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

Am I the only person who's a bit disappointed to find out how Iconoclast listens to so many albums? (Curated playlist from streamer, so not necessarily the full album.) I had this mental image of someone with supersenses sitting listening to an 8X CD drive.

Eoink posted:

Am I the only person who's a bit disappointed to find out how Iconoclast listens to so many albums? (Curated playlist from streamer, so not necessarily the full album.) I had this mental image of someone with supersenses sitting listening to an 8X CD drive.

He must have some kind of super power that mere mortals like you and I can only dream of.

Very smooth album, for an evening listening on a balcony - contemplating about life....

Tony2011 posted:

Eoink posted:

Am I the only person who's a bit disappointed to find out how Iconoclast listens to so many albums? (Curated playlist from streamer, so not necessarily the full album.) I had this mental image of someone with supersenses sitting listening to an 8X CD drive.

He must have some kind of super power that mere mortals like you and I can only dream of.

Superpower = streamer software that can do single or multiple genres in random mode - gapless. Like listening to radio - only better.

I guess I have developed a short attention span.

Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow is the question.

Exploring the music of Ornette Coleman. I knew of him but never really listened to his music.

This is in quartet setting. I usually prefer a piano in the quartet,  but this piano less quartet is really good.

Tony2011 posted:

Eoink posted:

Am I the only person who's a bit disappointed to find out how Iconoclast listens to so many albums? (Curated playlist from streamer, so not necessarily the full album.) I had this mental image of someone with supersenses sitting listening to an 8X CD drive.

He must have some kind of super power that mere mortals like you and I can only dream of.

Commander Data can listen to 150 compositions simultaneously, but usually limits himself to 10 or less .

On CD, with lots of bonus tracks. People often say the Dead's second album is a mess, maybe that's why I like it...

1968 - vinyl - U.K. first pressing...

New arrived today - so far interesting

Pete Jolly with reinforced bass. The UK2 sounds somehow more capable

A + 3 | WAV

(1985)

Why? Because it's a delightful album that I haven't played for a very long time.

"It's been called the album that opened "a new chapter on steel-string guitar playing," and it's unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking albums in acoustic guitar history. Though Hedges had released the excellent Breakfast in the Field in 1981, the Grammy-nominated Boundaries came as an unexpected revelation in 1985. On stirring, complex compositions like "Rickover's Dream", "Spare Change", and a deft instrumental reading of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush", Hedges unleashed a stunning new vocabulary of finger-tapping, hammering, and harmonic slaps--processed with electronics and reverb--that still resounds today in the playing of artists from Ani Di Franco to Preston Reed. Steeped both in classical harmony and the fingerstyle guitar tradition of Leo Kottke, Martin Carthy, and John Renbourn, Boundaries remains the late composer-guitarist's seminal work, and its innovations in technique, tuning, tone, and intensity remain key texts in modern acoustic circles." -- James Rotondi

A + 3 | WAV

(1984)

Playing ripped CD 1 of 2 with much of their early original 1979/80 material on it. 

Joshua Redman - Elastic

An excellent album by Joshua Redman. It’s in a trio setting: sax, drums and keys. Keys meaning that on some tracks a Hammond is used, on other tracks a piano or synth.

This album contains mostly up tempo songs. All members of the band play well. Two stand out: Joshua Redman (of course) and the drummer (Brian Blade). The drummer lays down some nice grooves, imo. This is a studio recording. On some tracks Joshua plays a second sax (e.g. on the chorus). So it sounds sometimes that there is a second sax player, but it is all Joshua playing.

Diana Krall - Turn Up The Quiet

Why? Why you ask? Cos it's Diana Krall in fine form. Nuff said.

Now, Eddi Reader - Angels And Electricity

Lovely, uplifting stuff. 

Female voice, bass and guitar. 

US 1968 Capitol first pressing with a lime green label. Why? 'Cause she's just about the most talented lady ever to emerge from the South - jaw-droppingly good songwriter, brilliant storyteller and has that fabulous sexy Southern drawl of a voice.

This LP, a 'concept album' of sorts, was her first masterpiece and contains the exquisite and sensuous "Morning Glory" and the heartbreaking "Courtyard" - two of her greatest compositions.

A + 3 | WAV

(1970)

Wanting some of those old fuzzy, smokey Alvin Lee riffs...

Muti/Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala : Mefistofele

Samuel Ramey's Mefistofele is just about perfect! Muti sure knows how to build the excitement without sounding hackneyd or cheezy. Nicely paced there is a sense of rhythmic pulse and continuity throughout. ( as he does with all of his operatic scores I have heard to date )