Album of the Evening

[AnotherSpin]

Allan Pettersson, Symphony No. 13

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

8 hours ago, dericchan1 said:

 

 

That made my day! I love it!!!

[orresearch]

[WAM]

This is magic...

 

 

[AnotherSpin]

Allan Pettersson, Symphony No.14

 

[AudioDoctor]

I just cant get enough of this album, the latest from Emily King.

 

 

[dericchan1]

Billy Talent 

[AnotherSpin]

Uncompromising early free-jazz from the Wolfgang Dauner Sextet. Jean-Luc Ponty sounds much fresher than in his solo projects or in Zappa's albums. Those who, like me, were first introduced to Eberhard Weber's playing in the ECM albums from the 70s might be interested to hear him play in a freer manner.

 

 

[AnotherSpin]

A very simple and convincing performance of C.P.E. Bach's cycle of the Württembergische sonatas by the Croatian pianist Ana-Marija Markovina. Looking forward to comparing it with the interpretation of the same sonatas in Keith Jarrett's album, which should be available in a few days.

 

[firedog]

1 hour ago, AnotherSpin said:

Uncompromising early free-jazz from the Wolfgang Dauner Sextet. Jean-Luc Ponty sounds much fresher than in his solo projects or in Zappa's albums. Those who, like me, were first introduced to Eberhard Weber's playing in the ECM albums from the 70s might be interested to hear him play in a freer manner.

 

 

New one for me, never heard of it before. Interesting. Especially for 1967 recording. Thanks.

[AnotherSpin]

2 hours ago, firedog said:

New one for me, never heard of it before. Interesting. Especially for 1967 recording. Thanks.

 

Thank you for reply. I have a great interest for products of MPS label. Dauner's album was released under SABA label, but the same studio in Schwarzwald, Germany was used. MPS recorded and released great albums by Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Sun Ra, Baden Powell, Cecil Taylor, many fine German and European musicians. And, Friedrich Gulda, his Well Tempered Clavier for instance. 

[AnotherSpin]

The first side of the album is amazing and unique, there is no analogue of anything like it. Jackson Browne breaks through the routine and ventures into areas inaccessible to others. Amazing, all over again.

 

[Jud]

47 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

The first side of the album is amazing and unique, there is no analogue of anything like it. Jackson Browne breaks through the routine and ventures into areas inaccessible to others. Amazing, all over again.

 

 

This is a classic album, for good reason. Listening with the knowledge that several of the songs are obviously about his wife, who committed suicide two years later, is painful but enlightening.

[JoeWhip]

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[dericchan1]

Disturbed

[TubeLover]

 

I have never forgotten, or so deeply remembered, especially lately, Paul Simon's lyrics from the song "Old Friends" from the great album, Bookends. 

 

Old friends, old friends
Sat on their park bench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange to be 70

Old friends, memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears

 

 

I'm a lifelong fan of Simon and Garfunkel, and Paul Simon, in general. To me, there is no question he is has to be considered as greatest American songwriter of his generation. I remember purchasing this album in 1968, when I was fifteen. Impossible as it is for me to imagine, it is my birthday tomorrow. And it will be terribly strange, and even more disconcerting in countless, and now, never-ending ways. I honestly ever expected to reach this point. 

 

I can only hope that (and granted, he is eleven years older than me) I can accept things with anything remotely like the grace Paul has communicated and displayed, in brilliant and endlessly touching new album, 7 Psalms. The spirituality, the insight into growing old, the acknowledged fear, and the acceptance that his life may dance with god in the near future is at times heartrending, yet deeply understandable. I am sure that he, even more than I do, remembers his lyrics from "Old Men" on Bookends. 

 

How terribly strange indeed.

 

JC

 

 

 

 

 

[AnotherSpin]

Allan Pettersson, Symphony No. 15

 

[AnotherSpin]

Allan Pettersson, Symphony No. 16

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Back to our regularly scheduled programming. 
 

[Jud]

3 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Back to our regularly scheduled programming. 
 

 

I keep thinking I need to listen to these guys more.  😉

[Jud]

Jordi Savall is a world treasure. How this music can make one feel at peace and thrilled at the same time I don't know, but that's what it does for me.

 

 

[AnotherSpin]

Allan Pettersson, Symphony No.  17 (fragment)

 

Allan Pettersson's cycle of symphonies has its own, very special place. It is outside this world, this time and this place. If there are any similarities with the music of other composers, it is most likely with the music of avant-garde artists such as Anthony Braxton of the Ghost Trance Music period or something in the same spirit.

 

It is written elsewhere that the Swedish composer's troubled circumstances, his bleak childhood and long, difficult illness had a decisive influence on his music, which is sad, full of anger and struggle. I will say at once that I hear something quite different. His music is far from pervasive pessimism. Is it optimistic? Rather, a transcendental departure beyond the standard set of dichotomies.

 

Pettersson's musical world is as organic and emotional as possible, devoid of empty speculation and cold calculation. It is vast and relentless. I can easily imagine that some might find it overwhelming.

 

Apart from the separate recordings of some of the symphonies, two sets of Allan Pettersson's symphonies are available. The earlier one on the German label CPO, with different orchestras and conductors, and the second, incomplete one on BIS, with Christian Lindberg. Different listeners may be drawn to different symphonies in Pettersson's cycle. For me it's Nos. 4, 9, 13, 14 before others. I prefer Lindberg’s versions.

 

 

[jiminlogansquare]

[jiminlogansquare]

On 6/27/2023 at 7:26 PM, Jud said:

Jordi Savall is a world treasure. How this music can make one feel at peace and thrilled at the same time I don't know, but that's what it does for me.

 

 

I love this performance, as I might expect from anything touched by Savall and Koopman. Yet the recording is quite abysmal from a pure SQ perspective. Sounds like it was recorded in an oil tank, frankly. But the performance is so wonderful I readily forgive those flaws. And I realize your recommendation is for the performance, which I agree is at turns thrilling and pacifying.

[TubeLover]

On 6/17/2011 at 3:02 AM, The Computer Audiophile said:

I recently started listening to one complete album from start to finish every evening. It's really great to sit down, no Internet, no phone, no iPhone, no i-anything and close my evening out with uninterrupted music. There's nothing like closing out each day on a great note, no pun intended.

 

I want to start this thread for people interested in doing the same thing. Listening to an album every evening and posting simply the artist and album information. Doesn't have to be a picture or the cover or a link or anything. It's more about enjoying this wonderful hobby.

 

I'll start with my Album of the Evening for tonight:

 

Artist: Boston

Album: Boston

 

Chris, 

 

This is the only way I listen to music. Over all of time, these artists went to sometimes incredible lengths of creativity, musicianship and effort to produce albums for our listening enjoyment. Especially in the decades where it mattered, from the mid 60's, to at least the end of the 80's, the golden age, each song and where it was placed was a considered art form decided by the bands involved. 

 

I would not desecrate their efforts by listening in any other way. Granted, the Ge x and Millennials tend to be universally ADD, somehow. I'm still trying to find a way to forgive them for their sins of literally choosing individual songs to listen to regardless of the intent of the artists.  But, Firedog, and please know I have great respect for you and your musical views, you should be ashamed to have fallen into this means of listening.