Whats on your turntable tonight?

Mindy Smith
One Moment More
Craft Recordings 2019

Sarah Jarosz
Undercurrent
Sugar Hill 2016

This is one you want on vinyl. Roomful of rich sound. Harmonics and voice timbres dancing off the walls and ceiling in watery traces. What a voice. Great recording.

@big_greg
Thanks Greg,  wasn’t me.  I was still trying to read up about it.   Somebody got a bargain.  

Any of you guys know much about this model?

https://echohifi.com/details/15274/ZYX-Audio_Ultimate-100

It’s what you do with Bluetooth off your phone and a little portable 90s era Bose speaker.   You know....  

Forest Flower: Atlantic 66943 but there is a speakers corner reissue too

Streaming “Vanished Gardens” now.  nice!

@tomic601 that’s right, I forgot he plays with LW, have to stream that, don’t remember ever playing it.  I am not that well versed in her stuff.  
@bkeske, 

Jarrett is really good on that record.  Just a kid really and he was already channeling the eternal flame.  

@tomic601

Glad you like the ECM Charles Lloyd. John Abercrombie is so good on that record Isn’t he, and Higgens is just, well, statuesque in the architectural marvels of vertical beats he creates. That album is enough for a lot of listens I think but I also really like the similar style record they did with Brad Mehldau right after that. I’m assuming you know that really famous record CL made with Keith Jarrett live at Monterey, 1963 or something. That was a great record but I also like the new and completely different CL playing, as you say, mystical jazz on ECM. I love that label.

some music for comfort and understanding during times of grief and morning. 

Hem - “Eveningland”

Pat Metheny - “A Map of the World - Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture”

Samuel Barber - “Adagio for Strings Op. 11”

Hem
Departure and Farewell
Nettwerk 2013

Charles Loyd
Voice in the Night
ECM 1999/2019

@boxer12  Sad news.  Sorry to hear it.  You have my sincere sympathy.  I hope that the comfort of family and friends will be sufficient for you and your mom through this.  

Another point about “The Crossing”. To me is sounds way better on vinyl than on the services.  It’s a very well made record.  

There are a lot of covers vs. originals arguments of course. This is nothing new.
+1 slaw on “real”. Human. Authentic. Weight.
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Crooked Still
Shaken By A Low Sound
Signature Sounds 2006/2018

I am both shaken and stirred by the young Aoife.

Greg Liszt, the force behind this band is a fantastic and extremely innovative banjo player genius guy. College Science professor who quit to play music. Seriously, check out The Deadly Gentleman, his last band (he’s recently disbanded it return to teaching but now teaching banjo at Berklee). Deadly Gentlemen are bluegrass formation playing rock, rap, punk, fun stuff.

So what if the songs on “The Crossing” could be covered by a young Linda Ronstadt?  Might be a great collaboration.   Half the world wood swoon over them and the message would be delivered with Seductive strength but it wouldn’t be, well, as authentic as sung by the guy with the lesser voice who wrote them.  

I mean, there is just something about The message (emotional transfer) of a song delivered by the maker of it.  “The Crossing” is very much one of those Experiences.   

“The Crossing” is very good music with great production values.  A mature yet playful, serious yet fun record.   Not a lot of records this tight.  
The downside (if one might care -  I don’t really) is the vocals.  
But we don’t listen to Ry Cooder, or Jimmy Webb ( or some other great songwriters I could name but won’t for fear of argument) for the quality of their voices.  Do we.  

Dire Straits
Eponymous 
MFSL 2019

Alejandro Escovedo 
The Crossing
Yep Rock 2018

Joni Mitchell 
Court & Spark
Rhino 2009

J.S. Ondara
Tales of America 
Verve 2019

A revelation.   Amazed.  


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@slaw 

Outta sight Bro.   Outta sight.  

Meryem Aboulouafa
Meryem
Animal63 Records 2020

Magnolia Electric Co. (Jason Molina)
Josephine 2009 Secretly Canadian

@tomic601 and others that may have interest.  Saw this today while searching around.  Levi Parham to release a quiet album soon:

https://www.leviparham.com/

Robin Trower’s tone. 
Just sayin’.  

BHT & The Monsters.  Bittersweet.  Yeah. Loved that record - one of the few from that time that I really could get into.  

@slaw +1 on Rhiannon

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Away from home streaming Colter Wall’s new album. It’s so simple and honest. Really liking it. Recommended. 

