What are you listening to right now? And why? (VOL IV)

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Susanna - I have posted this before but have never seen anyone else play anything by Susanna. I think this could appeal to a few here - MilesSmiles, Droodzilla, Diccus, Ewemon etc etc. It is out there on Spotify to try. Rather nice. (Nigel - Susanna is sister of Christian Wallumrod)

I have the one with covers of Love Will Tear Us Apart, Crazy Nights, etc... very good album. Are the other two full of cover versions as well?

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Originally posted by markah:
Oliver & Ewen - regarding the Alela Diane disc, here is a review I nicked from another website :

Hope that helps to answer your queries. I really like this one and will be investing in her first album.

Mark

Mark, many thks - I put it on my list.

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Susanna - I have posted this before but have never seen anyone else play anything by Susanna. I think this could appeal to a few here - MilesSmiles, Droodzilla, Diccus, Ewemon etc etc. It is out there on Spotify to try. Rather nice. (Nigel - Susanna is sister of Christian Wallumrod)

Susanna - Sonanta Mix Dwarf Cosmos

Sounds good - will give it a listen.

Morning Smiley Miles. Looks like you have a nice day brewing down under 26C sunny. A relaxing musical weekend? I hear you might have big boss in town this week.

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Originally posted by droodzilla:

I have the one with covers of Love Will Tear Us Apart, Crazy Nights, etc... very good album. Are the other two full of cover versions as well?

The albums Melody Mountain and Flower of evil are covers. List of Lights and Buoys and Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos are mostly originals.

Great doco on JM, now watching awesome Old Grey Whistle Test set...what a legend.

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Originally posted by munch:
This is a good two disc set to start with.

ewemon the second disc is my most played PC disc.
In Absentia also gets alot of play.
Its a hard one because i have so much of there stuff now on cd and vinyl.
And a lot that you cant buy in the shops.
Its all good.
Stu

Stu this is a list of Steven Wilson favourite albums.

Artists' Choice: Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree

The Fragile, Nine Inch Nails
Trent Reznor is one of my biggest influences as a producer, and this is his absolute masterpiece I think, a sprawling double album, it sounds like he almost killed himself doing it.

Zeit, Tangerine Dream
This album is still the ultimate proto-ambient record, the most strange-beautiful record ever made. When push comes to shove, I usually pick this as my favorite album of all time.

Bitches Brew, Miles Davis
Another double album. What key are they playing in at any given moment on this album? Do they know, do they care, does it matter? An extraordinary and pivotal moment in the history of both jazz and rock.

Out of the Blue, Electric Light Orchestra
Here's another genius producer at work, Jeff Lynne. This was the first record I ever bought, and it' still my favorite progressive-pop record (though XTC's Skylarking comes close), more so than anything the Beatles did, despite the fact that it is hugely indebted to them.

Destroy Erase Improve,
The band that along with Opeth revived my interest in metal music for the first time since I was 12 year old kid listening to New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands. I also would pick Fredrik's solo album Sol Niger Within, except it's currently out of print.

Ummagumma, Pink Floyd
Yet another double album. The studio record is one of the most creative and experimental records ever made by a rock band, a mixture of music-concrete, tape manipulation, beautiful acoustic ballads, and studio invention. The live record contains definitive versions of their best pieces from the period.

Fruit Tree, Nick Drake
Impossible to pick just one of his three masterpieces, so I've picked the box set that contains them all. Simply one of the most sublime songwriters and performers England has ever produced.

Consumed, Plastikman
A brooding slice of minimal techno, oppressive and hypnotic - we played this every night as pre-show music on several Porcupine Tree tours, and people who didn't even like modern electronic music fell in love with it.

Tales from Topographic Oceans, Yes
I'm thankful that there are musicians who don't know their own limitations and try to make music as big as planets. Pretentious, overblown, and all the better for it.

The Second Annual Report, Throbbing Gristle
The first time I heard this record the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I felt physically sick. Here is the birth of industrial music, and it never got any better after this. My idea of what was and could be music was never the same again after I heard this record.

Pärt - Tabula Rasa,
Simply the most spiritual and divine music ever composed by a human being.

