Post by cooksferry on Jan 10, 2024 19:33:39 GMT 12
Buddy and Julie Miller - In The Throes. Had a few goes at this and not really connecting . Part of reason maybe the darker sound that buries her voice which isn't the strongest. Their first couple of records together were good but I've struggled with the last three. Can't win them all.
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Post by Citroen on Jan 10, 2024 21:16:51 GMT 12
I wish her voice was buried deeper She should stick to writing songs, not singing them. Much prefer a solo Buddy.
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Post by cooksferry on Jan 10, 2024 21:39:44 GMT 12
I wish her voice was buried deeper She should stick to writing songs, not singing them. Much prefer a solo Buddy. Yes I prefer solo Buddy as well but he hasn't done one for around twenty years. There was the Majestic Silver Strings and Buddy & Jim but nothing solo.
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Post by RdM on Jan 10, 2024 22:21:12 GMT 12
Ha ha! I did give the link , the screenshots just to entice;- Yeah thanks. The overwhelming effort of moving from point A to point B! But I'm already enjoying visiting it, far more peace and quiet. Contemplating the lounge setup. So much still to do.
Stereo all setup now RdM ? Ah, the weeks of moving, barely in here a week before increasing pain over 4-5 days and excruciating over the last 3 drove me to ED, and eventually emergency surgery. So my New Years Eve experience was within 4 days, 3 nights in Auckland Hospital. Anesthesia is interesting. Boof, you're out, then Bam, alive again breathing oxygen, 2 hrs in the future. The nurses were really good about letting me in and out to smoke my favourite organic Manitou RYO tobacco, at all hours. I actually went out around midnight pre-op and up to near the boiler room and boundary with the Domain to see the Sky Tower fireworks. Tried to take a video after a few minutes, but just got the ambient smoke aftermath. I bought a pair of early Kef Eggs recently, spent an afternoon mounting and wiring them up above windows firing down an open plan dining area toward a kitchen serving hatch. Somewhere I have a small Polk or JPW subwoofer that might mate with them, under a glass desk, cos that front window end of said dining rectangle is also my desk and office space. They're sounding great! www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/electronics-photography/home-audio/speakers-and-stands/floor-speakers/listing/4487686631No, the lounge is full of boxes, furniture and hifi shelves roughly in place but not even stacked with shelves yet, let alone things on them! I've also been connecting up a new router, on gigabit fibre for the first time after ADSL on copper, at this new place. Bookshelves yet to put up and fill. A long way to go ... I still need to get my Sony G333ES speakers woofers and midranges surrounds replaced ... www.thevintageknob.org/sony-SS-G333ES.htmlaudio-database.com/SONY-ESPRIT/speaker/ss-g333es.htmlBut it's wonderful, I'm enjoying the prospective projects, and getting into tackling an overgrown garden space full of weeds ... great fun! ;=})) It'll take months. There's a 2nd bedroom for electronic workshop and amateur radio stuff on a 2nd floor, looks like I can put up a long dipole aerial, and a garage, almost filled. Boxes, furniture ... I'm having some trouble finding stuff I want, but some has come easily to hand ... I'll report on more back later! Cheers ;=})
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Post by RdM on Jan 10, 2024 23:36:52 GMT 12
I'm digging out all sorts of recently and not recently played CD's, some new, s/h, or ex library, trying out the Kef eggs ... liking piano music, also Concert radio FM. Right now, after midnight, and I may be up for a few hours yet, is this: www.discogs.com/master/507771-Michel-Legrand-Four-Piano-Blues[Edit: I could start a photo collection of piano players who are smoking cigars or cigarettes in their cover photos ... ;=}) ]
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Post by cooksferry on Jan 12, 2024 12:46:25 GMT 12
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Post by Citroen on Jan 12, 2024 14:10:11 GMT 12
Wow. That's a lot of Calexico!
I can only handle them in small doses, and do enjoy their collaboration with Iron and Wine, Years To Burn.
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Post by cooksferry on Jan 12, 2024 14:43:25 GMT 12
Wow. That's a lot of Calexico! I can only handle them in small doses, and do enjoy their collaboration with Iron and Wine, Years To Burn. Think I only played a couple of LPs in all the years I owned the set. It was much much cheaper on limited release than current prices. Think the thousand copies sold out in a couple of weeks. Enjoy their Mexicana flavours. Now onto Glen Hansard – It Was Triumph We Once Proposed…Songs Of Jason Molina Nice tribute ep but misses the touch of Molina's voice. Then onto Songs:Ohia The Magnolia Electric co and maybe my favourite Molina song, Hold On Magnolia.
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Post by Citroen on Jan 12, 2024 15:09:24 GMT 12
Excellent choices.
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Post by Citroen on Jan 12, 2024 16:35:00 GMT 12
Dunedin dream pop, Cloudboy – Down At The End Of The Garden
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Post by RdM on Jan 12, 2024 17:24:40 GMT 12
Wow. That's a lot of Calexico! I can only handle them in small doses, and do enjoy their collaboration with Iron and Wine, Years To Burn. Think I only played a couple of LPs in all the years I owned the set. It was much much cheaper on limited release than current prices. Think the thousand copies sold out in a couple of weeks. Enjoy their Mexicana flavours. The first (and almost only) time I heard, discovered Calexico was via this short live set. Really great if and when you're in the mood for it, a good sounding soundboard capture. Calexico Live at The Backyard on 2005-05-04archive.org/details/calexico2005-05-04.matrix.flac16I just haven't kept up with them over the years. I think they even came to Auckland at least once, maybe twice?
