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

(2004)

Almost desperate for something to relax with and this was the first to hand in the virtual library. 

Elizabeth & the Catapult  -  "The Other Side Of Zero"  (2010)

First listen, so far so good!!  

On vinyl...

Arrived today & increasing my admiration for Arvo Part exponentially 

Five of the tracks here...

  Graham Parker and the Rumour - Heat Treatment.

   It's nostalgia hour ............. a wee slice of late 70's pub rock from one of the best live bands at the time.

Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons  -  "salt lake city"  (1998)

Now Playing......

Beth Orton - Kidsticks

Checking out another Beth Orton album.......

1970 - vinyl - uk first pressing...

(1991)

More stuff of a different kind to chill with, these boys  and girls always knew how to get it done. 

Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City

I got even more literal than usual.

Lee Morgan - The gigolo

   Fantastic Negrito - The Last Days Of Oakland.

   Slightly bonkers modern take on the blues .................... hugely entertaining, and highly recommended.

   Best of all, it's out there on Tidal. 

ewemon posted:

Me too! It’s rather lovely, but then so are all her other albums.

It’s cheaper on Qobuz France than UK so if you have accounts with both sites then French is the way to go.

Now playing.....

Donald Fagen - Kamakiri

Continuing on with some Donald Fagen, some late morning smooth foot tapping music, certainly makes me smile.......

Since discovering the very talented Ms Krall from this thread I've bought several of her albums and enjoyed each one. That said, recently I've noticed that my de-fault choice seems to be to pluck this album from the rack.   

MDS posted:

Since discovering the very talented Ms Krall from this thread I've bought several of her albums and enjoyed each one. That said, recently I've noticed that my de-fault choice seems to be to pluck this album from the rack.   

MDS,same here she has made some superb albums.

MDS posted:

Since discovering the very talented Ms Krall from this thread I've bought several of her albums and enjoyed each one. That said, recently I've noticed that my de-fault choice seems to be to pluck this album from the rack.   

Mike, I have most of Ms Krall's albums but this is my favourite. The only album where she plucked up the courage to write much of the material, helped and encouraged by her husband Elvis Costello. Some personal tales in there and it shows in her performance. It is one of her most underrated pieces of work IMO.

nigelb posted:

MDS posted:

 

Since discovering the very talented Ms Krall from this thread I've bought several of her albums and enjoyed each one. That said, recently I've noticed that my de-fault choice seems to be to pluck this album from the rack.   

Mike, I have most of Ms Krall's albums but this is my favourite. The only album where she plucked up the courage to write much of the material, helped and encouraged by her husband Elvis Costello. Some personal tales in there and it shows in her performance. It is one of her most underrated pieces of work IMO.

I didn't know that, Nigel. Thanks.

Keith Jarrett - Changeless

From allmusic.com:

One of only a handful of Keith Jarrett "Standards" Trio records without a standard within earshot, this is a triumph, for Jarrett has successfully brought the organically evolving patterns of his solo concerts into the group format. Each of the first three selections is built upon a constant revolving ostinato, and each evolves from one stage to the next like a Jarrett solo piano improvisation. "Dancing" has a swaying Latin beat in the percussion and bass; "Endless" is full of lyrical invention at a slower tempo; "Lifeline" is catchy and hypnotic; and the fourth number, "Ecstasy," grows out of "Lifeline," closing the album perhaps inevitably with a drawn-out, peaceful piano tremolo. Bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette are clearly listening hard, going with the flow. The recordings were taken from four separate concerts in Denver, Dallas, Lexington, KY., and Houston. Jarrett may spout off about society's self-centered soullessness in his querulous liner notes, but he and his trio have clearly backed his words by example, pulling off a genuine collective musical experience.

Tony2011 posted:

1973 - vinyl - UK first pressing...

Tony,

last week while i enjoyed a good blast from the past listening to my recent purchase of a pre-owned Yes Tales of Topographic Oceans on double vinyl, i read up about the recording of the ablum from Wiki, and found these paragraphs rather amusing:  

When the band [Yes] settled into Morgan Studios in Willesden, Lane and Anderson proceeded to decorate the studio like a farmyard. Squire believed Lane did so as a joke on Anderson as he wished to record in the country. Anderson brought in flowers, pots of greenery, and cut out cows and sheep to make the studio resemble a garden as a typical studio did not "push the envelope about what you're trying to create musically". Wakeman recalled the addition of white picket fences and his keyboards and amplifiers placed on stacks of hay.  At the time of recording, heavy metal group Black Sabbath were recording Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) in the adjacent studio. Singer Ozzy Osbourne recalled the Yes studio also had a model cow with electronic udders fitted and a small barn to give the room an "earthy" feel.  "About halfway through the album", said Offord, "The cows were covered in graffiti and all the plants had died. That just kind of sums up that whole album". At one point during the recording stage, Anderson wished for a "bathroom sound" effect on his vocals and asked the band's lighting engineer, Michael Tait, to build him a plywood box with tiles stuck onto it. After Tait explained to Anderson that the idea would not work, Tait "built it anyway".  Sound engineer Nigel Luby recalled that tiles would fall off the box during recording takes.

Wakeman felt increasingly disenchanted by the album during the recording stage, and spent much of his time drinking and playing darts in the studio bar. He also spent time with Black Sabbath, playing the Minimoog synthesiser on their track "Sabbra Cadabra". Wakeman would not accept money for his contribution, so the band paid him in beer.

In one incident during the last few days of mixing, Anderson left the studio one morning with Offord carrying the tapes. Offord placed them on-top of his car in order to find his car keys, and proceeded to drive away, forgetting about the tapes. They stopped the car to find the tapes had slid off and fell on the road, causing Anderson to rush back and stop an oncoming bus to save them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...m_Topographic_Oceans

   North Mississippi Allstars - World Boogie Is Coming.                                 North Mississippi Allstars - Shake Hands With Shorty.

   Carrying on from where Fantastic Negrito left off, more bonkers dixie fried blues from the Allstars .............. again, hugely  

   entertaining.    

First play. Stripped back, Julia with piano. Stunning voice, superb renditions of some of her back catalogue.

First up, Mary Chapin Carpenter - time * sex * love

......then Sarah Jarosz - Undercurrent

.....and now Mighty Mo Rodgers - Blues Is My Wailin' Wall

Why? They are all belters of course.

nigelb posted:

First up, Mary Chapin Carpenter - time * sex * love

......then Sarah Jarosz - Undercurrent

.....and now Mighty Mo Rodgers - Blues Is My Wailin' Wall

Why? They are all belters of course.

Might well have been yourself, Nigel, who recommended this one a few weeks back ............ if so, great shout ................ stonking album.