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Ry Cooder & V.M.Bhatt - A Meeting by the River - Water Lily Acoustics/Analogue Productions (2008)
This recording is outstanding the whole session from the musicians, the equipment, recording engineers and even the setting where picked by Kevi Alexander of Water Lily Acoustics especially to achieve the best possible sound reproduction.
I’d go as far as to say that sonically this is one of the best so called ‘Audiophile’ reissues that I’ve heard it’s up there with the Analogue Productions Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section and Muddy Walters Folk Singer.
It was a pure analogue live recording by Tim de Paravicini using his custom built microphones, tape recorders and cutting lathes and without using any noise reduction, equalization, compression or limiting of any kind it was Initially released on CD in 1993 and later handed over to Kevin Gray at AcousTech and remastered for vinyl in 2008 using the same pure analogue methods.
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I’m always really impressed with Lee Morgan’s song writing when I listen to The Sidewinder at aged 25 and 26 he was writing some great Jazz music.
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Shinya Fukumori Trio
Shinya Fukumori (Drums), Matthieu Bordenave (Tenor Saxophone) and Walter Lang (Piano).
Streaming on Qobuz (88.2/24)… continuing on this afternoon after returning from an afternoon walk with my wife with Shinya, Matthieu and Walter and they are sounding sublime! Simply it is, just beautiful…
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Kacey MusGraves same trailer different park. People often compare her with Taylor Swift. Personally, I prefer Kasey’s work. My house, funny and very enjoyable and refreshing. 
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Snapshot of a Beginner - Nap Eyes
I keep coming back to this. The ashes of Jonathan Richman’s voice are somewhere here, and thereby a scintilla of something Lou Reed evokes too. Mark Kozelak’s adenoidal speak-singing is lurking. Or is it more a Canadian Stuart Murdoch. Who knows and or cares. . . it’s great in it’s own self-consciously artful way.
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Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La
Mark Knopfler (Bottleneck Guitar, Fender Stratocaster, Fender Telecaster, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Spanish Guitar, Vocals), Richard Bennett (Fender Stratocaster, Acoustic Guitar, Steel Guitar, Pensa-Suhr Custom, Tiple), Jim Cox (Harmonica, Melodica, Hammond organ, Piano), Chad Cromwell (Drums, Percussion), Guy Fletcher (Clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Harmonium, Hammond Organ, Piano, Wurlitzer), Paul Franklin ( Pedal Steel Guitar) and Glenn Worf (Bass, Upright Bass).
Streaming on Qobuz (96/24)… taking Mark out with a very talents support group for a spin this evening and the toes are tapping and the feet are moving and sounding mighty sweet! …one fine album…
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I just checked this out, and was smitten by it. I just ordered the vinyl. A bonus is that the artist lives about half an hour from me. Thanks for the recommendation 
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An album featuring electronic musician and DJ Floating Points (the nom de plume of Manchester, U.K. native Sam Shepherd), the intensity of jazz saxophone icon Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra seems on the surface built to overwhelm. Yet the anchor of Promises is a delicate, seven-note piano phrase that repeats every nine-and-a-half seconds. (Seriously: Time it.) Sound dull? In fact, it’s enchanting: as if twinkling lights were blinking on, in preparation for Sanders’ warm tenor entrance at 1:28. He undertakes some melodic wanderings which continue as a subtle string bed glides in under him at three and a quarter minutes. His sax will then weave in and out of the mix—letting more frequent but still delicate keyboard lines (both acoustic and synthesized), whisper-thin orchestral tendrils, and his own soft, improvising bass vocal rise to the surface in its place—for the next 41 minutes or so. It sounds more like Sanders is working with Brian Eno.
Ostensibly divided into nine movements, Promises is formatted as a single track (or at least advance press copies of it were). There is both enough stasis and frequent enough fluctuation to make it impossible to tell by ear where the movements separate. Forget about it, then, and focus on the sumptuousness of the many episodes within. One of Sanders’ short statements introduces a gorgeous cello interlude (about 19:15), with the cellist never identified but sounding sublime. A lush and tender event for the strings coalesces about three minutes later, sounding like a movie cue but also carrying deep emotional resonance as it continues to swell. Then there’s a Sun Ra-esque psychedelic synth breakdown about three-fourths of the way through.
As for Sanders, he finally gets a release about 11 minutes before the piece ends, though it remains attenuated: a few coarse yelps, then back to the mesmerizing drones. He’s just a guest in Floating Points’ world … but what a beautiful impression he leaves nonetheless. MICHAEL J. WEST (Jazztimes) …or simple noodling as some might say 
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I have seen a whole lot of fuss over this album, tried listening to it twice both times did not make it through. Just not for me at all, it just doesn’t go anywhere interesting for me.
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I was a touch sceptical about this release, however, thought I would check it out as previously my scepticism has meant I have missed out on a few albums until several months later. Personally I think this is not a challenging ‘ dynamic album but more a ‘nice’ album that I like on when pottering around doing stuff…the beauty about people is that we find different things in music and through this we find some music that we’re a bit ‘so what’* about and lots we go ‘love this’.**
*Pino Palladino / Black Mills album to me is
** Black Country / New Road, Dry Cleaning, Charles Lloyd, Israel Nash and Valerie June are some of my latest wow’s…
Always best to try and not like than not try and miss out. It’s how I find a lot of be music and new artitsts. A review can be a starting point to encourage me to listen to it. In this case it was just because it was a new release in Qobuz and I tend to go through a lot of them any way as a matter of course. I didn’t get on with it hugely. Then saw all the write ups so decided to try again and ended up in the same place.
Valerie Junes latest is stunning and her best yet in my opinion.
