What are you Listening To?

The Sounds you Hear - Music and Audio Discussion
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EDIT - I’m going to change this thread to a general “What are you Listening to?” thread, so we don’t have a bunch of different genre threads.

As an introduction to the jazz thread, I’m giving Keith Jarrett’s Expectations a first listen. Jarrett played with Miles Davis during some of the best albums of the electric period, and Jarrett also has the single best selling solo piano album of all time.

So far it’s really good. More straightforward than the wacked out stuff he was doing with Davis, but pretty damn groovy.

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I’ve never fancied myself much of a jazz aficionado - too much brass noodling and unruly rhythm - but Take Five by Brubeck? An infernal little tune that strikes something primal, every time, no matter the incarnation. A curious enchantment, to be sure. I don’t pretend to understand it. A spell, clearly. Almost certainly illegal.

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It’s a classic.

I hesitate to call myself a jazzhead, because I don’t like a lot of it. But the stuff I love I love, and it’s been all I’ve listened to for the last month. I tend towards the more electric and fusion stuff.

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The only electric jazz I ever got turned on to was the Headhunters album by Herbie Hancock. It is amazing start to finish - loads of delicious analog synth!

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Great album! I actually prefer Sextants, because it has some amazing synth work featuring an ARP Odyssey doing all kinds of weird noises.

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Miles Davis live - Tanglewood 1970

This live performance, available in the Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary set, has been in heavy rotation for the last few weeks. It’s incredible.

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As it happens, I often turn to oboe concertos when the mood calls for something haunted, windswept, melancholy, and faintly noble. The perfect soundtrack for wrestling with the rules of the Ziggurat.

A modern classic:

And something with a little more gravitas, for when the shadows deepen:

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What I was listening to this evening?
Classic FM’s (UK edition) “Music at the movies”, with Jonathan Ross. A great Friday night way to start the weekend!

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This is a dangerous forum. I would not force my performances on anyone who hadn’t already found them by accident. My apologies.

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The oboe - I tried playing when I was young. My god…what a hard instrument to play. Such a cool sounding instrument.

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I got my wife into Castle Rat recently. We’re really enjoying that album. We usually listen to it along with the new Ghost album.

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This, which reads as: " ᐸᓇ" by ᐊᐳᑦ
It’s a Dungeon Synth tape from 2017 that I like. Sadly there is little to no info on the artist besides bare basics listed on the labels website. Wish I could find out if they’ve done more music.

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That artist seems to have one track on this other album, but I likewise cannot find much info about them.

(And for completeness, here’s the digital version of the album you posted)

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I keep playing TES: Skyrim and Oblivion soundtracks lately. So good!

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I only recently discovered Green Lung and I’ve been enjoying their album Woodland Rites. Good stuff.

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My latest obsession has been The Waterboys’ first 5 albums, especially Fisherman’s Blues and Room to Roam. They’re basically all I’ve listened to for the past 5 months. Fisherman’s Blues is a contender for the best album I’ve ever heard. The 6 CD box set, The Fisherman’s Box, is over 120 tracks, and 90 of them are amazing.

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Nothing better!

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New Ruins of Beverast is excellent

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My oldest friend