What are you listening to? December 2022

[axolotl]

Keiko Takeda and Ed RosenBerg ~ Shikisokuzeko (2008)



Tenor Sax ~ Ed RosenBerg
Piano and Percussion ~ Keiko Takeda

Quickly becoming a favorite New Age album. Well, not that quickly... it's rather slow and spaced out.

There's enough air and space between the notes to fill an Air and Space Museum, or something like that.

 

[axolotl]

Kamran Ince ~ Arches; Symphony #2: "Fall of Constantinople"; Remembering Lycia (for Piano and Orchestra)



Albany Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Alan Miller; Allen Feinberg, piano

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Kungens Män - Kungens Ljud & Bild (2022)

 

[axolotl]

Slam Stewart & Major Holley ~ Shut Yo' Mouth! [Album, Collaboration] (1991, 1981)

 

[Ojai Sam]

R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World...As We Know It!!! (Kiss The Stone 1991)

Powerful live show from the 1989 Green tour in pristine soundboard quality. Those guys could sure rock when they wanted to.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See (1993)

 

[axolotl]

Keith Jarrett ~ Dark Intervals (1988)



Perhaps his most ambient, introspective live album. I love it, but would not recommend it.

 

[axolotl]

Lagoon ~ Graduation (2005)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

I love it, but would not recommend it.

I completely understand that sentiment when it comes to certain albums

 

[axolotl]

Charlie 'Bird' Parker ~ Modern Jazz Archive [Boxset/Compilation: Disc 2] (2004)

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Part of the John Campagnolo Memorial Collection

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader (2014)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Stranglers - Dark Matters (2021)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Yoko Ono - A Story (1997)

This album consists of songs recorded in 1973. Why she held them back for more than 20 years is a mystery to me. The lyrics are sharp and the vocals far less screechy and more user friendly than her releases at the time. The style is quite varied from folkish acoustic to jazzy rock with lots of electric piano and even some cool horn work from Michael and Randy Brecker. The family photos are a nice touch. Maybe she was afraid of looking like a sell out.

on the Sam-O-Meter.

 

[axolotl]

Bonobo ~ Black Sands (2010)




Circlesquare ~ Songs About Dancing and Drugs (2009)

 

[axolotl]

Michael Garrick Trio ~ Moonscape (1964)



Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modal Jazz

 

[axolotl]

S. Carey ~ Range of Light (2014)



Indie Folk, Ambient Pop

 

[axolotl]

Nicolas Deuson ~ Fragments (2008)

 

[axolotl]

Various Artists (Pacific Moon Records) ~ Ancient City Piano Collection (1998)



NeoClassical New Age

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Libertines - Up The Bracket (2002)



This is so good. It still holds up.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Peggy Seeger - The Best Of: American Folk Music For The Connoisseur (1961)

Vinyl Rip Of The Day.