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176  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Jazz on: November 05, 2020, 02:53:07 PM
Hard to go wrong with Art Blakey and/or Thelonious Monk.

I continue to enjoy my exploration of the different corners of jazz. Since my last post, I added a few more albums from the third Record Store Day installment, with Dexter Gordon, later Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and J.J. Johnson and Kia Winding.

Did you know Kai Winding had a US top ten hit in 1963 with "More"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kaquSOLo4

I believe he's also on Miles's Birth of the Cool...
177  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Jazz on: November 05, 2020, 03:53:44 AM
I've been building my nascent jazz collection over the last couple months. I recently started checking out the Blue Note Tone Poet series and the new Acoustic Sounds/Verve jazz reissues on vinyl. I also got the Bill Evans "Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest" Record Store Day reissue this past weekend. I still don't know much about jazz, but I'm exploring and now own a bunch more of it.

I've yet to be bitten by the jazz bug so my interest is that of a passer-by peering in through the window. LOL

I got to hear this album opener yesterday, thanks to a former poster in this thread, and thoroughly enjoyed it (see wiki link for details):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQCUAlXGtVA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Blakey%27s_Jazz_Messengers_with_Thelonious_Monk     
178  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The return of the "What are you listening to now?" thread on: November 03, 2020, 03:25:02 AM
Right now I'm working my way through Mike's Unleash the Love to give my opinion of it on another forum. So far it ranges from a tad simplistic to actually quite good!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kBRGt57PLK9KLuP_Akrirk4k1-hyldTHY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unleash_the_Love
179  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: I Hear A Symphony: A \ on: November 02, 2020, 12:46:02 AM
Here's one befitting the new month. Max Richter's "November" features the stunning talents of Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsKWKbsYmM

180  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The return of the "What are you listening to now?" thread on: October 31, 2020, 02:37:56 PM
While locking up this evening, I played the two opening tracks of The Joshua Tree in memory of my penpal of ten years' standing, who died last June. She loved Hallowe'en. It was she who opened my ears to the music of U2. It was then that I  thought I had found what was looking for. Now I don't know what to think. Bless you, my friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsrPEUt2Dg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vye_tNZYL8
181  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Opera, anybody? on: October 29, 2020, 08:37:06 AM
Before we leave this topic, the page linked below gives an invaluable in-depth review of the live performances and clarifies a couple of things (and explains a whole lot more). First, the two aforementioned comic intermezzi are only on the DVD (and not the CD linked above), where they get the aforementioned flak from some quarters. Second, the banter between Vittorio and Quiza's characters is in Spanish because the audience is Spanish! For those interested, and to gather as much material as possible in one place, here are both intermezzi as included on the DVD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtN1e1TvB90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2r0jvhcWFU

https://theidlewoman.net/2015/01/14/partenope-leonardo-vinci-1725/
182  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Opera, anybody? on: October 29, 2020, 03:20:22 AM
Each of the 54 segments in the video linked in the previous post identifies the role featured in that segment. To facilitate listening, and in case the cover image does a runner, here's a list of who sings what:

Maria Ercolano, soprano (Arsace, Prince of Corinth)
Maria Grazia Schiavo, soprano (Rosmira/Eurimene, beloved of Arsace)
Eufemia Tufano, mezzo-soprano (Emilio, Prince of Cumae)
Sonia Prina, contralto (Partenope, Queen of Naples)
Stefano Ferrari, tenor (Armindo, Prince of Rhodes)
Charles Do Santos, baritone (Ormonte, commander of Partenope's troops)

Giuseppe/Pino De Vittorio, tenor and Borja Quiza, baritone, provide comic intermezzi, variously described as hilarious ("they stole the show") and excruciating!

(Recorded live 29 April--1 May 2011, Auditorium Victor Villegas, Murcia, Spain.)
183  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Opera, anybody? on: October 28, 2020, 04:14:58 AM
Oooff! This topic hasn't been posted in since lockdown.

To help keep my spirits up in these weird times, I recently turned to a work by the memorably named Italian Baroque composer Leonardo Vinci. It's his 1725 opera La Rosmira fedele, also known these days as (La) Partenope after the Queen of that name, here sung by the contralto Sonia Prina, whom I know aeijtzsche considers a model for her own singing voice.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kpmNYKFOG-nmlCo0y-TUDxiworHP9l6rY



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partenope_(Vinci)
184  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The 1980's Appreciation Lounge on: October 27, 2020, 12:57:17 PM
More from The Birthday Party. This is "King Ink", featuring one of the nastiest bass lines ever, from their 1981 album Prayers on Fire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzFzU_N3IV4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayers_on_Fire

R.I.P. Rowland S Howard and bassist Tracy Pew (below):

185  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Blues through Rhythm and Blues to Soul on: October 26, 2020, 02:33:52 AM
A little slow on the return...don't make it here every day....