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Post by RdM on Jan 12, 2024 18:29:56 GMT 12
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Post by foveaux on Jan 13, 2024 8:45:36 GMT 12
and...that destination is in my music den in the mountains. (being well played already)
This set is absolute treasure for any Calexcio fanboy: merci Cooks
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Post by Citroen on Jan 13, 2024 17:26:32 GMT 12
Some apt tunes for the warm weather. Samara Joy – Linger Awhile Minnie Riperton – Come To My Garden
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Post by Citroen on Jan 18, 2024 15:46:38 GMT 12
Chan Marshall of Cat Power sings Dylan's iconic ""Royal Albert Hall" concert, even though it was actually at another venue, song for song. Initial thoughts of cringe, but this is a wonderful rendition (this time at the Royal Albert). Highly recommended for any Cat Power or Dylan fans.
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Post by papahemi on Jan 18, 2024 17:21:30 GMT 12
Chan Marshall of Cat Power sings Dylan's iconic ""Royal Albert Hall" concert, even though it was actually at another venue, song for song. Initial thoughts of cringe, but this is a wonderful rendition (this time at the Royal Albert). Highly recommended for any Cat Power or Dylan fans. Chan is rather accomplished when it comes to covering the work of others and dos a pretty good job of her own stuff too.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Post by cooksferry on Jan 23, 2024 11:07:01 GMT 12
A song for our times
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Post by Dom on Jan 24, 2024 14:27:02 GMT 12
Antal Dorati's "Pictures at an Exhibition" on Mercury Living Stereo. $30 from RG and in superb nick for a 1960 pressing. Lots of really good classical pressings in there atm!
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Post by Dom on Jan 24, 2024 14:27:59 GMT 12
Chan Marshall of Cat Power sings Dylan's iconic ""Royal Albert Hall" concert, even though it was actually at another venue, song for song. Initial thoughts of cringe, but this is a wonderful rendition (this time at the Royal Albert). Highly recommended for any Cat Power or Dylan fans. This album is BOSS!!
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Post by cooksferry on Jan 28, 2024 22:22:23 GMT 12
Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror Later acoustic live recordings just two guitars and fiddle. I prefer this later, starker, TVZ to his earlier somewhat over produced releases
Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under the Influence.
I've found a bit of renewed interest in my music since adding the Grado PS1000 headphones. Some how they're ticking all the boxes so far, something the Audeze LCD3 has never quite managed.
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Post by Citroen on Jan 29, 2024 0:09:33 GMT 12
Mt Joy - Orange Blood Some more great Indie folk-rock
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Post by Citroen on Jan 30, 2024 15:18:14 GMT 12
Ordered in MARCH 2023. Finally arrived but well worth the nearly year long wait!!! "On his second album, the Malaysian-born, Shanghai- and Taipei-based producer interweaves industrial-strength techno and Asian instruments into a potent expression of rage and anxiety." Tzusing – 绿帽 = Green Hat, Pan Record Label Discovered after investigating Neil's Pan Daijing nod.
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Post by Neil on Jan 31, 2024 8:10:11 GMT 12
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Post by rmc001 on Feb 2, 2024 10:40:00 GMT 12
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Post by Citroen on Feb 2, 2024 15:08:20 GMT 12
A true classic piece and performance, and a truly remarkable sounding one now too! I wish all symphonic music sounded so well recorded/mastered/pressed. Worth every penny, but be warned there are an AWFUL lot of pennies involved. Hector Berlioz - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa – Symphonie Fantastique, DG (The Original Source Series), 2023.
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Post by Citroen on Feb 3, 2024 15:44:12 GMT 12
200 years anniversary of Anton's birth, 1824
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Post by Dom on Feb 7, 2024 11:55:43 GMT 12
A true classic piece and performance, and a truly remarkable sounding one now too! I wish all symphonic music sounded so well recorded/mastered/pressed. Worth every penny, but be warned there are an AWFUL lot of pennies involved. Hector Berlioz - Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa – Symphonie Fantastique, DG (The Original Source Series), 2023. Yeah, I looked at a few of this DG series and had to back away, hankie at the ready!!!
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Post by Citroen on Feb 7, 2024 16:19:30 GMT 12
Yeah, only have one other, Verdi Requiem. Very tempted by the Mahlers but can't justify the price.
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Post by Citroen on Feb 8, 2024 15:35:23 GMT 12
Keaton Henson – House Party I'm a huge Keaton Henson fanboy. Which is why I can only give this album an average review.
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Post by cooksferry on Feb 8, 2024 20:41:39 GMT 12
Test running the Grado PS1000 now fitted with Beautiful Audio earpads and headband cover plus metal rod blocks so I can finally lock the cups in place.
Neil Young - On the Beach. Cd Tim Bowness - Lost in the Ghost light. Cd
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