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;
Now playing.......
Charlie Hayden & Chris Anderson - None But The Lonely Heart
Great bass and piano, soothing, just wonderful!
A+3 | Tidal
(2017)
Blue Note compilation with some killer tracks like Congalegre and Recardo Bossa Nova.
Sebastian Knaur - Uberbach
From Amazon:
The UberBach album is a collection of compositions by the Munich-based composer Arash Safaian on themes by Johann Sebastian Bach. Safaian starts off with various pieces by Bach- chorales, orchestral works, organ and clavier music- and works with them to create five concertos for piano, vibraphone and chamber orchestra. Arash Safaians musical partner is the internationally acclaimed pianist Sebastian Knauer. Sebastian Knauer writes of this project: When I heard the first example of UberBach, I was enthusiastic about the project at once. The virtuosity of the piano part, the melodiousness of the compositions and the closely woven sound made a deep impression on me. I imagined I was listening to Bach and yet it sounded too modern for the original. He called his long-time musical partner, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the very next day and organized the recording. Arash Safaian is an artist, composer, and producer. He is the son of artist Ali Akbar Safaian, an important representative of Iranian modernism. Born in Teheran, he grew up in Bayreuth, where he was exposed to Richard Wagners operas at an early age. Alongside his interest in music, painting and sculpture shaped his childhood and youth. He has made his mark as a composer with orchestral works, ensemble pieces, film music and operas. He currently lives and works in Munich.
Recommended, intensive...
Ivo Janssen - Bach: Fantasies Capriccios Variations
Jeroen20 posted:Ivo Janssen - Bach: Fantasies Capriccios Variations
He is great and recorded many of Bach's works. Listen to some Bach's transcriptions of Vivaldi.
Newish release from this stellar lineup - very enjoyable. Tidal.
One of my three or four favourite albums ever, on Japanese vinyl:
Zoot Sims and Joe Pass - Blues for two
Borders Nick posted:Newish release from this stellar lineup - very enjoyable. Tidal.
Not a big fan of Medeski or Scofield but somehow this works.
Barenboim/CSO play the 6th Symphony of Tchaikovsky coupled with Barenboim playing the 8th Piano Sonata of Beethoven on Teldec.
On CD
On CD till next week then going to see her live at Falmouth 
If To Pimp a Butterfly was the best rap album in 2015, Damn. is the platonic ideal of the best rap album of 1995, a dazzling display of showy rhyme skills, consciousness-raising political screeds, self-examination and bass-crazy-kicking. Kendrick has many talents – pop star, avant-garde poet, lyrical gymnast, storyteller.
Alfa4life posted:On CD till next week then going to see her live at Falmouth
Fantastic singer - Mrs Strat and I saw her at Birmingham a few weeks ago. Superb performance.
Regards,
Lindsay
On Tidal , very nice and relaxing.
Georges Bizet - L'Arlesienne
The Strat (Fender) posted:Alfa4life posted:On CD till next week then going to see her live at Falmouth
Fantastic singer - Mrs Strat and I saw her at Birmingham a few weeks ago. Superb performance.
Regards,
Lindsay
Love the track "Kentish Town Waltz" - it takes me to another place!
Big Big Train - London Song. EP. Bandcamp download. A brief re-visit of some gentle prog seemed suitable this afternoon.