I agree that is likely Johnny Winter on the first solo.  Anyway, I would like to review this thread and check out more of the music linked.  I enjoyed the Canned Heat -- I am a fan of theirs.  They were my very first Concert at age 13 -- my mom brought me!  This was right around Woodstock and Harvey Mandel was on guitar.  I got his and Fito's autographs on my ticket stub!  All were great players, but for me it's Al Wilson who really carries it over.  I am a pretty fair harmonica player and have played in all sorts of bands.  In one we were working on "On the Road Again."  I could not replicate his harp solo.  For one I think he doctored his harp.  But moreover there is a fluidity in his playing that is uncanny.  Was a very soulful cat.

No worries about replying on time, ABD. This is cyberspace! LOL Thanks for the confirmation.

Al Wilson... I remember exactly what I was doing when they announced his death. I also remember that when Canned Heat mimed to "On The Road Again", Bob Hite was usually on harmonica duties!

Cool that you saw them perform and got those autographs! My wife saw them at the Kralingen Festival in 1970, only a couple of months before Al died. Interesting to hear from a player that he modified his harp -- one wonders how!

Here's another favourite of mine, "My Mistake" from Livin' the Blues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKaO9aLDYtc
186  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Ambient Music--Mood before Melody on: October 22, 2020, 02:46:42 PM
After reading Mark Prendergast's encyclopaedic The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby some twenty years ago, I went to various shops in the UK and NL and bought, over a period of weeks, the following albums discussed within its pages (here listed alphabetically):

Air ~ Premiers Symptômes
Aphex Twin ~ Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Chemical Brothers ~ Dig Your Own Hole
Chemical Brothers ~ Surrender
Miles Davis ~ Sketches of Spain
Enigma ~ MCMXC a.D.
The KLF ~ Chill Out
Kraftwerk ~ Trans-Europe Express
Van Morrison ~ Astral Weeks
Pete Namlook & Klaus Schulze ~ Dark Side of the Moog IX
New Order ~ Power, Corruption and Lies
Spacemen 3 ~ The Perfect Prescription
The Stone Roses ~ S/T
Tangerine Dream ~ Phaedra
Sven Väth ~ Accident in Paradise
187  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Rap on: October 21, 2020, 03:27:25 AM
What is this if not rap? Ginger Baker bewails the fact that Americans are unable to make a decent cuppa. Now this is serious!

"Pour boiling water over the tea / How simple and clear can instructions be?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTuXBoA688Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_on_the_Sufferbus
188  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: I Hear A Symphony: A \ on: October 20, 2020, 03:41:27 AM
Right now I'm in the middle of listening to a recent (2019) recording of Monteverdi's Vespers for the Blessed Virgin by Simon-Pierre Bestion that takes a disarmingly fresh look at the work (check out the ISSUU booklet on this page). I can imagine purists recoiling in horror, but I love it. It's a work I never could take to -- until now. See what you think:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lTmiyz5GfIGymjMOURtlXiMWmGEX87sIg

Curiously, the cover art reminds me of The Roses of Heliogabalus, one of my favourite paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespro_della_Beata_Vergine
189  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: I Hear A Symphony: A \ on: October 19, 2020, 02:36:42 AM
Violinist Jelly d'Arányi is a fascinating figure (see her wiki page). The most curious story associated with her is the one about the Schumann Violin Concerto.

Here she is performing a piece (with Ethel Hobday at the piano) by her beloved Frederick Septimus Kelly, a composer and Olympic rower who was killed in WWI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A1-ydBOlks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_d%27Arányi
190  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The 1980's Appreciation Lounge on: October 18, 2020, 04:10:57 AM
Still in Australia, this one's on the edge but more 1980s than 1970s. The Melbourne-based nine-piece punk-funk band Use No Hooks have an album out of almost all previously unreleased material and very good it is too!

Their lineup is (to the best of my knowledge) Stuart Grant, Wendy Morrissey, Denise Rosenburg and Marisa Stirpe (vocals), Mick Earls (guitar), Matt Errey and Phil Nichols (keys), André Schuster (bass) and Arne Hanna (drums). The sax on the live tracks comes courtesy of Simon Grounds (with grateful thanks to Mylene at Hoffman for that information). The blurb on the Bandcamp page is most illuminating:

https://usenohooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-job
191  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Blues through Rhythm and Blues to Soul on: October 17, 2020, 04:05:15 AM
Another favorite of mine from that time also never released on CD is "Taking Care of Business" by James Cotton.  Produced by Todd Rundgren, this track "Georgia Swing" features Mike Bloomfield and Johnny Winter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcRhx3zJnKA

Very nice! Who takes the first guitar solo? I suspect Johnny Winter but I'm not really familiar with either guitarist.

