What are you listening to? (Vol VII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 29 December 2010
Vol VI - https://forums.naimaudio.com/ev...8019385/m/9042967727
Vol V - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...385/m/9962941917/p/1
Vol IV - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...8019385/m/1832985817
Vol III - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...385/m/6192934617/p/1
Vol II - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...8019385/m/3112927317
Vol I - http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...8019385/m/6532968996
AND - this might be of interest:
http://forums.naim-audio.com/e...962920617#1962920617
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
Adrian,
Spooky.
I was looking at the vinyl review on hmv ealy this morning.
Its now on order.
£9.99 inc free post.
Stu
Nw this.
Pure Prairie League "Greatest Hits"
The best live band i've seen in years (last tuesday). I hope their limited tour has made them creatively curiouis again and record a new album. Highly recommended to see real musicians play real instruments.
All I do is golf.
Russian cello & piano sonata.
Emily Maguire "Keep Walking"
Guy Clark "Songs and Stories"
GOLD
BERG
VARIA
TIONS
Dmitry Sitkovetsky with the New European Strings Chamber Orchestra.
A very nice arrangement for Chamber Orchestra but I was embarrassed and could not bear to show the actual front cover which somehow was lacking that finished look. So I carefully used my limited design skills to recreate it and made it better. I think bolding and underlining would make more of a statement of its importance. I tried combining this with italics too but it was clear that this took it over the top and resulted in a tacky presentation.
The best live band in the world ,EVER.
Pavarotti's third recording of the Duke is not his best from a vocal perspective, but the rest of the cast and performance as a whole make up for that. And despite a slightly drier voice than before, Pav himself was still in great shape. Chernov at this time was promising to become the next in the line of great Met baritones in the vein of with Leonard Warren and Sherrill Milnes.
Cheers,
EJ
Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark "Live At The Bluebird Cafe"
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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
Debs,
That makes two of us strangely complexed people over this. Someone, somewhere pushed the wrong button, I think, because it takes some effort to get into these sleeves. I've given up on patience and trying to open them carefully but have limited myself to doing this no more than one per day so as to avoid the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome and other complications.
I have a few other sets that have been glued but they were just sissy glued. Annie Fischer's Beethoven Sonatas was one I'm sure.
Glad you are enjoying the mono. It isn't without its problems though and this is noted in the booklet notes which describe the problems of transferring from the 78's. I have mostly listened to the Bach, Couperin, Rameau and Scarlatti so far.
A wonderful pianist with links to the past but unfortunately she died early at the age of 61 just before a planned tour of the US. The box cover photo reminds me so much of the few studio pictures I've seen of my own grandmother in the 1920's. The flowers and jewelry etc. were just a burnt on white splat because these things were not available or not affordable.
Doug
Basia Bulat "Heart Of My Own"
One of the best solo (jazz) piano CDs I've heard for a while. Discrete use of ef looped samples make it even more interesting. If you enjoyed Gwilymn Simcock's latest, give this a try.
Richard Buckner "Our Blood"
Sarah McLachlan "Afterglow"
Jeff,
Give anything by this women a listen,
I am playing this thick black stuff.
and her works with the late great Chris Jones or just Chris's solo albums.
Stu
On spotify,it's OK :-
On spotify,it's OK :-
Howard,
Well worth the £9.99 for the vinyl me thinks.
Its good to have Adrian back.
Stu
On CD:-
Lady Of The Sunshine "Smoking Gun" (Angus Stone)
