These are my 4 latest buys...
What was the last CD you bought (Name, and year issued)?
Like to see and get some recommendations for recent music on CDs.
My last CD bought: RY X (with Olafur Arnalds) - Blood Moon - 2022, Infecious label
Arriving soon: Antennah-Sparkle. 2022, 2020Editions label (Stefano Guzzetti label)
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I'm enjoying discovering the discography of jazz pianist Dick Hyman which starts in 1953 and extends to 2013. Sadly many of these recordings has yet to be made available outside of the LP format of the original issues. Dick is now 95 years old. His music deserves to be listen to - yes his is that good.
Dick Hyman performs Sweet Georgia Brown
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@jgfergus Nice! I have three of the four. But I don't recognize the bottom left one though. |
CONGA BLUE by Pancho Sanchez. Excellent Latin jazz! |
Antonio Vivaldi, "Concerti pour Hautbois, Basson et Cor, issdes" L’Armonia e l’Inventione, Astree Auvidis E8537, issued 1995 but still in print. This is an exceptional recording of some of Vivaldi’s wind concertos, with tremendous presence and great soundstaging. What I would call a "demonstration disc". The music’s not bad, either! |
My tastes tend toward the progressive and avant-garde, so, as far as being used for recommendations, YMMV. I was thinking of getting rid of my CD’s, but once I removed them and their inserts from the jewel cases, put them into specifically designed plastic bags, then put them in specially made high quality file boxes, that desire quickly went away. I can now store about 7 CDs in the same space that it takes to store one in a jewel case. So, my CD’s, despite having at least a thousand, are in easily accessible, alphabetized, stacked file boxes, in a closet, not taking up any space in my listening room. Here are some very recent purchases, of all quite recent music: Green Asphalt - S/T (2022) /Swedish prog band, with more than a nod to prog greats, Gentle Giant. Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis (2022) / avant-garde jazz guitarist, with possibly her best recording yet. Also has a bit of chamber-jazz feel at times. Bubblemath - Turf Ascension (2022) / really creative, and complex US prog band. One Shot - À James (2022) / Great, intense jazz-fusion. Anna Thorvalsdoittir - Rhizoma (2020) / Chamber and orchestral recordings of Iceland’s best classical composer. SKE - Insolubilia (2021) / Italian prog band that kind of exists in the chamber-prog realm. Harrison Birtwistle – Deep Time (2016) / Brilliant, atonal, ’thorny’ contemporary classical piece, by this recently deceased (4/22) Brit composer. Craig Taborn - Daylight Ghosts (2016) / Great jazz quartet. Kind of on the intimate side of the spectrum. Taborn seems to me, to be the heir apparent to Keith Jarrett, not in exact style, but in musical philosophy.
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Here's a few more very recent CD purchases. Elliott Carter - Two Controversies and a Conversation for piano, percussion, and chamber orchestra (2011) - Carter composed this at the age of 102, and does not show any lack of creativity or artistic ability. Carter should seriously be spoken of with the same levels of respect as Stravinsky, Bartok, Sibelius, and other 20th century luminaries. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Real Enemies (2016) - close to brilliant, progressive, modern big band jazz. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse - Morphogenesis (2017) - Coleman continues to prove why he was a recipient of a MacArthur 'genius grant' in 2014. Incredible contemporary jazz. Magma - Zess (Le Jour Du Néant) (2019) / Despite being a very small step down from their best, this is still brilliant stuff. Magma were the founders of a very distinctive subgenre of prog known as "Zeuhl", which combines Coltrane like 'spiritual jazz' mixed with Bartok and Carl Orff influences. With terrifying levels of musicianship. They also made up their own language, with rules of grammar, decades before Sigur Ros did. |
Great! Yeah, I was hoping to see more recent releases people have purchased! I’ll check some of these out. Like you, a lot of my taste run towards music you don’t find on the top 100 charts, or any other music streaming options. I know a few people mention just getting rid of CDs because you can hear it over streaming. But after a while, they can and do remove music, and then if you don’t have the CD the music is basically lost to you. I like your idea of just carefully storing them, as you say, hardly take any room at all! I really like seeing that your list includes a lot of 2022 releases. I’ve been collecting and listening to music since the mid 60’s. And, like you, have no trouble at all finding new music, recent releases, that are amazing! You are not going to find anything other than top 100 BS on Amazon. I find a ton of great new artist and music on Bandcamp. You may like the Artists on the 2020Editions label. (Bandcamp), also have you heard the band Gazpacho? Their newest, Fireworker, is Prog perfection. :-)
