Helios - Unleft
Last track: The Morning Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqqthd0pDqQ&frags=pl%2Cwn
Last track: The Morning Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqqthd0pDqQ&frags=pl%2Cwn
What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report
I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".
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Glad you checked it out, Nutty. Good sonics on that one though the bass can be a challenge to manage. Lots of it. I turned the subs off to listen again today. Last night was headphones for me too. The song writing starts strong but seems to lose its way in the latter third of the recording. I’ve sampled some Chris Stapleton. Another bud had recommended him too. Just not where my head is at lately but that’s nothing against him. |
Chris Stapleton, "Without Your Love" https://youtu.be/k4oGoiN4JtM Chris displays genuine grit. Just sounds amazing on the Totem Forest Signatures! Any C. Stapleton fans in the crowd? N |
Jamie Saft (w/Bobby Previte & Steve Swallow) - The New Standard Step Lively https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej89W-LvfXg |
The entire Iris Dement catalog. For those unfamiliar with this astounding songwriter and singer, imagine a Hard Country/Hillbilly/Bluegrass version of the more Country Blues Lucinda Williams. A favorite of Merle Haggard (from whom I learner of Iris), Steve Earle, John Prine (with whom she often performs), Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller, Gillian Welch, Vince Gill, Jim Lauderdale, Rodney Crowell, Alison Krauss, Marty Stuart, and just about all other Americana/Roots artists. |
Bing & Ruth - Tomorrow Was The Golden Age Track 6, "The Towns We Love Is Our Town" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri5h_vMGmH8&ab_channel=RVNGIntl. |
...and much later - The Spinning Jennies "Full Volume/The Best of..." Track 5 from this compilation (love the drumming): Least of All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Z97Ia58bU&frags=pl%2Cwn |
+1 Satriani! "Can't Go Back" from Unstoppable Momentum. https://youtu.be/xu-8UV2-TKQ Next up, Jazz Pistols N |
Joe Satriani - Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards Final track here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eAB2ebJryM (and well HE might, given the sorry lot on this planet) |
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 |
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. |
@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 |
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 ;-) |
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??) |
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. |
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 |