What are you listening to? (VOL VI)

On Spotify.

BFAF last night.

Listening to Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch on the "A Prairie Home Companion Show" from last Saturday Night.

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Originally posted by ewemon:

So Adrian got you to buy the Steve Eliovson disc Gordon. What a fabulous album it is.

A recommendation from Adrian is one of the few things I can rely on in this crazy universe.

Gordon.

Susanne Sundfør - the brothel
have a listen to Spotify!

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Originally posted by ewemon:
Listening to Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch on the "A Prairie Home Companion Show" from last Saturday Night.

Ewen,

You might like their NPR: Tiny Desk Performance. Others of note in this selection are:- The Low Anthem, Alec Ounsworth, Laura Veirs, Wye Oak and Jakob Dylan.

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Originally posted by DenisA:

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Originally posted by ewemon:
Listening to Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch on the "A Prairie Home Companion Show" from last Saturday Night.

Ewen,

You might like their NPR: Tiny Desk Performance. Others of note in this selection are:- The Low Anthem, Alec Ounsworth, Laura Veirs, Wye Oak and Jakob Dylan.

Thanks Denis in reminding me about NPR I haven't listened to a show of theirs in years.

There is also a radio station over at Nashville which I lost the link to when my old computer crashed but they used to also post MP3's of artists that played accoustic on the show and some mighty fine ones played their to, Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Counting Crows etc.

Will need to track it down.

Very nice

Not the new Natalie Merchant, Amazon Jersey have "run out".

On Spotify:-

Small pic, big sound.

Edna Stern - Schumann

SACD

SACD

On Spotify



Available on vinyl soon, time to spend some pocket money

Thanks Gordon!

Tibbetts makes metallic folk music for disenfranchised folks. He's an elegant and multifaceted player, his compositions making use of exotic jungle rhythms (courtesy of longtime foil Marc Anderson), jazz-rock signatures, and regal European atmospheres. Tibbetts is one of the more idiosyncratic guitarists of the jazz/rock interface, with an uncanny ability to softly fondle his instrument yet rearrange its vocabulary to resemble nothing less than a sitar or tabla.

The opening "Ur" begins with a pigeon's rush of flailing acoustic guitar before electric strings start to sizzle through the air like errant lightning. The incorporation of tablas, vases, bells, and sundry percussive devices gives the recording a noticeably Middle Eastern flavor. YR is much like rich Gypsy music as played by accomplished technology-savvy types intent on extolling the true virtues of their music. Tibbets and Anderson make beautiful, cascading music for those times when trad jazz just doesn't cut it, the mind has had it with new age, and the heart needs just the right hunk of rock.

Recorded in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Personnel: Steve Tibbetts (guitar, mandolin, sitar, keyboards, synthesizer, kalimba, percussion); Marc Anderson (drums, congas, bongos, percussion, bells); Tim Weinhold (bongos, bells); Marcus Wise, Steve Cochrane (tabla).

Steve Tibbetts is the thinking-man's guitar player whose music spans a host of influences -- folk, jazz, rock, ethnic, modern classical -- without being bound by any of them. Opening with a tabla-driven folksy cover of Led Zeppelin's "Black Mountain Slide," the album leads us through a collection of original pieces written by Tibbetts and his band members that are full of rich tone colors and inventive rhythms. His main instrument is acoustic guitar, but he also uses guitar synth, dobro, kalimba and something called a pianolin, while his colleagues add tabla, cello, steel drums and assorted percussion. The percussion creates a neo-primitive feel, with the carefully layered instruments often building up to an intense cacophony of refined fury. Sometimes lush, sometimes sparse, this music slips and slides between moods and styles. The crown jewel of the album is the 11-minute final track "3 Letters," where he splices in the sounds of chanting monks, Tibetan horns and cymbals, and children's voices he recorded on a trip to Nepal. Meanwhile cello, acoustic guitar, guitar synth, kalimba, tabla and assorted percussion come and go in a dizzying collage of impressionistic sounds. ~ Backroads Music/Heartbeats

Recorded in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1987 & 1988.
Personnel: Steve Tibbetts (guitar, dobro, kalimba, tapes); Marc Anderson (berimbau, congas, steel drum, percussion); Michelle Kinney (cello); Marcus Wise (tabla).

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