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?
So, what are you listening to right now?
This is a YAGA - Yet Another Great Album - the very enjoyable Eddi Reader.
Suspicious Minds - what a song.
SJB
quote:Originally posted by dsteady:quote:Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:quote:Originally posted by dsteady:
This is a great album.
Yes!
Gianluigi,
You should check out Jeff Parker "The Relatives" if you like Tortoise. It is more of a jazz album (The Relatives) but has some of the sonic attributes as Tortoise. Parker played with them on later albums and they are both produced by John McIntire for Thrill Jockey Records.
Daniel
Ciao Daniel and thanks a lot!
John Herndon of Tortoise/Isotope 217 with Prefuse 73:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=OWctopy1yo8&feature=related
what a refreshing thought to have good music to come home to...
Regards
Mark
Regards
Mark
Sometimes a good cheap old tune is better than thousands hours in the fridge cold of the cyberspace looking for echoes.
I love Dire Straits.
Can't help it.
I love Dire Straits.
Can't help it.
I didn't know
Jsut back from Peterborough with my new babies,report in next couple of days. I'm knackered so a sit down a cup of tea and some:-
Very nice
quote:Originally posted by ROTF:
Julia Fordham - Porcelain
An excellent record that I'd previously overlooked - a big thanks to another forum member for letting me hear how good this album is.
As far as I am concerned, that's all you need for julia.
did you get that in vinyl?
Piano & violin music by Maurice Ravel & George Enescu.
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Peter Nagy, piano
Before switching to snow blower music outside.
quote:Originally posted by kuma:quote:Originally posted by ROTF:
Julia Fordham - Porcelain
An excellent record that I'd previously overlooked - a big thanks to another forum member for letting me hear how good this album is.
As far as I am concerned, that's all you need for julia.
did you get that in vinyl?
It's a silver disc to spin away in the CDX2.
FB is to SJB as HMHB is to ROTF
SJB
Another album I was missing out on - from the first track Don't Kill It Carol you know that Angel Station by MMEB is going to worth a spin - and it most certainly is - sounds really good on ye olde CDX2.
whatever possessed them to enter the Eurovison I'll never know but they are one of the finest Irish traditional groups around at the moment.
SJB
my favourite Naim CD
SJB
quote:Originally posted by Sloop John B:
whatever possessed them to enter the Eurovison I'll never know but they are one of the finest Irish traditional groups around at the moment.
SJB
This is a superb album.
I didn't know they entered Eurovision, but then all great groups must to aspire to this highest of accolades - wonder why the Beatles, Kinks or ELP didn't enter? Could next year's contenders be HMHB?
following one of Fred's albums with one of his many splendid suggestions
Gamelan of the Love God;
This album is a document of a very specific (and very rare) form of gamelan performance that fell out of favor in Bali in the early 1900s, partly due to Western influence and partly due merely to an evolution of local tastes and customs. In Bali in the 1970s, when these recordings were made, the dominant form of gamelan was known as gamelan gong kebjar, a style characterized by fast, aggressive playing and rapid shifts in volume and intensity, and best heard on Nonesuch’s Golden Rain album. In contrast, the older form heard on this album, “gamelan of the love god,” is much subtler, more textured -- though still very dynamic. The semar pegulingan ensemble recorded here is somewhat reminiscent of the more stately gamelan style of Java (as heard on The Jasmine Isle and the Court Gamelan series), though the Balinese players also seem informed by their own island’s newer gong kebjar style. Maintained almost artificially in a few Indonesian villages by Western ethnomusicologists and Balinese enthusiasts of the style, the gamelan heard here is nothing short of stunning.
SJB
Gamelan of the Love God;
This album is a document of a very specific (and very rare) form of gamelan performance that fell out of favor in Bali in the early 1900s, partly due to Western influence and partly due merely to an evolution of local tastes and customs. In Bali in the 1970s, when these recordings were made, the dominant form of gamelan was known as gamelan gong kebjar, a style characterized by fast, aggressive playing and rapid shifts in volume and intensity, and best heard on Nonesuch’s Golden Rain album. In contrast, the older form heard on this album, “gamelan of the love god,” is much subtler, more textured -- though still very dynamic. The semar pegulingan ensemble recorded here is somewhat reminiscent of the more stately gamelan style of Java (as heard on The Jasmine Isle and the Court Gamelan series), though the Balinese players also seem informed by their own island’s newer gong kebjar style. Maintained almost artificially in a few Indonesian villages by Western ethnomusicologists and Balinese enthusiasts of the style, the gamelan heard here is nothing short of stunning.
SJB
a long time since I gave this a spin
SJB
On vinyl:-
I'd forgotten what a great album this is.
I'd forgotten what a great album this is.