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

Final one for tonight. Still a rather unique and special album. 

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine

King Crimson - Lizard

bishopla posted:

King Crimson - Lizard

Excellent choice. My favourite KC album.

Hungryhalibut posted:

Haim Ronen posted:

Jeroen20 posted:

Brad Mehldau - Live in Tokyo

 

Jeroen,

I have tried so hard to like this guy but I alway remain cold to his music (I have the album above). My therapist says it's O.K., can't just love everyone. Mehldau is about to perform at the University of Chicago and tickets were sold out in no time, everyone disregarding my view of him.

I’ve tried a few albums of his, but they’ve left me cold. The only one I’ve connected with is Blues and Ballads, which I really like. 

Give these a try, this might change your perception....

Now Playing.......

Silje Nergaard - A Thousand True Stories with the Metropole Orchestra Strings

Arranged and conducted by Vince Mendoza

Starting a Friday evening with something soothing, a least that is how I am finding her voice with the accompanying strings. Something nice to chop some vegetables and have a chili simmering on the stove......

Now Playing......

Jan Garbarek w/ The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium

Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones), Peter Laenger (tonmeister), The Hilliard Ensemble: David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), John Potter (tenor), and Gordon Jones (baritone)

Arrived in this afternoon's mail and ripped to the NAS. Now streaming.....

First track is quite beautiful and the wife loves it......

Review by Richard S Ginell at the All Music website found here:

Fearlessly searching for new conceptions of sound and not caring where he found them, Garbarek joined hands with the classical early-music movement, improvising around the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble. Now here was a radical idea guaranteed to infuriate both hardcore jazz buffs and the even more pristine more-authentic-than-thou folk in early music circles. Yet this unlikely fusion works stunningly well -- and even more hearteningly, went over the heads of the purists and became a hit album at a time (1994) when Gregorian chants were a hot item. Chants, early polyphonic music, and Renaissance motets by composers like Morales and Dufay form the basic material, bringing forth a cool yet moving spirituality in Garbarek's work. Recorded in a heavily reverberant Austrian monastery, the voices sometimes develop in overwhelming waves, and Garbarek rides their crest, his soprano sax soaring in the monastery acoustic, or he underscores the voices almost unobtrusively, echoing the voices, finding ample room to move around the modal harmonies yet applying his sound sparingly. Those with nervous metabolisms may become impatient with this undefinable music, but if you give it a chance, it will seduce you, too.

Bert Schurink posted:

Give these a try, this might change your perception....

 

Burt, this is very suspicious. Two different albums and the guys are still wearing the same clothes...  The gap of four years between recording and release is due to what?

Thanks for the recommendation.

Haim

Album is being sold on Amazon new for less than $2 in the UK as well as the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6znI_W3H8

Haim Ronen posted:

Album is being sold on Amazon new for less than $2 in the UK as well as the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6znI_W3H8

That's got me thinking of this one. 

Aretha Franklin

Now Playing......

Jan Garbarek w/ The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium Novum

Jan Garbarek (soprano & tenor saxophones), Peter Laenger (tonmeister), The Hilliard Ensemble: David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Steven Harold (tenor), and Gordon Jones (baritone)

Enjoyed the Officium album so much, I wanted to hear the follow up album. Six tracks into the second album and these are two beautiful albums!

Streaming from TIDAL

Notes from TIDAL: More than 15 years separate the release of Jan Garbarek's best-selling album Officium from his Officium Novum. The newer release, like the original, features Garbarek on soprano and tenor saxophones and the male vocal quartet the Hilliard Ensemble. In both albums, Garbarek takes pre-existing vocal pieces and embroiders them with his soulful obbligato contributions. The chaste austerity of the men's voices and the reedy plaintiveness of the saxophone make for a surprisingly effective pairing. Garbarek and the singers manage to merge two very different musical worlds without compromising the integrity of either, and that is part of what gives these albums such an impact. The first album used primarily Medieval and Renaissance material -- chants, motets, and liturgical song -- while this second mostly uses more recent source material, primarily from Eastern Europe. In addition to several medieval sources, included are works by the early 20th century Armenian priest, musicologist, and composer Komitas; Nikolai N. Kedrov, a Russian composer of the same era; the mid-20th century Greek composer Giorgios Sefaris; the Estonian Arvo Pärt; and several original pieces by Garbarek himself. Like the first album, this one is suffused with a sense of distant mystery and a profound, powerful melancholy that is given voice with intense feeling. The sound again is spacious and warmly resonant, with an earthy, enveloping ambience. This album will be a must-have for anyone who loved the first one, and it should appeal to any listener with an affinity for meditative Eastern European spirituality, especially when tied to contemporary expressivity and stylistic freedom. ~ Stephen Eddins

Tiberghien/Belohlavek/BBC Symphony: Brahms PC1 - 2007 rec.

