'Listening' Category
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 [...]
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 Phil)
Betty Boo – Boomania [...]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 Parts (1951)
Leon Kirchner [...]