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

Hungryhalibut posted:

This new album from Anouar Brahem is very good indeed. 

Yep. Favorite tracks: 1, 5, 9

kuma posted:

 

Kuma, 

How did you remove the rust from the 552 & 555 player?

As it is raining very hard outside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV5xp_6VKSI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiCnmPwZdF4

Run the Jewels-Run the Jewels 3

Now Playing......

Sturgill Simpson -  A Sailor's Guide to Earth

Recently saw this album mentioned by RAIDER a few days ago, another one of those album covers that grabbed my attention and needed to put it in the queue for a future spin. Well the time is now.....

Three tracks into the album and enjoying it quite a bit.

Now Playing.....

Dominic Miller - Hecho En Cuba

A recent mention from another member and the album cover caught my eye and I placed it in the listening queue.

Through two tracks and enjoying the album......

Now Playing......

The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

I played this a few weeks ago and needed to revisit.....

Haim Ronen posted:

kuma posted:

 

Kuma, 

How did you remove the rust from the 552 & 555 player?

Haim,

I am greatfull it's still working!

Backhaus//Schmidt-Isserstedt/Vienna Phil: Beethoven Piano Concert No.1 - '58 rec.

This was recorded the same year Glenn Gould recorded his Beethoven Concerto 1. Upbeat and brilliant, this is actually  faster than most but I certainly don't feel rushed in anyways. I am in awe of  clarity and precision of his playing yet it's very much down to earth. I guess that's what so dear about Backhaus.  He leaves nothing in ambiguity and pretty straight forward, but I can *smell* a person behind those notes. Rondo is sufficiently funky and fun. Isserstedt's direction is crisp and well articulated complimenting Backhaus. Together they form rhythmic and tight musical presentation. It's amasing to think he was in his 70s when he recorded this. 

Gould/Golschmann/Columbia Symphony ( NYP ) : Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 -  58 rec.

I own multiple reissues both stereo and monos of this album but my original 6 Eye mono sounds pretty darn good. ( actually I prefer this over the stereo release )

His original Rondo cadenza is a hoot and for some reasons, in vinyl sounding even livelier and wackier than digital releases. Plus I enjoy Gould's liner notes.

dave marshall posted:

  Robert Plant - Carry Fire.

  Persevering with this one, as it didn't grab me straight away.

  I think I'm starting to "get it" now .................. wouldn't be the first time that a slow burner has turned into a favourite album. 

Yes I remember this album at first and I was thinking what/really? It took a while and now I consider one of his most outstanding works.

SHOWDOWN by Dirtwire

(2017)

Bach Cantatas

Gotthold Schwarz, Christophe Coin, Laurence Equilbey

Allmusic.com:

Originally recorded for the Astrée label in the early '90s, this recording is something of a classic of the historical-performance movement, and its reissue is cause for celebration. It combines awesome soloists just hitting their peak years, a distinctive overall approach from conductor Christophe Coin and the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, and an illustration of what's possible when Bach's music is played on the instruments he had in mind when he wrote it. The illustration is especially vivid in this case, for all three of these cantatas feature an unusual instrument: a violoncello piccolo, which is a small five-stringed cello with a higher (the extra string is at the top) and less assertive sound than a full-size cello. There is also a second disc of these with the same forces and the same virtues. Coin plays several of these instruments himself and forges an instrumental sound to match its light, ethereal quality. The soloists, especially the young countertenor Andreas Scholl, respond with superbly delicate performances; sample Scholl's aria "Ach, schläfrige Seele, wie? ruhest du noch?" from the Cantata No. 115, "Mache dich bereit, mein Geist," BWV 115. The Cantata No. 49 is one of those metaphorical wedding cantatas with the Jesus conceptualized as a Bridegroom and the Soul as the Bride, calling forth enthusiastic music-making from soprano Barbara Schlick. The list of attractions goes on to include the small, brilliant sound of the period organ, the purity of the singing by the Concerto Vocale of Leipzig, and much more. This belongs in any Bach collection. Notes and texts are in German, English, and French.

Sunken Condos  the fourth solo album from Donald Fagen, released in October 2012. It contained eight new songs from DF and a cover of Isaac Hayes' "Out of the Ghetto".

Prompted to play this (Moanin') by an article in the always interesting London Jazz Collector blog. Great album.

Richard Morris posted:

Prompted to play this (Moanin') by an article in the always interesting London Jazz Collector blog. Great album.

 

Me too Richard. Must just say that the Music Matters 33rpm reissue (ST- 84003) of this classic is outstanding.  

dave marshall posted:

Yup, it's starting to happen here for me too, following a couple more listenings, and I agree with Eoink that the individual songs do make for a coherent whole ................ who knows, a few more plays, and it could end up being a favourite.

Mind you, I still think that Percy hasn't yet surpassed this one.

   Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation - Mighty ReArranger. 

Dave, one of your posts has cost me money (again!) 

Thanks for the heads up. I'd not heard this album so a quick rummage through the 2nd hand CD racks on a well know auction site and I've just ordered a copy.

Yetizone posted:

dave marshall posted:

Yup, it's starting to happen here for me too, following a couple more listenings, and I agree with Eoink that the individual songs do make for a coherent whole ................ who knows, a few more plays, and it could end up being a favourite.

Mind you, I still think that Percy hasn't yet surpassed this one.

   Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation - Mighty ReArranger. 

Dave, one of your posts has cost me money (again!) 

Thanks for the heads up. I'd not heard this album so a quick rummage through the 2nd hand CD racks on a well know auction site and I've just ordered a copy.

Sorry! 

Stevee_S posted:

SHOWDOWN by Dirtwire

(2017)

Thanks for the heads up Steve, I’ll be playing this later today.