Reign in Blood, Slayer
The death metal album by which all others have been measured ever since - the power and sound on this record is incredible, and at 30 minutes in length it's a lesson to all other bands on how quality has nothing to do with quantity.

In Search of Space, Hawkwind
A glorious soup of sound, the definitive space rock album.

Some good choices there.

Lontano,

Many thanks for the feedback. I will make sure I have enough cash to buy some of their CD's while I am there. Could be an expensive day as I am seeing Joshua Redmond and Guy Barker later the same day in Hall 1 at the Sage.

Regards

Nic

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by nicnaim:
Lontano,

I'm going to see these guys on Sunday, not heard any of their stuff, what can I expect?

Regards

Nic

Nic - I saw them last night. You won't get much chat - the piano does all the talking. I think you will be pleased. They were very good indeed. Quite accessible music - many of the tunes quiet and full of atmosphere along with a few work outs as well. Recommended. Their albums are worth buying.

Here is the 4 star review I read on the train home in the Evening Standard of their show the night before I saw them. Enjoy.

Introduced to the world by trumpet star Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski’s piano trio is becoming hailed as a world-class unit in its own right. ECM record-buyers love their albums and believe fame would have come sooner had these Polish musicians not borne such difficult names for Western Europeans. To some British shoppers, Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz (double-bass) and Michal Miskiewicz (drums) read like the bottom line of an optician’s test-card.

Jazz, though, is a global language and these three speak it with exceptional fluency and eloquence. Developed from the last great Miles Davis acoustic quintets, with bows to the trios of McCoy Tyner and Keith Jarrett, their music converts rigid form into glorious freedom in the most sophisticated way. Delicate yet hard-swinging, their time-feel is somehow loose yet tight.
Stanko, himself a master improviser, commented recently that after seven years they are still getting better. Last night there was not the slightest sign of staleness. Indeed, they were clearly enjoying trying to read each other’s minds. On originals new (The Cat) and old (The First Touch) the interplay of sonorous bass, probing piano and discreetly rumbling drums was remarkably intuitive. On an altogether deeper level, too, than similar lineups involving Brad Mehldau, the late Esbjorn Svensson or the Bad Plus.
Wasilewski is grievously underrated. His touch is light yet his notes sing with mysterious gravitas. His ideas are complex yet direct, a pleasure for any listener to follow. In his world the yin and yang of jazz both have their place. Quite an achievement.

Stuart,

Sounds good to me. If my email detail is not in my profile I will add it. Edit - Have now checked, details are in profile, drop me an email for address. Cheers

Now going spiritual with the Blind Boys of Alabama - Higher Ground

Regards

Nic

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Originally posted by munch:
nic,
I have a great J Red dvd that you cant buy if you want a copy?

Lambchop "Damaged"

Definitely into that late night groove. Now Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up

Regards

Nic

~<>~ Marin Marais ~<>~

"Tombeau pour Mr. De S.te Colombe"

Andrea De Carlo bass viol
(Sergio Marcello Gregorat,
Rome 1997, after Nicolas Bertand)

Sergio Alvares bass viol, II° viol
(Sergio Marcello Gregorat,
Rome 2003, after Nicolas Bertand)

Leonardo Garcia Alarcon harpsichord
(Jean Michel Chabloz,
after Pascal Taskin)

Dolores Costoyas theorbo
(Martin Bauers 1981)

Digital Recording: Feb 2004
St Georges Church, Hermance, Switzerland

~<>~

MuSiC to BuBbLe bAtH tOo!... it's on cd so you don't have to leave wet footprints on the carpet when the record suddenly needs flipping over! : )

Splosh!

nymph

Yep!

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Originally posted by munch:
nymph,
Is the wall shelf up ?
Hows it sounding?

When i tap it with a drum stick it goes; DING! DING! DING! DING!

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Morning Smiley Miles. Looks like you have a nice day brewing down under 26C sunny. A relaxing musical weekend? I hear you might have big boss in town this week.

... another hot one down under and next week will be hot for different reasons, have all but Ken visiting at the same time, Sunday will be the big prep day.

I will put this aside for now and just enjoy the music.