Good news; Gentle Giant reissues coming: https://www.loudersound.com/news/gentle-giant-to-reissue-first-four-albums-on-vinyl?utm_source=Selli... “I think fans want to hold something that’s not just ones and zeros." i could not agree more. I only have two of these and they could use replacing anyway. I have mixed feelings about re-issues but on balance I’m not really that picky about having the perfect issue. Just want good sound. Hopefully these will be good pressings. |
@slaw please let me be the one to add it to your annual best of thread. It’s different in that it’s more produced, which was perhaps a risk, but he pulls it off really well. Lot of cool acoustic and mike effects. Band is sweet. Songs are fantastic. I got my copy from vinyl me please records. It’s pressed in the coolest light blue colored absolutely dead quiet vinyl. |
@noromance https://www.discogs.com/Madeleine-Peyroux-Careless-Love/release/2035181 i just have this on my computer. But it’s very nice, as you are in no doubt already aware. |
@tomic601 thank you Jim that Anat Cohen - Claruscuro is a really really nice jazz record. Fantastic SQ. I don’t know that label. Are they known to put out good sq? She’s a great player. So is the trombone player on there. Thanks much. That will be a new go to for a certain mood. Similar vibe to Shai Maestro I think. ——————————- Levi Parham Its All Good reddish-purple pressing... |
So cool. You’ve been there at the source! It’s obvious from the sound of her records that she and/or her team take great care with the recording and production. I appreciate this so much. I like her music. Her classy personality comes through her music and she’s a wonderful pianist. I think it’s pretty incredible though (to me) how crazy contrastingly different people, Anne & Sophia just an example, can appeal through good sound. Maybe it’s kinda simple and dumb of me to be impressed by contrasts - I don’t know - interesting to me though. |
@tomic601 Anne Bisson. That’s audiophile music, right? I remember she appeared at, and her records being played at, a hi fi show. I put a couple of her albums on the streamer in high res to check her out again this morning. They sure do have that audiophile sound. A good baseline test for your new phono box? Anyway, for some reason, the sound of these recordings made me want to put this on: https://www.discogs.com/Sophia-Pfister-Birdcage/release/12487228 A recent discovery for me which I was thinking you might also like. I mean, also an audiophile record of female vocals, but almost completely different in almost every way. Hard to explain I guess. Anyway, I think you might dig it. |
Batteries! I wish I had some batteries. No, I just have a trained rat. He runs on a wheel that turns a precision built German generator that powers an exquisite Japanese linear power supply. Dead quiet setup with $27,000 interconnects - - as you can imagine. Carefree listening except for a little problem I’m having with the rat’s perpetual incentive food feeding machine (PIFF) that I DIY engineered: the coconuts get stuck. |
@slaw here you go bro https://www.discogs.com/The-Highwomen-The-Highwomen/release/14284019 I know you really like the work of at least one of these ladies. And she’s got her husband Jason playing on the record too. Anyway, guess i thought to ask cause its kind of in the same semi-country ballpark as Caroline Spence. Sorta. And its become quite popular. Interested to know what you’ll think of the record. |
“If you’ve never heard of her please give her a try” https://youtu.be/M2xL7D5lPAk TV talent show discovery: LDS from Provo that plays rave music, now with a billion YouTube views and 11 million(!) subscribers, appearance on Dancing with the Stars, a book deal, and a best selling Christmas album. If by some near miracle you have managed to avoid it til now congratulate yourself on your discernment and good fortune. Yes, of course, there is no accounting for taste and I certainly should not criticize somebody else’s choices. I know, I know - the unwritten law and all that.... but this exemplifies everything bad about commercial music that is (mostly) consistently railed against by serious music listeners here and it is unqualifiedly ghastly. +1 on the Funkadelic! |
