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;
ewemon posted:
That is a great title and cover Ewe. Music any good?
Her best album IMHO (until the release of 'Metal Illness', which is possibly knocking the dodo off the top spot)
Kevin-W posted:ewemon posted:
That is a great title and cover Ewe. Music any good?
I know you didn't ask me but I had a listen to this last week and thought it was a solid album. Very enjoyable.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): John Eliot Gardiner | The English Baroque Soloists | The Monteverdi Choir
Cantatas Vol 21: Cambridge / Walpole St. Peter
It is Palm Sunday and the usual marker for when I tend to work through many Cantatas and then ultimately the St. John & St. Matthew Passions...
The more I grow familiar with Haydn's Op 20, the more I am convinced these are his best works. He went on to write many more, but there is a freshness to the op20 set that, for instance, op33 lacks. Good recordings are plentiful, but the Doric and Chiaroscuro quartets are the ones I've been coming back to in recent years.
The Chiaroscuro, led by Alina Ibragimova, take an imaginative approach. Less consistent or controlled than the Doric, the intent to take musical ideas and follow these through before returning to the main line is a huge feat and works more often than not.
Cheers
EJ
Missy Mazzoli”s Vespers from 2014. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the Ecstatic Music Festival. Recording on New Amsterdam Records.
“The work is a distorted, wild, blasphemous take on the traditional Vespers prayer service…” - Mazzoli
Haim Ronen posted:Florestan posted:Haim Ronen posted:Haim, great album but I wonder if I am the only person in the world who find the front cover..."ackward?" Not sure who is responsible for the album design but this one misses the mark by a wide mark.
Personally, I think it belongs in Bert's strange album cover thread.
Doug,
Unfortunately, in our overly political correct world we live in, nothing is safe from ackwardness aside of the Beatles white album..
Haim, resist as I might, I cannot. Being a disciple of political correctness myself I am shocked by your inappropriate example. In today's enlightened..oops, I mean endarkened...oops... I mean in today's nonspecific world, all of us progressives must stick together and march, protest, destroy and burn our cities to demonstrate how to make the world right again..I mean left again. 
Another BG double header on CD to provide inspiration while working...
Beautiful debut album. I feel a folk rock evening is in the offing.
Florestan posted:Haim Ronen posted:Florestan posted:Haim Ronen posted:Haim, great album but I wonder if I am the only person in the world who find the front cover..."ackward?" Not sure who is responsible for the album design but this one misses the mark by a wide mark.
Personally, I think it belongs in Bert's strange album cover thread.
Doug,
Unfortunately, in our overly political correct world we live in, nothing is safe from ackwardness aside of the Beatles white album..
Haim, resist as I might, I cannot. Being a disciple of political correctness myself I am shocked by your inappropriate example. In today's enlightened..oops, I mean endarkened...oops... I mean in today's nonspecific world, all of us progressives must stick together and march, protest, destroy and burn our cities to demonstrate how to make the world right again..I mean left again.
I'm so triggered by this. I must go protest this statement!
sjbabbey posted:
Beautiful debut album. I feel a folk rock evening is in the offing.
Agreed. Great singers and musicians. 'Saratoga Swimming Song' (from Tell My Sister) is one of my all time favourite songs.
Richard Morris posted:sjbabbey posted:
Beautiful debut album. I feel a folk rock evening is in the offing.
Agreed. Great singers and musicians. 'Saratoga Swimming Song' (from Tell My Sister) is one of my all time favourite songs.
Yup, producer Joe Boyd certainly managed to assemble some fine players e.g. Lowell George, Andrew Gold and Tony Levin just to name a few.
Well, I think this qualifies as their Folk Rock album
Which leads me inevitably to this chap
Time for some modern jazz!
Just finished listening to Joshua Redman.
And now listening to Jasper Somsen.
On double 45rpm vinyl...
Sun Kil Moon - Benji, on vinyl...
Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram
On CD
On vinyl...
On CD. Pehaps one of my very favourite of the Picks that Dick did - from my favourite Dead period (73-74). Jazzy noodling at its finest...
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
On CD
From Amazon:
Award-winning Dutch guitarist Jesse Van Ruller changes gears on his second Criss Cross outing, fronting a stellar quartet with Seamus Blake on tenor sax, Sam Yahel on organ, and Bill Stewart on drums. His previous album focused mainly on standards and classic jazz vehicles. In contrast, "Circles" showcases the leader's compositional talents first and foremost. In addition to six varied Van Ruller originals and one by tenorman Seamus Blake, the group offers a ballad reading of "Gone with the Wind" and a brisk, odd-metered rendition of the Irving Berlin classic "Cheek to Cheek." With his crisp tone, fluid phrasing, and vibrant imagination, Van Ruller continues to stake his claim as one of the globe's most promising straightahead jazz stylists.
Vinyl
Why? I need to relax after helping with an energetic 3 y.o. granddaughter all weekend.
steve