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:
Richard Morris posted:ken c posted:just been playing Miles Davis's adaptation of Cyndi Lauper's "Time after time" on this album. Really wish I could play trumpet like that!!
enjoy
ken
I think the version on this cd is my favourite of those made by Miles.
I was very lucky to see him live on the tour just after Time after Time' came out. A good friend was a photographer was at the gig with me and he decided to take a chance and went down to the front to start taking pictures. Miles was obviously in a good mood as he allowed Chris to just keep going. It was a very special gig.
Filipe posted:MDS posted:
I'm still captivated by this album.
Mike, In my youth I used to sing/hum the Beatles and other’s songs just walking along. I only had a small number of LP so I got to know the songs well. Not the same now. It’s very therapeutic to sing. Glad you are feeling the benefits of enjoying this album.
Phil
Inspired to play this one again, and it really is sounding better and better. There are lots of tonal qualities emerging from what was previously just nice.
Phil
Really nice Bach harpsichord album - Playing on Compact Disc on Naxos
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2000 - Tidal...
Perhaps the strangest music I have ever hear on bandcamp. Self Extinction from INHUMANKIND
– Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice, Behold...The Arctopus)
A duo from Barcelona, Spain, INHUMANKIND is the audacious project of two young musicians, Pablo Selnik (flute) and Àlex Reviriego (double bass), both active in many underground avant-garde acts and both in love with a wide spectrum of music, including black metal, contemporary, free jazz and noise. “The INHUMANKIND project emerged a couple of years ago,” Selnik explains; “after working together on several projects, we decided to start playing some black metal covers re-arranged for a flute/double bass duo, but soon we realized there was some kind of potential on it, and we started writing original music, prioritizing a personal style and music language.”
The result is “Self-Extinction”, a short but very intense and satisfactory album produced by Colin Marston. It reflects the band's audacity and marked individualism, as well as its spiritual approach to darkness and its manifestations through many left-hand-path archetypes: qliphotic tree, hermetic kabbalah, grimoric magic and multi-pantheon deific masks like Lilith, Kali, Qayin, and Samael, all in a subtle, non-explicit way.
Graced with the intense vocal performances from Celeste Alías and Marta Valero, and the occasional death growls of Eric Baule (MOONLOOP), “Self-Extinction” is an inventive work of de-construction and transfiguration of the metal genre. Acoustic heaviness and depths are granted by the low frequencies of Reviriego's double bass, while the frantic, orgiastic melodies played by Selnik's diabolical flute blend in perfectly with the ritualistic vocals adding an enigmatic, esoteric aura to the whole.
credits
Pablo Selnik: Flute, Vocals
Àlex Reviriego: Double Bass
Before as well modern classical music..., nice...
Ended this morning with this. But as it's more free jazz it's difficult to do that and do your work.....
Now after lunch, a nice funky organ trio, also from bandcamp....
Peter Green - Green & Guitar, The Best of Peter Green 1977 - 81
Fleetwood Mac its not, the songs are very average but at least the guitar playing is pretty good even though its not always Green
Very polished album by Fleetwood Mac - perfect for lunchtime in the office - Playing on Compact Disc
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Lloyd Cole - "Lloyd Cole" Why? Because I have not listened to it for a while and it's my favourite of his solo output.
Haven't played this in a while ,Chris Rea - Auberge
On CD:-
Joe Sample - Invitation
Gloria Estefan - Mi tierra
Gloria Estefan singing in her native language. The mood of this album fits well with the nice weather we have at the moment.
Now playing..........
Maciej Obara- Unloved
Maciej Obara (alto saxophone), Dominik Wania (piano), Ole Morten Vågan (double bass), and Gard Nilssen (drums).
Streaming on NAS.......... working with a little jazz this morning, mellow and pleasant and feeling perfect for this Wednesday morning!
Playing on Compact Disc on Virgin Records 1990 - Great Debut by William Orbit
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Safe As Milk.
Starting off today with some choons from the inimitable Don Van Vliet and chums, including a certain Ry Cooder.
Bonkers blues! 
The Beatles - Anthology 3 , covering the White Album period through to the breakup
Now Playing......
Django Bates's Beloved - The Study of Touch
Django Bates (piano), Petter Eldh (double bass), and Peter Bruun (drums).
Streaming on NAS.............. keeping with the mellow jazz theme this morning, sounding fantastic....
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories.
Beautifully recorded and mastered, and sounding very good indeed on my "old technology" NDS. 
Woody Shaw - The Tour volume one
Great hard bop by Woody Shaw and his quintet. This is a recording of a 1976 concert and Woody Shaw was in excellent form that evening.
- Woody Shaw - trumpet
- Louis Hayes - drums
- Junior Cook - sax
- Ronnie Mathews - piano
- Stafford James - bass
Now Playing........
Jon Balke - Siwan Mahnou Houm
Jon Balke (keyboards), Mona Boutchebak (vocals), Derya Turkan (kemençe), Helge Norbakken (percussion), Pedram Khavar Zamini (tumbak), Barokksolistene: Bjarte Eike (violin), Øivind Nussle (violin), Miloš Valent (viola), Per Buhre (viola), Torbjørn Köhl (viola), Judith Maria Blomsterberg (violoncello), Mime Brinkmann (violoncello), and Johannes Lundberg (double bass).
Streaming on NAS........ when something is working just keep on going, laid-back & mellow and beautiful!