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

Then another one from the earlier days, at some level you hear his uniquenesss while it also connects well with the mainstream available at that point in time....

Even today you could regards this as modern music. Mixing the typical modern music with his unique trumpet sound. Not my favorite, but still interesting ....

Closing with another sample of this album. Still not decided. Like her playing as usual, but the harpsichord is not so muc( my instrument.

There are quite a few albums i've 'liked' on here tonight that i'd love to listen to but time is against me (work in the morning).

Thanks to MDS, this one will do as my final album for today 

 Melody Gardot - My One And Only Thrill

Today's arrival, first spin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s8rHrLcSts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geCLMB5N-90

ALANP posted:

Filipe posted:

Dire Straights - Alchemy Live (1984)

My first playing of anything by Dire Straights. Thanks to the person who posted Private Investigation earlier. The guitarist and the vocalist are amazing.

Currently playing through the UnitiServe and bare nDAC having added a Cisco 2960 8tc to isolate the NAS and UnitiServe. It is now as good as the CDX2 + XPSDR with SL IC. Next step to put the SL IC and XPSDR back. Close to streaming now.

Phil

Phil

the guitarist and singer are the same person.You should have a great journey discovering the rest of Dire Straits catalogue and then that of Mark Knopfler's solo career if you have enjoyed what you have heard so far.

Alan

Thanks Alan

The recent changes have made this kind of music sound good.

I need to get into TIDAL rather than borrow my son’s when I visit!

I have the second Alchemy,  Brothers in Arms, Communique, Dire Straights, and On Every Street. 

Phil

Tonight, after a good clean, I played this - a candidate for my favourite album of all-time, David Bowie's Hunky Dory.  This is my old US Black label dynaflex that I bought while at school.  It has a few battle scars but every little tick and scratch is etched in my memory - happy memories.  It's an old friend and something of a comforter for me so I didn't ever think that I would hear anything new from this LP.  But tonight, spun on the RP10 I got inside this disc like never before. Listening to Andy Warhol on side 2, it was so fresh and alive and just "there".  A real wow moment...

Sounds like the RP10 is doing the business, Richard. A lovely machine 

Filipe posted:

ALANP posted:

Filipe posted:

Dire Straights - Alchemy Live (1984)

My first playing of anything by Dire Straights. Thanks to the person who posted Private Investigation earlier. The guitarist and the vocalist are amazing.

Currently playing through the UnitiServe and bare nDAC having added a Cisco 2960 8tc to isolate the NAS and UnitiServe. It is now as good as the CDX2 + XPSDR with SL IC. Next step to put the SL IC and XPSDR back. Close to streaming now.

Phil

Phil

the guitarist and singer are the same person.You should have a great journey discovering the rest of Dire Straits catalogue and then that of Mark Knopfler's solo career if you have enjoyed what you have heard so far.

Alan

Thanks Alan

The recent changes have made this kind of music sound good.

I need to get into TIDAL rather than borrow my son’s when I visit!

I have the second Alchemy,  Brothers in Arms, Communique, Dire Straights, and On Every Street. 

Phil

Splendid you just need Making Movies and Love Over Gold which are the third and fourth albums in the run of studio albums

Alan

Now Playing......

Timikrest - Chatma

Streaming on TIDAL......   Placed in the Tidal queue and getting a chance to take it out for a spin.......   Interesting music, rock & roll from the Sahara, refugees in Algeria running from imposition of Sharia law in their hometown of Kidal located in Mali. Always interesting to hear the music of different cultures blending, enjoying both the familiar with the merger of the local instruments and vocals.

james n posted:

Sounds like the RP10 is doing the business, Richard. A lovely machine 

It is James, it is.  I'm just really enjoying digging through the record collection again.  It also means I can keep feeding discs into the Core...

2010 - CD (rip)...

2001 - CD (rip)...

2006 - CD (rip)...

Now Playing.......

