Currently Listening to

JS · Post by JS » Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:18 pm

From the last week or so's worth of driving to work:

The Fugs, Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Years (Although I kind of wish I'd remembered to grab No More Slavery from the office for a bit of driving I have to do tomorrow.)

Bob Dylan, Modern Times, Live 1975, John Wesley Harding

Chris Norman, The Man With the Wooden Flute (he's playing in the Albany NY area on Nov. 25, see http://www.oldsongs.org/concerts.html

Paul Motian, I Have the Room Above Her

And there's a playlist I put together that I've been using a lot, with cuts from Charlie Musselwhite Sanctuary, Joan Baez Bowery Songs, Kris Krisofferson This Old Road, Tripswitch, the Solas renuion cd, Mike Rafferty, Richard Thompson Live on Austin City Limits, Peter Mulvey, Lucinda Williams...

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:47 pm

Bloomfield wrote:
izzarina wrote: And to answer Bloo's questions, when I do get to listen to my music, these days it tends to be clips and snips of loads of Trad Irish stuff, because for me, I learn to play much better when I listen to the clips. Learning to play better is really on my "to do right NOW " list these days.

Good for you! I am trying to pick up more tunes right now, too.

Yes, it's good to know that I can do more than just chat about nonsense here on C&F!

Now that we're settled (in a manner of speaking anyway), it's back to trying to up my repertoire in a big way. I'm sorely lacking in skill at this point, which I absolutely attribute to lack of practice.
Thank for the recommendation as well. I'm always looking for something new to listen to.

hyldemoer · Post by **hyldemoer** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:28 pm

and today

The half a mind I have left wants to retune to AEAE and play along.

JS · Post by JS » Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:28 pm

Five Miles of Ellum Wood is really nice.

And if you're in that sort of mood:

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:58 pm

Celtic Seasons of Enchantment by Will Millar is currently in the tape player in the car.

Or for a better picture, here's the CD:

If I try to play CDs on the computer it slows down so much I can't get anything done. And the big CD player is in the living room so I can only listen when my husband is not watching TV or reading (he can't have music on when he reads). Can't have a radio/tape player/CD player at work either. So it's mostly the old tape player in the car.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:21 pm

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:22 pm

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:23 pm

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The Sporting Pitchfork · Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:56 pm

This week it's been...

David Bowie, Outside
David Bowie, Bowie at the Beeb: 1968-1972
David Bowie, Station to Station
Johann Sebastian Bach, French Suites (Davitt Moroney, harpsichord)
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chasm
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartets Op. 131 in C# Minor & Op. 132 in A Minor (Quartetto Italiano)
Datgan: Traditional Singing From Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(feat. Lillis Ó Laoire, Màiri Smith, Annie Ebrel, and Julie Murphy)

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:53 pm

The Sporting Pitchfork wrote:Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartets Op. 131 in C# Minor & Op. 132 in A Minor (Quartetto Italiano)

Listen to the Lindsays in these as well for modern versions, or the Busch Quartet recordings from the 1930s. I think that their A minor is still unsurpassed even today. Some of the finest Beethoven late quartet discs were recorded in the 1950s by the Hollywood Quartet, with Felix Slatkin. Just a bunch of people who specialised in playing film music but who got together to make these wonderful Beethoven quartet recordings. Somewhere on an ancient cassette I have the Smetana Quartet playing the C sharp minor. A real treasure.

Datgan: Traditional Singing From Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(feat. Lillis Ó Laoire, Màiri Smith, Annie Ebrel, and Julie Murphy)

If the singing of Julie Murphy entrances you as it did me, listen to her singing in Welsh on any of the Fernhill CDs.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:00 pm

Hey! I just found this one again (it was still in a box):

You can add that one to my list. Excellent cd....eveyone should have a copy!

Henke · Post by **Henke** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:11 pm

Right now: Sambomaster.
I think the album is called "Wa Kimi Ni Katarikakeru"

Here's a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPtIivzu4JQ
This song is great, sounds really corny for the first minute or so, then it sort of gets going.
(the chorus in this version is really irritating. That "choir" is not there on the album)

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:41 pm

Sinéad O'Connor, Throw Down Your Arms
Wir Sind Helden, Von Hier An Blind
Sinéad O'Connor, Collaborations
Kim Fisher, Follow Me
Nena, Feuer und Flamme

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:37 pm

Cranberry wrote:...
Wir Sind Helden, Von Hier An Blind
...
Nena, Feuer und Flamme

Heh.

I've gone on to:

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:39 pm

I don't know. I am listening to NPR's american roots.