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

Is Eurovision for real?  I mean, taken seriously?  I heard the woman who won, the chicken-clucking chanteuse from Israel.  Sad.

Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits (1967). On HDCD from 2003. There's a magical tubey warmth captured in these recordings. Patsy's golden pipes and Floyd Cramer's ivories combine perfectly for a relaxing listen late on a Saturday night.

docmark posted:

Is Eurovision for real?  I mean, taken seriously?  I heard the woman who won, the chicken-clucking chanteuse from Israel.  Sad.

On surface, it’s a novelty song, but the lyrics have quite powerful feminist message. We watched Euro vision last night for the first time in years and were surprised at how strong many of the songs were. It really was entertaining (although the intermission during voting was pretty dreadful and th over excited presenters hard to take), so perhaps too easy  to criticise?

Keith

Little Richard. Rock 'n' Roll Legends. On CD from 2008. Tight, fast, upbeat and loud. From the era when a saxophone was an essential instrument in a rock 'n' roll band and there was one mic in the recording studio. Little Richard's vocals always driving that mic to its max.

Isko Eskelinen - Bach

(2011)

Fine music for a wet Sunday morning here.

Duran Duran - Greatest

Cheesy 80's tunes for a sunny Sunday morning in the valleys.

Zimmermann's recent recording of the Bach violin sonatas is superb, one of my favorites in a crowded field.

Cheers

EJ

Listening to CROZ by David Crosby a lovely recording with nice guitar backing by Mark Knopfler and solos by Wynton Marsalis. Never been a big fan, so this has been quite a find for me.

Gazza posted:

Listening to CROZ by David Crosby a lovely recording with nice guitar backing by Mark Knopfler and solos by Wynton Marsalis. Never been a big fan, so this has been quite a find for me.

It is an excellent album

ALANP posted:

dave marshall posted:

ALANP posted:

Just finished playing this album twice straight through and its brilliant.Never thought I'd hear another album like this from him.Thanks for the heads up Dave

Hi Alan,

Great as the album is, I was desperate to have available, the "live in the studio" version of "Prodigal Son" which is as funky as a funky

thing can be.

It's viewable over on yon YouTube thingy, or directly on Ry's own website.

Anyway, I've managed to extract the music content from the video file, and it's currently belting out via USB on my NDS.

Happy days. 

Ah I wondered what you were up to when I saw your original post enquiring about the extraction of audio from a video file.That version is definately worth the effort.Pardon my ignorance but are you able to add the file so it plays the same time as the album or does it remain independant?

Alan

I've transferred it to a USB stick, which plugs directly into the front of the streamer, playing the music via it's USB output.

Sounds great!

Some morning Shpongle, Museum of Consciousness. Just downloaded from Quobuz after hearing it on Radio Paradise and realising it was one I didn’t have

Yusuf - Tell 'Em I'm Gone

An opener, before a shift.

The opening track I was raised in Babylon strikes me as a spiritual successor to Where do the children play?, nearly fifty years later. (Strikes me in a good way).

Great choice of repertory, I hope Kolesnikov stays with Hyperion for a while and keeps up the creativity.

Cheers

EJ

(1994)

Sticking with Beethoven and this pleasant 2 CD set performed by the Russian pair.

Matt Monro - Strangers In The Night (from The Singer’s Singer)

Just about perfection.

The latest disk from the Pavel Haas quartet, surely now the finest string quartet in Czech repertoire.  Well recorded (particularly for Supraphon) in a slightly resonant acoustic and wonderfully idiomatic performances of both quintets.  For anyone who is not convinced that classical music can be toe-tapping try keeping still whilst listening to the final movement of the piano quintet.

Roger