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;
MDS posted:
Something to relax with after dinner.
I prefer a small schnapps. But she's ok.
CD
Adele - "19" (2008)
Via Tidal
Schubert: String Quintet/Rostropovich/Melos Quartet
This is probably one of the best recording of this work ever made. With all the changes especially the cleaning and SL speaker cable it sounds amazing. Hard to imagine it sounding better remastered for CD.
The Stereophile dot com review says
"No prosaic formal classification can begin to describe the universal embrace of life and death that is Schubert's final, posthumously published String Quintet in C major, D.956. Written in his final year, as his health was rapidly deteriorating from syphilis (and, perhaps, the mercury that was likely administered as a "cure"), the quintet melds characteristically Viennese gemütlichkeit with far darker forebodings. Although that darkness is expressed musically rather than through words—Schubert's contemporaneous, bone-chilling song, Der Doppelgänger, is far more explicit in this regard—the rumblings of physical and emotional pain that punctuate the quintet's frequently high-spirited surface reflect a soul, deeply aware of his impending mortality and the transcendence of pain that death can deliver.
Transcendence, in fact, is key to understanding the quintet's breathtakingly beautiful second movement. Often called the most sublime adagio ever composed, it begins with a theme so serenely beautiful, so seemingly suspended beyond time and place, as to express the ultimate peace that death brings. What make the adagio even more astounding are the outbursts of pain and foreboding that eventually rip through its silken fabric and shake us to the quick before returning us to the sublime."
Phil
Alex Parks - "Honesty" (2007)
Finished with ......
Leonard Cohen - Live in Dublin
Three CD set - listened to it throughout the day. Enjoy his voice and lyrics, great backup vocals and band that back him up at live shows.
.....and he works the crowd really well. A worthwhile listen.
A+3 Tidal. Inspired by Stevee-S
......next up
Karen Bergquist (vocals, Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion), Linford Detweiler (Bass, Piano, Organ, Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Mellotron, Mini-Moog, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar), Tony Paoletta (Pedal Steel, Dobro, Acoustic Slide), Will Styles (Drums, Percussion), Paul Mahern (Percussion, Mini-Moog), Jake Smith (Bass), Vess Ruhtenberg (Electric Guitar, Hand-Clap Arrangement), Jason Wilbur (Electric Guitar), Megan Weeder (Violin), Tyron Cooper (Background Vocals, Choir Arrangement, featuring Stephanie Parker and Natasha Evans)
From the liner notes: ".....Karin and I met at a small Quaker College in Canton, Ohio. I heard her sing. Like love, a voice can flood a life with possibility, the mouth of a river flowing from somewhere faraway yet familiar. Eventually we began writing songs together with friends in a Cincinnati neighborhood called Over-the-Rhine. The Ohio river flowed by us all the while, a dozen or so blocks to the south." and ....."In small town America, many of us do grow up in a surreal musical world where Elvis is King. Jesus is Lord.' .....
Karin has a fantastic voice and both Karen and Linford are wonderful musicians. They have been around for awhile and have released a number of albums and are certainly worth a listen.
This album is a two CD set.
Next up.....
Sean Rowe - The Salesman and the Shark
.....just arrived in the mail! Love Sean's voice and his music!
A+3. Tidal.
A+3 | WAV
(1997 | 2003)
Playing the 2003 enhanced remaster with a second CD Insignificance.
"CD 2: contains Insignificance.(demos 1995-96)
Insignificance Is a selection of Steven Wilson's demos that include several tracks that where not recorded for the final Signify album, as well as formative versions of some that were. This is a revised and remastered edition of an album made available only to subscribers of the PT information service Transmission in 1997." - Discogs
Haim Ronen posted:
Used to have this on vinyl. Haven't heard it for years. Must see if it's available.
Very delicate in the seasons...
A+3 | WAV
(1997)
Time for the original album.
Meat Puppets. Too High To Die. On CD from 1994. Perhaps miscreants of their original punk roots, the band evolved into cowpunk and alternative rock. This album shows welcomed overtones of the blues as well.
Studio One compilation.
Richard Morris posted:Haim Ronen posted:
Used to have this on vinyl. Haven't heard it for years. Must see if it's available.
It is! (£208 for the cd from The River or £6.49 in flac from 7Dig).
Simple Minds, Real to Real Cacophony. UK first press, vinyl, with the embossed "slats" on the cover. A random pick from the shelves, and very good it is too.
Eoink posted:
Inspired by Bert, a WAV CD rip of Bostridge's Die Schöne Müllerin with Graham Johnson. BOstridge's light tone works wonderfully for me in this, capturing the young miller's vulnerability beautifully, with sensitive playing from Johnson.
Thanks Eionk, I will listen, but I will be sensitive to Ian's pronounciation of the German language, it often sounds odd (just like a German speaking English) 
Have you see the movie clip of the German Coast Guard hearing on the radio "Mayday, Maday, we are sinking, we are sinking!" and their response: " Zis is ze Zyermen Coast Guard: what are you thinking about?" For sure Ian Bostridge will be much better.