box of 1986, this is the, er, Kansas City volume. As you might expect, there's a lot of bluesy swing on this one, which features Jay McShann, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Buster Smith, Buck Clayton, Vic Dickenson, etc. Recorded between 1956 and 1977:
ewemon posted:
You will not believe it, but I have had this many times in my hands and never listened to it. Streaming from Tidal MQA version now. TYVM for posting.
(2007)
Sloe Gin
Kicking off some fine blues guitar from Smokin' Joe Bonamassa.
I really enjoy this ‘change of pace’ album from Bill Evans. The interplay between the three is great, with each getting nice solo spots.
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Having reached a new level of variety and elegant restraint combined with brusque power on Wings of Joy, the foursome continued exploring such combinations on Forever without simply rehashing the previous album. If anything, the album went to extremes in both directions, the quieter moments were even more hushed and shadowed, the louder points all that much more whip-snap cruel.
"Cloudless" remains the album's most sweetly beautiful, truly haunting moment. Over what sounds like a synthesized combination of plucked violin and keyboards, doubtless played by Jim Shaw, sister Alison delivers a softly husky vocal that slowly grows in strength. Sparse synth strings swell up in the background, followed later by gentle electric guitar and at the end distant drums.
On a completely different tip there's "Clear" with its searing blunt lead guitar line matched by a massive rhythm slam, only occasionally interrupted by a quieter moment or two before launching back into the full band attack. "Jewel" ended up being a surprise U.K. and U.S. hit, though thanks to a somewhat transformed remix courtesy of longtime fan Robert Smith (in fact, Forever takes its name from a Cure rarity of the same title).
On the album, Jim Shaw's original rougher drums stand out, but the attractive poppy groove of the song remains the same, Alison is singing at her clearest yet over the simple but effective acoustic guitar rhythms and abrasive electric solo.
Other highlights include the minimal piano-led "Far Away" with some of Alison's best vocals, the narcotic guitar chime of "Golden" and the dramatic, blasting surge of "Adrift".
Does jazz guitar get any better than this I wonder.
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Brad Mehldau trio - Day is done.
WIth the beatiful interpretation of 'She's is leaving home' by the Beatles.
Earlier this afternoon entertaining jazz...
