What are you listening to right now? (VOL I)

Posted by: Tam on 06 June 2005

Anyway, to kick things off, I'm currently, and probably for most of the rest of this week, listening to Radio 3's Beethoven Experience. They're doing one of the piano concertos at the moment and (number 2 with Glenn Gould). Anyway, the experience thing probably needs its own thread, but, even on this cheapo radio it's proving fairly enjoyable.

So, what are you listening to right now?

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

Junip (Josè Gonzales)- Black Refuge EP

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by Alan Paterson

Tread by a group called Pressure Drop. Never heard of them before but was £1.00 from cash generator so was worth a try. It is not bad either. Will give it another listen tomorrow.

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by Sloop John B

quote:
Originally posted by BigH47:
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Anyone here hear this on it's first release? Must have sounded as if all bets were off.

It was the answer. Mind you we didn't know what the question was, and still don't.

H

Surely the question was "how does it feel?"

SJB

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by sjust

Charlie Haden - helium tears (can't find piccie). What a discovery !!! Recorded 1988, released (secretly ?) 2005 on a no-name label. And, musically TOP in the list of Haden stuff. Incredible...

Enyoy
Stefan

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

Thinking of Haim.

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by smiglass

quote:
Charlie Haden - helium tears (can't find piccie). What a discovery !!! Recorded 1988, released (secretly ?) 2005 on a no-name label. And, musically TOP in the list of Haden stuff. Incredible...

Enyoy
Stefan

Here is a picture, I just my copy today.

Anthony

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by sjust

what do you think, Anthony ? As enthusiastic as I am ?

Cheers
Stefan

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by hungryhalibut

Stefan

I am not happy about all these great records you keep recommending. I've been enjoying the Charlie Haden / Paul Motian / Gonzalo Rubalcaba live in Montreal very much. My wife is not keen though, and one of my friends described this sort of jazz as 'aural masturbation'!! Self indulgent is what she was getting at, but I don't find it so at all.

I will give Helium Tears a whirl - I have ordered a copy via Amazon for the princely sum of £2.92 - I trust it warrants a price somewhat higher!

Another record I have rediscovered and like very much is Miles Davis's Aura, but Hilary doesn't like that either - too squeaky....

Nigel

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by smiglass

quote:
what do you think, Anthony ? As enthusiastic as I am ?

Cheers
Stefan

Hi Stefan,
I just got my CD at work and can not wait to get home to listen. I agree with Nigel, I am trying hard to keep up with your great suggestions

Anthony

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by Sloop John B

Sire stable mates The Undertones wanted to call their second album "More songs about chocolate and girls" 1978 what a year.

SJB

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by sjust

quote:
Originally posted by smiglass:
quote:
what do you think, Anthony ? As enthusiastic as I am ?

Cheers
Stefan

Hi Stefan,
I just got my CD at work and can not wait to get home to listen. I agree with Nigel, I am trying hard to keep up with your great suggestions

Anthony

Oops, don't like to be guilty... But, if it's for a good sake...

Re: helium tears - I wasn't overwhelmed with my first listen. THIS evening it all came together, though !

I'm sure this must have to do with the CD's burn-in process

Can't wait to hear your opinions, Anthony an Nigel (and Hilary ?)

cheers, my friends,
Stefan

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by Sloop John B

I'll say it again 1978 what a year!

SJB

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by sjust

one out of four (?) CD's of the new "kind of blue" label. Pretty remarkable. Also "remarkable" is the other one I have:

Guys: Don't go out and buy this stuff, immediately !

Uhm, well, after some contemplation: Yes ! Go, buy it ! And, don't just buy all the stuff you always buy (No more Pink Floyd, you have them all...)

cheers
Stefan

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by Guido Fawkes

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by kuma

The Maxwell Implosion: Small Circle of Friends

Posted on: 16 June 2006 by Ian G.

Arrival of new (to me) phono stage prompting a ridiculous late-night vinyl re-discovery session.

Ian (grinning)

Posted on: 17 June 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

quote:
Originally posted by sjust:
Uhm, well, after some contemplation: Yes ! Go, buy it ! And, don't just buy all the stuff you always buy (No more Pink Floyd, you have them all...)

Posted on: 17 June 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

Get in town early this mornig.
Fresh air, no cars and a fantastic discover: we have a brand new Hi-Fi shop now!
Inauguration tonight!

http://www.ludomentis.it/shop/index.php?module=pncommer...66.249.64.79&IID=118

Posted on: 17 June 2006 by Ian G.

Posted on: 17 June 2006 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

That thread of Liam made remember that somewhere..................

Posted on: 17 June 2006 by Tam

CD Review on Radio 3. Have just listened to an interesting first movement of Mahler 2 care of Boulez and the VPO (possibly meriting further investigation - though I hear that the vibrato is excessive from the soloist in the urlicht - such a shame they didn't play that bit). Now Brahms first concert, the finale thereof (in what seems a fairly ordinary recording from Freire with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester under Chailly - give me Gilels/Jochum, or better yet Fleisher/Szell).

regards, Tam

Posted on: 17 June 2006 by Ian G.

An oldie but goodie

Ian

Posted on: 17 June 2006 by northpole

Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia on HDCD joined on occasion by James Taylor and Van Morrison.

Peter

Posted on: 17 June 2006 by Purplepleaser

On Vinyl

Herbert-Secondhand Sounds

Lee

Posted on: 17 June 2006 by Tam

Mozart's Idomeneo. Charles Mackerras and the SCO with such singers as Bostridge, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Lisa Milne, Barbara Frittoli, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Paul Charles Clarke and John Relyea.

regards, Tam