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Calexico... 3 truly fantastic albums. Especially "Feast of Wire" provided me with some of the best headphone quality-time...
Divine Moments in Music
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Jacques Loussier Trio... this time not with his Bach interpretations but with Vivaldi's 4 seasons. One of my most favorite recordings concerning musical value and sound as well. Soundwise I would even rate it within the top 10 ever recorded...!
Definitely worth buying, whereas it is rather difficult to find the CD nowadays; and I did not yet find a source for high res. If anybody has a lead I would be thankful therefore...
Definitely worth buying, whereas it is rather difficult to find the CD nowadays; and I did not yet find a source for high res. If anybody has a lead I would be thankful therefore...
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Bobbi Humphrey on Blue Note, some of the finest Jazz I know. Here two real evergreens:
"Smiling Faces Sometime" 1972 & "My Little Girl" 1974
"Smiling Faces Sometime" 1972 & "My Little Girl" 1974
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UK in the early 90s.
New Fast Automatic Daffodils from Manchester with "Bong", 1992. Some of the best alternative rock of the time.
...and Senser from London with "States of Mind" 1994. Rap-Metal to its finest. Forget about the DIY video; still I chose this one since the sound quality is better than the others on YouTube... For those who like it I strongly recommend to get a CD. Sound quality is far superior compared to the stuff on YouTube or iTunes (...of course...)
New Fast Automatic Daffodils from Manchester with "Bong", 1992. Some of the best alternative rock of the time.
...and Senser from London with "States of Mind" 1994. Rap-Metal to its finest. Forget about the DIY video; still I chose this one since the sound quality is better than the others on YouTube... For those who like it I strongly recommend to get a CD. Sound quality is far superior compared to the stuff on YouTube or iTunes (...of course...)
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Zappa 1974 life in Hollywood "Inca Roads" and "Montana"... two of my (numerous) all time Zappa favorites.
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"SEX" another masterpiece by Zappa... "The man from Utopia" was my first serious contact with Zappa's music. I was on Koh Phangan in Thailand, a greenhorn on a trip through South East Asia. I found a Zappa tape in a shoe box in the pub of the resort, put it into the walkman (an ugly yellow waterproof Sony) and went for a walk... white sand, blue sky, green palm trees and...
"Some girls try it 'n' go on a diet
Then they worry 'cause they's too fat
Who wants t'ride on an ironin' board?
That ain't no fun ... I tried me one
Grow that meat all over yer bones
Work the wall with the local Jones
'N' while you do it, remember this line
The Sniffer says it all the time
"THE BIGGER THE CUSHION,
THE BETTER THE PUSHIN
AIIIIIII AHHHHHHHHHH"
...actually the whole Album is beyond any of the usual standards... one of the best I would know...
"Some girls try it 'n' go on a diet
Then they worry 'cause they's too fat
Who wants t'ride on an ironin' board?
That ain't no fun ... I tried me one
Grow that meat all over yer bones
Work the wall with the local Jones
'N' while you do it, remember this line
The Sniffer says it all the time
"THE BIGGER THE CUSHION,
THE BETTER THE PUSHIN
AIIIIIII AHHHHHHHHHH"
...actually the whole Album is beyond any of the usual standards... one of the best I would know...
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Massive Attack & Mad Professor, "Cool Monsoon" form the album "No Protection". A Dub classic from the 1990s and to me best of the genre at the time...
PleasantSounds
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To me this album represents what music is all about: emotions. I know every sound in it by hart and still every time I hear it I drop everything and just listen, drawn into it's delicate, sad, reflective world.
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As soon as I saw the name of this thread, it immediately brought back memories of a certain Dead Can Dance song:
Breathtaking. Simply breathtaking. Feels like a flight of the spirit all the way through.
Breathtaking. Simply breathtaking. Feels like a flight of the spirit all the way through.
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Emotions you said... and the headphones..wow. David Maxim Mici - Bilo 3.0 Song 1 and 4
Bozzio Levin Stevens - Duende
Bozzio Levin Stevens - Duende
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...then you might also like those two posts with Dead can Dance and the Dissidents here in this thread...
