What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)

Paper Plane posted:

Jeremy Irons reading TS Elliot's Four Quartets on Radio 4.

Amazing

steve

Mrs Loki hated it. I thought it rather transcendental: a tangential glimpse of the human condition amplified by Irons' sympathetic and richly phrased reading. Just the sort of thing to see out the old and bring in the new through vicarious reflection of the experiential and the soul.

Vivaldi Gloria: Decca ADRM Ovation vinyl. Original recording 1966 Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Ledger, Wilcox, Baker. Just the sort of thing to re-align one's spiritual direction for 2017. 

Via Tidal, Ulrich Schnauss - No Further Ahead than Today.  Fun, multi-layered electronica.

Redkev posted:

From the masterworks box set 

Absolutely sublime 

Good box set that one. 

Pianist Leszek Mozdzer plays homage to one of Polish music's legends, a short-lived jazz pianist and movie-score composer Krzysztof Komeda. Mozdzer stops dead in the midst of the closing Moja Ballada, as if in acknoledgement of Komeda's sudden and mysterious death in 1969, at the age of 38.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qID3_70KAtk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTfyQOqThM

The Libertines, anthems For Doomed Youth, Tidal.

i enjoyed a couple of songs they played on the Jools Holland show a while ago so put this on, very enjoyable it is too.

A selection I came to own as a result of this forum - great album.

AC/DC. Back In Black (1980). On remastered CD from 2003. Rocks hard top to bottom and chock-full of PRaT on every track.

You cannot have too much Caravan!

To support my case: Waterloo Lily

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(2012)

A mix of psychedelic indie and pop that works incredibly well, Django Django's fine debut album.

Currently playing the excellent 'For Richard' from Caravan's second album 'If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You'. Such a great album title!

Sometimes, only madrigals written by a Renaissance madman will do; especially if they are years (no, centuries), ahead of their time. On CD:

Regarding the question of sides 1 and 4 being on one platter and 2 and 3 on the other, this was so you could stack them on an autochanger, and only have to turn them over once (after sides 1 and 2 had played).

Currently listening to Emma Kirkby singing Dowland songs. Because she has such a pure voice, and because I can't listen to counter tenors. 

The Living Legend (Original 1971 US Curton label 8-track LP by the larger than life Huey, aka James Ramey. Produced by Curtis Mayfield, contains a staggering nine minute version of 'A Change Is Going To Come' [with freestyle monologue in the middle that beggar's belief] plus the heavy grooves of the Mayfield tunes 'Mighty Mighty' and 'Running'.

Vinyl

Chicago, The Heart Of, some great songs but a bit boring back to back.  Flac via Audirvana/Hugo

Plucked randomly from my shelves. Probably not played it since I bought it yonks back. But it's great!

A blast from the 90's whilst using up leftovers from Christmas to make soup.

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Another splendid Jordi Savall/LCdN hybrid SACD - this time J-B Lully:

Pieces Of A Man Gil Scott-Heron, debut studio album reissue of the originally released in 1971 album on the Flying Dutchman label including the epic 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'.