What are you listening to? January 2023

[axolotl]

Pleasant Grove ~ The Art of Leaving (2004)



Indie Rock, Alt-Country, Art Rock, Americana

 

[axolotl]

Spiraling Reverb ~ My Old Friends Vol. 1 (2022)



ETA: Does this album art give you déjà vu?

 

[Ojai Sam]

Bernard Herrmann - The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (soundtrack 1947)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Oscar Levant, New York Philharmonic (Dimitri Mitropoulos, cond.) - Khatchaturian: Concerto For Piano & Orchestra (1950)

 

[axolotl]

^ That is worthy of the MG Album Cover Art Gallery, even if you didn't ask me.

 

[Ojai Sam]

^ That is worthy of the MG Album Cover Art Gallery, even if you didn't ask me.

And it's a wonderful album. Oscar really rocks the Khachaturian.

 

[axolotl]

And it's a wonderful album. Oscar really rocks the Khachaturian.

Khachaturian should have rocked the Oscar, but he couldn't act.

I have wondered whether Levant was his real name, or if he gave himself that name in reference to the Middle East (Holy Land).

I suppose I could look it up if it was important.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Khachaturian should have rocked the Oscar, but he couldn't act.

I have wondered whether Levant was his real name, or if he gave himself that name in reference to the Middle East (Holy Land).

I suppose I could look it up if it was important.

Levant was in fact his parents' real name. They were Orthodox Jewish emigres from Russian. Oscar was well known for his hypochondria, so much so that Alexander Woollcott said of him: "There isn't anything the matter with Levant that a few miracles wouldn't cure."

 

[axolotl]

Levant was in fact his parents' real name. They were Orthodox Jewish emigres from Russian. Oscar was well known for his hypochondria, so much so that Alexander Woollcott said of him: "There isn't anything the matter with Levant that a few miracles wouldn't cure."

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A chain-smoking hypochondriac.

Ah, the good old days.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Alexandre Tharaud - Satie: Avant-dernières Pensées (2009)

 

[axolotl]

Alexandre Tharaud - Satie: Avant-dernières Pensées (2009)

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Excuse me. I had to hear it for myself.

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[Ojai Sam]

Excuse me. I had to hear it for myself.

Google Search

www.google.com

So what did you think?

 

[axolotl]

So what did you think?

Loved it. I particularly liked the inadvertent head ticks which remind me of a metronome.

Oh, the music? Loved it, too.

 

[axolotl]

Flying Lotus ~ Cosmogramma (2010)



IDM, Glitch Hop

 

[Ojai Sam]

The Isley Brothers - Soul On The Rocks (1967)

Their last release for Berry Gordy left them free to move on creatively, as we will soon see.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Tool - Fear Inoculum (2019)



Disparaged by long-time fans, loved by audiophiles.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Mady Mesple, Roland Bufkens (great names, those ) Orchestre & Choeurs de la RTB (Edgar Doneux, cond.) - Gretry: Zemire et Azor (comp. 1771, rec. 1975)

The king of French comic opera tells the tale of Beauty and The Beast in delightful style. The Overture and interstitial music stand on their own merits, so much so that they were regarded as favorites by Marie Antoinette, Mozart and Thomas Beecham. The CD version is filled out with a suite of dances extracted from several of Gretry's operas. The LP version originally appeared on the "La Voix de Son Maitre" label. Who even knew that Nipper spoke French?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

XTC - English Settlement (1982)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Hum - Inlet (2020)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Fuzz - s/t (2013)