What are you listening to? (Vol VII)

The Rolling Stones "Between The Buttons"

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this schoolboy has tried that and is still scratching his head!

cheers CC

ATB

kk

Creedance Clearwater Revival

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Sure beats that bl**dy X-Factor nonsense...

steve

A couple of recitals by American pianists:

Debs, thanks for pointing me in the direction of the first CD. The Michael Sheppard is also very good (a nice "Porgy and Bess" suite by Earl Wild, in particular).

Cheers

Nigel

On CD-R till the pukka cd arrives.

Natalia Zukerman "Gas Station Roses"

Matt The Electrician (Matt Severs) "Home"

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Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1804)

Trois Valses romantiques (pour 2 pianos)

(tracks 1-3 avec Francis Poulenc deuxième piano)

Pièces pittoresques

Bourree fantasque

Joyeuse marche

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Pavane pour une infante defunte

Menuet antique

menuet sur le nom de Haydn

Jeux d'eau

Miroirs

Le Tombeau de Couperin

Marcelle Meyer (1897-1958) piano

Playing cd's no.s 1 & 2 of 17 cd box-set.

Enregestrements Les Discophilees Français Paris 1955

EMI Music france © 2007

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Nice digital remastering is my first thoughts.

Listening to this though a small pair of stand mounted speakers in my upstairs bedroom system but enjoying the full engagement of the music from my office room next door.

It matters not it’s in mono.

My question to anyone who also has this box-set…

How does one remove the cd’s from the sealed envelopes?

Letter opener?

Steam them open?

Pull them open carefully?

Rip them open impatiently?

i do feel strangely complexed by this issue,

i'll ponder upon it while enjoying cd no.2 from the bubble-bath

Debs

Just finished:  the Rosebuds - Loud Planes Fly Low

Now:   Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook

Dinah Washington - after hours with Miss D

Reiner/Heifetz

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.

Wow. this is a very 'dry' recording.

Good god this tune drives me nuts.

This is my first listen to Pogorelich, and it's highly enjoyable.

Near mint LP, a bit dusty just needs a clean.

found them yesterday while moving all my CD's.  Now ripped to itunes so i can listen to them on my ipod!

atb

kk

Dan Arborise "Of Tide & Tail"

From last night, and on Vinyl:-

Antonio Forcione "Tears Of Joy"

à la mode...

My first DM since buying boots in my youth. More to follow I think.

I thought I would share with you the soundtrack to my summer holiday. Every now and then an album comes along that is popular with all members of the Lontano household. This is the latest. 

It is a little bit of a grower. Nominated for the Mercury music prize, it is perfect for sitting by the pool to in sunny weather

Metronomy - The English Riviera

"Metronomy leader Joe Mount rather grandly "splits his time between London and Paris" these days, but it's Totnes, Devon – his hometown – that's been on his mind lately. The album's title and its music are a homage to Mount's native south-west – but it's a sunny, west coastified version, in which cool people drink tequila sunrises and Steely Dan tunes waft out of seafront bars. The English Riviera is miles removed from the glowstick-waving indie-dance that previously characterised Metronomy – instead, it piles on ambling good vibes and darts of sweet synth, along with basslines that sculpt songs into various shapes: Latin-funky on Everything Goes My Way (a completely gorgeous duet by Mount and guest vocalist Roxanne Clifford), soft-rocky on Trouble. Their nu-rave past is revisited on The Look and Loving Arm, and sits surprisingly easily alongside the FM radio feel of the rest of the record, probably thanks to the charm that permeates every last moment of this album." Guardian

"After the wild electro- melancholia of his last album Nights Out, Joseph Mount has found a panacea in Seventies chart rock. Inspired by his hometown of Torquay and musically taking a leaf from Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac, swapping his computer for the studio seems to have paid off with these brilliant, sunset funk songs." Telegraph

Neil Young "After The Gold Rush"

From the above, another epic CANADA video that looks like an American Apparel ad:

(kk, fingers crossed for your cdp. I'm guessing you've already tried another input and a couple of off and ons?. PS, ayup Lonts!)