'Listening' Category
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 [...]Listening In: Under the House
Another day of heavy-duty reading. Today it’s been Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (conclusion), Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and Jack Kerouac’s Wake Up. However, I got my ears around a fair amount of stuff this evening:
Public Image Ltd. – Flowers of Romance (again)
John Tavener – Ex Maria Virgine
Sunn 0))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
The Von Bondies [...]Listening In: You wanted chocolates instead
Another day of limited listening – I’ve only had a few things on today, as I’ve been immersed in reading Dashiell Hammett’s The Red Harvest and Walpole’s very silly gothic romance The Castle of Otranto. So, the only sounds to enter my lug-holes today have been:
Cecilia Bartoli – The Salieri Album
Tom Johnson – An Hour [...]Listening In: Rach 2 etc
Another day’s holiday from the chocolate teapot factory, another day of reading. Hence, not so much listening.
Rachmaninov – Symphony no. 2 (Edward Downes) – I’m not entirely sure how this ended up on my iPod, especially as I don’t own it on CD. After looking for the Nikolai Lugansky recordings of the concerti and failing [...]
Listening In: The liar’s on the altar
A weekend of no updates. Well, some lapses were, I suppose, inevitable. And, of course, I haven’t quite the detailed recollection I’d hope for. But still. Much of the weekend’s listening was the BBC Music Magazine cover disc – Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture and the first piano concerto. I rather like both readings, but contacts [...]
Listening In: All my friends are boppin’ the blues…
Today I grabbed a 2CD compilation that I haven’t listened to for years for this morning’s listening on the way to the chocolate teapot factory – The Very Best of Sun Rockabilly, which features gems by the likes of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, early Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash, plus many long-forgotten one-not-quite-hit wonders [...]
Listening In: Streets bloody clean for a change
Just a quick summary, as I’m completing this a day overdue:
The La’s – The La’s
Morton Feldman – Something Wild: Music For Film (Ensemble Recherce on Kairos)
Sibelius 6 (Karajan)
Electrafixion – Electrafixion
Electrafixion – Sister Pain (single – CD2 and CD3 – live, inc Holy Grail)
The Fall – The Infotainment Scan
Morton Feldman – Something Wild: Music For Film [...]Listening In: She dances on the sand…
Today has been less active listening-wise due to a slight crisis at the chocolate teapot factory.
However, in the car on the way in, at an ungodly hour which I never usually see, I listened to (the horror!) Rio by Duran Duran. It’s the first time I’ve heard it in at least ten years, and it’s [...]