What Are You Listening To? October 2019

[JazzyRandy]

Steve Coleman - Live at the Village Vanguard: Vol 1: The Embedded Sets (discs 1 and 2) (2018)

I have been very detached from being intense about listening to music lately. So many other things are tugging at my mind that I don't have the time to focus on music. For the past few weeks, I find I put a CD in the home-office player and listen to it once or twice a day for a few days, before I think to change it. Once a week or so, I'll have a spurt where I listen to three or four CDs one day, then I'll fall back in the long play listening pattern.

This has been in the player for the past few days. And when I did change it, I changed from disc 1 to disc 2, and a few days later, back to disc 1.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Broken Spindles ~ Document Number One (2008)



Woe betide the individual artist that strays from an arbitrary script that his listeners have set up for him.

And if you don't stray from the script, they will complain that you are making the same record over and over.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Hidria Spacefolk - Symbiosis (2002)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Holy Spirit Of Nothing - Mellaux (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969, 2019 Deluxe Edition)



This sounds great; the Giles Martin remaster is... masterful.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Ethnophonics - Primaraj Koloroj (2019)

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This is good.

@Nickyboy and possibly @axolotl.

This again. So good.

 

[axolotl]

This again. So good.

Will prioritize this item.

I am swamped at work, but do not need to see anyone in DC for draining.

P. S. Now listening.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Skyzoo + Pete Rock - Retropolitan (2019)

I love Skyzoo's rhymes, but the production on over half of each album is not up to the level of his lyrics/delivery. It's like putting Ella Fitzgerald in a band with a kazoo and rubberband.

Deciding to pair him with Pete Rock was a stroke of genius. These aren't the beats of the year, but this is high quality professional work.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nirvana - Laugh Out Loud Live And Loud (2019)

 

[JazzyRandy]

B J Jansen - Common Ground (2017)
Listening as directed
The perfect new CD for today

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Steve Hillage - The Golden Vibe (2019)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Nirvana - Laugh Out Loud Live And Loud (2019)

Another Nirvana release? How's this one compare to Reading?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Another Nirvana release? How's this one compare to Reading?

It’s good. Very clean sounding.

 

[axolotl]

Contriva ~ Separate Chambers (2006)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen (2019)

 

[axolotl]

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen (2019)

Intrigued I am,

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Intrigued I am,

Me too...er...three?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Intrigued I am,

It has a piano ballad about waiting for Jesus to come back. You'll love it.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

It has a piano ballad about waiting for Jesus to come back. You'll love it.

Your description alone makes me remember I really need to break out my Nick Cave albums a lot more

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Mavis Staples - We Get By



Edit: I admire Mavis Staples and love to hear a couple of tracks of hers or when she guests on others' works. But I rarely make it through one of her own albums. This one is a real pleasure. I understand it was produced by Ben Harper. Maybe that's the difference.