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

South African jazz for a very hot summer's day. On CD:

Playing on Vinyl on +8  Records - Compilation album of Hard House Techno from 1991 -  featuring the artists on the cover - Playing on Technics Sl1210 as it's fitting   

TOBYJUG posted:

Kamasi Washington.   The choice

Had to partially destroy the inner middle section of the Heaven and Earth album cd cover to get to this Hidden bonus cd ep bonus inclusion.

Must be a cryptic message in there somewhere......

Just had a listen on Tidal to the extra material. Thought the album was already excellent but this just makes it a compulsory purchase. Great stuff!

(2018)

Bobbie Gentry's BBC sessions where she is sounding as good as I've ever heard her. This one downloaded from the code that comes with the vinyl. 

With the return of the hot weather, it had to be played. 

(2010)

Fine rock biased prog rock from the Madrid based band Toundra, this was their second album Toundra II, luverly! 

Thundercat - Drunk

Absolutely crazy selection of tracks, 23 to be precise.

I would love to hear this played via an ND555, I reckon it would be awesome.

Bert, I hope you see this.

Jeroen20 posted:

John Coltrane - Lush life

• Bass – Earl May (tracks: A1 to A3), Paul Chambers (3) (tracks: B1, B2)
• Drums – Al Heath* (tracks: B2), Art Taylor (tracks: A1 to A3), Louis Hayes (tracks: B1)
• Piano – Red Garland (tracks: B1, B2)
• Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane
• Trumpet – Donald Byrd (tracks: B1)

I know he was a genius but I never understood his music....

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited, 2015 Mono reissue

Dylan’s first 10-12 years produced a series of great albums it’s hard to believe one man created. For me this may well be the finest of them (although several others challenge it), Dylan’s songwriting genius complemented superbly by his sneering voice, Mike Bloomfield’s guitar leading a fine band. A masterful fusion of folk and old-school blues, the album opens with Like A Rolling Stone, it’d be impossible for every song on an album to be that great, but with the title track and Desolation Row he does pretty well at trying to match it, and there isn’t really any filler. Greatness.

My word, this lady had a lovely singing voice.

MDS posted:

My word, this lady had a lovely singing voice.

She certainly has.

John Mayer - Battle Studies.

The Jaki Byard Experience -CD rip, flac. A touch of different jazz forms.

Jaki Byard_piano
Roland Kirk_ tenor saxophone, clarinet, whistle, manzello & kirkbam
Richard Davis_bass
Alan Dawson_drums

1967 - Vinyl - UK first (st) pressing...

MOF vinyl released 1978 - A very fine country album. ????

Brian Ahern - Acoustic Guitar, 12-String Guitar, Gut-String Guitar, Percussion, Baby Bottle
Dianne Brooks - Backing Vocals
James Burton - Electric Guitar
Rodney Crowell - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Rick Danko - Fiddle, Backing Vocals
Hank DeVito - Pedal Steel
Emory Gordy, Jr. - Bass
Glen D. Hardin - Piano, Electric Piano, String Arrangements
Emmylou Harris - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Garth Hudson - Accordion, Baritone Saxophone
Nicolette Larson - Backing Vocals
Albert Lee - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Mandolin
Willie Nelson - Duet Vocals
Mickey Raphael - Harmonica
Ricky Skaggs - Fiddle, Viola
John Ware - Drums, Percussion

Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen, 1980s vinyl

How to follow HIghway 61, ah yes his Bobness’s great poetic contemporary.  Fairly stripped back arrangements, Cohen's wonderfully beguiling voice, and some of the finest poetry of the 20th century set to brilliantly simple tunes. One of his finest albums. 

His debut album, he was 33 when he released this, amazing to think that at that age Dylan was releasing Planet Waves, his 14th album.

Just catching the end of a documentary about K-Pop, on R4. I hesitate to use the word analysis but a good look at the manufacturing involved in the process.

Christopher_M posted:

Just catching the end of a documentary about K-Pop, on R4. I hesitate to use the word analysis but a good look at the manufacturing involved in the process.

That sounds interesting, good IPlayer download for my train journey to the smoke next week, thanks Christopher.

A mix of things this evening....

During a massage this week I got this one. In the background and realized again how good it is, so had play it on my own system as well

The ND555 gives me a complete different perspective on Iron Maiden....

Last one for the day...

Taste - The Best Of, an excellent overview of a great band. 

ALANP posted:

Taste - The Best Of, an excellent overview of a great band. 

I wonder what happened to their guitarist, he seemed pretty tasty (sic). ????

1990 Cambridge Folk Festival is one of my greatest musical memories, Rory played an acoustic set and a band set, Bert Jansch played, guitar doesn’t get any better,