Anathema, The Optimist. Tidal

My first listen to this album/Artist and 3 tracks in I already feel I’ll be looking up some of there other work.

Paper Plane posted:

Original vinyl

Why? Heard a song of his earlier today and it always makes the system sound good. Must get more of his stuff.

steve

demo'd my nait2 with it back in 1990. plus an older chrome bumper, maybe original nait. into old linn kans. never heard any of them before, including the album. turned into a great demo, can't recall the cd player tho. 

ewemon posted:

seakayaker posted:

Now Playing.....

Michael McDonald - Wide Open

With a mention from EWEMON and STEVEE_S above I thought I would take it out for a spin. Love the opening track, looking forward to the rest of the album.

You need to give it a real listen as I found some of the trax didn't click with me first time out.

Now Playing.......

Giving Michael's 'Wide Open' another spin. Enjoyed the album the first time through and starting the third track right now, still love his voice and the music is mighty fine. 

Yet another $5 Big Lots score...

Streaming Tidal.    Prince - Purple Rain

Streaming Tidal.  The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Lullabies:  Polina Osetinskaya (piano)

More wiegenlied's than you can shake a stick at but this really suits my mood as the cooler weather and longer nights approach.  Strangely, this type of music wakes me up and tends to make me want to stay up all night listening (and then playing them until the rooster crows...)  Unfortunately, the recording seems to be miked very close so this can come off a little heavy but reducing the volume mostly fixes the issue.

Of the non-familiar pieces, I quite like the Lullaby from the film "Breathing In- Breathing Out" by Anton Batagov.  The highlight of the disc though is Notturno by Ottorino Respighi.  I could not find an example with Polina Osetinskaya so will provide a link to Roberto Plano.  Similar tempo but not quite as dreamy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogf1D0i0O9M

CD2NAIT2ELA1 posted:

Paper Plane posted:

Original vinyl

Why? Heard a song of his earlier today and it always makes the system sound good. Must get more of his stuff.

steve

demo'd my nait2 with it back in 1990. plus an older chrome bumper, maybe original nait. into old linn kans. never heard any of them before, including the album. turned into a great demo, can't recall the cd player tho. 

Great album but I had a love hate relationship with Kans. I loved to hate them. The only speakers I wanted to throw out of a window. I just didn't like their tonality.

Taverner Consort / Andrew Parrott / Taverner Players

J.S. Bach: Trauer-Music (Music to Mourn Prince Leopold)

From allmusic.com

Buyers should note that the music contained here is not the Cantata No. 198, BWV 198, known as the Trauer-Ode or Mourning Ode for Christiane Eberhardine, the Electress of Saxony, although it does contain music from that work. What's presented here is a reconstruction of a piece Bach is known to have composed, a setting of Trauer-Musik or Funeral Music for Prince Leopold of Cöthen, Bach's longtime patron. The text of the work, by Christian Friedrich Henrici (known as Picander, and the author of the St. Matthew Passion text), exists, and Bach is known to have written music for it, now lost. The commission came in on short notice, and conductor and reconstructor Andrew Parrott is arguing not only that what's heard here is plausible but that Bach actually might have used these works in the manner presented here. The sources are the Trauer-Ode and the St. Matthew Passion itself, with the recitatives as Parrott's only original contribution. Does it work? Certainly Bach was an inveterate recycler of his own works, although those of the stature of the St. Matthew Passion are less often treated in this way. It's a bit of a shock to hear the aria "Erbarme dich" from the "Passion redone as Erhalte mich" (track 15). But ultimately the chief issue for the listener may be the questionable one-voice-per-part performance of Parrott's Taverner Consort & Players; the fact that Bach's music was demonstrably performed this way does not mean Bach would have considered such a performance ideal or even desirable. Those agreeable to this method, however, will find this an interesting curiosity, with the intimate, dark tones of the Taverner Players lingering nicely over the intense dissonances in Bach's music. All four soloists are very good, and at least one, bass Thomas Meglioranza, is a newcomer. Fine engineering from the church of St. Michael & All Angels in Oxford, with quiet but colorful sounds, adds to the overall appeal.

Today, where names are being discussed, names including Trevor, Sharon, Brian but mostly .... Nigel. Nigel Havers was invited on to lightheartedly defend his name.

The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding.

Springsteen-like feelgood, before work.

Amorok, Hunt. Tidal.

This album conjures up an image in my mind of Depeche Mode meets Prog. It's an interesting mix that I find very enjoyable.

Actual Wolf- Faded Days.

Dire Straits - Brothers in arms.

Mahler's 7th was premiered this week in 1908.  This is a very good live performance of the 7th.  A symphony that does not have many good recordings.

While making food for dogs

Melody Gardot - Currency Of Man

Moody, captivating, smouldering, swaggering, cool.

Just wonderful.

nigelb posted:

Melody Gardot - Currency Of Man

Moody, captivating, smouldering, swaggering, cool.

Just wonderful.

Just noticed that Ms Gardot manages to be both smouldering and cool at the same time. Such a talent! 

1978 - vinyl - UK pressing with 57’ & 62’ original recordings...