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"What is evil? What is love?
What is the force that possesses us?
Where is the beauty? Where is the truth?
Where is the force that watches over you?
What is it that makes us ashamed to be white?
(when we close our ears to the sound of machine gun fire)
And while the niggers of this world are starving
with their mouths wide open
What is it that turns the coins we throw at them
into worthless little tokens?
Why is it that anything on this earth we do not understand
We are pushed onto our knees to worship or to damn?
Those are the rules of religion
Those are the laws of the land
That's how the forces of darkness have suppressed the spirit of man
That's why human beings still walk on all fours
Whilst in the presence of their so called superiors
Somethings telling you to wake up and salute
The dangers of obedience and the violence of truth
God is evil, God is love
God is the force that possesses us
God is beauty, God is truth
God is the force that is watching over you"
-The Violence Of Truth-
The following 3 songs are so brilliant that even after around 30 years I am still awestruck...
Matt Johnson's "The The". As a prelude one of his earlier songs from "Soul Mining" 1983 and then two from "Mind Bomb" 1989 (already posted "Good Morning Beautiful" here earlier).
While in his earlier years Matt's approach is mainly about introspection, In "Mind Bomb" he becomes rather political & philosophical... he is asking the very right questions and invites to turn on the grey cells... and packs all of that into amazing melody and rhythm... sure enough a Mind Bomb...
What is the force that possesses us?
Where is the beauty? Where is the truth?
Where is the force that watches over you?
What is it that makes us ashamed to be white?
(when we close our ears to the sound of machine gun fire)
And while the niggers of this world are starving
with their mouths wide open
What is it that turns the coins we throw at them
into worthless little tokens?
Why is it that anything on this earth we do not understand
We are pushed onto our knees to worship or to damn?
Those are the rules of religion
Those are the laws of the land
That's how the forces of darkness have suppressed the spirit of man
That's why human beings still walk on all fours
Whilst in the presence of their so called superiors
Somethings telling you to wake up and salute
The dangers of obedience and the violence of truth
God is evil, God is love
God is the force that possesses us
God is beauty, God is truth
God is the force that is watching over you"
-The Violence Of Truth-
The following 3 songs are so brilliant that even after around 30 years I am still awestruck...
Matt Johnson's "The The". As a prelude one of his earlier songs from "Soul Mining" 1983 and then two from "Mind Bomb" 1989 (already posted "Good Morning Beautiful" here earlier).
While in his earlier years Matt's approach is mainly about introspection, In "Mind Bomb" he becomes rather political & philosophical... he is asking the very right questions and invites to turn on the grey cells... and packs all of that into amazing melody and rhythm... sure enough a Mind Bomb...
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Hi, musicaladin,
I came across your posting (18/6/2014) a few weeks ago. It was about a few examples of music that you considered to deserve the place in the musical Pantheon. I totally understand your point of view when you refer to best musical performances as ...the real magical moments of mankind...
I have been a music listener and a collector of recorded music for over forty years. I even had to immigrate from Leningrad in 1977 to England in order to have a chance to listen to live concerts on a daily basis. We had practically no modern music concerts in USSR in those days, especially by Western bands, and entertaining hopes that Led Zeppelin or Frank Zappa would turn up to play Moscow even once would have been a sure sign of insanity.
The only one concert of tremendous quality and power (apart from some rare and amazing early gigs by new local bands like DDT, St. Petersburg and Aquarium) I remember was by a Polish jazz/rock star Czeslaw Niemen and the superb band he brought to USSR with him. He played a concert in Leningrad in spring of 1973. Right in the center of our city, on a smallish stage of the respectable Theatre of Music and Comedy. How that was permitted and who was responsible for this aberration I do not know, but since I mentioned it now, I will investigate it further. Should be fun.
Their performance in Leningrad must have been very close in quality and power (if not better due to an ecstatic reception of Russian music fans, rather stunned by it all, but still able to clap, scream or sit calmly with their mouths opened) to this rare clip of the band's live show in Helsinki right before or after the show I witnessed. I have found the Helsinki show clip on YouTube recently. It appears that interest in C.N.'s music is growing as a lot more material has been unearthed. This clip appeared in 2013. I always liked Nieman after the impact of that powerful live performance, but as he is still practically unknown in the West (and in the East, come to think of it, apart from his native Poland... And even there...) He died, sadly, in 2004 from cancer. He was only 64. Still, more people may discover his work via YouTube now.
