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

A tribute to Tony williams

last night on Woolworths cdp




and a Tom Waits dvd compilation including a set he did for the bbc in 79, absolutely blew me away (thanks again VTM)

Diccus

The White Stripes - Elephant

Good morning all!
Last day off.
Anybody knows when winter beginns?

An LP which never disappoints.

Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder "Talking Timbuktu". Perfect record for a Sunday morning. Oh, how I want to got to Mali!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
Good morning all!
Last day off.
Anybody knows when winter beginns?[QUOTE]

Good morning, Gian.

Finaly you will have a chance to catch your breath after those 24 days of rebuilding the Italian nation.

Haim

Bernstein's Mahler symphony no. 7 with VPO. He has a beautiful account of this work, but I still prefer Abbado's brisker and more exciting performance with the CSO.

Bernstein's Mahler symphony 6 with VPO from that same set. It's also a very fine account, but I generally prefer the Karajan recording with BPO. Especially Karajans andante is very beautiful, and overall it sounds very right to me. However for me Bernstein beats Karajan in the finale which is more powerful, dynamic and tragic.

Purcell / Songs of Welcome and Farewell / Tragicomedia / Teldek

quote:

Originally posted by Haim Ronen:
Finaly you will have a chance to catch your breath after those 24 days of rebuilding the Italian nation.

while reading this:

Enough Turkish, let's move on to some Italian...

cheers
Stefan

Soaud Massi - Deb. A fantastic disc that is full of emotion and musicality.

quote:

Originally posted by Huwge:
Soaud Massi - Deb. A fantastic disc that is full of emotion and musicality.

Interesting, Huw...

Have tried in the shop and put it back to the shelf, being uninspired. Maybe, I should re-listen...

cheers
Stefan

Stefan,
I think this is her easiest disc to "get," but it is all a matter of taste. Certainly, it sounds better at home than in the shop. I like the mixture of French-Algerian and Southern Spanish that occurs on a couple of tracks. I picked it up with a bonus DVD with a documentary and that is also quite interesting. It is perhaps a tad mainstream, but that should not be a deterent.

Moving on to Solveig Slettahjell - would love to see her live.

Bought this on impulse whilst on holiday:



and its absolute cobblers.

And then rounding off Bernstein's Mahler box set with symphony no 5. I must admit that I have not really warmed up to no. 5. It is harder to get into for me. On the other hand, I really like no. 6 and no. 7 .

Ralph Towner & Gary Peacock "A Closer View"

Some gentle Sunday evening listening with Pascal Roge tinkoing the ivories on disc one of two Debussy Piano Works on Decca



Followed by disc two of the Wailers Catch a Fire double disc - the first is original mix from ja, the second being the album released for UK consumption after Blackwell had tinkered with it.



Peter

I do actually quite like this:

The Mighty Sounds Of U-Roy


Matt

distortion galore, but i like it