Sneakeater Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 God I love Poulenc. I’m almost sorry about all the attention he’s now getting, as I’ll lose my Secret Stash (like when some personal favorite old obscure single shows up on a movie soundtrack and now you have to share it with everybody). Jones actually covered Dufay on one of his post-Monkees solo albums. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 (Kertész/London Symphony Orchestra) Serge Gainsbourg: Love on the Beat (he really was too adaptable to current fashions, wasn't he?) (also, I don't speak French, but even so I could tell that "Lemon Incest" is, um, questionable) Villa-Lobos: String Quartets Nos. 5, 10 & 13 (Cuarteto Latinoamericano) Frank Sinatra: Nice 'n' Easy (if this really was just an auto-pilot contract-fullfiller, as some claim, then what a supreme artist Sinatra was to come up with something so surpassingly excellent nonetheless) Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2/Violin Sonata No. 3 trans. for Cello (Ax/Ma) (not as great as the Rostropovich/Serkin -- but still pretty great) Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (as great as you think) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 On 8/24/2020 at 11:07 AM, Sneakeater said: God I love Poulenc. I’m almost sorry about all the attention he’s now getting, as I’ll lose my Secret Stash (like when some personal favorite old obscure single shows up on a movie soundtrack and now you have to share it with everybody). Jones actually covered Dufay on one of his post-Monkees solo albums. Stop it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hollywood Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Birght Eyes' "One and Done." If you like nervous vocals, Connor is your man. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Kaitlin Aurelia Smith: The Mosaic of Transformation Haydn: Folksong Arrangements: Scottish Songs for William Napier (Anderson/MacDougall/Haydn Trio Eisenstadt) (Disc 1) (this is obviously one of those huge multi-disc sets offering endless pleasures) Various: A Slight Disturbance in My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds of 1966 (Disc 1) (and this, I'm both surprised and sorry to say, is not) Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 98, 107 "Symphony A" & 108 "Symphony B" (Goberman/Vienna State Opera Orchestra) Various: Choro 1906-1947 (this, on the other hand, is a taste of paradise) Redd Kross: Redd Kross EP oui ennui: œqc Herbie Hancock: Speak Like a Child (I've been stupidly disregarding this wonderful album for more than 50 years!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 Haydn: Folksong Arrangements: Scottish Songs for William Napier (Anderson/MacDougall//Haydn Trio Eisenstadt) (Disc 2) João Gilberto: The Warm World of João Gilberto: The Man Who Invented Bossa Nova -- Complete Recordings 1958-1962 Bill Frisell: Valentine Nelson Frieire: Encores (fuck this is good) Friderica van Stade & Judith Blegen: Sing Arias and Duets Various: The Rough Guide to Blues Women Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (Ibragimova//Jurowski/State Academic Orchestra of Russia "Evgeny Svetlanov") The Strokes: Comedown Machine Kneebody: The Line Nat King Cole: Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) (Disc 1) (OK, the subsequent Capital stuff is even better -- but I wouldn't want to be without a second of this) James Francies: Flight (not for me) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted August 28 Share Posted August 28 Various: A Slight Disturbance in My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds of 1966 (Disc 2) Open Mike Eagle: What Happens When I Try to Relax Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Fischer/Budapest Festival Orchestra) Duruflé: Prélude et Fugue sur la Nom d'Alain/Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur/Le Banquet Céleste/Apparition de l'Église Éternelle (Alain//Baviére/Sinfonie an der Regnitz der Bamberg) Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3/Bagatelle in C Major/Six Ecossaises (Kempff/Berlin State Opera Orchestra//Van Kampen/Berlin Philharmonic) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hollywood Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 Little Hurt's "Alaska." The looneyness meets the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ar6W-D-o6k Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Josh Karpf Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 I shouldn't have felt so alienated posting about jogging through LIC/Greenpoint's graffiti-mural streets to find my childhood houseboat. Today I've wandered back into the scratchy recordings of Edward M. Favor, part of a morass of 78s I leeched in the Napster days. His 1907-ish "The Girl Who Threw Me Down" reminds me that, even though I was house-hunting there and in Astoria, I wasn't wanted. "It was in Long Island City / I got the throw down from Kittie / She handed me my twenty-three out in that lonely town. / If she'd accepted me maybe, I'd not have cared for the lady/ But just because she had no use for me, I wanted sweet Kittie Brown." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Amon Duul II, Phallus Dei Can, Monster Movie Matthew Shipp, Nu Bop Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 Oneness of Juju: African Rhythms 1970-1982 The Callas feat. Lee Ranaldo: Trouble and Desire Nat King Cole: Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) (Disc 2) Margaret Köll/Il Furibondo: The Harp in the Vienna of Maria Theresa (music featuring harp by Wagenseil/Gluck/Haydn/Krupholz) Immanuel Wilkins: Omega (this really IS all that) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Spirit: Clear Julian Lage: Love Hurts Charles Curtis: Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 (pieces for or featuring cello by Éliane Radigue/Machaut/Hume/Ganassi/Terry Jennings/Feldman/Webern/Messiaen/Alison Knowles/Maxfield/Charles Curtis) Khruangbin: Hasta el Cielo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilfrid Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Tangerine Dream, Alpha Centauri. I did play it, didn't stay awake all through it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mitchells Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Wynton Marsalis The Ever Funky Lowdown Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sneakeater Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Rolling Blackouts C.F.: Sideways to New Italy Alain: Ballade en Mode Phyrgien/Aria/Le Jardin Suspendu/Lamento/Berceuse sur Deux Notes qui Cornent/Climat/Monodie/Andante/Chante Donné/De Jules Lemaitre/Fantasmagorie (1ère version)/Variations sur un Thème de Clément Jannequin/Première Fantasie/Suite pour Orgue/Deux Danses à Agnes Yavishta/Petite Pièce/Variations sur "Lucis Creator" (M-C Alain) (I really do love this stuff) Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9 "From the New World" (Kertész/London Symphony Orchestra) Steve Tibbetts: The Fall of Us All Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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