Northern Uproar - Hey Samurai!
Last album from Northern Uproar, after the sad loss of guitarist Jeff Fletcher they released this album on a kickstarter type site. A very different sound but an album I find easier to listen to now than the earlier ones , which are more Brit Pop/ Oasis style.
Herbie Hancock - Mr Hands - Uniti Core. I do find the CD cover a bit disturbing I have to say. I’ve probably missed the point though, tbf.
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Faure: Pelleas et Melisande
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Munch conducting
Columbia/Sony 1963
Why does one buy a big amp and push it into full range speakers? “To listen to this album” would not be a bad answer. Munch post-Boston, with the Philadelphia Orchestra in its prime, recording for engineers who might have heard it all even better than RCA’s did. Grace, power, rhythm, phrasing, dynamics … and, as a guitar player might say, it responds really well to the volume knob.
MICHEL PETRUCCIANI - LIVE
Bass – Steve Logan
Drums – Victor Jones
Keyboards – Adam Holzman
Percussion – Abdou M’Boop
Piano – Michel Petrucciani
Recorded in November of 1991 at The Arsenal in Metz, France
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Vagn Holmboe
Symphony No.2
Sinfonia “In Memorium”
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes conducting
BIS 1995
Another set of works that are much improved by big iron, although in a different way than Munch’s French repertoire recordings with Philadelphia. On BIS back when BIS was at it’s BISiest.
Full Circle - Tom Misch.
Playing this a lot - my favourite release of the year to date - and gets better every time!
Noticed there was an expanded version issued for RSD so I thought I’d give my original a go. Little Annie - Short and Sweet - Uniti Core. An On-U Sound classic imo.
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Paper Airplane
CD | 2011
Saw them last night at the DPAC, Durham, NC, USA. Wonderful performance. Felt like continuing the feeling with today’s listening.
The support feature (rather than a band) for Bowie’s 1976 return to the UK tour. The screams around the Empire Pool Wembley when the eyeball was slit nearly matched Bowie’s stage entrance.
Not a Gorillaz fan here but I took your recommendation and WOW! What an album. Definitely worth a listen.
