What are you listening to Part the Third

[mikeymad]

Silver Lining Suite
Hiromi
2021

https://album.link/i/1577444014

Example:

Very good all the way around. Fun, pointent, complex, pretty, swinging. 

[mikeymad]

Day after Fat Tuesday - New Orleans Funk

My People
Cha Wa
2021

https://album.link/i/1547894757

Example:

Just happen to run across this in my queue today. Glad I did. I have not been to New Orleans yet - but I would like to go for the music and the food. 

[Dusty Chalk]

https://album.link/us/i/1440945297

Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface

Just good old normal alternative rock passionately played and emotionally sung

I think I'll put on some Rhiannon Giddens next -- she's playing live in the area in March.  I'd see that.

[skullguise]

Got some new cables to try in my Pi-streamer/GaN amp system, pulled this out after many months, remembered how much I liked this.  A bit "lively" sounding but good on a good stereo, too.

 

[mikeymad]

^I may still have that album. The local stereo shop had that in stock and used it all the time for demos. For some reason I thought it was a Linn Records pressing, but Discogs does not have that info. {30yo memory, not what it use to be}

Late last night:

Unwind
Yasmin Williams
2018

https://album.link/i/1378048163

Example:

Very good tapping technique album. I like that Yasmin is not all about technique for me. A good balance of great playing and good themes. 

[mikeymad]

Tchaikovsky/Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Kyung Wha Chung, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
1995 (um - Nope - that is 1970 - this date must have been the remaster)

https://album.link/i/1452191392

Example:

Not much to say about this. Chung (at 22), LSO with Previn on Decca. yup yup yup yup... 

[Kattefjaes]

 

Edited February 26, 2023 by Kattefjaes

[Dusty Chalk]

7 hours ago, mikeymad said:

Tchaikovsky/Sibelius: Violin Concertos
Kyung Wha Chung, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
1995 (um - Nope - that is 1970 - this date must have been the remaster)

https://album.link/i/1452191392

Example:

Not much to say about this. Chung (at 22), LSO with Previn on Decca. yup yup yup yup... 

They're also two of my favourite violin concertos (well, top 13, anyway).  Will give it a listen.

[Dusty Chalk]

Unrelated -- me, earlier:  The Church's new one, Hypnagogue -- as is typical, very very good.  They seem to spend more time creating their slightly mellow, slightly psychedelic art-rock (E.G. "Destination", Gold Afternoon Fix, Priest=Aura, Sometime Anywhere, &c.) than any kind of sequel to their biggest hit, the wistful ballad, "Under the Milky Way", for which I admire them.

Quaffable.

[skullguise]

Kerala Dust - Violet Drive.  Singers voice and the overall chill feel definitely reminds me some of The The, with modern touches....which is a good thing.

[Torpedo]

Makaya McCraven: International Anthem @ Public Records (Volume 3)

Looks like it's a Qobuz exclusive.

[mikeymad]

^^ can confirm it is not in TIDAL

but:

Wood
Brian Bromberg
2002

https://album.link/i/339942216

Example:

Dropping the bass as Brian does. Enjoyable 2002 album. 

[Dusty Chalk]

Garbage's first album, for some reason.

Prior to that, I was stuck on Black Sabbath's Technical Ecstasy and Simple Minds' New Gold Dream (gosh I love those albums so much) for some reason.

Probably because I haven't been liste ning to music, so my mind mentally replays whatever I know most well.  So...those three albums.

[mikeymad]

'Round About Midnight
Miles Davis
1957

https://album.link/i/159135486

Example:

I had not listened to this in a while. Good to get back to it. And the Legacy Edition extends it to 1.5 hours of 1957 goodness.

It is funny to watch some reaction videos on the YTs of younger people listening to 70s music, shocked that the recording sounds good. Um, good recordings go way way way back. I digress - listen to more Miles folks. 

[Voltron]

Listening to more Miles is always advisable. However, your post is the second reminder that I want to watch Round Midnight again (for the many-th time). The first reminder was a Dexter Gordon picture on the wall at the Village Vanguard. Love that movie, Lady Francis.

[mikeymad]

A View From The Top Of The World
Dream Theater
2021

https://album.link/i/1576732163

Example:

These guys have been consistently prolific for so long that sometimes I forget how hard that is. And as always their caliber of play is impeccable. Shame that I have only seen them once live. 

[mikeymad]

now - rip

The All Seeing Eye
Wayne Shorter
1965

https://album.link/i/1443232004

Example:

 

[TMoney]

Their catalog is finally on streaming services as of today!

[mikeymad]

^ this on TIDAL!! -- Will be working my way through that catalog.

Speaking of Streaming. I found out last night that BAND-MAID finally hit TIDAL as well. I have been waiting for this. They only have two albums so far. So I listened to both of them last night. 

Unseen World
BAND-MAID
2021

https://album.link/i/1542316961

and

Unleash
BAND-MAID
2022

https://album.link/i/1643608830

Example: Instrumental

As described by one reviewer, 'oh they can Play play'. I get caught up in their franetic playing and heavy hooks. I want to put their albums on repeat on an old computer so that it shows TIDAL to get the rest of the catalog. 

 

[shellylh]

Hit a couple of record shops today.   This was playing when I walked into one of them… 
 

[shellylh]

Problems with a red plinth…. clashes with purple. Where was @swt61 when I needed him. 

[swt61]

Throw some yellow paisley stickers on it. Problem solved.

BTW, "Problems with a Red plinth" sounds like Stings latest album. 

[Hopstretch]

Not my usual lane but good music is good music.

 

[swt61]

Indeed!

[swt61]

Country super groups are hard to come by. Only one other springs to mind.