Here is the link to the event in Helsinki - a fierce attack on all of our perceptive faculties - aural and otherwise. A shear tour de force of music making... Frank Zappa would have been in the audience if he'd only knew what was about to unfold... Please listen to this loud. And imagine what this performance did for me. Live! The show in Leningrad was tremendous. I was twenty years old. Sitting in the first row with my best friend, who was a few years older and who was (and still is) the main record collector and modern music specialist in Leningrad at that time. The band was right in front, about six meters away. The sound was clear, loud and shimmering! Enjoying great music with someone who loves and understands it as well as you do or even better is, for me, the biggest source of joy. Nikolai came to London a few times and we went to some small rock clubs together. I liked to invite him to concerts without telling him who shall be performing and carefully hiding it from him so that he will only recognise them when they hit the stage... I remember when he nearly had a heart attack when he came to London for the first time and I took him to Half Moon in Putney. We were quietly standing near the stage when on strolled Stan Webb himself. Nikolai looked at his face with disbelief, but when Chicken Shack burst into the first number and he recognised the song and the sound of Les Paul hit him properly, he grabbed his head and rushed to the corner of the room and sat on the floor, clearly in shock... A great pleasure to have experiences moments like these!
Please select HD quality for better sound! 30 minutes of .... well, an apt addition to the clips that you have referenced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwiG8161mE
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All I want to say is that I can send you some info about artists and records that you may not have heard as yet. I have a large LP collection and I was filming live music concerts since 1982. Recently I even thought about making a direct DSD recordings of vinyl albums that were superbly produced on top of fantastic music that they contain. For compilation to introduce music lovers to something that they may have missed. And to the sound quality too. I have a proper high end gear to do that. Usual Linn LP12 etc. and even Koetsu Red. Recordings are made on Korg MR-1000 DSD professional portable recorder.
If you still do not listen to DSD, try Korg's player for PC - AudioGate - free at http://www.korg.com/us/news/2014/0203/
I can put a few tracks - 1 bit sampled at 5.6 MHz on Dropbox for you to test. I actually formed a company recently to deal with the DSD sound issues (live recordings, digitising select old analogue masters and promoting the format) as I think that it offers the most dynamic and faithful sound compared to the real world music that I know of.
I would be interested to learn your opinion. Please let me know if you are interested.
Kind regards.
Sergei
da@interda.com
P.S. I have some high quality binaural PCM recordings and video live music clips with binaural sound. Please let me know if you would be interested.
I came across your posting (18/6/2014) a few weeks ago. It was about a few examples of music that you considered to deserve the place in the musical Pantheon. I totally understand your point of view when you refer to best musical performances as ...the real magical moments of mankind...
I have been a music listener and a collector of recorded music for over forty years. I even had to immigrate from Leningrad in 1977 to England in order to have a chance to listen to live concerts on a daily basis. We had practically no modern music concerts in USSR in those days, especially by Western bands, and entertaining hopes that Led Zeppelin or Frank Zappa would turn up to play Moscow even once would have been a sure sign of insanity.
The only one concert of tremendous quality and power (apart from some rare and amazing early gigs by new local bands like DDT, St. Petersburg and Aquarium) I remember was by a Polish jazz/rock star Czeslaw Niemen and the superb band he brought to USSR with him. He played a concert in Leningrad in spring of 1973. Right in the center of our city, on a smallish stage of the respectable Theatre of Music and Comedy. How that was permitted and who was responsible for this aberration I do not know, but since I mentioned it now, I will investigate it further. Should be fun.
