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

U2: live 

Innocence and Experience Tour 2018, Manchester Arena (well, I was listening, and this the culmination of my U2 week)

It's true, U2 are great live! A superb set including Pride, and the welcome return of Mr Mephisto as Bono recounted the tale of 'four lads from Northern Dublin'. Their journey from innocence, through experience to wisdom summed up in the philosophical musing that  'Wisdom is the recovery  of innocence after experience'. Sounds like a direct quotation of David Hart. Not many references to William Blake's Songs of the same name, but plenty of championing of good causes: peace, Europe, and women, whom he called upon 'to save the world before it is too late'. 

A thought provoking, message carrying set with iconic tracks which some have interpreted as indicating this to be their last tour. Certainly Bono's voice was a little edgy, little Edge was vocal, Larry looked in pain and Adam just rolled with it all. Not the most balanced acoustic (muddy bass: only Muse and Rush have ever got this right in the Arena, to my ears) but a truly memorable night with clever staging and effects. 

Muse still wins, though, in terms of overall spectacle, sparkle and acoustics.

Now playing.........

Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Streaming on NAS............ dropping back 40 years in time to listen to the debut album of Dire Straits!  Fantastic then, fantastic now! ......and sounding mighty sweet this late Saturday afternoon!

Now Playing........

Gavin Bryars Ensemble - The Sinking Of The Titanic

Streaming on TIDAL........ A mention from HAIM RONEN earlier regarding the music composed of the music played before and during the sinking of the Titanic with taped voice of survivors and underwater sounds peaked my interest and placed this in the TIDAL Queue and now taking it out for a spin. Interesting project and the first couple of tracks are very nice and looking forward to the rest of the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWJrxjLjzbE

Just finished.......

Azimuth - The Touchstone

John Taylor  (piano, organ), Norma Winstone  (voice) and Kenny Wheeler  (trumpet, fluegelhorn).

Streamed on NAS.........   Fantastic relaxing music with this trio, perfect for a Saturday night.........

Now Playing.........

Azimuth with Ralph Towner - Depart

John Taylor  (piano, organ), Norma Winstone  (voice), Kenny Wheeler  (fluegelhorn, trumpet) and Ralph Towner (12 String and Classical Guitar).

Streaming on NAS..........  heading to the mid-night hour with Azimuth and the addition of Ralph Towner with his guitars. They are sounding mighty sweet, Depart is one beautiful album!

A reggae/dub playlist from Qobuz.

Stellar musicians and solos, wonderful tunes and arrangements, an album I never tire of.

A sunny Sunday morning, and Vivaldi seems appropriate. I always enjoy the Pinnock/EC readings of the classics and that's the case here (I also have a Hogwood/AoAM I must dig out sometime). Original vinyl:

Eoink posted:

kevin J Carden posted:

Eoink posted:

 

Vince Gill - Guitar Slinger, WAV CD rip.

My other Vince Gill recommendation arrived today, ripped and getting its first stream. Another lovely album, beautiful sympathetic guitar enhancing well sung fine lyrics, he’s a real class act. Thanks again Ewemon.

On a different note, I rarely use the Nova remote, but I do like the way the screen reflects in it when it’s directly in front of the player.

 

 

A fine album. What was the other VG album you bought Eoink?

Hi Kevin, it was Down To My Last Bad Habit, another fine piece of work. The first times I’ve heard him on his own rather than with other artists, but I think it’s the start of a bigger collection, he’s genuine class.

Nice album too, but both are quite recent efforts and similar in style. If you’d like to get a broader view of all he does I might recommend his multiple disc album ‘These Days’. You may not warm to all of it, but I reckon there will be plenty that you will like and new styles of his for you to discover to boot. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/These_Days_(Vince_Gill_album)

IMHO I don't think she has made a better album than this  which came out in 2015

Shakira - Oral Fixation Vol.2

Another of my 25 pence CD purchases, now ripped to the Core.

Sounding absolutely fantastic. Definitely a bargain. 

kevin J Carden posted:

Eoink posted:

kevin J Carden posted:

Eoink posted:

 

Vince Gill - Guitar Slinger, WAV CD rip.

My other Vince Gill recommendation arrived today, ripped and getting its first stream. Another lovely album, beautiful sympathetic guitar enhancing well sung fine lyrics, he’s a real class act. Thanks again Ewemon.

On a different note, I rarely use the Nova remote, but I do like the way the screen reflects in it when it’s directly in front of the player.

 

 

A fine album. What was the other VG album you bought Eoink?

Hi Kevin, it was Down To My Last Bad Habit, another fine piece of work. The first times I’ve heard him on his own rather than with other artists, but I think it’s the start of a bigger collection, he’s genuine class.

Nice album too, but both are quite recent efforts and similar in style. If you’d like to get a broader view of all he does I might recommend his multiple disc album ‘These Days’. You may not warm to all of it, but I reckon there will be plenty that you will like and new styles of his for you to discover to boot. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/These_Days_(Vince_Gill_album)

 

Good recommendation Kevin.

Tyrone Davis - In The Mood 

Another really good album from Martha. IMHO I don't think she has ever made a bad one.

tonym posted:

A stunning autumn morning here in rural Suffolk, so time to relax to Elgar (Rip of my original Nimbus CD) - 

 

Snow?

.sjb

From Vivaldi to... Mourn. Bought this tape (Over The Wall) at one of the band's gigs last week. A cassette-only release, it contains unreleased material ("Angines") as well as covers of some of the baand's favourite acts - Echo & The Bunnymen ("Over The Wall"), The Sound ("The Fire"), The Replacements ("Colour Me Impressed"), and Husker Dü ("Whatever"). Fantastic stuff...

Surely if ever there was a band at its peak, this is it...1992...1992! I can’t believe it.

Sounds great too.

G

On this stunning autumnal day here in rural Suffolk, I'm relaxing to Elgar (rip of my original Nimbus CD) - 

Andy Bey - Ain't necessarily so

• Bass – Peter Washington
• Drums – Kenny Washington, Vito Lesczak
• Vocals, Piano – Andy Bey

Playing on Compact Disc - Haven't played this for ages and it's great hearing it again - Chan Chan is bloody brilliant

Big issues litter Broken Politics, Neneh Cherry’s fifth solo album. In that beautifully snagged raw-silk voice, she sings about abortion, refugees, gun violence and the ease with which conspiracy calcifies into assumed fact these days. But it never feels heavy-handed.

Another cracking album from Chely Wright as MDS said a lovely voice ?