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

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Originally posted by kuma:

Frank de Jo Jo: Turn off the lights

Kuma,

The album covers look great. I wish you would say few words about the musics which I am really unfamiliard with.

Regards,

Haim

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Originally posted by HR:
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Stefan,

Looks like LLoyd in on a very high rotation in your house. I have most of his albums and the one I keep coming back to is Canto. Are you familiar with it?

Haim

Unfortunately not, Haim.
Will look into it...

cheers
Stefan

Loreena McKennitt

"The Book of Secrets"

To ROTF
I have tried Shirley Collins again and I still think much the same. I think that is the problem I can't get a hook into her style and it does not seem to vary much.
I've got a copy so I'll try again sometime.

Regards

Howard

Howard

I'd agree Shirley has a style of her own that is there right through from Sweet England (1959) through to For As Many Will (1978). There is some variation in the music from the Shirley and her banjo of Sweet England, through the stunning collaboration with Davy Graham on Folk Roots, New Roots to the electric folk with the Albion Country Band and to the orchestral epic Anthems in Eden Suite.

Still music is highly subjective and what I enthuse about others may not find as easy to get hooked on. I know there are plenty who enthuse about other artists on this forum and I just don't get it (Steely Dan and Miles Davis come to mind). I believe there are even some folks who don't like Half Man, Half Biscuit, but that's probably just a rumour.

Best regards, Rotf

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I believe there are even some folks who don't like Half Man, Half Biscuit, but that's probably just a rumour. Smile

Surely not!
Still we don't want loads of threads with people agreeing with each other though do we?

Howard

Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow - Samadhisound 2005

Listened to Eva Cassidy - Live at blues Alley last night, great stuff.

Listening now to Eva Cassidy - Eva by heart. In particular track 5 Blues in the night is hitting the sweet spot. Awesome.

Spock

Haim[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately not, Haim.
Will look into it...

cheers
Stefan[/QUOTE]

Stefan,

Here is Canto:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104...loyd&Go.x=10&Go.y=10

I am a bit sentimental about this album, since it is the first Lloyd I ever got, without knowing anything of him. The great opening track 'Tales of Rumi' let me know immediately that I had something very special on my hands.

Regards,

Haim

Gavin Bryaers / The Sinking of The Titanic / POINT music

http://www.towerrecords.com/Classical/Default.aspx?free...bmit.x=27&submit.y=6

"All the materials used in the piece are derived from research and speculations about the sinking of the "unsinkable" luxury liner. On April 14th 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg at 11.40 PM in the North Atlantic and sank at 2.20 AM on April 15th. Of the 2201 people on board only 711 were to reach their intended destination, New York. The initial starting point for the piece was the reported fact of the band having played a hymn tune in the final moments of the ship's sinking. A number of other features of the disaster which generate musical or sounding performance material, or which 'take the mind to other regions', are also included. The final hymn played during those last 5 minutes of the ship's life is identified in an account by Harold Bride, the junior wireless operator, in an interview for the New York Times of April 19th 1912


"...from aft came the tunes of the band..... The ship was gradually turning on her nose - just like a duck that goes down for a dive. I had only one thing on my mind - to get away from the suction. The band was still playing. I guess all of the band went down. They were playing "Autumn" then. I swam with all my might. I suppose I was 150 feet away when the Titanic, on her nose, with her afterquarter sticking straight up in the air, began to settle slowly.... The way the band kept playing was a noble thing. I heard it first while we were still working wireless, when there was a ragtime tune for us, and the last I saw of the band, when I was floating out in the sea with my lifebelt on, it was still on deck playing "Autumn". How they ever did it I cannot imagine."


This Episcopal hymn, then, becomes a basic element of the music and is subject to a variety of treatments. Bride did not hear the band stop playing and it would appear that the musicians continued to play even as the water enveloped them. My initial speculations centred, therefore, on what happens to music as it is played in water. On a purely physical level, of course, it simply stops since the strings would fail to produce much of a sound (it was a string sextet that played at the end, since the two pianists with the band had no instruments available on the Boat Deck). On a poetic level, however, the music, once generated in water, would continue to reverberate for long periods of time in the more sound-efficient medium of water and the music would descend with the ship to the ocean bed and remain there, repeating over and over until the ship returns to the surface and the sounds re-emerge. The rediscovery of the ship by Taurus International at 1.04 on September 1st 1985 renders this a possibility. This hymn tune forms a base over which other material is superimposed. This includes fragments of interviews with survivors, sequences of Morse signals played on woodblocks, other arrangements of the hymn, other possible tunes for the hymn on other instruments, references to the different bagpipe players on the ship (one Irish, one Scottish), miscellaneous sound effects relating to descriptions given by survivors of the sound of the iceberg's impact, and so on.


In addition, this new recording includes two different ensembles of children: one of girls, the other of boys (the presence of children on the ship adds greater poignancy to the disaster, especially when one looks at the statistics relating to survivors). One is a string ensemble made up of my two daughters, on cellos, with two of their friends on viola and cello, all of whom have been students of the London Suzuki Group. The other is a fine choir from Suffolk - the Wenhaston Boys Choir - which I encountered through my bass-maker Michael Hart and whose son sang with them for many years.


One of the features of the Bourges recording was the extraordinary acoustic space in which we played. The band were in the basement of the round (disused) water tower, the audience heard the music through Chris Ekers' sound system on the ground floor, and the empty top floor was used as an enormous reverberation chamber. The present recording adds the sound of other ambience spaces to this, including that of the swimming bath in Brussels where the piece was performed 'live' on a raft in 1990. Although I conceived the piece many years ago I continue to enjoy finding new ways of looking at the material in it and welcome opportunities like the present recording to look at it afresh".


Gavin Bryars.


Listening to this facinating music is like being there. Bring a life-vest!

Haim

Pink floyd - all the usual favs.
Meddle.
wish you were here.
relics.
The final cut ect....

regards

So how do you post pictures in the Music Room then?

Steve

Easy, steve.

Just *image* googlel and cut and pste the URL to the Image URL box.

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage!

Drooooooooool. (The music isn't bad either)



Steve

Thanks Kuma, got it.

Steve

Green on Red - Gas Food Lodging

Nice, this pic thingie, and it doesn't even cost Adam storage space...

Gidon Kremer / Kremerata Baltica - Eight Seasons

Just spinning some old vinyl

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Originally posted by Huwge:


Just spinning some old vinyl

Brilliant, this is the album that has the track, Sip the Wine, that they showed Rick mixing in a sequence in the Last Waltz, took me years to track it dowm.

I'm doing some White Stripes this afternoon.

Carla Bley/Gary Burton - Genuine Tong Funeral. As fresh as the first listen in 1968.

XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2). Swindon's best.

Thea Gilmore - Avalanche

Spock

An interesting collective work by Gotan Project, Beanfiled Truby Trio et all. Prodeced by Peter Kruder. Jazzy downtempo chill with an acoustic flare.

Good stuff, kuma !

At my side:


Fit for a snowy/icy Staurday afternoon after returning from the yearly company xmas party - which was wild...

cheers
Stefan