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;
What a good record this is.
As is this.
Tinariwen - Aman Iman (Water is Life).
Phew, that burst of Lizzy certainly got the circulation going .............. time for a pre bedtime calm down.
Quality desert blues from these guys, and it's produced by Justin Adams, of Sensational Space Shifters fame, and no mean
of trance desert blues himself .......... so it's bound to be good. 
I just sent an e-mail to a couple we met at Anat Cohen's concert last week with a list (12) of recommended ECM recordings. This was one of them:
i dug this up just to play 'Cleaning Windows' -- silly me!!! a very old vinyl of mine -- needs a thorough clean on my Loricraft -- but still sounded a lot better than i ever remember!
Enjoy
ken
i really dont know how this worked --- but it did !!!
But I have a confession to make -- when i was a teenager -- i had a crush on a girl next door who looked almost exactly like AK. End of confession!
enjoy
ken
Tidal A+
playing right now before i go to bed -- meant to do that more than an hour ago!!!
how, but how is it possible to have such a beautiful voice?? please tell me...!
enjoy...
ken
Tidal A+ Inspired by Tonfan. First time I listen to this act. TYVM.
Another excellent album I came to know about through the forum:
Tidal A+. Inspired by NigelB who was inspired by James. I have Currency Of Man but I will buy this one, Worrisome Heart and My One And Only Thrill.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Ragged Glory. On CD from 1990. Tough to keep up with such a prolific artist's output and this fantastic album escaped me for some 25 years. Happy to have discovered it a few years ago based on posts here. It's quintessential NY & CH.
Buffalo Tom as I need wakened up this morning.
During workout...
Breakfast treat...
A + 3 | WAV
(1996)
Recently downloaded from Qobuz. Book 2 entitled Libro Segundo de cifras sobre la guitarra española was printed in Saragossa in 1675. A third book, Libro tercero de mùsica de cifras sobre la guitarra española, was added to the first and second books, and all three were published together under the title of the first book in 1697, eventually being published in eight editions. The 90 works in this masterpiece are his only known contribution to the repertory of the guitar
"With the possible exception of Hopkinson Smith's Guerau album, this is the high point of baroque guitar recordings. The colour, phrasing, energy - the poetry - this disc is the closest anyone working in the 'early music' realm has come to achieving the glories of Julian Bream's guitar-playing. As if this weren't enough, Smith's approach to the text - the way he treats the musical sources - is outstanding in both its tase and its inspired freedom. Smith treats the tablatures of Sanz as a diving board into the general ether of Spanish music, popular and artistic, of the 17thc century. Many recordings - I won't name them - apply a misguided textual reverence to the sources. Not this one! Hopkinson Smith tastefully embellishes, repeats, adds, re-fingers, even uses the odd harmonic. Whether each choice is 'right' or not, what he achieves is the recreation of living music, the sense that the music is of the here and now. And far beyond any grand sentiments, he simply makes great music out of it." - An Amazonian
Used copies very cheap on The River.
One of Joe's best IMV. Rocks along, with plenty of attack and Joe's usual verve. The original vinyl (c.1984) is very good.
Hi Res
A + 3 | WAV
(1999)
This really is a very good Jeff Beck album, punchy, fuzzy shredding mixed in with techno beats and blues it rocks along very, very well.
Dido - "No Angel" (1999)
one of my favorite releases from last year...
Hungry Lucy - "The Teatime Sessions" (2008)
On CD:-
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood