Dragoon - This Galaxy Is But A Nursery (LA's Fine) [LASFINELP-003]
Those Bastard Souls - Twentieth Century Chemical (Darla) [DRL 011]
Joel RL Phelps & The Downer Trio - Gala (12XU) [055-1]
Patrick Sweany - Close To The Floor (Nine Mile Records) [NMR 0088]
Chris Brokaw  Gambler's Ecstasy (12XU) [041-1]
White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown) [DWT70368]
Dr. Dog - B-Room (ANTI-) [ANTI 87299-1] |
Detour. Just started 73 minutes of Joao Gilberto o amor, o sorriso e a flor (love, a smile and a flower). Great dinner music. This empty nester business is very rewarding. Dogs are great. |
It has been a Dead Can Dance morning and afternoon. Now that it's supper time on the East coast, we have some Anoushka Shankar playing. I was working outside all day and I just pounded a vodka and soda. I have a feeling there's going to be some Talking Heads spinning this evening and I will not be sitting down for it. Ahhhhh, to not be young!!! |
Opened a still sealed copy of Yo-Yo Ma playing Dvorak: Cello Concerto, a CBS Records Masterworks release. A visual check shows the record in excellent condition. After a thorough cleaning, side one sounded like it had been abused for decades, side two wasn't the best, either. I hate when that happens! |
It's turning into Monovember for me.
Oboen-Konzerte, by Handel, Telemann, Dittersdorf; Philips A 02233 L . |
Finally opened my Cassandra Wilson "Blue Light 'Til Dawn" lp set from Pure Pleasure Analogue. This is one of the best recordings I have heard in a while. The disc is extremely quiet. I thought for a moment I neglected to increase the volume after I cued it up. Most exellent! |
Just listened to Neil Young-Everybody Knows this is Nowhere and Phish-Junta
Next will probably be Yes-Fragile and then maybe some Jimi |
Patrick Sweany  Close To The Floor (Nine Mile Records) [NMR 0088] |
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Prokofiev - Quintet in G
Shostakovich - Piano Quintet, op57
/ Melos Ensemble, L'Oiseau SOL 267
Prokofiev - Love for Three Oranges | Scythian Suite / Dorati/LSO, Mercury SR 90006 (Classic Records 45rpm reissue)
Lee Morgan - Volume 3 / Blue Note (Music Masters 45rpm reissue)
Lee Morgan - Candy / Blue Note (Classic Record 33rpm reissue)
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Have replaced my Grado Ref Sonata with a Benz Micro L2 so I listened to a few to see how I like it.
Cassandra Wilson, "Glamoured", EMI
Porcupine Tree, "In Absentia", Tonefloat
Cat Stevens, "Tea for the Tillerman", Analogue Productions.
Like it a lot. |
Such a marvelous recording engineered by Peter McGrath! Handel Water Music - Harmondia Mundi |
Just finished listening to Bowie's A New Day, and now have Eric Burdon's 'Til Your River Runs Dry on. This is an awesome new record. |
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A total hodgepodge of things:
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, Recomposed by Max Richter. I cannot say enough about this new release - absolutely stunning!!!
Handel Water Music - Harmondia Mundi
Vicki Benet - A Paris - Decca Stereo 1959
Les Miserables - Original Broadway cast Geffen Records. Not audiophile quality but my girlfriend really wanted to hear Les Mis so what can I say :)
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories. Their best album yet. |
Overseas - S/T [OVERSEAS001]
Mount Moriah - S/T (Merge) [MRG 456]
Water Liars - Wyoming (BIG Legal Mess ) [BLM0276]
Farrar/Johnson/Parker/James - New Multitudes - (Rounder) [11661 91291] |
Seasick Steve - Hubcap Music (Third Man Records) [TMR218]
Daniel Higgs - The Godward Way (Latitudes) [GMT 0:33]
Barn Owl - V (Thrill Jockey) [THRILL 321] |
Selections from this and that...
Handel: Semele - Gardiner/English Baroque Solotists/Erato
Berlioz: Les Troyens - Davis/Royal Opera House Orch/Philips
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin: Polonaise - Fiedler/BostonPops/Readers Digest
Beethoven: Fidelio Overture - Reiner/CSO/RCA
Verdi: Otello - Levine/NationalPh/RCA
My spouse is giving me her requests and I'm then pulling from the shelves. It's a day of whatever she wants to hear.
:-)
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Overseas - S/T - [OVERSEAS001]
(Top 5 of 2013? Ans. (Yes most probably)) |
Ry Cooder-Jazz
The Clash-Sandinista
Dire Straits-Dire Straits
Then a whole bunch of other amazing music that will probably get me out of my chair like this Ry Cooder is doing right now. |
At the moment it is The Cramps "Songs the Lord Taught Us" with Joe Strummer waiting in the wings next to Man Man's latest album (just saw them this last Sunday - Great show!) |
09-14-13: Donjr
Albert, that Drive sound track peaked my interest. I've never seen the film. Can you elaborate for me? If not, I can check out Amazon reviews but I'd much rather hear what draws you to this material than most. I appreciate your diversity. I own a music library with such diverse content, some is certain to offend everyone :-). Drive is a great indy movie starring Ryan Gosling, a young (about 30) year old actor. Ryan strikes me as a real person in a field of actors that rely on overdone facial expressions, gestures and special effects to pull them through. Ryan reminds me a tiny bit of Steve McQueen when he was young and doing action movies. Both are different enough to remember and believable enough to connect with as the movie unfolds. I really liked the movie, among my favorites this past year. The music is as different as the movie, you should go to Amazon and play the MP3 samples and see how it strikes you. Music I played today: Felix Laband, "Thin Shoes In June" Rickie Lee Jones, "The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard" Porcupine Tree, "Stupid Dream" Harold Land and Kenny Dorham, "Eastward Ho" Frazy Ford, "Obadiah" |
The final record of the night is, Dexter Gordon, One Flight Up. Then I am going to go one flight up to bed. No more puns I promise. |
Dexter Gordon, Both Sides of Midnight. I listened to the first side before midnight and now I am listening to the other side, LOL. |
Anouar Brahem 'the Astounding Eyes of Rita'.
The Clash 'Sandinista'
Ry Cooder 'Jazz'
Ellis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim 'Tom and Ellis' |
Albert, that Drive sound track peaked my interest. I've never seen the film. Can you elaborate for me? If not, I can check out Amazon reviews but I'd much rather hear what draws you to this material than most. I appreciate your diversity. |
Death Cab for Cutie, We have the facts and we're voting yes.
Peter Wolf, Sleepless
Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream
Pearl Jam, Yield
Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley |
Movie sound track, "Drive."
Donald Byrd, "Royal Flush." (this is out of this world, love it).
Yello, "Touch"
Massive Attack, "Heligoland"
Joni Mitchell, "Blue"
Agnes Obel, "Wallflower"
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Belcea Quartet, Schubert String Quartets in G&D Minor Death and the Maiden
Prince, Purple Rain
St Vincent, Stranger Mercy
Pearl Jam, Into the Wild soundtrack |
Chicago II--like most fair-minded music lovers, I've generally regarded their seemingly endless output as the clearest example of cultural decay. I've concluded, however, that this album is something of a masterpiece--in contrast to the AOR drivel that followed, it's actually soulful and raw-- just listen to those jagged guitar fills, random percussion parts and slightly off-key vocals. Plus the bass player really swings.
Richard Buckner, Surrounded--admittedly, there's not a ton of sonic variation in his ouevre, but he is a genius and noone comes close to doing this type of downcast Nick Drake-meets-Hank Williams stuff.
Earth, Angel of Darkness--my new guilty pleasures; they're usually mis-categorized as heavy metal, but to me actually sound closer to ambient, experimental guys like NIN or Tortoise. Intense, tuneful stuff. |
Parish Hall - same
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Gary More Band - Grindning Stone
Fleetwod Mac - Then Play On |
Philb7777 Albert,
Do you have Brendan Perry's solo LP's 'Eye of Hunter' and 'Ark'? If not, you are missing two more great records in DCD style. I'll check them out and order. Thank you ! |
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Califone - Stitches [DOC080] |
Albert,
Do you have Brendan Perry's solo LP's 'Eye of Hunter' and 'Ark'? If not, you are missing two more great records in DCD style. |
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Albert, I don't have Anastasis. Thanks for the recommendation. |
Rush, thanks. I have the original and a sealed second copy but always on the lookout for superior software.
Do you have Dead Can Dance, Anastasis? Currently the LP is $25.00 but once out of print it will get expensive. |
Hi Albert,
What I'm hearing is blacker background, a bit more definition in the leading edge of transients, and a bit more air and space. The differences would not make be duplicate a good clean original because the original is shockingly good. But if you don't have the original, or if your copy is getting a bit noisy, the reissue is very much worthwhile rather than chasing after another original on the used market. And, as I commented, I think the reissue does sound a bit better.
Cheers, |
Rush Dead Can Dance, Into The Labyrinth - Mobile Fidelity Silver reissue - sonically scruptious, this 2 LP reissue is better than the original, and musically interesting and complex. How is this better than the original 4AD if you can explain I would appreciate. I have all the Dead Can Dance LPs since 1984. ("This Mortal Coil.") |
A bit of music thus far this morning with my listening partner:
Counting Crows, August and Everything After - Analogue Productions 45rpm reissue (Can I admit to getting bored? Oh my...)
Dead Can Dance, Into The Labyrinth - Mobile Fidelity Silver reissue - sonically scruptious, this 2 LP reissue is better than the original, and musically interesting and complex.
Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall - original pressing - we'd listened to another pressing of this at a friend's house, but I just couldn't find the swing factor I thought this LP had it. So, I pulled it out here to re-play the Cotton Fields cut that had been demo'ed for us. And, by golly, the swing factor was back. Just a great example of how some records live or die by the PRaT one's turntable delivers.
Moving on now to Brahms Piano Concerto, Curzon and Szell, in a 45 rpm reissue from ORG that I've been wanting to hear for some time.
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ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
"Let the bridge computer speak!" |
Vivaldi, Dixit Dominus, RV594 (Psalm 109 for solists, two choirs and two orchestras), Negri/ECO, John Alldis Choir, Philips 6700 116
(Captivating, as always. I have another performance of this work with Corboz conducting, whom I always admire, but the Negri performance is the one I keep coming back to when in the mood to listen to this work.) |
Tostadosunidos, I agree completely! |
I find the Budapest SQ to have an almost indescribable quality--not the best technically, perhaps, but so alive and unpredictable. There's a feeling that anything can and will happen. I think they're great. I especially like their Rasumovxky #3, last movement. |
Beethoven String Quartet No. 16, The Budapest String Quartet, Columbia - as the first notes emerged, it was simply "Oh, my. This is marvelous!" |
Hey Don- They were a great band. After Duke is about where I parted company. Am on a Genesis jag the last few days. Listened to Three Sides Live earlier today (actually 4 sides live on the recording I own...but that's good because Paperlate and some of their later studio drivel isn't there)...and Duke after W&W. I will have to dust off my copy of Lamb. There is some good music on that one but it always seemed a bit uneven to me. I'll give a listen to your favs. For me its been TOTT, W&W, ATTWT. Foxtrot needs to be in there too. Maybe I don't really have a favorite as such.
Ciao |
Ghosthouse, I'm a huge Genesis fan. I own every lp up to Duke and love every one of them. My personal favorite is the lamb. In the Cage, Back in NYC, and especially Lilywhite Lilith. |
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering...hadn't listened to this in a long time. What beautiful music. Tony Banks' "Afterglow" - really something special. |
Russ, I'll look forward to getting together! |
