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;

https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...e-interested-vol-xii

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by Bert Schurink

Trio jazz...

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by ted_p

Lionel Richie

Back To Front - 24bit 96KHz Wave

LR BTF

The Three Tenors

The Three Tenors in Concert - 16bit 44.1 Wave

TTT IC

Edward

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by Bert Schurink

Last one of the night a bit towards pop, but nice...

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by james n

Last one for me. I can't remember where i first heard this album but i've enjoyed her work ever since.

This is a good listen, quite bleak in places but written from the heart.

Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by Loki

Hawkwind: Levitation (1982) blue vinyl, side 2. Mesmerising. My 21 year old son and I sat in the dark to listen. Afterwards he said 'that was really good, you could hear everything' and we talked about how listening without distractions could improve one's focus. The album has a little sleeve note bearing the legend 'a headphone album'. Tim Blake, the blind keyboardist, produced some lovely analogue and digital synthesizer soundscapes which broaden and deepen the soundstage with space-age noises seemingly revolving around the listener in vertical and lateral planes. If you ever went to the London Planetarium for their Laserium shows, it was a bit like that. Quite different from his New Jerusalem album and quite different from everything else Hawkwind produced. Still one of my all time favourites: took me way back!

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by Haim Ronen

Songs From Within: Sheila Jordan (voice), Harvie Swartz (bass)

A very early MA Recordings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC42nNCbvNo

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by Florestan

Nikolai Demidenko plays Liszt

Sonata | Two Legends | Scherzo and March

Over the weekend I have revived my fascination with the Two Legends. Fascinating music so full of imagination and groundbreaking innovation at the piano. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deux_l%C3%A9gendes_(Liszt)

Following a live performance last night I am lucky enough to find Lise de la Salle whose performance is similar if not a little better than what I experienced. The amazing thing is that no video or recording can ever get close to the real thing - that is the rapture of the waves and the power of the struggle against opposition. Very emotional music for me.

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by matt podniesinski

On vinyl.

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by Kevin-W

On CD. For Jaki (RIP):

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by DrMark

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by joerand

Clive B posted:
Kevin-W posted:
Animals, the best album of Pink Floyd's imperial phase in the 1970s, was released 40 years ago yesterday. To celebrate, I'm giving this Japanese first press a spin on the old fruitbox...
40 years?!!!! That is scary!

Imperial phase? That's scary too. Sounds like you're attempting to ascribe some Bowie-esque attributes to PF.

I mean there's the Syd years, post-Syd, the Waters years, then the Gilmour years.

Imperial phase??? Pfff

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by Bert Schurink

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by PaulM160

Bert Schurink posted:

What an incredibly broad set of musical interests you have Bert

Posted on: 22 January 2017 by joerand

Lynyrd Skynyrd. All Time Greatest Hits. On CD from 2000. Transports me right back to days of yore - a smoke-filled bar, pitchers of PBR, shootin' eight-ball, and a dirt parking lot full of pickup trucks. The dump was called 'The Riverside' and on Tuesday nights 12 oz drafts were 25 cents. My buds and I would order a $5 tray, venture into the pool room and see how long we could hold a table. There was always Skynyrd on the jukebox.

Posted on: 23 January 2017 by Nick Lees

Loki posted:
Hawkwind: Levitation (1982) blue vinyl, side 2. Mesmerising. My 21 year old son and I sat in the dark to listen. Afterwards he said 'that was really good, you could hear everything' and we talked about how listening without distractions could improve one's focus. The album has a little sleeve note bearing the legend 'a headphone album'. Tim Blake, the blind keyboardist, produced some lovely analogue and digital synthesizer soundscapes which broaden and deepen the soundstage with space-age noises seemingly revolving around the listener in vertical and lateral planes. If you ever went to the London Planetarium for their Laserium shows, it was a bit like that. Quite different from his New Jerusalem album and quite different from everything else Hawkwind produced. Still one of my all time favourites: took me way back!

Eh? Since when?

Posted on: 23 January 2017 by Stevee_S