@boxer12

sorry that I took awhile to get back to you.  She’s the soloist and only voice.  It’s classical but very different from other orchestral works.  It’s something I suggest to music lovers that aren’t necessarily into classical music.  It’s very dynamic.  Heavy low end.  Can be very emotional.  It’s a great work. 

Hey! @boxer12, she’s from Portland.  I have this:

https://www.discogs.com/Henryk-G%C3%B3recki-Beth-Gibbons-Polish-National-Radio-Symphony-Orchestra-Kr...

it’s pretty amazing.  

Volto!
Incitare

Re late night sq

i don’t dispute the human factor. I know that beyond it though there are very real differences in the sound from my systems when the rest of the world is quiet(er).

The Third Mind 
Eponymous 

Bkeske, Harmonic convergence?  Or, maybe the electricity.  Sounds like what happens with my stereo late into the night. Imaging, soundstage, and even the notes become more defined and more liquid at the same time.  

Pat Metheny Unity Group
Kin (<——>)
2014 Nonesuch

“Through all the sounds resounding in Earth’s bright motley dream, one gentle note drawn out for she who hears in secret.”

             Martha Argerich
                    Plays
                Schumann

Fantasy in C, Op. 17
Fantasiestücke, Op. 12

1978 Columbia Masterworks

Mozart
Piano Concertos in D Major (No.16)
and A Major (No. 23)
Camerata Academica des
Salzburger Mozartemus
Géza Anda
Deutsche Grammophon
1964 Stereo 

@tomic601 curious about your interest in Mahler’s 2nd.   Can you tell us more? 
I really like this one:   

Check out "Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major" by San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson Thomas on Amazon Music. https://music.amazon.com/albums/B000QQZLMA?ref=dm_sh_GHrJ68EGySHkk5k3HwX7OWROo

@bkeske, yes the dynamics of the 5th are extraordinary but he pulls them off.  And the Lento, if that doesn’t move you you’re probably just dead.  

Thanks.  I see now how it could matter for the in and out of a speaker cone. Seems like That would effect sound.  
I have no polarity switches.  

Hey Jim.  The follow up album by Trigger Hippy.  
The first Trigger Hippy (Eponymous) rocks in the way that Blackberry Smoke rocks.  In other words you will love it.  

@bkeske,   That Symphony is incredible isn’t it.   Have you ever heard this version? 
Check out "Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 - Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (Live)" by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on Amazon Music. https://music.amazon.com/albums/B074G3PS87?ref=dm_sh_JEDvS2GxmYHkGCeAIiwKY3NnH

It’s not on vinyl but wow.  It’s something. 

The Magpie Salute
High Water

Saying this band reminds you of little feet is a good thing. The world needs more fun music.

Hurricane is like a Band song isn’t it?

Ok finishing up “First Circle”.
I will say that although this is the same rhythm section these two records are from two different bands.
The first has better playing, especially guitars but drums are also quite a bit better on the first album. The second record is a little more intentional toward popularity. Both are great fun.  I ordered both of them.  

Thanks Steve.  Hope you don’t think I was being paranoid.  I didn’t think I had a problem but when I read that In the stereophile review of Jim’s tube amp it just made me wonder if it really is a thing what happens with the audio signal.  I always thought it didn’t matter.  I reverse (Or don’t bother to match) black and white wires on light fixtures all the time because that absolutely doesn’t matter.   You get a dullness Of sound from reverse power polarity going through your amp? Power Polarity Switches your r&l channels?  Hmm.  

Re: Full Circle 

my initial feeling is that this is awesome.  

2nd album so far has slightly more complex mix/production & More pop Style vocal applications (Maybe why you like it even better Uber?).

Yeah Steve, I agree -hearIng TTB, Government Mule, a little doobie brothers & of course Black Crows, but mostly I hear themselves.  It’s straight ahead and it’s their own musical personalities showing through fairly traditional-by-now structures.   It’s sort of not progressive, and it’s not really retro either.     

Ok so if I reverse the mains plug from the power conditioner what happens?  I might get a hum through my speakers if I plug it in backwards (reversed)? Or I get a hum if the power company has it reversed?  None of this matters with power tools and other appliances.  What is the effect of reversed polarity on a stereo?   

“So here's something else for you to worry about: your local Power Company screwing up mains polarity.“

- Dick Olsher, Stereophile

Is this really a thing?