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: 22 February 2006 by HR
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by Jono 13
Last night I cranked my trusty Systemdek into life and spun the following:

New Order - Peel Session from 1982
Shreekback - Feelers (b side of Little Birds 12")
Talking Heads - Houses in Motion 12"
Gomez - Macismo EP, which features a competition to play your instruments as slowly as possible.

Very good mini session.

Jono
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by Tam


Stunning stuff.

Fredrik, I was afraid it would be the Davis sets - I keep hearing goo things about them and suspect at some point I will have to open my wallet.

regards, Tam
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by Guido Fawkes


Comus - First Utterance

This early 70s album is strange and I've not made my mind up whether I like it - the re-release got stunning reviews. It sounds like Family met Captain Beefheart at an Amon Duul concert and then went home to play some Fairport Convention - four groups I like individually, but the amalgamation of so many sounds is very unusual.

Some of the lyrics are very Wicker Man

You stand before me defenceless
your stare unchanging silent, cold, intense sears my brain
drip drip from your sagging lip
liquid red down your body spreads.

I think if I play it few times I'll grow to like it.
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by Sloop John B
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by Sloop John B
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by Tam


Walter/NYPO, Mahler symphony no. 2

regards, Tam
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by Analogue
Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins - Neck and Neck
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by sjust

Great purchase. Mainstream and not mainstream at the same time. Surely not boring !

cheers
Stefan
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by HR


Stefano Battaglia / Raccolto / ECM

Stefano Battaglia, piano
Giovanni Maier, Double-bass
Michele Rabbia, percussion

First listening of the double disc.

Haim
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by Earwicker
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by niceguy235uk
Radiohead - Amnesiac. i know you all hate them but i dont. So there.

And it will sound even better when my 202/200 arrives. Smile
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by erik scothron
quote:
Originally posted by niceguy235uk:
Radiohead - Amnesiac. i know you all hate them but i dont. So there.

And it will sound even better when my 202/200 arrives. Smile


Are they the bunch that who supposedly had the best album of all time? Up to that vote I had not only not heard of the album but I had never heard of the band. Was it rigged?
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by u5227470736789439
Bach, First Orchestral Suite. Busch Chamber Player, recorded in New York Town Hall, from a 1943 concert inclung all sorts of Baroque and even more or less Renaisance Music. Though not the last word in Historically Informed Performance Practice by todays' standard, it is amazing to realise both how fine these old perforamnnces are and how far ahead of their time! Busch was a superb musician, who seemed to have no limits on the repertoire he could turn to Gold! A largely unsung hero to say the least.. His Bach is enough to make one wonder just how far we have come, in a manner, in spite of a more correct approach, using a harpsichord, and not the piano as continuo keyboard, though even he conceded this point by 1946, when he recorded the 12 grand concertos Opus 6 of old GF Handel! M Horzowsky was the very stylish player of the harpsichord then, though he was one of the great pianists, and friend of Busch and Casals...

All the best from Fredrik
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by HR


Djivan Gasparyan / Ask Me No Questions /Traditional Crossroads

Gasparyan playing the duduk which is one of the oldest wind instruments in the world, from early pre-Christian Armenia.

Haim
Posted on: 23 February 2006 by smiglass
Posted on: 24 February 2006 by Sloop John B


Long time since I listened to this. It really is a beautiful album both musically and lyricalaly.
Posted on: 24 February 2006 by Rasher
Posted on: 24 February 2006 by Sloop John B



Prince Hits One.
Posted on: 24 February 2006 by Sloop John B


Great early 90's album
Posted on: 24 February 2006 by HR
In the car today:



Chirstian Wallumrod / Sofeinberg Variations / ECM
Posted on: 24 February 2006 by HR


Iro Haarla / Northbound / ECM
Posted on: 24 February 2006 by Tam


Verdi - Don Carlos. Domingo, Abbado and La Scala.

regards, Tam
Posted on: 24 February 2006 by Sloop John B



a long long time since I listened to this one.

Side 3 is still my favourite side. Didn't things just come so effortlessly to Bob back then?
Posted on: 24 February 2006 by Tam
Mozart symphony No. 41. Barenboim/ECO.

regards, Tam