Their performance in Leningrad must have been very close in quality and power (if not better due to an ecstatic reception of Russian music fans, rather stunned by it all, but still able to clap, scream or sit calmly with their mouths opened) to this rare clip of the band's live show in Helsinki right before or after the show I witnessed. I have found the Helsinki show clip on YouTube recently. It appears that interest in C.N.'s music is growing as a lot more material has been unearthed. This clip appeared in 2013. I always liked Nieman after the impact of that powerful live performance, but as he is still practically unknown in the West (and in the East, come to think of it, apart from his native Poland... And even there...) He died, sadly, in 2004 from cancer. He was only 64. Still, more people may discover his work via YouTube now.
Here is the link to the event in Helsinki - a fierce attack on all of our perceptive faculties - aural and otherwise. A shear tour de force of music making... Frank Zappa would have been in the audience if he'd only knew what was about to unfold... Please listen to this loud. And imagine what this performance did for me. Live! The show in Leningrad was tremendous. I was twenty years old. Sitting in the first row with my best friend, who was a few years older and who was (and still is) the main record collector and modern music specialist in Leningrad at that time. The band was right in front, about six meters away. The sound was clear, loud and shimmering! Enjoying great music with someone who loves and understands it as well as you do or even better is, for me, the biggest source of joy. Nikolai came to London a few times and we went to some small rock clubs together. I liked to invite him to concerts without telling him who shall be performing and carefully hiding it from him so that he will only recognise them when they hit the stage... I remember when he nearly had a heart attack when he came to London for the first time and I took him to Half Moon in Putney. We were quietly standing near the stage when on strolled Stan Webb himself. Nikolai looked at his face with disbelief, but when Chicken Shack burst into the first number and he recognised the song and the sound of Les Paul hit him properly, he grabbed his head and rushed to the corner of the room and sat on the floor, clearly in shock... A great pleasure to have experiences moments like these!
Please select HD quality for better sound! 30 minutes of .... well, an apt addition to the clips that you have referenced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwiG8161mE
----------- \\\///-----------
All I want to say is that I can send you some info about artists and records that you may not have heard as yet. I have a large LP collection and I was filming live music concerts since 1982. Recently I even thought about making a direct DSD recordings of vinyl albums that were superbly produced on top of fantastic music that they contain. For compilation to introduce music lovers to something that they may have missed. And to the sound quality too. I have a proper high end gear to do that. Usual Linn LP12 etc. and even Koetsu Red. Recordings are made on Korg MR-1000 DSD professional portable recorder.
If you still do not listen to DSD, try Korg's player for PC - AudioGate - free at http://www.korg.com/us/news/2014/0203/
I can put a few tracks - 1 bit sampled at 5.6 MHz on Dropbox for you to test. I actually formed a company recently to deal with the DSD sound issues (live recordings, digitising select old analogue masters and promoting the format) as I think that it offers the most dynamic and faithful sound compared to the real world music that I know of.
I would be interested to learn your opinion. Please let me know if you are interested.
Kind regards.
Sergei
da@interda.com
P.S. I have some high quality binaural PCM recordings and video live music clips with binaural sound. Please let me know if you would be interested.
mutabor
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Powerful music of Hans Zimmer "Time"
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I recently replied to "Divine Moments in Music", but did not insert the YouTube video link properly.
Here it is again: - Czeslaw Niemen and SBB in Helsinki 1973.
Krzysztof Komeda's masterpiece 'Kattorna'. It is a slow starter but after a couple of minutes things start to get hot.
For a full impact it has to be loud IMHO.
Here is the link once again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwiG8161mE
And another one for those who want to see the man in action:
The full text of the posting is here:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/723632/divine-moments-in-music/120#post_10897630
P.S. Usual gear: AKG Electrostatic-Dynamic system K340 via Lehmann Audio Rhinelander
Here it is again: - Czeslaw Niemen and SBB in Helsinki 1973.
Krzysztof Komeda's masterpiece 'Kattorna'. It is a slow starter but after a couple of minutes things start to get hot.
For a full impact it has to be loud IMHO.
Here is the link once again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwiG8161mE
And another one for those who want to see the man in action:
The full text of the posting is here:
http://www.head-fi.org/t/723632/divine-moments-in-music/120#post_10897630
P.S. Usual gear: AKG Electrostatic-Dynamic system K340 via Lehmann Audio Rhinelander
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