What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
Rauelsson - "Vora" Tracks 5 & 6: Hourglass I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgo6l-T6Whg&frags=pl%2Cwn Hourglass II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFxEEkY1UQ&frags=pl%2Cwn |
Michael Brecker - Now You See It...(Now You Don't) First released in 1990, some of the electronic "voicings" sound a little bit dated but the compositions and performances are strong and carry the listener past any related concerns. NYSI bears repeated listening. Track 4 "Never Alone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0sMN0kBs9s |
@ghosthouse Yes, you're right. Unfortunately everything is of it's time, and despite the best summer here in decades, this isn't and can't be 1966-9. Donovan wasn't Dylan but he went places few if any others went. It's as if decided to take Mr Tambourine Man as a starting point and luckily Mickie Most was the right producer at the right time. I love this compilation. Even my least favourite songs Preachin' Love, and Epistle to Dippy are interesting. As for Jennifer Juniper, Sand and Foam, Sunny Goodge Street, Happiness Runs and the rest - simply magical. "You got to pick up every stitch You got to pick up every stitch, yeah Beatniks are out to make it rich Oh no, must be the season of the witch Must be the season of the witch, yeah Must be the season of the witch" |
… But today I’m listening to Bob Dylan‘s 2012 release, Tempest. It’s studio album #35 for Bob, and it is the intertwining of the beautiful and the macabre in the world, tragicomedy at deep levels, sang with eloquence, such that one feels the pull of life and the push of death. With death being the inevitable end, we are only human, and such is life ... E.g., The lead track, Tempest, is a 14 minute meandering mostly dedicated to the dying of the Titanic and what that must’ve been like. Just sayin |
Server lineup.... but it is 80 degrees in listening room with tubes in the DAC, Preamp and Monoblocks.... so I may have to retreat to an air conditioning equipped watering hole....Seattle Jean-Marc Padovani - Motian in Motion Leonard Cohen - Live at Isle of Wight Sandy Denny - Sandy Pink Martini w Saori Yuki and perhaps.... Jetro Tull - The String Quartets |
Last night... The Jazz Pistols, "Superstring" First (title) track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xe6Fi4-eo Great music, musicianship and sonics in this recording from the German fusion trio. |
Last evening, Danny Norbury's "Light In August". So far, this early evening... Bill Bruford's Earthworks (live), "Random Acts of Happiness". A spectacular live recording. Raises the question why some studio recording sessions can't get it right. Bill Connors, "Return" The O-riginal guitarist in Return to Forever. (Al Di Meo-who??) |
cd318 - For a more contemporary take (2001 vs 1968) on that same "summer" vibe, check out Long Distance by Ivy. Track 3, Edge of the Ocean, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqoBgkDifKs I'm not going to argue the arrangements are as artful as on Windy, however ;-) |
@ghosthouse Thanks for that! I loved the way she seems to be channeling AG. Far easier said than done, but the effect is immediate. Here's another surefire dreamy summer classic. This time from Matt Monro. https://youtu.be/KQIRbV_noi8 |
Very good, cd318. Glad you enjoyed it and heard (felt?) the connection between Astrud Gilberto and Dominique Durand (a Parisian living in NYC at the time). Personally, more than a dreamy impression, "On Days Like These" (its arrangement) struck me as quintessential '60s in a pre-Beatles way. Really took me back. I would not have guessed it was a Quincy Jones composition. |
Yeah, all good stuff! Even woke up with that Matt Monro track running in my head! So I treated myself to 4CD box set The Singer's Singer. Apparently it's been lovingly restored/remastered. Talking of songs playing in my head, the opening bars of this Joy Division track have often served me well whenever I need to ring the doorbell. https://youtu.be/zcKGqgwLzjA |
