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;
1st run, tone of the piano and violin very engaging ...
ken c posted:Our Charlie Haden on bass... i have great 'respect' for this album...
enjoy...
ken
Me too. Used to have the vinyl but never bought the cd. Now £120 new on The River. Oh well.
Fantastic Plastic Machine: First Class '77
I like this tune the best. For the first time, I looked up the liner notes. NO wonder! it's Yoshinori Sunahara's ( a DJ off the Denki Groove ) tune.
The Wilderness of Manitoba - When you left the fire
When it comes to folk music, I really like this album (and this band).
From allmusic.com:
Canadian folk quintet the Wilderness of Manitoba lives up to its name on its debut album, When You Left the Fire. Using banjo as the dominant instrument, the group builds folk and folk-rock arrangements to support the harmony vocals gently singing whimsical, rustic lyrics that lean heavily on nature imagery, much of referring to watery, if not frozen scenes. The singers concern themselves with issues of family and commitment, and they reflect on contemplative, philosophical matters. "All's well that ends well," they conclude in "Summer Fires," but acknowledge, "I don't know what it's all for" in "White Water." This is music for long winter nights, waiting and hoping for spring to come.
1973 - Vinyl - U.K. Pressing...
Jazz-funk with contributions from Carter, Clark, Cobham among others.
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Berliner/Sanderling
Finnila/Schreier
A decent digital remaster by Optimal Media. Mastered and Cut by Sector 5.
Before the real thunder arrives later today...
G
Tony2011 posted:
1973 - Vinyl - U.K. Pressing...
Jazz-funk with contributions from Carter, Clark, Cobham among others.
OK Tony, I'm gonna play my own Deodato album too... Pops Popwell, George Benson, Larrry Carlton, Ray Gomez, etc. Uk vinyl:
It seems someone was performing these last night. I was counting the seconds between the lightning and the thunder to determine if I needed to unplug all the sensitive electronics around the house.
Kevin-W posted:A random pick. Haven't heard this CD for yonks. Only solo LP (1998) from talented Talk Talk former frontman. It's very good. He should make another.
Hey Kevin,
I played that the other day as well, a great album. Having seen, The Necks recently, it made perfect sense to me that a collaboration between them would work really well. An hour long suite, with Mark's voice & The Necks ability to create many moods was my thinking.
DenisA posted:Kevin-W posted:A random pick. Haven't heard this CD for yonks. Only solo LP (1998) from talented Talk Talk former frontman. It's very good. He should make another.
Hey Kevin,
I played that the other day as well, a great album. Having seen, The Necks recently, it made perfect sense to me that a collaboration between them would work really well. An hour long suite, with Mark's voice & The Necks ability to create many moods was my thinking.
Denis, I'll have to come and see The Necks with you next time they're in town.
On vinyl, the 2017 remix by Martin Jr, first listen. I'm halfway through Side One and initial impressions are: great clarity, bigger emphasis on Ringo and Paul, much more intensity than the stereo mix we all know. It has a lot of the qualities of the mono version, without, perhaps (I haven't done a detailed comparison) being quite as good. It is, however, a definite step up from the previous stereo version.
Jeroen20 posted:Sergey Schepkin - Bach, the six Partitas (via Tidal).
Based upon a tip from Ragman.
Sergey Schepkin plays the partitas at a higher pace then others (e.g. Hewitt, Schiff). With some pieces I found that refreshing (e.g. the Prelude and Allemande of Partita 1). And with some pieces I found it to fast, as if he was rushing it (e.g. the Corrente and Sarabande of Partita 1). Sergey does play the ornaments (sometimes) differently then others, which is a nice change.
Overall I found this a good performance but a bit to fast for my taste.
i have the Hewitt one on Hyperion, i think. Interesting difference you describe there. i will play it today.
enjoy
ken
Art Pepper - The art of Pepper.
OK, so it's the 50th anniversary of its release next Thursday, but I still don't think it's that great. Maybe it was more so in 1967.
Kevin-W posted:
On vinyl, the 2017 remix by Martin Jr, first listen. I'm halfway through Side One and initial impressions are: great clarity, bigger emphasis on Ringo and Paul, much more intensity than the stereo mix we all know. It has a lot of the qualities of the mono version, without, perhaps (I haven't done a detailed comparison) being quite as good. It is, however, a definite step up from the previous stereo version.
Just in case anyone's interested I think the new mix works best on a number of songs: "Fixing A Hole", "When I'm 64", "Within & Without You", "Kite", "Rita" and maybe "A Day in the Life". I still think on balance the mono version is better but anyone still to press the button on this, I say:'Go!'. It is a massive improvement over the 'old' stereo mix.
Listening to the Kraftwerk 3D vinyl box set. First off, Autobahn. While the SQ is very impressive (this is synthetic music sourced digitally of course), I think this recreating doesn't hold a candle to the 1974 original, musically. The original was a 22-minute tone poem, and very beautiful it was too; this version has 10 minutes lopped off, and some of the new sounds don't hold a candle to those glorious analogue synths.
The second side works much better, but I'm also wondering if the complete removal of audience noise wasn't a mistake? And I wonder if Ralf's constant tinkering with the legacy isn't just a case of diminishing returns (The Mix was absolute rubbish, Der Katalog had atrocious mastering).
I think the problem with Kraftwerk is, for all their supposed (by others, nit by Ralf and Florian, I must add) technological advancement, they're (or they were) really a rather romantically inclined 1970s group from the analogue era evoking a mid-century, Mittleuropa world.
Sebastian Knaur - Bach & Sons 2
On this recording Sebastian Knaur (piano) plays keyboard concertos of JS Bach and two of his sons (Johann Christian & Carl Philipp Emanuell).
What's nice about this recording is that you can hear the transition from Baroque to a more Mozart style of music in the keyboard concertos of his sons. Very nicely done.
Daniel Hope plays the violin on these recordings.
Kevin-W posted:Kevin-W posted:
On vinyl, the 2017 remix by Martin Jr, first listen. I'm halfway through Side One and initial impressions are: great clarity, bigger emphasis on Ringo and Paul, much more intensity than the stereo mix we all know. It has a lot of the qualities of the mono version, without, perhaps (I haven't done a detailed comparison) being quite as good. It is, however, a definite step up from the previous stereo version.
Just in case anyone's interested I think the new mix works best on a number of songs: "Fixing A Hole", "When I'm 64", "Within & Without You", "Kite", "Rita" and maybe "A Day in the Life". I still think on balance the mono version is better but anyone still to press the button on this, I say:'Go!'. It is a massive improvement over the 'old' stereo mix.
K.. Agree this is my second listen and it certainly gives the mono release a good run for its money. I am loving what Giles has done with this classic, he has not painted a moustache on the Mona Lisa ...G
Air drumming on a hot Saturday afternoon 