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:
Ole Coltrane
Love the pulsing rhythm overlayed by Hubbard on the title track. A great period in modern jazz.
G
nigelb posted:Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Black Coffee
Apologies for posting this again so soon but I have just received the CD and ripped it. Yesterday I was listening to it on Tidal and thought it was great but the SQ wasn't right and I felt listening to a ripped CD might solve it.
I was right! This is a stonking effort by Beth and Joe. Every track bold, brassy and right on the money. Listening to this album, it struck me that these two could make a brilliant Bond movie title track. Indeed there are one or two tracks on here that would be great at the beginning and end of the next Bond film!
Playing the vinyl version from the River - which is 2 x 180g (black not red version) but not described as such as best I can see. Also, the price has just ticked-up a couple of quid.
I must redefine my understanding of all things blues - as Nigel's use of the word 'stonking' sums this up well. Very rocky and not laid-back by any measure. Kinda blues on steroids.
Highly recommended - unless you prefer your blues slow and mellow (e.g. the folky end of the spectrum), in which case this probably isn't for you.
Great, ethereal album from 2015 (on vinyl). About time she made another:
Eric Vloeimans - Levanter
From the challenge records website:
Levanter is the new album by trumpet player Eric Vloeimans. The title refers to the warm, strong, eastern wind that regularly blows accross southern Europe.
Eric invited the Syrian clarinet virtuoso Kinan Azmeh for this project, whom he had met some years back on an "Imagining Europe" collaboration. Jeroen van Vliet, Boy Edgar winner of 2014, with whom Eric has been performing for more than twenty years, is the pianist who caresses the keys. This trio will take you along on a musical adventure, flying on a magic carpet of sound, a journey accross the borders of jazz, classical and world music.
Taxiwars - Fever
An interesting mix of jazz and funk.
- Bass – Nicolas Thys
- Drums – Antoine Pierre
- Tenor Saxophone – Robin Verheyen
- Vocals, Lyrics By – Tom Barman
ewemon posted:
Back to the blues. Out on 15th Feb
Hey Ewen’s
This has grabbed my attention but I could do with you saying which of these blues albums you really recommend. So many albums
atb
kk
(1991)
Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude
Needing a burst of Ozrics neo psychedelic space rock stuff, this one will do nicely...
Finally some quality time, after wicked weeks of work, and catching up with a recommendation by [@mention:1566878603919322] : great crossover, blessed by the ultra warm voice that carries you away. Muchas gracias, my friend Haim !
KeanoKing posted:ewemon posted:
Back to the blues. Out on 15th Feb
Hey Ewen’s
This has grabbed my attention but I could do with you saying which of these blues albums you really recommend. So many albums
atb
kk
Paul I will try to recommend some in the future. Only thing is what I like you may not and what I may not like you may. Love to your good lady and wee one.
Highly recommended. Some of Peter Greens best guitar work and a nice companion to their Blue Horizon set.
Not a bad acoustic blues album. Certainly worth a listen
Recommended
joerand posted:
Heart. Dog & Butterfly. On original vinyl from 1978. Heart's recordings definitely had a strong bass emphasis with pronounced kick drum. Still, it was tight, fast bass and the acoustic parts of this album shine. This, their fourth album, is about as far as I can imbibe Heart before they began straying into hair band and glam rock. Lost touch with their roots and went commercial.
I don't listen to this often enough, thanks for the reminder, joerand. I have always been a sucker for slow, quiet acoustic beginnings that slowly build to anthemic "power chords, bass and kick drum". A little like this (your foot should tap regardless of whether you have Naim).
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English, early ‘80s vinyl.
To use a word I’ve seen a few times recently, a stonking album. Faithfull’s return with a changed voice in 1979, no longer the clear voiced folk-pop angel, the drugs and health problems had deepened and roughened the voice. An album of powerful songs, delivered by a singer of great strength and power, Lucy Jordan is a fantastic performance, unrecognisable from the Dr Hook version, she spits out Working Class Hero with more anger than Lennon, although there are songs of bitterness and anger here, I leave this feeling uplifted (even after the unsubtle venom of Why D’ya Do It).
Dire Straits - On every street.
ewemon posted:KeanoKing posted:ewemon posted:
Back to the blues. Out on 15th Feb
Hey Ewen’s
This has grabbed my attention but I could do with you saying which of these blues albums you really recommend. So many albums
atb
kk
Paul I will try to recommend some in the future. Only thing is what I like you may not and what I may not like you may. Love to your good lady and wee one.
Thanksewemon but im pretty certain you taste is impeccable! All the best to your good lady
Atb
kk
ewemon posted:
Highly recommended. Some of Peter Greens best guitar work and a nice companion to their Blue Horizon set.
That’s what I’m talking about. Already searching....
atb
kk
Jeroen20 posted:Dire Straits - On every street.
One of the best from Dire Straights.
Phil
Jean-Phillippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Jordi Savall puts his bass viol away to one side and picks up the baton to conduct Le Concert des Nations
My first and very enjoyable listen to this double CD album, containing some gloriously camped up processional ostentatiousness but overall has imho an easy going relaxful effect not too dissimilar to listening to a Bach Brandenburg. This coming on of the classical era maybe the most modernistic so far in my ever growing Alia Vox CD collection : )
Debs
ewemon posted:
Recommended
I wanted to sample John Primer but 'All Original' is not available on Tidal, so I had a listen to 'Cold Blooded Blues Man'.
Blimey what a belter this is! Mr Primer is a great blues guitarist and singer but he also surrounds himself with superb musicians. Just picked both of these up from the big river.
As usual big thanks to Ewen!
Another recommendation.
Try this one as wells guys.