What Are You Listening To Right Now?

Gordon Gray said:

Very tame by your standards Justin but others may find it to be worthwhile.

Parov Stelar / Seven and Storm.

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I'm enjoying this one now. I might even buy it. Markedly different to other Parov material available on Spotify - which has a track called "Tony Montana" which is actually pretty good.

Nice one GG!

Genre: Trip Hop

Nice and laid back. Lovely voice again. Can't knock it, really.



Er - that plant looks decidedly dodgy.

I'm normally grooving to Prog Rock, but find myself listening to super well recorded Jazz and fusion Jazz today.

Currently Jacques Lousier trio - Baroque Favorites.

Bass is tight and clear on this system thanks to treated room and room corrector. I get to hear every note of this recording even at decent volumes.



This was ripped and is being up-sampled (via SoX resampler) to 88.2Khz and fed digitally to my processor.

Genre: Jazz/vocal

Herbie Hancocks "The River" a jazz interpretaion of an Iconic album.

It features vocals by Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Corinne Bailey and Joni herself.

It is a sonic masterpiece in my opinion the recording is stellar with great balance.

The arrangement is very "Herbie" with his own Syncopatic twist to a lot of these songs as he takes you on a journey away from the original melody.

I can listen to this album and never get tired of it. Most likely not everyones cup of Tea ( that was for you Justin) I think the weak song is the title song sung by Miss Rae ( her voice sounds like a child to me) but other than that I love it!!!

Genre: Indie

Been listening to the new one from the Peej. She's pretty variable in my book - ranging from unlistenable to very good indeed. This appears to be in the later category. Check it out - it is interesting.

Justin,

Just heard an interview with her and Terri Gross on NPR regarding her newest release you cite above.

Very interesting, articulate, mature, intelligent artist.

GG

JonFo said:

I'm normally grooving to Prog Rock, but find myself listening to super well recorded Jazz and fusion Jazz today.

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Jonathan, from posts we have exchanged in the past I always took you for a fan of classical music.

Genre - Rock

The Bridge - National Bohemian



This just came out last week. I have been seeing these guys live for a while now and just love their energy. This is their fifth studio album, and was produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos. I think they have a uniqueness of times past.

This is the video that dropped the day of the album release. The sound on this is horrible, but thats youtube for ya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZw0zqf758

just my 2 pennies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTzZdIfBxrY

Was there ever a better showman? Probably yes.....but Dang was he not in control of 100,000 fans at Knebworth?? Oink! Woof! Brian May was on fire :rocker:

My first listen back from holiday!

Genre: Jazz

Vince Jones - It all ends up in tears.

This is a great album, with some blues and more up-tempo stuff as well. My favourite is track 3 - "5 O'clock in the morning".

I'll post some pics of the holiday later......

Bali

Genre: OFF TOPIC

Bali.........

Now there's a couple of happy holiday makers

Find any Logans in Bali? Or any hi-fi at all, for that matter?

User211 said:

Find any Logans in Bali? Or any hi-fi at all, for that matter?

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Funnily enough, YES. No 'Logans. And not on this trip. But on a previous trip, I went upstairs to this dirty little house (selling stuff on street) to find a pair of DYNAUDIO CONSEQUENCE! I didn't hear them, so can't vouch for authenticity - but there they were, right in the room with me.

They were reasonably carefully set up, but I didn't see any electronics either.

Thanks for sharing, Adam. Whats the green elixir?

Genre - Rock

Stockholm Syndrome - Apollo



This album is gritty and raw with the always engaging lyrics of Jerry Joseph at the heart of the music. I am only on my third listen as it came out yesterday, but I am very pleased with the over all mix and sonic signature that has become their sound. SS is comprised of an allstar cast: Dave Schools, Jerry Joseph, Eric McFadden, Wally Ingram and Danny Louis.

Jimna said:

Thanks for sharing, Adam. Whats the green elixir?

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Yum - they were the passionfruit ice cocktails. We ordrered big ones after that.........

amey01 said:

Yum - they were the passionfruit ice cocktails. We ordrered big ones after that.........

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Sounds like you had a blast. Nice photos. Thanks for sharing. Any shots of the seascape and or landscape?

I've got a few, but nothing too good. Got 100s of those from previous trips - this trip we just wanted to sit on our butts and relax - reading, eating, drinking. And that's exactly what we did!

Neither of us felt like a holiday where we did so much running around we came home in need of a holiday.......if you know what I mean!

The first two are from one of our hotels.

The last one is from a local's house - similar to (but not) the one containing the Dynaudio Consequences! Didn't have the camera that day!

And a few more......

Looks like a great trip was had from the pics!