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What are you listening to? Part III
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Ridin' With The King - good for one of the few really summery-feeling nights here this season
My musical interests are fairly...diverse (nearly 1400 albums right now). For every person I share a common musical interest with, I surely also have something they don't enjoy so much...
On a loop. Outside of Bolt Thrower's World Eater, I play this song more than anything else. My favorite Goblin track for almost 15 years now.
Friday night jazz.. tonight, 26 tracks of Miles Davis bliss: the sound track takes for the film L'Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows, US; also Frantic, in the US; Lift to the Scaffold, UK).
I was led into that by listening earlier to Edsel Gomez' Juan Tizol, a track from his Cubist Music album, which somehow reminded me of both the Au Petit Bar and the Chez le Photographe du Motel tracks in the Miles Davis album.
I was led into that by listening earlier to Edsel Gomez' Juan Tizol, a track from his Cubist Music album, which somehow reminded me of both the Au Petit Bar and the Chez le Photographe du Motel tracks in the Miles Davis album.
That sounds brilliant.
I may have mentioned that I heard Marcus Miller (a protégé of Miles Davis) play live in Tbilisi not quite a decade ago; a wonderful performance and an absolute gentleman.
Not only am I in agreement with you, I think that I am also (musically) in a pretty similar situation to you.
Many of us are. My tastes have always been eclectic to say the least.
The only genre and subgenres that I do not listen to are 'metal' including thrash etc...
But everything else is fair game
"The Montagues and Capulets" from the ballet Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev.
Cranking the ol' stereo up to 11 today. In the last hour I've been indulging in Steven Wilson's 2014 surround remixes of:
... and...
I admit that beyond those three hits I find the rest of the album okay but not my cup of tea. Therefore, that last song then led me to this revist cover:
Now, I'm exploring Alex Erik Satie as performed by Alexandre Tharaud. Recommended to me in this thread some time ago. My local bookstore has a 6-disc Decca set of Satie. During their Labor Day sale it's a mere $27. Time to decide if I want to indulge. I've indulged a lot lately, though. I always struggle with classical purchases since there are so many interpretations from which to choose. The pressure may be greater with fragile, idiosyncratic little piano solo pieces like this where feel is deeply essential to me.
... and...
I admit that beyond those three hits I find the rest of the album okay but not my cup of tea. Therefore, that last song then led me to this revist cover:
Now, I'm exploring Alex Erik Satie as performed by Alexandre Tharaud. Recommended to me in this thread some time ago. My local bookstore has a 6-disc Decca set of Satie. During their Labor Day sale it's a mere $27. Time to decide if I want to indulge. I've indulged a lot lately, though. I always struggle with classical purchases since there are so many interpretations from which to choose. The pressure may be greater with fragile, idiosyncratic little piano solo pieces like this where feel is deeply essential to me.
Erik Satie is brilliant.
For now, I am listening to a piece - both heartbreaking and beautiful - called "The Watermill" by Ronald Binge (this was the exquisite and haunting theme music to a BBC adaptation of "The Wind In The Willows" that I saw as a child and which lived in my memory for years - nay, decades - afterwards).
For now, I am listening to a piece - both heartbreaking and beautiful - called "The Watermill" by Ronald Binge (this was the exquisite and haunting theme music to a BBC adaptation of "The Wind In The Willows" that I saw as a child and which lived in my memory for years - nay, decades - afterwards).
Always been a TFF fan. Great stuff from them. Loved Sowing the Seeds of Love and Break it Down Again. I always thought that their work as a duo was better, than just Roland by himself (props to him though for keeping the group together).
But I've always loved how a guitar can not only just be pigeonholed into rhythm and lead/solo, which is why this cover is great, as it also showcases the guitar as percussion. That's the biggest reason why I've really liked Rodrigo y Gabriela.
But that cover, mixing percussion, rhythm, lead, and vocals into the single instrument is phenomenal.
BL.
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I'll second Rodrigo y Gabriela. I've listened to 11:11 a few times this week. I also packed the CD in my car this week. I've been tempted to invest in some electrostatic speakers for acoustic listening and that's one of my go-to discs. As I posted above, I find them propulsive and energetic without being aggressive and they never seem to sacrifice little melodic touches in the process. I really need to check out more of their albums.
Edit to add: Regarding RyG and McKee, they are important reminders that acoustic music needn't be tedious. So many artists who choose to cover music make the mistake of making their interpretations needlessly morose and drained of vitality to make it sound "serious". It's a fundamental misunderstanding of the dynamics achievable by traditional instruments. The percussive use of the instrument, as you point out, is sadly under-utilized in my experience.
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If you like Tool, I'd suggest you also give Maynard James Keenan's other work with A Perfect Circle and his side band Puscifer.
As a person who respects Tool but often finds it to be a bit much, A Perfect Circle is more my speed. The song "The Package" is incredible. They still open with it.
I love the differences in sound between Tool, Puscifer and APC. I'll always have a soft spot for Tool because it was the perfect music for my angsty teenage years.