What Are You Listening To? March 2023

[axolotl]

Les Timbres & Harmonia Lenis - La Suave Melodia (2015)

A rooster with a violin is an image I won't soon forget.

Is this cock rock? Chicks dig it.

"I beg your pardon; my eyes are up here." "Shut up, and listen to my suave melody."

P. S. If this doesn't go in the Album Cover thread, we won't find it.

 

[Nickyboy]

^Neither of their faces indicate that they are listening to suave melodias, actually.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Nuovo Aspetto - Haydn News: Chamber Music Arrangements By His Contemporaries (2021)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Black Country, New Road - Live At Bush Hall (2023)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Joel Ross - KingMaker (2019)

Young Lion vibist

 

[JazzyRandy]

SFJazz Collective - 2018: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim & Original Compositions (2019) discs 1 & 2

I really like this iteration of the SFJC. Well, I like all iterations of the SFJC. What I mean is what I particularly like about this assemblage is the strong caribbean/island/Latin influence in a grouping of Zenon/Sanchez/Charles/Simon/Calvaire, especially in the context of playing the music of Jobim.

Like almost every one of their releases, this one has an embarrassment of highs and no lows. I particularly enjoy when a member sticks around for the long haul, as Zenon has been the grizzled vet for a while, and Wolf and Eubanks have been around for a long while. I'm kind of disappointed that the newest album (released last week) doesn't have a theme composer/artist, but I'm happy to order it anyway and trust the group to bring it.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Nuru Kane - Sigil (2006)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (2018)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (1984)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Big Youth - Dread Locks Dread (1975)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Tedeschi-Trucks Band - I Am The Moon: I, Crescent (disc 1 of a 4 disc album)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Jason Isbell & the 400 - Georgia Blue (2021)

Isbell plays a lot of songs about the Peach state, with a lot of guest singers/performers, ranging from Bela Fleck, to Adia Victoria, to up-and-coming country/blues star Brittney Spencer.

Songs include, "It's A Man's World" and "Midnight Train To Georgia".

 

[JazzyRandy]

Prince - Welcome 2 America (2021)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance (1984)

Goth Rock? Ethereal? U2 after a few magic mushrooms? This one is hard to label but easy to like, especially Lisa Gerrard's stratospheric vocals. Unsom has posted some of their later work so I'll have to check it out.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Marton Borsanyi - Johann Pachelbel Vol. II (2019)

The recent canonization of Johann Pachelbel chamber works unjustly obscured the 17th century master's genius as a composer for the keyboard. Hungarian Marton Borsanyi sets this right with a brilliant album performed both on a replica of a harpsichord from Pachelbel’s time and a restored 1829 organ from a Budapest church. The marked variation between these two very different instruments serves perfectly to illustrate the composer's stellar melodic creativity.

on the Sam-O-Meter. A complete joy from start to finish.

 

[Nickyboy]

Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance (1984)

Goth Rock? Ethereal? U2 after a few magic mushrooms? This one is hard to label but easy to like, especially Lisa Gerrard's stratospheric vocals. Unsom has posted some of their later work so I'll have to check it out.

Dead Can Dance are great. If you want to go off on a tangent and explore other similar bands, check out the "Lonely Is An Eyesore" which includes other 4AD bands. In my Top 10.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Dead Can Dance are great. If you want to go off on a tangent and explore other similar bands, check out the "Lonely Is An Eyesore" which includes other 4AD bands. In my Top 10.

I love label anthologies, @Nickyboy, especially to investigate new styles. That's one I will check out for sure.

Gordon MacRae - 1949-1950 (Warped comp. 2021)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At The Movies (2010)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Illinois Jacquet - Collates (1952)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Secret Machines - The Moth, The Lizard And The Secret Machines (2023)