What Are You Listening to? September, 2021

[Zeeba Neighba]

Legends of Country: Classic Hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s

So for gifts, family used to rely on my Amazon Wish List for ideas. Over time, I guess there's just not much that I need - used to love DVDs, CDs, books and most of those are available streaming, digital and if I want something, I just typically buy it. So have gotten away from updating the Wish List. So on my birthday, my wife's dad send me this collection saying "Not much on your wish list so took a chance".

Of course, I do have many of these tracks already and currently have no working CD player (and don't have a desktop/laptop with a CD drive to upload. Still, it was a nice gesture c/w the usual shirt/sweater gift, but it's been gathering dust since April

He recently broke his hip and is rehab and is not doing so well heath-wise, so when I came upon it the other day, decided to recreate the set with a digital playlist and listening today. Nice comp starting with Bob Willis/Ernest Tubb and ending with Ronnie Milsap/Johnny Paycheck.

Appreciate this set and appreciate my father-in-law. Hope he does better.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Legends of Country: Classic Hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s

So for gifts, family used to rely on my Amazon Wish List for ideas. Over time, I guess there's just not much that I need - used to love DVDs, CDs, books and most of those are available streaming, digital and if I want something, I just typically buy it. So have gotten away from updating the Wish List. So on my birthday, my wife's dad send me this collection saying "Not much on your wish list so took a chance".

Of course, I do have many of these tracks already and currently have no working CD player (and don't have a desktop/laptop with a CD drive to upload. Still, it was a nice gesture c/w the usual shirt/sweater gift, but it's been gathering dust since April

He recently broke his hip and is rehab and is not doing so well heath-wise, so when I came upon it the other day, decided to recreate the set with a digital playlist and listening today. Nice comp starting with Bob Willis/Ernest Tubb and ending with Ronnie Milsap/Johnny Paycheck.

Appreciate this set and appreciate my father-in-law. Hope he does better.

Gotta get that CD player fixed, Zeeb.

Emerson String Quartet - Webern: Works For String Quartet; String Trio (1995)

There's more to string quartets than mellow Mozart. Anton Webern was a student of Arnold Schoenberg, whose edgy atonality permeates these fascinating works. As an Austrian who stayed after the rise of Hitler, Webern's attitude toward Nazism has excited a lot of debate. Sadly, he was shot and killed by an American soldier early in the Occupation.

 

[axolotl]

Gotta get that CD player fixed, Zeeb.

Emerson String Quartet - Webern: Works For String Quartet; String Trio (1995)

There's more to string quartets than mellow Mozart. Anton Webern was a student of Arnold Schoenberg, whose edgy atonality permeates these fascinating works. As an Austrian who stayed after the rise of Hitler, Webern's attitude toward Nazism has excited a lot of debate. Sadly, he was shot and killed by an American soldier early in the Occupation.

When you play Schoenberg, Webern, or Alban Berg, does Sophia Bella think you are angry?

 

[Nickyboy]

When you play Schoenberg, Webern, or Alban Berg, does Sophia Bella think you are angry?

Just wait until he plays some Stockhausen!

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Almendra - s/t (1969)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Just wait until he plays some Stockhausen!

Sophie doesn't mind Webern but Mrs. Ojai leaves until I put on Mozart. Haven't dated to try Stockhausen on either.

The Three Suns - High Fi and Wide (1956)

Vinyl Rip Of The Day.

 

[axolotl]

Sophie doesn't mind Webern but Mrs. Ojai leaves until I put on Mozart. Haven't dated to try Stockhausen on either.

I assume you mean dared. Outsourcing your dating is likely to make SophieB rat you out once-and-for-all.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Oxbow - Thin Black Duke (2017)



Well, someone has been listening to a lot of Pere Ubu.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

No Thanks! The '70s Rebellion (4 CD box set)

 

[Ojai Sam]

No Thanks! The '70s Rebellion (4 CD box set)

This is a new one on me. Further investigation is needed.

 

[axolotl]

Bechara El-Khoury ~ New York, Tears and Hope; The Rivers Engulfed (2006)

 

[axolotl]

Alan Hovhaness ~ Armenian Rhapsodies No. 1, 2, & 3; Symphony #38; Concerto #10 (for Piano, Trumpet and Strings) (1997)



I may now have as much Hovhaness as I do Keith Jarrett. I have actually been appreciating Hovhaness for longer than Jarrett, who I did not know until 1973. I would say it was 1971 or '72 when I bought my first record on the Poseidon Society label.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

King Tubby - King Tubby's Classics Chapter 1 (2010)

 

[axolotl]

MGR ~ Nova Lux (2006)



MGR = Mustard Gas & Roses

Ambient, Post-Rock

 

[Ojai Sam]

Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz Plays Scarlatti (1965)

The title sounds like a New York City parochial school football matchup. Bet Scarlatti won.

 

[axolotl]

Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz Plays Scarlatti (1965)

The title sounds like a New York City parochial school football matchup. Bet Scarlatti won.

Harpsichord or Pianoforte?

Sviatoslav Richter would've beat them both, handily.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Harpsichord or Pianoforte?

Sviatoslav Richter would've beat them both, handily.

Piano.

You’re probably right. Richter has a great defense this year.

 

[axolotl]

Piano.

You’re probably right. Richter has a great defense this year.

That's not a left-handed compliment, is it?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

That's not a left-handed compliment, is it?

He's just taking the shining path.

 

[axolotl]

DM Stith ~ Heavy Ghost Appendices (Remixes) (2019)

DM Stith: Heavy Ghost Appendices

Singer/songwriter collects covers, B-sides, remixes, do-overs, and other odds and ends from the past year. Bibio and Rafter are among the remixers.

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Heavy Ghost Appendices (Remixes), by DM Stith

10 track album

dmstith.bandcamp.com