On the subject of unique collaborations, I've always been partially to this one between Canned Heat's Bob Hite on vocals and John Mayall on piano (here at 4:44).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEaIiB4UV20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_the_Blues
192  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The return of the "What are you listening to now?" thread on: October 16, 2020, 02:23:54 AM
Back in late 1972, at a charity organization whose premises I frequented, this Canadian girl played side two of a self-titled album by someone she knew personally. First released in 1971, David Wiffen is a curiously appealing album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIRX6vE8pPY

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wiffen
193  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Blues through Rhythm and Blues to Soul on: October 14, 2020, 12:44:28 PM
Guitar Slim Green produced by Johnny Otis with a teenage Shuggie Otis on guitar.  I dare you to keep still.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7umQnTw7Uw

Too true! Great stuff, ABD. Smiley
194  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Blues through Rhythm and Blues to Soul on: October 13, 2020, 12:52:04 PM
The song starts 19 seconds in. It's Son House performing his composition "Levee Camp Moan" in 1965, aided by one Alan Wilson on harmonica.

Briefly, Son House had given up music in 1943. So when he was "rediscovered" in 1964 he had little recollection of his repertoire. So a 22-year-old Al Wilson (later of Canned Heat) literally retaught him his songs! (See the first three YT comments and SH's wiki page below.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GiJl4Qgr60

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_House
195  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: R.I.P. Johnny Nash (born 1940) on: October 13, 2020, 02:55:27 AM
Hold Me Tight is another good one he did.
RIP Mr. Nash.

Yes indeed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x79a2qB5L-Q
196  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The return of the "What are you listening to now?" thread on: October 12, 2020, 05:00:15 AM
Right now I'm revisiting an album I first discovered at least a decade ago (on Bandcamp or Soundcloud). I remembered that Sugar Candy Mountain had done a trippy version of "Caroline, No" cunningly retitled "Caroline Mountain" and found the complete album on YouTube. Mystic Hits is very listenable in a bubbly way and heartily recommended:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m-nOckBrC10l7LOPQb7FJvz0B1caZ2-YA

https://imposemagazine.com/features/sugar-candy-mountain-talk-defying-expectations-share-title-track-off-upcoming-666
197  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: What Is Your Favorite Soundtrack? on: October 11, 2020, 04:04:36 AM
Christopher Willis's score for The Death of Stalin is right on the nose, as they say. (Not Shostakovich's opera The Nose, although there's certainly a very strong Shosty component to it eminently befitting the post-Stalin mood of this extraordinary and often gut-bustingly funny film.)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n20finkKcuCnvHcN9HJahgNSxmvLv8Vrc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Stalin
198  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: The John Lennon Peace, Love, and Appreciation Thread on: October 10, 2020, 12:45:58 PM
Meh, listened to the other John material - really not sth. I really-really like. I must really-really like music to appreciate the artist. Otherwise hey what's the point right? I kinda get why people like "Instant Karma", it's got nice beat, & accessible stuff like "Beautiful Boy" which ain't favorite but listening to it with John fan ears, i.e. as John fan would hear it, I gather why it's really favored, Paul f.ex. said it's his fave John song in youtube interview.

Hey, RR. "Beautiful Boy" is a good song but I can't listen to it. They played it on the radio the night John was murdered. My own son was two at the time so it hit home rather hard.

I love "Instant Karma". It's a good song anyway but Phil Spector's production makes it a great song. Those drums! And "Woman" is the perfect love song -- absolutely flawless.

I don't like everything John did. I own three great albums of his (Plastic Ono Band, Imagine and Wall and Bridges) and I can't see myself ever adding to them.
199  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Sunshine songs on: October 10, 2020, 05:25:17 AM
Here's some more sunshine pop with -- lo and behold! -- "sun" in the title. (Curiously it's on my friend's list of obscure albums but then no one's perfect.)

This is "Will You Be Staying After Sunday" by The Peppermint Rainbow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZYLxrqKG-s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peppermint_Rainbow
200  Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Re: Sunshine songs on: October 10, 2020, 05:21:33 AM
Here's some more sunshine pop with -- lo and behold! -- "sun" in the title. (Curiously it's on my friend's list of obscure albums but then no one's perfect.)

This is "Will You Be Staying After Sunday" by The Peppermint Rainbow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZYLxrqKG-s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peppermint_Rainbow
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