What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2017
2017 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread can be found here;
Emily's third album. Although I have this on vinyl, I can't face the hassle, so am playing the CD RIP to NS01.
1998 - Seminal album of the 90s. On CD(WAV) because, just like Clive, I cannot be Ar5ed to get the vinyl out. Besides, there is so much digital source here, apart from the sampled albums, that it is pointless to play the vinyl(s) and pretend it is "analogue". That does not detract from the fact that it is a remarkable album.
Continuing my Magic Slim jag .. my, this is superb album, this band is so tight ..
Emily's fourth album. CD rip.
A woman for all times:
Hildegard of Bingen, O.S.B. (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.
Hildegard was elected magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136; she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play.She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias. She is also noted for the invention of a constructed language known as Lingua Ignota.
Although the history of her formal consideration is complicated, she has been recognized as a saint by branches of the Roman Catholic Church for centuries. On 7 October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named her a Doctor of the Church. (Wikipedia)
A neglected release of one of the most gifted jazz vocalists right now...
Thomas is a great talent on the jazz podium. He integrates a lyrical style, with a good understanding of classical music into a mix with a aligned rhythm section....
wonderful power trio of drums/bass/keyboards from 1970. Formed out of Episode 6. Sadly only recorded the one album.
And yes-named after Professor Quatermass from those great BBC programmes
Steve
The last one of the evening - a milestone in music...
First play for this one.
Richie Cole - alto sax
Hank Crawford - alto sax
Emily Remler - guitar
Marshall Hawkins - bass
Victor Jones - drums
Recorded live in Nimes, 16 July 1987
A nice mellow end to the day with this
Beck - Morning Phase
Ending the evening with something simple and relaxing - 10cc
Parts of this album are bordering on genius and just beautiful. Flac via Audirvana/Hugo
Morton Feldman: Crippled Symmetry (1983):
The California EAR unit.
Scored for a trio of flute/bass flute, vibraphone/glockenspiel, and piano/celeste, the instrumental colors are immediately attractive, as are the short melodic figures that are performed. Beneath the surface attractiveness, however, lies a wealth of ideas about sound, patterns, and relationships between notes that repay intense study. Feldman's ability to overlay asymmetric patterns resulting in surprising (but always perfect) juxtapositions of tones and rhythms is astonishing and unique. He famously drew inspiration from Turkish carpets and one can easily analogize a close perusal of those weavings to music such as this. (AllMusic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0NTi3FRtHI
Sun Ra - Blue Delight. CD rip. The space traveler & his Arkestra dock on earth for a joyful hour. John Gilmore, Don Cherry, Tommy Turrentine!
Vinyl
Son of James McMurtry.
ewemon posted:
Son of James McMurtry.
Are they similar in style Ewen?
A + | WAV
(2014)
"[exploring] the far reaches of folk, laced with West African influences, hypnotic modernist pulsing and beyond. While the record extends into cinematic and other-worldly territories, it maintains a campfire-like intimacy throughout."
