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;
Thanks for the link Gary - will read this article over a coffee later 
Not heard this album in years and had forgotten about the Costello association!
Slim68 posted:Clive B posted:Stevee_S posted:Slim68 posted:Evanescence, Fallen WAV Cd Rip.
Their best album imo.
Their best I agree, super album.
I might bring myself to give this another play over the weekend, that's if I get bored sticking needles in my eyes!
Oddly, over the next 3 months I will be having needles stuck in my left eye, but not because of this album
Good luck with that Simon it sounds like some rather difficult treatment for you... still, its better than having to listen to The Smiths! 
I have been a fan of Bruce Hornsby ever since I heard 'The way it is' somewhere in the Eighties. It's rock music with jazz influences. This CD is a good example of that. He is a good pianist who has recorded jazz music (with Christian McBride and Jack DeJohnette) and also during his live concerts he is known to play classical music.
I enjoyed Jesse van Ruller's CD last night, so I decided to stream another CD of his excellent quartet.
released 44 years ago today...
On vinyl...
On original vinyl...
ToddHarris posted:released 44 years ago today...
Give us a clue Todd - i was a mere toddler then 
Anybody heard of the Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio? I bought this CD years ago and haven't listened to it for at least 5 years.
It the music of Chopin played by a jazz trio. It's actually rather good.
james n posted:ToddHarris posted:released 44 years ago today...
Give us a clue Todd - i was a mere toddler then
Sorry – this is King Crimson’s Larks' Tongues in Aspic. The 40th anniversary CD version was remixed by Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp. One of my desert island recordings…
Thanks Todd
Jeroen20 posted:Anybody heard of the Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio? I bought this CD years ago and haven't listened to it for at least 5 years.
It the music of Chopin played by a jazz trio. It's actually rather good.
Well 'Rather good' is a bit to much. It's a interesting listen, but only once in a while.
Stevee_S posted:
Playing Burning Hell from this recently acquired (4 CD 8 Album) box-set. I have to say it sounds fantastic, crystal clear and seems to have been sympathetically and very well remastered indeed. I've just run the Audirvana Dynamic Range checker over it and the album comes out with a DR of 15/16 which is right up there with the best. This box set looks like being a wee gem and bargain.
From the usual place here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Class...ords=john+lee+hooker
* Update, I am only 8 tracks into this first album of the set and I have to say its one of the finest CD (rips) I have, wow it sounds superb.
Just to repeat, great shout Steve, mine arrived this morning, and, as you say, the SQ is simply marvellous.
Real Gone Music are to be congratulated on the re-mastering, which, for once, enhances the originals.
Petition for them to carry out any future re-mastering of classic recordings???? 
TIme for some Blue Note jazz.
It's Friday afternoon and the sun has just come out . Time for a bit of bombastic Pop Rock 
Simple Minds - Once Upon A Time
dave marshall posted:Stevee_S posted:
Playing Burning Hell from this recently acquired (4 CD 8 Album) box-set. I have to say it sounds fantastic, crystal clear and seems to have been sympathetically and very well remastered indeed. I've just run the Audirvana Dynamic Range checker over it and the album comes out with a DR of 15/16 which is right up there with the best. This box set looks like being a wee gem and bargain.
From the usual place here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Class...ords=john+lee+hooker
* Update, I am only 8 tracks into this first album of the set and I have to say its one of the finest CD (rips) I have, wow it sounds superb.
Just to repeat, great shout Steve, mine arrived this morning, and, as you say, the SQ is simply marvellous.
Real Gone Music are to be congratulated on the re-mastering, which, for once, enhances the originals.
Petition for them to carry out any future re-mastering of classic recordings????
Delighted and relieved that you like it and agree about the SQ, its good to get confirmation that the old lugs are not totally deceiving me yet!! Astonishing value too about £6.50 (delivered) for 8 albums! I'm going to have a nosey around for some other Real Gone Music remastered box sets I think I saw some at the time I was buying this one...
