'Listening' Category
A black metal find
Aficionados of black metal, drone metal, doom metal, “griefcore” and whatever other metal genres have sprung up in the last fifteen minutes might like to investigate Vasculum. The group/artist’s page has a few songs for download – I like it very much, but then I would.
The Vasculum manifesto is, apparently,
no audience engagement – no promotional [...]The Ravel L.H. concerto and reflections on posture
Seeing Bavouzet perform Ravel’s Concerto pour la main gauche at the Proms last Friday was an immensely inspiring experience. His technical assurance was such that he made the flashier, more mercurial runs and fiendish final cadenza seem like a spontaneous outpouring.
I had some serious goose-bumps several times during Bavouzet’s performance, which more than made up [...]Spotification
Blogging has properly fallen by the wayside recently. Hey ho. Lots of good stuff going on in real life which tends to detract from time available for internet-type things.
I’ve been playing about with Spotify Premium and for the first time I’m starting to think that it’s a potential life-changer, even for an inveterate record collector [...]Listening In: Catching up!
Thanks to the wonders of my internet service provider’s internationally-based call centre staff, I had no internet access for weeks. And, as I’m a creature of habit, once I get out of the habit of doing something, it takes quite a lot of effort to get back into the swing of things. Logging my listening [...]
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 For Film
Echo & The Bunnymen – Think [...]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. 2That 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
MirrorballI’ve now got a little pre-bedtime post-rock [...]
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 Out Landscapes
Soft Cell – Non-Stop Erotic [...]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, marvellous:Haydn [...]