Surprisingly Tiberghien is pretty good albeit it feels more French than Germanic. He brings out a lyrical side of the tune more than dark and gloomy side. Belohlavek’s direction is solid as usual giving the soloist an earthy amber coloured ground to play in.  His pianism is never flashy but shows strength and brilliance on occasion. Always maintaining fluidity.

Haim Ronen posted:

Hungryhalibut posted:

Haim Ronen posted:

Jeroen20 posted:

Brad Mehldau - Live in Tokyo

 

Jeroen,

I have tried so hard to like this guy but I alway remain cold to his music (I have the album above). My therapist says it's O.K., can't just love everyone. Mehldau is about to perform at the University of Chicago and tickets were sold out in no time, everyone disregarding my view of him.

I’ve tried a few albums of his, but they’ve left me cold. The only one I’ve connected with is Blues and Ballads, which I really like. 

I bought the 'Blues & Ballads' because everyone on the forum was raving about it but it hasn't worked for me either despite not giving up easily and playing the disc over a dozen times. Oddly enough, my first acquisition of his work is the one I enjoy the most:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_sx4PYGHdg

I hate it when the best is a first album I acquire and then I start a slow downhill trip exploring other works of the artist which are not measuring up.

 

I am great fan of Brad Mehldau. I really like how he uses modern songs to improvise on. I have seen him a couple of time at the North Sea Jazz festival. The 'Songs'  album is a very good one. If you like that one perhaps you would also like the art of the trio vol. 1. Have tried the one with Joshua Redman (nearness)?

Regards, Jeroen.

Rachel Podger - Bach: Art of the fugue

GraemeH posted:

Kevin-W posted:

Happy Listener posted:

Kevin - this really should be in the Best Jokes thread!

I've just read some of the reviews on a well known on-line retailer -  some are priceless. Worth a visit.

Just read them HL - really cheered me up. Thanks for the heads up!

Hilario...the charity shop one is priceless.

G

Hmm,,,strange goings on around the album of the year.

Price yesterday morning on a well-known site was £9.99 for the CD, then later £6.99 and now £5.99.  Still £5.98 over priced - and that based on an 'alternative use' valuation. 

Haim Ronen posted:

Bert Schurink posted:

Give these a try, this might change your perception....

 

Burt, this is very suspicious. Two different albums and the guys are still wearing the same clothes...  The gap of four years between recording and release is due to what?

Thanks for the recommendation.

Haim

 

The release date was pretty short after each other, so not a gap of 4 years but I belief to remember half a year. Recordings where done in one go. Which is quite usual. The ode album is the better one, which could give the suspicion that they released the 2nd one based on the success of the second one.

Stevee_S posted:

(1973)

Another earlier album from RT, he never gets the kudos he deserved. I watched him play in Aberdeen a couple of years ago and he still has it all.

I agree, someone who deserves so much more success than he seems to have enjoyed. All those early RT albums are super examples of hard edged blues rock. I have them all up to 'BLT' which is where I started to drift away. Maybe that's because Jack Bruce, although a highly respected and capable bass player, just didn't work as well (in my opinion) with RT as James Dewar.

Jeroen20 posted:

Haim Ronen posted:

Hungryhalibut posted:

Haim Ronen posted:

Jeroen20 posted:

Brad Mehldau - Live in Tokyo

 

Jeroen,

I have tried so hard to like this guy but I alway remain cold to his music (I have the album above). My therapist says it's O.K., can't just love everyone. Mehldau is about to perform at the University of Chicago and tickets were sold out in no time, everyone disregarding my view of him.

I’ve tried a few albums of his, but they’ve left me cold. The only one I’ve connected with is Blues and Ballads, which I really like. 

I bought the 'Blues & Ballads' because everyone on the forum was raving about it but it hasn't worked for me either despite not giving up easily and playing the disc over a dozen times. Oddly enough, my first acquisition of his work is the one I enjoy the most:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_sx4PYGHdg

I hate it when the best is a first album I acquire and then I start a slow downhill trip exploring other works of the artist which are not measuring up.

 

I am great fan of Brad Mehldau. I really like how he uses modern songs to improvise on. I have seen him a couple of time at the North Sea Jazz festival. The 'Songs'  album is a very good one. If you like that one perhaps you would also like the art of the trio vol. 1. Have tried the one with Joshua Redman (nearness)?

Regards, Jeroen.

I have seen the trio live in Frankfurt 5 years ago. It’s pure magic what the guys can bring on the stage. The report between them and the refinement is on the level of the famous Keith Jarrett Trio.

Hi everybody. I'm new to the forum and new to the naim community. 

Relaxing with the new Morrissey album.

Regards John 

First impression well played - good but see,s to be not belonging to the greatest recordings of this music. I would describe it as he is playing the music while the greatest recordings feel like the music is being painted. A accidental splash here and there....

ewemon posted:

Aretha Franklin

Any good?

atv

kk

I have the house to myself this morning....

Pink Floyd - A Collection of Great Dance Songs - via Tidal.  LOUD