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;
dave marshall posted:
Fink - Biscuits for Breakfast.
I've just ordered his new album, due for release on the 15th., so, just to keep me going for now .......... brilliant stuff.
I bought Perfect Darkness. Still upstairs waiting for the right moment! 
Not as artistic as Keith Jarrett, but very nice o hear...
Fun versions of Renaissance dance music, very foot tapping. This was a regular in my CD player 15 or 20 years ago, I hadn't listened to it for many years that I can remember, decided to give it a stream and it's very enjoyable.
Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:dave marshall posted:
Fink - Biscuits for Breakfast.
I've just ordered his new album, due for release on the 15th., so, just to keep me going for now .......... brilliant stuff.
I bought Perfect Darkness. Still upstairs waiting for the right moment!
I was going to say that "Perfect Darkness" is one of his better albums, but since, IMHO. he hasn't made a bad album yet, it's simply one of a series of stunning albums.
More folks need to be made aware of this guy .................. and we're off to see him in Manchester in November.
Kovacevich's recording of the Grieg and Schumann piano concertos. Lovely Romantic piano playing beautifully backed by the BBCSO under Colin Davis. Great drive and sensitivity, probably my favourite performance of the Grieg.
I was having a great musical night recently and this CD I'd not paid attention to ended up being one of the highlights of the evening. Very sexy music, with great lyrics, his voice is aged and you know he means what he sings. Great guitar work and production that goes very deep.
Fink - Distance and Time.
I fink it's turning into a Fink evening at chez Dave this evening ................. not a bad thing at all. 
Streaming Tidal. Chris Botti - To Love Again. I like the collaboration between Botti and excellent artists. The CD/DVD Live in Boston is also a piece that deserve a spin. "Impressions" I have not tried.
Now Playing......
Neil Young - Hitchhiker
Out of town for a few days and starting back up with the new Neil Young release.......
Marian McPartland
I used to listen every Sunday to McPartland's jazz program on NPR Radio. Here are parts #1 & #2 of her Bill Evans interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIfHtPwF8wY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRH6W3YVgYw
A+. Downloaded 16/44.1 Alison Krauss - Forget About It
Mood is delicate and intimate, good for the last album of the day.
Now Playing......
Tori Amos - Native Invader
A mention from DAYJAY above of "Well worth checking out," has peeked my interest since I enjoy Tori. So I am taking Tori out for a spin......
There have been a lot of albums mentioned since I last played an album last Thursday and have decided to just check out what others have been playing over the past few days.
Another wonderful acoustic album by Reg
Phoebe Bridgers definitely one to watch.
Not sure why she didn't put this out Paxam records, Ryan Adams label as her EP came out on it last year
The new Beck album due out later this month.
5 trax of her up and coming album.
Johan Christoph Bach - Welt, gute nacht.
From allmusic.com
Johann Christoph Bach, not to be confused with Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, was Johann Sebastian Bach's first cousin once removed. An organist and ducal employee at Eisenach, he died in 1703 and was thus a good deal older than J.S. Bach. He may well have been among the great man's influences; the works recorded here have a certain combination of intense expressivity and careful structure that brings the younger composer to mind. They do not outwardly sound like J.S. Bach, however; they come from a generation before him and show a different kind of influence from Italian music. Especially as performed here by the English Baroque Soloists under John Eliot Gardiner, with one voice per part in all the music, they sound a bit like Buxtehude's small religious vocal pieces. The motets might be performed by a choir, but the basically declamatory nature of the language works reasonably well in this kind of setting, and the intensely text-centered, reverent approach cultivated by Gardiner presents this music at its best; the atmosphere in most of these works is prayerful and quite intense. Most of the music is based on biblical texts and reflects the fervent, somber brand of Lutheranism associated with the younger Bach cousin, but the finale, Meine Freundin, du bist schön, was apparently a sort of secular wedding cantata. At least it seems to be; not that much is known of this Bach's music, and it's possible that the piece is one of those works in which Eros is used to allegorize the relationship between the soul and Christ. But if so, it's one of the most involved metaphors on record. At the very least, it makes a charming conclusion to a quietly meditative and altogether lovely recording. Any suspicion that Gardiner was trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel after the conclusion of his successful Bach cantata series has proved unjustified; this is a recording that succeeds on its own terms.