Archive for September, 2009
Listening In: Whatever you want, whatever you need…
Echo & The Bunnymen – Think I Need It Too I, Ludicrous – The Museum of Installation Kurtág – 9 pieces for solo viola Kurtág – Hommage à R. Sch. Schumann – Marchenbilder Echo & The Bunnymen – Think I Need It Too Morton Feldman – For Samuel Beckett Morton Feldman – Something Wild: Music [...]
Listening In: Oh no, man, I haven’t got the time-time
A busy day at the chocolate teapot factory, coupled with the fact that my trusty Smart car was at the garage for a service meant that I got no listening at all done on the commute to and from work – as my Land Rover has no stereo in it – and very little listening [...]
Listening In: More Zuma
Today I are been mostly listening to: Soler – Fandango (Aapo Hakkinen) Neil Young – Zuma (several times, again) Haydn – assorted piano sonatas (Marc-André Hamelin, thanks to a recommendation by James Rhodes) Honegger – Symphony no. 2 That be it.
Listening In: A festival of Shaky
Today has been a Neil Young day. I have these occasionally. If I’m in the mood for the raven-voiced grumpy old Canadian’s brand of lumpen country-rock, I find I end up listening to a lot of it. So, I’ve gone through the following albums: Zuma (almost four times) Tonight’s The Night Mirrorball I’ve now got [...]
Listening In: Don’t care if it’s legal
A slightly less manic day at the chocolate teapot factory heralded the nourishing of the lugholes with the following: Haydn etc. – Trumpet Concertos – Alison Balsom Republica – Republica The Jesus & Mary Chain – Automatic Jim Reid – Dead End Kids single The Libertines – The Libertines The Manhattan Love Suicides – Burnt [...]
Listening In: “That’ll wake the ladies!”
There has been much mayhem at the chocolate teapot factory today, so I haven’t been nourishing my lug-holes as well as I might. I do, however, feel it necessary to state that I listened to something by Muse last night. It was rotten. In contrast, what I did listen to today was, on the whole, [...]
Listening In: No-one loves you when you’ve got no shoes
It’s been a day of troubleshooting at the chocolate teapot factory, so I’ve had the headphones clamped to my head all day, pumping out the following: Leadbelly – King of the Blues (compilation) The Sunday Reeds – Drowning In History Brahms – Piano Concerto no. 2 (Ashkenazy, Haitink) Brahms – Symphony no. 2 (Abbado, Berlin [...]
Listening In: Catching up
A whole 5 days since my last post. Shameful. I will rush out into the garden and flagellate myself shortly. However, first of all, it remains for me to document what I’ve been listening to this week. In my defense, the internet has been broken at home and I’ve been too busy at the chocolate [...]
Listening In: Black Angel’s Death Song
Back to the chocolate teapot factory today, whereupon I discovered that an awful lot of teapot lids had gone astray while I was on holiday. To soothe my poor frayed nerves, I listened to some thoroughly traumatic music: Stefan Wolpe – String Quartet Earle Brown – String Quartet (1965) Cage – String Quartet in Four [...]
Reformation!
“Will Beckett’s March (Reprise)” from the album Mother’s Thinking Bath is receiving an airing on the very marvellous Bob Osborne’s Salford City Radio programme “Reformation” tomorrow night, between 9pm and 10pm. This week’s playlist, apparently, is comprised mostly of artists associated with Invisible Girl Records – which is where the Mother’s Thinking Bath track comes [...]