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:
2001 - CD (rip)...
Enjoying CD no. 5 from this mono set : )
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV 537
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542
Fantasia in C minor BWV 562
Fantasia in G major BWV 572
Fugue in G minor BWV 578
Canzona in D minor BWV 588
Allabreve in D major BWV 589
Pastorale in F major BWV 590
Recordings: 1950 (tracks 1, 3, 8) & 1952 (tracks 2, 4-7) Cappel, St.Peter & Paul
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Some mainly upbeat music as I sit at home working towards the end of a 15 hour working day! Why do I do it?????
The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts
1996 - CD (rip)...
1999 - CD - (rip)...
Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions
Latest deluxe edition.
spurrier sucks posted:Gregg Allman-Southern Blood
this one is getting played more and more. Damn good!
Gotta join you on this one but with Eat A Peach. Great Call...
al9315 posted:seakayaker posted: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.
Try this one !
And the latest Kidal. I am a big fan.
ewemon posted:
This is a good listen.
Last for tonight.
Proper Wonky.
1999 - CD (rip)...
ewemon posted:
Really good too.
Now Playing.......
Avishai Cohen - After The Big Rain
Avishai Cohen (trumpet & FXs), Lionel Loueke (guitar & vocals), Jason Lindner (keyboards and Fender Rhodes), Omer Avital (acoustic bass), Daniel Freedman (drums and percussion), and Yosvany Terry (chekere 1, 2, 7, 8).
Streaming on TIDAL........ After coming home in the rain, the album appealed to me...... some great music!
Review on The Free Jazz Collective found here:
I first got to know Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen via The Lemon Juice Quartet's "Peasant Songs", an easy to recommend, beautiful record that combines jazz, klezmer and modern classical music. His first endeavours in the area of world jazz with two records with his "Third World Love" band, I found less successful. Now he has changed the concept a little bit, still with Omer Avital on bass and Daniel Freedman on drums, adding Lionel Loueke, from Benin, on guitar and vocals, Jason Lindner on keyboards and Yosvany Terry on chekere. The music is nice enough, very often reminding of Don Cherry's mid-seventies period, with muted trumpet, African rhythms spiced with Spanish and Middle-Eastern influences. This album would be the final part of a trilogy on "the big rain", but I could unfortunately not find any information on the other two albums. Cohen explains the title : "The big rain is like a flood, maybe the biblical big rain, but it can be many things. It's not meant to be tragic." As the lyric of "After the Big Rain" states: "The world is a river of hope/beauty is already here." The combination between Loueke and Cohen works quite well, and even if the electronically distorted trumpet sometimes moves too far into real fusion territory to my taste, the overall effect is still great. The music is all about rhythm and atmosphere, yet it also offers real substance, which will want you make to put it on again and again. Not all compositions are at the same high level, but that's a minor comment. All musicians are excellent.
Just love this one.
