What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2017
2017 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread can be found here;
Last one (on CD) before heading out to Frappetise the evening!
Timmo1341 posted:Stevee_S posted:
Evanescence's first new album for over six years. Released today it is apparently a remix of some old and new tracks with the additions of more orchestra. The CD is in the mail, so going to have a listen on Tidal...
So disappointed - hoping for new material after all these years, but only 2 new tracks.
Timmo, having Just finished listening to it I too am very disappointed, with no notable exceptions the addition of a "so called orchestra" adds nothing to the original tracks and for me actually detracts from what Evanescence was all about. As you say, two new tracks that are nothing to write home about, this is a very, very, poor album after a six year wait.
R.E.M.
Unplugged 1991 & 2001 - The Compleate Sessions - CD Rip
Edward
(2017)
Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve doing live their great Berlin School music.
“Fleet” (DiN53) is the seventh concert album by the duo ARC (DiN label boss Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve). This fact alone should tell you how popular this musical partnership is in a live setting where they continue to dazzle audiences with their mix of live electronics underpinned by huge slabs of analogue sequencing." - A bit of Blurb
Now Playing........
Anouar Brahem - Conte De L'incroyable Amour
Anouar Brasem (oud), Barbaros Erkose (clarinet), Kudsi Erguner (ney), and Lassad Hosni (bendir, darbuka)
Continuing to explore the Anouar Brahem catalogue.......
Review from the ECM Records website found here:
After a memorable ECM debut with Barzakh, Anouar Brahem recorded this even more memorable sophomore effort one year later. Carrying over percussionist Lassad Hosni, Brahem welcomes Turkish musicians Kudsi Erguner on ney and Barbaros Erköse on clarinet. Erköse, a gypsy music specialist, adds rich colors to an already dense palette, weaving tethers that pull us into tender worlds. His duets with Erguner (“Etincelles” and “Peshrev Hidjaz Homayoun”) stand out as some of the album’s most flowing. The title track brings the patter of clay drums, weaving a gorgeous ney into our vision. (The melodies and rhythms here put this listener immediately in mind of the song “I Love You” from Omar Faruk Tekbilek’s album One Truth.) Captivating. Erguner shines again in “Diversion.” Slaloming through every drummed pillar with the conviction of a bird in search of prey and yet with the delicacy of an angel avoiding such violence, he brings a sense of history to every lilting gesture. “Nayzak” revives the clarinet amid oud and drums for a stunning taste of mountains and the plains. The album’s meat, though, comes in Brahem’s unaccompanied storytelling. From the dawn chorus of “L’oiseau de bois” and invigorating virtuosity of “Battements,” through the tender air “Le chien sur les genoux de la devineresse,” and on to “Epilogue,” there is unimaginable depth of yearning in every twang and strum.
This album is all about the composition, stripped to the barest essentials of melodic craft and burrowing straight into the marrow of our past lives.
Freddie Hubbart
From Amazon.co.uk:
One of the finest trumpeters in jazz, Freddie Hubbard, recorded live at the legendary Hamburg venue Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall in 1978.
The album 'The Love Connection' had just been released and its title song also starts off this live recording. Hubbard's band adopted some aspects of Blakey's "Messengers" strategy. By featuring young up-and-coming musicians, such as saxophonist Hadley Caliman, the then 23-year-old bassist Larry Klein - who would later work as a producer and accompanied songwriters such as Randy Newman or Joni Mitchell (he was even married to Joni for a while!). Plus the drummer Carl Burnett, and above all, the pianist Billy Childs performed brilliantly that evening at Onkel Pö - amazingly he was only 22 years old.
Capitol 1980s vinyl
Why? You can't beat a little Miles on a Friday night.
steve
Seal
Standards
Not what I expected, will have to play a few more times before I can tell if I like it.
Edward
Freshly downloaded 48/24. First play
Just Finished.......
Anouar Brasem - Le Pas Du Chat Noir
Anouar Brahem oud
François Couturier piano
Jean-Louis Matinier accordion
Took this out for another spin, simply a beautiful album...... Love it!
Now Playing.......
Jan Garbarek - Selected Recordings :Rarum
Robert Plant
The Principle of Moments - CD Rip
Edward
Gerry Rafferty
Night Owl - CD Rip
Last album for the night. 
Edward
To go for the first snow fall of the season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wKVk6ofRsU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQF2wp5XeE
For some reason this was the first CD I played on my first Naim system on a CD5x.
Time has moved on but but not overtaken this great album.
.sjb
Now Playing.......
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Soul of Things
Tomasz Stanko trumpet - Marcin Wasilewski piano - Slawomir Kurkiewicz double-bass - Michal Miskiewicz drums
Just arrived a couple of hours ago, ripped to NAS and now playing........
KeanoKing posted:
I enjoyed the album quite a bit, lovely voice and looked to see if there was any other albums on TIDAL but 'There's A Light' is her only album listed.
Bert Schurink posted:Right now listening to this, quite good... from bandcamp...
Looks interesting. If I knew what it is I'd definitely check it out.
Now Playing........
Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden - Last Dance
Keith Jarrett (piano) & Charlie Haden (double-bass)
Streaming from TIDAL........
Comments from the ECM Records website found here:
Last Dance features more music from the highly creative session at Keith Jarrett’s home studio which brought forth the much-loved Jasmine album. In this new selection Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of the project to include jazz classics like Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” and Bud Powell’s spritely “Dance Of The Infidels”, dazzlingly interpreted by the duo. Love songs are still to the fore, with tender versions of “My Old Flame”, “My Ship”, “It Might As Well Be Spring”, “Everything Happens To Me”, and “Every Time We Say Goodbye” as well as alternate takes of “Where Can I Go Without You” and “Goodbye”, every bit as touching as the Jasmine renditions. “When we play together it’s like two people singing”, said Jarrett of this reunion with Haden. The intentions of the song are honoured, the shades of meaning in a melody or a lyric explored instrumentally. As Charlie Haden put it, “Keith really listens, and I listen. That’s the secret. It’s about listening.”
Iconoclast posted:Bert Schurink posted:Right now listening to this, quite good... from bandcamp...
Looks interesting. If I knew what it is I'd definitely check it out.
Apologies -
A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring is the self-funded debut album of Perihelion Ship, an extreme progressive metal band, co-founded by Andreas Hammer and Jani Konttinen in Finland, 2013. In addition to the commonly used techniques of the genre, the album also features a use of Hammond organ in the vein of classic 70's rock acts, combined with a use of Mellotron inspired by classic progressive acts such as Anekdoten and Änglagård.
Bert Schurink posted:Iconoclast posted:Bert Schurink posted:Right now listening to this, quite good... from bandcamp...
Looks interesting. If I knew what it is I'd definitely check it out.
Apologies -
A Rare Thunderstorm in Spring is the self-funded debut album of Perihelion Ship, an extreme progressive metal band, co-founded by Andreas Hammer and Jani Konttinen in Finland, 2013. In addition to the commonly used techniques of the genre, the album also features a use of Hammond organ in the vein of classic 70's rock acts, combined with a use of Mellotron inspired by classic progressive acts such as Anekdoten and Änglagård.
Thank you!
It is definitely better than his last album 'Souvenance' but.. unfortunately, Brahem set the bar so high in his earlier recordings with Francois Couturier, Jean-Louis Matinier and John Surman that I find it difficult to get excited over his more recent works.
Great voice, great tunes.
Andras Schiff - Bach: Goldberg variations.
The 1986 version.
