What are you listening to? (VOL VI)

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Originally posted by munch:
Deb's
My second copies were alot better.
Are yours the same??
Stu

I don't actually know yet. I've drank too much red wine which has queered my sense of hearing.
But i don't hear any crackle! : )

Debs

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Originally posted by munch:

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Originally posted by naim_nymph:

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Originally posted by munch:
Deb's
My second copies were alot better.
Are yours the same??
Stu

I don't actually know yet. I've drank too much red wine which has queered my sense of hearing.
But i don't hear any crackle! : )

Debs

Dont use your TT's if you have had a few reds
Use the cdp.
Stu

I'm okay, the food is almost ready, i'll sober up very quickly after something to eat!

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Originally posted by Flettster:
PS: Will definitely look back at your earlier posts DenisA & see if I'm missing out on something. I'm sure I will be.

I recommend my post earlier today regarding Shearwater. Especially the link to NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert. The band were playing playing a few acoustic versions of songs from Rook, their 2008 album. My mail address is in my profile if you want to be corrupted

Denis

Michael Franti "Everybody Deserves Music"

Wow, sounds great. Must get it…

cheers
Stefan

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Originally posted by droodzilla:

Konitz, with Solal, Holland and DeJohnette - great line up!

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I recommend my post earlier today regarding Shearwater.

Really do like their new album.

David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars

Side 1:
Five Years
Soul Love
Moonage Daydream
Starman
It Ain't Easy

Side 2:
Lady Stardust
Star
Hang On To Yourself
Ziggy Stardust
Suffragette City
Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

David Bowie guitar. sax and vocals
Mick Ronson guitar, piano and vocals
Trevor Bolder bass
Mick Woodmansey drums

This LP: EMI @ 1997 (Direct Metal Mastered/Virgin vinal pressing)

Any word on it ?

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

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Originally posted by munch:
On the black stuff.

I have never seen anyone post this album on here but me.
Give the cd a listen.
You might like it????????
Stu

Seen him lots of times on his own but cant wait to see him again with the Daintees ,he's playin with them on 13th march lets hope they do "heart of the city".

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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:

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I recommend my post earlier today regarding Shearwater.

Really do like their new album.

Think i'll get the Vinyl, bargain!

Martin Stephenson and the Daintees
Stirling Tolbooth centre
http://www.stirling.gov.uk/tol...b_event/march_10.htm

Just listening to the new Sade for the first time. Put it on slightly hesitantly because of some of the mediocre comments, but finding myself rather liking it. Yes (of course) with that style of singer there will be similarities to what has gone before, but I think there is a real maturity to this new album. Very enjoyable.

A damn fine album.

Cheers

Flettster

Shauna Burns "Every Thought"

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Originally posted by JWM:
Just listening to the new Sade for the first time. Put it on slightly hesitantly because of some of the mediocre comments, but finding myself rather liking it. Yes (of course) with that style of singer there will be similarities to what has gone before, but I think there is a real maturity to this new album. Very enjoyable.

I agree, James, I like it very much as well. It is a tried and true and somewhat-unique formula, no need to change in my opinion. Hope you are feeling a bit better.

regards
Jeff A

Iron & Wine - Woman King; The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You

Was



Is

John Miles - Stranger in the City

Stefan,

Hamelin's Chopin is highly recommended by me as well as Huw. Here is a review:

Produktbeskrivelse

Recent discs from Marc-André Hamelin have concentrated on music which is obscure, under-recorded or virtually unplayable. However in this latest recording he turns his attention to two mainstays of the Romantic repertoire: Chopin’s Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3. The results are simply staggering: playing of matchless brilliance and consummate artistry, stunningly recorded. As a recent critic of Hamelin’s live performance of the B minor sonata remarked, ‘Hamelin starts where most other pianists leave off … such was his control that frequently it seemed as though an extra dimension were being added, the music’s teeming internal life clarified by his ability to voice the inner parts’.

The disc is completed by some of Chopin’s greatest single-movement works; the contrasting two Nocturnes of Op 27, the extraordinarily colouristic Berceuse Op 57 and the monumental Barcarolle in F sharp major. We think this is one of the most authoritative and important Chopin discs to have appeared in recent years—an unmissable release. Praise for Marc-André Hamelin in a state of jazz CDA67656.

‘Played with such astounding agility and aplomb that you end up mesmerised by virtually every bar. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that no other pianist could approach Hamelin in such music. Notes pour and cascade like diamonds from his fingers and he has an inborn flair for the music’s wild,
free-wheeling melodies and rhythms, for its glittering whimsy and caprice … superbly presented and recorded, this is a special addition to Hamelin’s towering and unique discography’ (Gramophone)

‘The Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin possesses one of those musical brains that spark with
maddening brilliance in whatever direction takes his fancy … it’s hard to believe Hamelin didn’t grow up within earshot of some dubious jazz haunt in New Orleans or Harlem … as Hamelin explains in his enjoyably lucid booklet notes, Gulda’s astonishing pianistic pedigree deserves to be seen in a far wider context … Hamelin’s evocations of these are wonderfully whimsical yet as crisp as celery. The syncopations ‘sit’ so comfortably under his fingers—exactly the right balance between ambition and restraint, warmth and edge—a pretty rare commodity in the performance of classical repertoire, let alone jazz-inspired music … this is a lovely, lovely disc; I highly recommend it’ (International Record Review)

Mike Coykendall "The Unbearable Being Of Likeness"