What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)

Best Girl Athlete - Best Girl Athlete

New album bought on Bandcamp. You might be interested in silky smooth vocals, pianos and strings and a scottish rapper on the odd track. Nice. 

Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference, from Bandcamp.

Home sweet home !

Perfect for a relaxing lunch break browse through the forum

Zero 7 - Simple Things

Great voice, audiophile recording...

Jan Willem de Vriend - Handel

From allmusic.com

This triple SACD set of George Frederick Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, is an exquisite offering of Baroque music at its best, as well as an excellent demonstration of the principles of historical practices. Jan Willem de Vriend leads the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam in authentic period style performances, and the ensemble scintillates with the bright sonorities of 18th century winds, strings, and continuo, produced by some of the Netherlands' finest musicians. De Vriend leads from the violins, and the soloists are regular members of the consort, so there is a unity of purpose and a consistency of playing style that come from long association in the group. This is particularly critical in the concerto grosso form, for the separation of the concertino and the ripieno is not especially great, and interchanges between the groups are trade-offs of material, rather than dramatic contrasts of musical content. The playing is uniformly clean and precise, and the reproduction is crystal clear, so every note is audible. The 12 concerti grossi are presented in numerical order and divided equally over the three SACDs, so the presentation is straightforward. Anyone looking for a place to turn after hearing Handel's Water Music or the Music for the Royal Fireworks should consider trying Op. 6, and this recording is an admirable choice.

(2016)

Radical Action (To Unseat The Hold of Monkey Mind)

"The set includes at least one performance of every song/piece of music played by King Crimson in 2015, some pieces originally composed in 1969 the year of the band’s inception, others composed/initially performed at a variety of points since, some new to the tour, all arranged for this specific line-up. Indeed it is characteristic of this King Crimson – in direct contrast to all other post 1970s line-ups - to feature a broad range of material from the 1969 - 1974 era, performed in such a manner as to maintain much of what made the music so arresting when first issued, while arranged for fresh interpretation by the seven piece line-up of today. As Fripp put it (when asked what the title of the album meant to him): “What I like about this band is, that what it is actually doing is not what it appears to be doing...”. The idea of King Crimson re-imagined, that the music as presented is new, irrespective of when originally composed, is the key element in this band’s makeup."

Then switched to this one - a great one as well...

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

I bought this CD for £2 from my local independent record store (yes they still exist), ripped it and am streaming it now. Sounds superb and this may have taken over as my favourite Jack Johnson album.

In fact I bought 6 CDs for £16. Now that is what I call VFM! 

My girlfriend was then motivated to this..

Now back to some real stuff...

Mary Chapin Carpenter - time * sex * love * 

Another £2 CD steal. I have seriously lucked out with my CD scoop today.

Goodness, our Mary Chapin can hold a choon.

(2008)

In recent weeks I've been drawn back to the fine sounds these boys make probably for all the reasons below.

"The Black Angels bring the aura of mid-1966 the drilling guitars of early Velvet Underground shows, the raga inflections of late-show Fillmore jams, the acid-prayer stomp of Austin avatars the 13th Floor Elevators everywhere they go, including the levitations on their second album, Directions to See a Ghost. Mid-Eighties echoes of Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain also roll through the scoured-guitar sustain and Alex Maas’ rocker-monk incantations. But he knows what time it is. ‘You say the Beatles stopped the war," Maas sings in ’Never/Ever.’ ‘They might’ve helped to find a cure/But it’s still not over.’ Even so, this medicine works wonders." – David Fricke, Rolling Stone

On CD:-

Chris Rea - Road Songs For Lovers

Hornung trio - Spieler.

Checking out this new trio on Qobuz. Sounds good so far.

Thank you all for posting this man's records!

I was distracted onto the Beatles thread and after reading about the idea of an extended White album release had to play this (volume 3).