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

dave marshall posted:

 

Scientist - Dub from the Ghetto.

Good old skool dub .............. part of the booty from my "last minute.com" raid on Music Magpie's £1.99 sale ........... which ends tomorrow ............get 'em while they're hot folks. 

Thanks for the heads up on Music Magpie, 16 CD's are on there way to me.

Excellent sound quality!

Nickel Creek - Reasons Why (The Very Best)

Yes, I know I have posted this some time ago, but listening to it now reminds me what an absolute belter this is. Tracks so varied it defies categorisation but always underpinned by a wonderful bluegrass/folk leaning, supported by superb musicianship (particularly the mandolin), lovely songwriting and great vocals.

'Tis on Tidal if you fancy giving it a whirl.

Slim68 posted:

dave marshall posted:

 

Scientist - Dub from the Ghetto.

Good old skool dub .............. part of the booty from my "last minute.com" raid on Music Magpie's £1.99 sale ........... which ends tomorrow ............get 'em while they're hot folks. 

Thanks for the heads up on Music Magpie, 16 CD's are on there way to me.

The credit goes to Yetizone, who posted earlier this afternoon on another thread ........... at these prices, silly not to! 

1977 - Vinyl - U.K. First pressing...

Very mellow, funky and easy on the ear with the great Wa Wa Watson  and one of the best percussionists on the planet, Paulinho Da Costa. 

dave marshall posted:

Slim68 posted:

dave marshall posted:

 

Scientist - Dub from the Ghetto.

Good old skool dub .............. part of the booty from my "last minute.com" raid on Music Magpie's £1.99 sale ........... which ends tomorrow ............get 'em while they're hot folks. 

Thanks for the heads up on Music Magpie, 16 CD's are on there way to me.

The credit goes to Yetizone, who posted earlier this afternoon on another thread ........... at these prices, silly not to! 

Thanks Dave I've succumbed and bought another couple of CD's on this offer!

Yetizone posted:

dave marshall posted:

Slim68 posted:

dave marshall posted:

 

Scientist - Dub from the Ghetto.

Good old skool dub .............. part of the booty from my "last minute.com" raid on Music Magpie's £1.99 sale ........... which ends tomorrow ............get 'em while they're hot folks. 

Thanks for the heads up on Music Magpie, 16 CD's are on there way to me.

The credit goes to Yetizone, who posted earlier this afternoon on another thread ........... at these prices, silly not to! 

Thanks Dave I've succumbed and bought another couple of CD's on this offer!

I've just revisited the site too, and it just gets better and better, as they've applied a 10% discount twice over to my latest purchases, so not even £1.99 now. 

1986 - Vinyl - ECM German pressing...

A + | WAV

(2016)

Not in the mood to do mush choosing for now so going straight to a recent favourite of the psychedelic rock persuasion 

King Tubby - Declaration of Dub.

Staying with old skool dub for now, and this is a classic.

Wet and windy here in Dublin, looks like there's a reggae vibe tonight.

.sjb

Sloop John B posted:

Wet and windy here in Dublin, looks like there's a reggae vibe tonight.

.sjb

Works for me mon.

So ................

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution ............... a classic of UK reggae. 

Kraftwerk

Radioactivity  - Tidal HiFi

Now listing to 

George Harrison

All Things Must Pass  - Tidal HiFi

Next

Dire Straits

On The Night  - 16bit 44.1 Wave

Edward

Sweet, radiant! CD rip

A + | WAV

(2014)

Commune | Goat 

Sticking with some more Scandipsyche, this was Goat at their best to date and before they went off the rails with their latest disappointing  "folk" album.

Tony2011 posted:

2011 - MOFI pressing of the 1994 album on 2 x 180g US vinyl freshly cleaned and sounding superb.

2nd listen and SQ is absolutely stunning!

2 x LP - Jazz Village 2014 : )

Ahmad Jamal - piano
Reginald Veal - double bass
Herlin Riley - drums
Manolo Badrena - percussion

Recorded in New York City, October 2011

~ < > ~

Very enjoyable...

superb album 

Nicolas Jaar Sirens

From the Consequence of Sound review :

America is flush with loud warnings. It’s noisy and chaotic, a crumbling facade of rights and wrongs and gun wounds...

During his DJ set at Big Ears this past March, Nicolas Jaar capitalized on that governmental unease. Wall Street calls boomed and a race riot speech played, Jaar welding financial inequality with rampant discrimination particularly well. The crowd stopped dancing to listen. A synthesized sound of America the past and America the present rang like a silent warning, a flashing light with the audio cord cut in two. Sirens, Jaar’s sophomore solo full-length, takes a similar snapshot of our nation, but this time there’s a timelessness in his songs and themes....

... Jaar uses a bucket of specific references and allusions to illustrate his themes. Ahmed Mohamed, the student who was sent to the principal’s office for a homemade clock mistaken as a bomb, appears in a line. The goals of the Black Lives Matter movement creep into the opening track. Despite a lack of samples (excluding a “song from the Andes mountains” used on “No”), Jaar tips his hat to musicians and movements alike. And yet even with all of his allusions, politics, and references, he structures his music so that those who are entirely unaware, who couldn’t care less about his Underworld pronunciation or Latin woodblock, feel in on the sound. He champions the bridge between spacious bass rhythms and synth-dotted soundscapes with music that revamps the conventional. Bangers “The Governor” and “Three Sides of Nazareth” shift the tempo dramatically, the latter of which recalls the pulse of Suicide, and hence an indie kid’s notification to make a beeline for the dance floor. Even the ambient tone of “Leaves” and its occasional Asian instrumentals incite a sway. Though it seems fleeting, Jaar’s hypnotizing songs cradle you until you reach a point of illumination, a bubble of sound that feels limitless in its elongated, looped second, a dance to softened fragments. You don’t have to understand Sirens to enjoy it, and Sirens doesn’t make listeners feel at odds for not understanding it in full either.

Hard to believe this is nearly 25 years old. 

.sjb

A bit of this was played on Radio 3 last Sunday and I was so impressed I, as they say, bought the album.