Whats on your turntable tonight?

Porcupine Tree- Coma Divine
ELP (Pink Island)
and two local LPs, both recent:
Salamander (S/T)
Paul Metzger
-and-
Television- Marque Moon. So what if there's no bass!

Hi Albert,

My copy of Big Map Idea was one that disappeared at CES two years ago when my LPs were stolen.

Tonights selection:
John Renborn Group- The Enchanted Garden
Growing- The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light
Doves- The Last Braodcast
Broadcast- The Sounds People Make

Dude, that's awesome. It'd be nice to hear that again.

Tonight:
Low "The Great Destroyer" (their latest is also their best)
Porcupine Tree "Deadwing" (Dude!)
the Gorillas "Demon Days"
Thomas Tallis Scholars "Palestrina Masses Missa Benedicta Es" (Gimell Records) - simply the best series of Palestrina Masses yet recorded...
Bola "Soup" a modern electronic classic...
the *new* Sigur Res I can't read Icelandic but this stuff rules! Gorgeous.

Hi Rushton, I try to keep moving. Most of my employees are in bands so I get a lot of exposure to new music. Music in general is exploding right now and there is an amazing amount of excellent stuff going on!! Tonight:

Vilayat Khan - EMI I've not heard this one in a while but another thread got me thinking of it again.

Earthstar - French Skyline (Sky label # 031) nice French analog synth stuff from the 70s.

Global Communication - Pentamerous Metamorphosis This is one of my favorite bands. They only did three LPs- this is their last and perhaps the best. Gorgeous. Their second album got Atma-Sphere Bass of the Year Award... see:
http://atma-sphere.com/awards/bya/index.html

Paul Metzger (S/T) www.mutantmusic.com - all analog and 180gram. Paul is an astonishing guitar master who has ventured into unknown territory by modifying his guitar with sympathetic strings and removing the frets. He plays with speed, integrety and nuance, and sounds remarkably Indian? -Middle Eastern?- Chinese? hard to say but it is beautiful, heartfelt and unique. Local guy too. Solo guitar, with no effects, *very* natural sound. Side A and B are radically different and show the wide ranges Paul is capable of.

His performances locally are a thing to behold. He plays a solo instrument, with minimal amplification and obvious ethnic influences and styles, and gets rousing cheers even from a punk audience! Awesome!

Rush, have you heard any of the Decca recordings of Wagner with Solti conducting? For many years his recording of the Ring (and the annual visitation from the Met) were in many ways a penultimate audio experience for me. It took me years to finally locate originals...

Tonight is Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa. Not ECM's best recording, but the performance is spooky.

Musique Arabo-Andalouse - harmonia mundi (France) - who else?? but the Atrium Musicae - nothing else need be said.

and for some chillage- A Strangly Isolated Place by Urlich Schnauss