Yazz Ahmed - La Saboteuse

Jazz Ahmed (trumpet, flugelhorn), Lewis Wright (vibraphone), Shabaka Hutchings (bass clarinet), Naadia Sherriff (Fender Rhodes keyboard), Martin France (drums), Dave Manington (bass guitar), Dudley Phillips (bass guitar), Samuel Hällkvist (guitar), Corrina Silvester (percussion), Noel Langley (trumpet), and Fartun Tahir (voice, spoken word)

Streaming on TIDAL......   Another album that I had placed in the TIDAL queue and taking it out for a spin.  The album is quite enjoyable through the first few tracks, very nice!

Now Playing.......

Charlie Haden - In Montreal

Charlie Haden (double bass) and Egberto Gismonti (guitar, piano)

Streaming on TIDAL.......    In the TIDAL Queue and taking out for a spin..... I enjoy a Charlie Haden quite a bit (who doesn't?) and also enjoy when the bass and guitar are featured together. A win-win situation with this particular album! Egberto's piano playing also grabs your attention......

Review on ECMReviews website here:

Twelve years after it was recorded at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, this landmark performance by legendary American bassist Charlie Haden and Brazilian guitarist-pianist Egberto Gismonti at last saw the light of day in 2001. The concert marks the sixth of eight organized by the festival in celebration of Haden’s ongoing legacy. Haden had plenty of experience playing with Gismonti as part of their Magico trio with Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, yet the distillations offered here are entirely of another plane.

From the Magico songbook the duo plays “Palhaço” (a trio staple by Gismonti), as well as the Haden-penned “Silence.” Both feature Gismonti’s astonishing pianism, balancing florid biospheres with ponderous asides, Haden all the while drafting the terms of endearment by which every page turns. Haden the composer also reveals the set’s deepest piece: “First Song.” Featuring Gismonti on acoustic guitar, its intuition soars for all its quietude. A pleasant street scene, a childhood memory, a favorite scent in the air…exchanging glances in a melodic triangle. Such trade-offs mark the session for its selfless ingenuity. So, too, the jangly undercurrents of opener “Salvador” and “Em Familia,” both of which reference Gismonti’s work with Academia de Danças and, as such, reflect a bold unity of purpose. The latter’s invigoration grabs scruffs and throws us skyward, even as it gives us wings to fly. And fly we do into quiet pockets of cloud, each the eye of a storm where the leaves barely tremble to the tune of Gismonti’s masterful harmonics. Also notably from the Academia repertoire are “Maracatú,” a study in contrasts, and “Frevo,” in which pointillism at the piano inspires dramatic, resonant depths from Gismonti’s partner. “Don Quixote” (previously featured on Duas Vozes with percussionist Nana Vasconcelos) closes with an elegy-turned-anthem, a shifting ocean of temperate love.

Although there is much to admire in Gismonti’s prodigious guitar playing, it’s at the piano where his musicality truly shines. How wonderful to get so much of it here. And no bassist crafts melodies quite like Haden. He keeps the earth in mind, even when there is nothing but sky ahead of us, scaling the ladder from light to dark and back to light while Gismonti filigrees his playing like a frame around a picture. In Montreal is a must-have for fans of these unique talents, who together forge a distinctly “global” sound: not world music, but music for the world.

MDS posted:

And some more of lovely Melody G

The sleeve image reminds me of the photo shoot for Roxy Music's Siren.

Dire Straights - Brothers in Arms - Unitiserve SSD

I’ve been working through what I have and like the influence of Country Music in this album. I’m no expert on genres so some of your may be able to educate me a bit. Mark Knopfler really is a brilliant guitarist and vocalist. The music sounds amazing. I just love the sultry nature of his voice.

Phil

Filipe posted:

 

Dire Straights - Brothers in Arms - Unitiserve SSD

I’ve been working through what I have and like the influence of Country Music in this album. I’m no expert on genres so some of your may be able to educate me a bit. Mark Knopfler really is a brilliant guitarist and vocalist. The music sounds amazing. I just love the sultry nature of his voice.

Phil

 

Played this yesterday afternoon first time in years and really enjoyed it.

Ripped CD another enjoyable album from Dire Straits

Ohio Players,  Honey. Vinyl 1975. ..having a vinyl morning.

Bob F 

2003 - CD (rip)...

Jose Gonzales - Veneer

2003 - CD (rip)...