What are you listening to?

[kunk75]

the crying light

[casem]

Wow, what a coincidence. I just came to this thread to post my recent absolute obsession over Antony and the Johnson's "The Crying Light" but you beat me to it Kunk. I've liked him since his first album, but this one shows a new refinement in the arrangements, the Johnson's are really a fabulous backing band. And from a compositional perspective the songs are really really good, he's doing something more along the lines of a romantic "art songs" than pop.

I had been putting off buying this album, but after seeing him in concert last week I had to get it. He was completely amazing in concert, his voice was even better live (unlike most "singers") and the band was perfection. One of the most moving concerts I have attended.

the crying light

[paprik]

kino - legenda

[kunk75]

yeah, i still prefer a bird, but this is pretty good. saw them with current 93 about 7 years ago i guess by now. his voice is much more confident now though.

Wow, what a coincidence. I just came to this thread to post my recent absolute obsession over Antony and the Johnson's "The Crying Light" but you beat me to it Kunk. I've liked him since his first album, but this one shows a new refinement in the arrangements, the Johnson's are really a fabulous backing band. And from a compositional perspective the songs are really really good, he's doing something more along the lines of a romantic "art songs" than pop.

I had been putting off buying this album, but after seeing him in concert last week I had to get it. He was completely amazing in concert, his voice was even better live (unlike most "singers") and the band was perfection. One of the most moving concerts I have attended.

[29.97]

The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost - "Vikings"

[justine]

Oleta Adams.

[Johnny]

A brilliant blast from the past. The The, Love is Stronger than Death

[justine]

Damn, and now I moved to Yolanda Adams! It's Church at my house!

[hamletpowpowpow]

right now, deepchord presents intrusion - the seduction of silence. not quite as good as "the coldest season" - but it'll do just fine.

man, i'm such a sucker for the deepchord/echospace stuff. sure, it sounds *exactly* like basic channel/chain reaction, even down to the multple/nebulous names of their records...but i love chain reaction, so i don't mind.


don't mind blowing the whistle on this, as i wouldn't put it in a podcast anytime soon...but boy does it get me going.

that, and disrupt. as in the digi-dub disrupt, tho the dbeat crusts disrupt are aces too.

[chameleon]

Boredoms - Super AE




just re-discovered this monumental masterpiece.

[paprik]

black sabbath

[sam_tem]

also listening to nico's marble index and desertshore. had never listened to anything beyond chelsea girl, but i feel like a fool because these are just so far beyond that record.

i've always thought the work that cale and nico did together was amazing and certainly for being at the time they did it. be sure to get "the end" as well.

i was listening to another psych classic this morning (although brazilian) that has been resurrected by the blog craze again: Marconi Notaro - No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios (1973)

[ddohnggo]

i can't make this tomorrow night, but:

Listening In, Feeding Back
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Sound
with special concert performance
Columbia University, New York
February 13-14, 2009

Performers:
Alvin Lucier
Otomo Yoshihide
James Fei, Kato Hideki, and Toshimaru Nakamura Trio

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/listeningin.html

[AKA*NYC]

maybe the best tupac album

[destroyed]

to whoever mentioned The The----my favorite bass i have ever owned was a 2nd hand Rich Mockingbird, formerly owned by the bassist of The The; he became a transvestite eventually... "jane" iirc

also listening to nico's marble index and desertshore. had never listened to anything beyond chelsea girl, but i feel like a fool because these are just so far beyond that record.

beyond the nico/cale thing, desertshore is another feather in producer joe boyd's cap. he may be my favorite producer ever. take a look at just some of the albums he produced (many engineered by john wood):
1967

• The Power of the True Love Knot (Shirley Collins)
• The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (The Incredible String Band)
• Arnold Layne / Candy and a Currant Bun (single by Pink Floyd)
• "She's Gone", "I Should've Known" recordings for projected single by Soft Machine, June, Sound Techniques, London (released on "Triple Echo", 1977, "Turns On Volume 1" (Voiceprint 2001 CD)

1968

• Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (Pink Floyd tracks)
• If I Had a Ribbon Bow / If (Stomp) (single by Fairport Convention)
• If (Stomp) / Chelsea Morning (single byFairport Convention)
• Fairport Convention (Fairport Convention)
• The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (The Incredible String Band)
• Wee Tam and the Big Huge (The Incredible String Band)
• Kalpana - instrumental and dance music of India (various artists)

1969

• What We Did On Our Holidays (Fairport Convention)
• Si Tu Dois Partir / Genesis Hall (single by Fairport Convention)
• Unhalfbricking (Fairport Convention)
• Five Leaves Left (Nick Drake)
• Liege & Lief (Fairport Convention)
• Big Ted / All Writ Down (single by the The Incredible String Band)
• Changing Horses (The Incredible String Band)

1970

• Desertshore (Nico)
• Just Another Diamond Day (Vashti Bunyan)
• Bryter Layter (Nick Drake)
• Stormbringer! (John and Beverley Martyn)
• U (Incredible String Band)
• Full House (Fairport Convention)
• Fotheringay (Fotheringay)
• I Looked Up (The Incredible String Band)
• Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending (The Incredible String Band)