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;
I know it sounds daft, but this album is new to me. I'm grateful to another member for drawing it to my attention.
Richard Morris posted:Paper Plane posted:Vinyl
Why? Discovered it whilst browsing the racks for something t play. Totally forgotten it was there. I don't thin it's been played since I received it for my birthday in 2000...
steve
Been there! A great benefit of digitisation is the discovery of previously forgotten about cds.
Completely understood -assuming you've 'captured' the essence of those long-forgotten CD's !
If not, it's time to revisit (if such things are important to one) ...
pj
(2000)
Not my favourite Dan album by a long chalk but I fancied a listen to it tonight.
MDS posted:
I know it sounds daft, but this album is new to me. I'm grateful to another member for drawing it to my attention.
Super album Mike, it's worth going back over her catalogue of solo studio albums, I'm pretty sure you will enjoy them.
Stevee_S posted:MDS posted:
I know it sounds daft, but this album is new to me. I'm grateful to another member for drawing it to my attention.
Super album Mike, it's worth going back over her catalogue of solo studio albums, I'm pretty sure you will enjoy them.
Yes, Steve. The other member who introduced me to this album has already suggested a few. Must confess to feeling a bit of a numpty that my Annie Lennox collection previously stopped at Eurythmics stuff!
MDS posted:Stevee_S posted:MDS posted:
I know it sounds daft, but this album is new to me. I'm grateful to another member for drawing it to my attention.
Super album Mike, it's worth going back over her catalogue of solo studio albums, I'm pretty sure you will enjoy them.
Yes, Steve. The other member who introduced me to this album has already suggested a few. Must confess to feeling a bit of a numpty that my Annie Lennox collection previously stopped at Eurythmics stuff!
Mike, I think it was Tony2011 who said to me a few years ago, when I made a similar comment that you have just made, something along the lines of, you can't cover all the artists and their albums over all the years and not fail to miss out on a few! So right, and thats what is good about this forum it gives us a chance to rediscover and ...expand our collections by following other members recommendations. 
Stevee_S posted:MDS posted:Stevee_S posted:MDS posted:
I know it sounds daft, but this album is new to me. I'm grateful to another member for drawing it to my attention.
Super album Mike, it's worth going back over her catalogue of solo studio albums, I'm pretty sure you will enjoy them.
Yes, Steve. The other member who introduced me to this album has already suggested a few. Must confess to feeling a bit of a numpty that my Annie Lennox collection previously stopped at Eurythmics stuff!
Mike, I think it was Tony2011 who said to me a few years ago, when I made a similar comment that you have just made, something along the lines of, you can't cover all the artists and their albums over all the years and not fail to miss out on a few! So right, and thats what is good about this forum it gives us a chance to rediscover and ...expand our collections by following other members recommendations.
Definitely, Steve. I know I've benefited hugely from this forum and this thread in particular.
ewemon posted:
U2 new album.
Any sign of their muse returning or has it permanently bolted?
.sjb
Warren Zevon’s fantastic debut album. One doesn’t see him mentioned much on here, so it’s time to change that.
Hungryhalibut posted:Warren Zevon’s fantastic debut album. One doesn’t see him mentioned much on here, so it’s time to change that.
He does pop up from time to time Nigel but as you suggest not on any regular basis, forum members musical preferences no doubt.
A lovely album. I seem to be playing of lot of Ms Krall's work lately.
(2003)
Another 'Dan album that I don't play too often, it's not because its a poor album, I just that prefer their earlier.
MDS posted:
A lovely album. I seem to be playing of lot of Ms Krall's work lately.
Same here wonderful music.
Revisiting early REM, on offer on Qobuz in 24 bit at £4:99 or thereabouts:
Green
Murmer
Lifes Rich Pageant
Reckoning
Tidal. Tasha Taylor - Taylormade
(2003)
I couldn't resist playing this after having seen Mike (MDS) giving it an outing.
1997 - Tidal...
This came though on a best of 2017 playlist I have been compiling from lists on Tidal in Roon - I just know I would have heard my avatar playing this if he was still with us, using his impressive German guttural twang.
.sjb
Tidal. Alexander Taneyev - Concert Suite in G Minor, Op. 28
Now Playing......
Django Bates' Beloved - The Study of Touch
Django Bates (piano), Petter Eldh (bass), and Peter Bruun (drums)
Returned home from five day holiday and found a couple of new CD's that had been delivered!
Ripped to NAS and Streaming......
Notes from the ECM Records website: British pianist Django Bates returns to ECM with one of his very finest constellations, the trio Belovèd, with Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and Danish drummer Peter Bruun, and an aptly named album, The Study of Touch. All three musicians are highly individual players, subtly challenging the conventions of the jazz piano trio. The group came together a decade ago when Bates was teaching at Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory. The shared work has included inspired reconstructions of pieces associated with Charlie Parker – a formative influence for both Bates and bassist Eldh - and in this new album, Parker’s tune “Passport” is set amid Django originals, and played with respect, contemporary sensibility and joy. Some of Django’s own tunes here – such as “Senza Bitterness”, “Sadness All The Way Down” and “We Are Not Lost, We Are Simply Finding Our Way” have become core pieces in Belovèd’s repertoire, continually remodeled by this trio of improvisers. Bates’ composing and arranging skills are much in evidence, along with his freewheeling, free-flowing virtuosic melodic sense. The terse, percussive edge of Petter Eldh’s bass provides momentum and drummer Peter Bruun details the music with an almost painterly touch. In the crowded world of the piano trio, Belovèd has developed a sound all its own. The Study of Touch was recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in June 2016, and produced by Manfred Eicher.