What are you listening to? January 2024
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axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
This here. CD 2, this time.
Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) (2023)Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) (2023)
This is without hesitation recommended to @axolotl and @JazzyRandy!
Finally getting around to listening to this. I put it in my car way back when you rec'd it and it got lost in cart mayhem till recently.
Thanks for the reco. This is great!
Unsomnambulist
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Earthless - Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons (2022)
Ojai Sam
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Cathie Taylor - A Little Bit of Sweetness (1959)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
Young woman born in Canada during WWII migrates to California to pursue career opportunities as a folk singer. That description applies equally to Joni Mitchell and Cathie Taylor, but there the similarity ends. The liner notes conveniently airbrush out her birth in Winnipeg to declare that Cathie was discovered in her "home town" of Morgan Hill, California, a wealthy Silicon Valley enclave not known as a hotbed of gritty folk troubadours. She was promoted by Cliffie Stone, the mentor of Tennessee Ernie Ford during the folk boom as an unthreatening alternative. Taylor has a pleasant if undistinguished voice which she applies to songs "from all over the world" as the liner notes put it. That's true if the world is limited to England, Ireland, Dutch South Africa and France.
Not to slam Cathie. I used to enjoy her weekly appearances on the local Melody Ranch TV show during the 60's. Her beauty and bright personality were well suited for television. After one more album on Capitol and another on Reprise, she switched to recording gospel and has been totally absent from the studio since 1978.
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
Young woman born in Canada during WWII migrates to California to pursue career opportunities as a folk singer. That description applies equally to Joni Mitchell and Cathie Taylor, but there the similarity ends. The liner notes conveniently airbrush out her birth in Winnipeg to declare that Cathie was discovered in her "home town" of Morgan Hill, California, a wealthy Silicon Valley enclave not known as a hotbed of gritty folk troubadours. She was promoted by Cliffie Stone, the mentor of Tennessee Ernie Ford during the folk boom as an unthreatening alternative. Taylor has a pleasant if undistinguished voice which she applies to songs "from all over the world" as the liner notes put it. That's true if the world is limited to England, Ireland, Dutch South Africa and France.
Not to slam Cathie. I used to enjoy her weekly appearances on the local Melody Ranch TV show during the 60's. Her beauty and bright personality were well suited for television. After one more album on Capitol and another on Reprise, she switched to recording gospel and has been totally absent from the studio since 1978.
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
Duncan Browne - Give Me Take You (1968)
This, earlier today.
Then, this:
Jay Som ~ Anak Ko (2019)
Unsomnambulist
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Living Colour - Vivid (1988)
Unsomnambulist
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The Body & Big Brave - Leaving None But Small Birds (2021)
This is terrific. Psychedelic Rock/Folk.
This is terrific. Psychedelic Rock/Folk.
Ojai Sam
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Nicolaus Harnoncourt, cond.) - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (1992)
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I have no formal music education other than one semester of "Music Appreciation" at University High School in West Los Angeles. Our teacher was the delightful Mrs. June McConlogue, a professional musician who also ran the girls' choir.
Mrs. McConlogue's classroom was in a separate building, far enough away from the administration that she could run a pretty loose ship. People came and went during class and her lesson plans were far from rigid. But beneath that seemingly scattered persona resided the heart of a true music lover. Her passion for classical music came across every day as we worked our way through Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and the other Old Boys. Each day she would play from a large collection of worn LP's, magically transforming our classroom (which had risers rather than desks) into Carnegie Hall. I may not be able to tell you what key a work is in, but I did gain a priceless understanding of the basic chronology of classical music from Renaissance through early 20th Century.
This recording appears on 1001 Classical Recordings (#231 for those of you keeping score). It was released in 1823 after four years of intense toil. I lack the qualifications to evaluate it technically but to me as a lay listener it packs a creative and emotional punch greater than the beloved 9th Symphony which appeared the following year. Where the 9th synthesizes voices and instruments into a unified whole, the Missa Solemnis focuses the spotlight squarely on the chorus and soloists, not a comfortable place for them to be given its complexity. The 2 hour running time passed so quickly that I looked at my watch in surprise when it ended. According to 1001 Classical Recordings, Harnoncourt deviated from his usual historically informed perspective to employ an ensemble with modern instruments, albeit augmented with period brass and timpani.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
flisten
I have no formal music education other than one semester of "Music Appreciation" at University High School in West Los Angeles. Our teacher was the delightful Mrs. June McConlogue, a professional musician who also ran the girls' choir.
Mrs. McConlogue's classroom was in a separate building, far enough away from the administration that she could run a pretty loose ship. People came and went during class and her lesson plans were far from rigid. But beneath that seemingly scattered persona resided the heart of a true music lover. Her passion for classical music came across every day as we worked our way through Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and the other Old Boys. Each day she would play from a large collection of worn LP's, magically transforming our classroom (which had risers rather than desks) into Carnegie Hall. I may not be able to tell you what key a work is in, but I did gain a priceless understanding of the basic chronology of classical music from Renaissance through early 20th Century.
This recording appears on 1001 Classical Recordings (#231 for those of you keeping score). It was released in 1823 after four years of intense toil. I lack the qualifications to evaluate it technically but to me as a lay listener it packs a creative and emotional punch greater than the beloved 9th Symphony which appeared the following year. Where the 9th synthesizes voices and instruments into a unified whole, the Missa Solemnis focuses the spotlight squarely on the chorus and soloists, not a comfortable place for them to be given its complexity. The 2 hour running time passed so quickly that I looked at my watch in surprise when it ended. According to 1001 Classical Recordings, Harnoncourt deviated from his usual historically informed perspective to employ an ensemble with modern instruments, albeit augmented with period brass and timpani.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
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axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
Ray Budzilek & The Boys In The Band - "Saturday Night...Polka!" (1961)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
And, here I thought my schedule was off.
Ojai Sam
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