Stevee_S posted:dave marshall posted:Stevee_S posted:
Playing Burning Hell from this recently acquired (4 CD 8 Album) box-set. I have to say it sounds fantastic, crystal clear and seems to have been sympathetically and very well remastered indeed. I've just run the Audirvana Dynamic Range checker over it and the album comes out with a DR of 15/16 which is right up there with the best. This box set looks like being a wee gem and bargain.
From the usual place here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Class...ords=john+lee+hooker
* Update, I am only 8 tracks into this first album of the set and I have to say its one of the finest CD (rips) I have, wow it sounds superb.
Just to repeat, great shout Steve, mine arrived this morning, and, as you say, the SQ is simply marvellous.
Real Gone Music are to be congratulated on the re-mastering, which, for once, enhances the originals.
Petition for them to carry out any future re-mastering of classic recordings????
Delighted and relieved that you like it and agree about the SQ, its good to get confirmation that the old lugs are not totally deceiving me yet!! Astonishing value too about £6.50 (delivered) for 8 albums! I'm going to have a nosey around for some other Real Gone Music remastered box sets I think I saw some at the time I was buying this one...
There's 36 pages of their box sets to browse through on The River ............. that'll be another hour of my life that I won't get back!
dave marshall posted:Stevee_S posted:dave marshall posted:Stevee_S posted:
Playing Burning Hell from this recently acquired (4 CD 8 Album) box-set. I have to say it sounds fantastic, crystal clear and seems to have been sympathetically and very well remastered indeed. I've just run the Audirvana Dynamic Range checker over it and the album comes out with a DR of 15/16 which is right up there with the best. This box set looks like being a wee gem and bargain.
From the usual place here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Class...ords=john+lee+hooker
* Update, I am only 8 tracks into this first album of the set and I have to say its one of the finest CD (rips) I have, wow it sounds superb.
Just to repeat, great shout Steve, mine arrived this morning, and, as you say, the SQ is simply marvellous.
Real Gone Music are to be congratulated on the re-mastering, which, for once, enhances the originals.
Petition for them to carry out any future re-mastering of classic recordings????
Delighted and relieved that you like it and agree about the SQ, its good to get confirmation that the old lugs are not totally deceiving me yet!! Astonishing value too about £6.50 (delivered) for 8 albums! I'm going to have a nosey around for some other Real Gone Music remastered box sets I think I saw some at the time I was buying this one...
There's 36 pages of their box sets to browse through on The River ............. that'll be another hour of my life that I won't get back!
Yep just messaged you (above) about the same thing, will it be too much to hope that all their remastering is to the same standard? Quick glances at various comments about various albums seems to suggest that the SQ is very good. This probably merits a very rare deployment of the exploding sausage 
James Holden & Camilo Tirado – Outdoor Museum of Fractals
This is disc one of a two disc set (the other being by Like Abbott) of improvisations in tribute to Terry Riley, one of the original minimalists. Riley started off being famous for pieces played mostly on a cheap organ fed through tape machines to create on-the-spot loops. The results you either loathe or love and I fall deeply into the latter camp. Holden's contribution is squarely in the mode of Shri Camel, Descending Moonshine Dervishes et al. and is 46 minutes of mesmerising, flowing, eddying improv (with tabla accompaniment from Tirado).
Listening hint: if you don't like it, don't hang around for the big tune to come bursting in...
Big, big thanks to Denis A for pointing me at this in the first place. Mr. A is getting seriously weird in his middle age and is digging up some great stuff.
A + 3 | WAV
(2003)
Because I've been a great fan of their music for quite a while and still need a bit of a musical fix from them now and again.
"Morning Sci Fi sounds like the futuristic product of the breakbeat generation with a fear for the impersonality of the hereafter, clearly manifested in such starkly autocratic song titles as "Higher than a Skyscraper", "We Are in Control" and "Steal You Away". Darkly swooping strings from St Peterburg's Hermitage Orchestra deepen the creases on their furrowed brows while the stealthy bass twang of New Order's Peter Hook (on "True to Form", for example) and some ghostly industrial sound effects (perhaps Martin Hannett's work with Joy Division was an inspiration) add an engaging level of tension to Morning Sci Fi's brutally wintry soundscapes." -- Kevin Maidment (Amazonian comment)