What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.VIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 29 December 2011
With 2012 almost upon us, it's time to start a fresh thread. I've gone back to an earlier thread title because often the "why" is the most interesting part of the post.
Anyway, links:
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
On vinyl...
On Spotify, following Stu's recommendation. A mighty fine effort it is too. Although Derek is a keyboard man, (Dream Theatre, Black Country Communion), it has the feel of Jeff Beck of the 70s, (he did a track on a Jeff Beck tribute album),with guitar work , by Steve Lukather,Tony MacAlpine and others. Funky and Rocky too. Then I do like instrumentals.
You might want to try this one too Stu:-
Hrant Bedoyan with Derek on keys.
Derek seems to be big on tribute albums I have found him on not only jeff Beck , but Jethro Tull and ELP tribute albums.
Will give that a listen. when the BT bloke down the road in a tent stops cutting my broadband off and on.
Derek does seem to work with some great players.
I bought the album for a £1 months ago ,only played it for the first time yesterday.
Stu.
On CD:-
The Decemberists - The King is Dead
The Fatboy special edition with extra tracks.
Really enjoying this album. Played it three times on the move and now at home on the main rig on clear Tonefloat vinyl.
Sir Steven Wilson does some nice vocals on one track
And here are details of artists on the album, influences and what it sounds like :-)
Members:
Influences:
Alexander ScriabinCan
David Bowie
Comus
Olivier Messiaen
Miles Davis
Third Ear Band
Syd Barrett
Kate Bush
JS Bach
Claude Debussy
Scott Walker
Stereolab
Erik Satie
Mark Hollis
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Sonic Youth
Gabriel Faure
Nick Drake
Nico
Slits
John Fahey
John Cage
John Coltrane
John Renbourn
John Barry
Jacques Brel
Bela Bartok
David Munrow
Dimitri Shostakovitch
King Crimson
Bert Jansch
Maurice Ravel
Funkadelic
Forest
Faust
Silver Apples
Cocteau Twins
Cul de Sac
Neu!
Suicide
Marc Almond
Alban Berg
PIL
Pere Ubu
Led Zeppelin
Eno
early Roxy Music
even earlier Pink Floyd
Pharoah Sanders
Gustav Holst
Gustav Mahler
Ennio Morricone
Edgard Varese
Herbie Hancock
Yoko Ono
Doors
Joy Division
David Sylvian
Talk Talk
Marc And The Mambas
Pentangle
Mr Bungle
Astrud Gilberto
Giacinto Scelsi
Austin Osman Spare
Rembrandt
Richard Gerstl
Velasquez
Odilen Redon
Pierre Bruegel
Georgio De Chirico
Hieronymus Bosch
JK Huysmans
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Beckett
60s/70s Roman Polanski
70s Nick Roeg
Saul Bellow
Anthony Burgess
George Orwell
Carson McCullers
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Martin Amis
James Joyce
Sounds Like:
A whisper in a world full of shouting. A rainbow in a raindrop. The shadowy corners of a child's psyche. Veganism. Van Gogh's "Sain d'Espirit". De Chirico's Metaphysical afternoons. Tall tales in small hours.....On vinyl
Limited to 200 pressing, an 8 LP set of ambient works from Vidna Obmana - Chasing the Odyssee. This is a beautiful set and signed by Vidna also.
http://tonefloatrecords.blogsp...ana-8lp-box-out.html
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Lucia di Lammermoor
(sung in German)
Lucia... Maria Stader
Edgardo... Ernst Haefliger
Enrico... Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012)
Raimondo... Theodor Schlott
Arturo... Horst Wilhelm
Normanno... Cornelis Van Dijk
Alisa... Sieglinde Wagner
RIAS-Kammerchor und RIAS-Sinfonieorchester
Ferenc Fricsay
Recorded on 22nd January 1953, Berlin
[ADD] mono Audiophile Remastering Quality 24bit/96kHz
P/C IMD Ltd. 2004 (2 x CD set)
RIP Ian Curtis Died May 18 1980
Never thought it before I saw the above video just now (a cover of Animal Collective's 'My Girls') and read all the comments suggesting that Victoria Bergsman (Taken By Trees) looks like Eminem. My first thought was "yeah, right".... but she somehow does.
Bizarre. Love the cover, but really love the psychedelic original. New album has been started apparently.
EPIC.
Cheers
Flettster
I love these cats.
Cheers
Flettster
Mozart Piano Concerto No.20: Serkin/Abbado/London Symphony
'81 Digital Recording
This is one of the dullest No.20 I've ever heard and certainly not Serkin's best work as I have heard him play better than this in earlier set.
Mozart Piano Concerto No.20: Serkin/Abbado/London Symphony
'81 Digital Recording
This is one of the dullest No.20 I've ever heard and certainly not Serkin's best work as I have heard him play better than this in earlier set.
Fully agree with you, Kuma. Compare with Gulda and Abbado 10 years earlier, for some white-hot Mozart playing!
EJ
Two 45RPM's from Music Matters - fabulous product, beautiful cover work and sounds so good.
Two 45RPM's from Music Matters - fabulous product, beautiful cover work and sounds so good.
Excellent.
A pal of mine has a fair few of those Music Matters Blue Notes - on subscription for a couple every month, as I recall. Have to be the best reissues I've seen / heard by a distance. The music's not too shabby, of course, though there's plenty that are almost worth the money just the artwork.
Do you have this one? (One of my favourite BN covers...)
CC (off to find Our Man In Paris)