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Latest music disc purchased: Patricia Barber Clique Hybrid Multi-Channel & Stereo SACD released 2021. Bought 2022.Latest CD purchased: The Duke Jordan Trio So Nice Duke XRCD24 released 2014. Bought 2021. Vs Streaming? Hmm. I like to relax on holidays, kick back and listen to some music. Two years ago, my internet service went down on Labor Day for the entire day. Glad I had my discs and platters. lol |
After seeing NRBQ live a month ago, I ordered (on the band’s website) all their albums from the past ten or so years, catching up. They issued most of them on CD only, a few titles on LP. I got ’em all. If you have a chance to see NRBQ live, do it! Having recorded music at our fingertips is great, but it pales in comparison to live music. The Who's albums don't come close to how they sound live, especially with Keith Moon. |
Here are the titles from my last CD purchase- sorry I don’t know the exact release dates but I believe all but one have been released within the last year or so. The first title was released in the early 70’s. All of these are available to stream on Spotify if you’d like to give them a try. Eberhard Weber- The Following Morning Eric Jacobsen- Blue As The Turquoise Night Sunny War- Simple Syrup Aoife O’Donovan- Age Of Apathy BadBadNotGood- Talk Memory Gov’t Mule- Heavy Load Blues Yasmin Williams- Urban Driftwood Radiohead- Kid A Mnesia Jack White- Fear Of The Dawn Dry Cleaning- New Long Leg Johnny Marr- Fever Dreams Pt 1-4 Dumpstaphunk- Where DomWe Go From Here Joanne Shaw Taylor- The Blues Album Faye Webster- I Know I’m Funny Ha Ha Edgar Winter- Brother Johnny Neal Francis- In Plain Sight Goldfrapp- Felt Mountain Tinsley Ellis- Devil May Care Nilufer Yanya- Painless The War On Drugs- I Don’t Live Here Anymore |
@thepigdog - Love the Sadies 'Colder Streams' - so sad about Dallas Good, but he left us with a really strong, rockin' album..... |
I buy a lot of my CDs from thriftstores these days ... hey, for a buck or two I can find and try some stuff that I wouldn’t have perhaps thought of or sprung for otherwise. Recently I picked up my first ever Celine Dion CD...!!! Falling Into You. and, I actually like it, especially for $1.50. It’s long, well-engineered, obviously the voice is amazing that’s why she’s famous after all, and I do like most of the music on it. I surprised myself with that one, for sure. Same day, same price, also picked up Elton John’s Made In England... and amazingly, I like that one too! Like the Dion, maybe not something I’d fret over and analyze with the lights out, lol, but hey for background in the house while I’m doing other things, working in the kitchen or organizing my taxes receipts, pretty nice. (I like both of those better than the remastered Fleetwood Mac "best of" 2 CD set that I paid full price for! I much prefer the original FM albums, non-remastered.) On that same day, same price, I also picked up some amazing classical CDs: - Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart, w Andre Previn conduct. Royal Philharmonic (EMI) - a 2-disc set Vladimir Ashkenazy: Rachmaninov Piano Concertos (London) - Van Cliburn playing Grieg and Liszt, w Eugene Ormandy cond. Philadelphia Orchestra (RCA) - Cecilia Bartoli A Portrait, excerpts, sort of a greatest hits kinda, (London)
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I saw an ad for 600 classical CDs for $150. They are all brand new but older from 1980.-2010.Most top labels from Sony, London, DG,and even a few from Telarc. At .25 a CD and all the major composers represented,I am in no rush to stream, maybe in a year or so. This purchase got me thru the pandemic(so far) and into the inflationary spiral (so far) and Putin's atomic threats (so far).
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@deadhead1000....Gentle Giant "Three Piece Suite" |
I really didn’t care for the sound of my OG vinyl so I grabbed a ‘98 German CD of “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” by Stevie Wonder on Discogs. It works. I then had an order cancelled on me for a ‘06 Universal Music Latino US CD of “Mutantes” by Os Mutantes via Discogs. Before that I had purchased the Universal Music German ‘06 Marvin Gaye CD box set “The Master 1961-1984.” Essential. I nabbed a hard-to-find, expensive ‘90 Music & Arts “Glenn Gould - Previously Unreleased Performances by works of JS Bach 1957-1969” CD from Discogs. Essential. His playing/conducting of the Cantata No. 54 Aria is one of my favorite things on Earth. The Golschmann-conducted 2nd movement “Andante” of Concerto for Clavier and Orchestra in G-minor is also pure bliss. |
New protector, destruction, necrodeath (defragments of insanity, re recorded older album, don’t much like re-recording, but, was only .99. Had to get it New rumble militia, new Saxon couple months ago, spellwitch is new 3 mo ago
used great copy of children of the son, not the new cd remix (yuk)
back later will thumb through my new unlistened and played once box…
rory Gallagher deuce box
new Lillian axe,
Gggrrrrrr hit send w updated purchases, no inter web hooked lost it all now, where did I put my hammert |
