Album of the Evening

Bystander · September 3, 2014

Glenn Gould – Strauss Piano Sonata in B minor & Klavierstücke

Bystander · September 8, 2014

Suicide's debut album Suicide(1977).

Frankie Teardrop is quite the experience, holy cow... :-O

Bystander · September 8, 2014

- Sometimes 240p is all it takes to capture a historical moment in its epic dimensions : )

That's remarkable...

Tonight on the menu, Schubert's "Wanderer" Fantasy, played and introduced by Alfred Brendel:

Not exactly the best sound quality, but who cares really...

Ich bin ein Fremdling überall

Bystander · September 13, 2014

Abdullah Ibrahim – Water From An Ancient Well

Wonderful music, great recording.

Bystander · September 29, 2014

Streaming Electric Ursa (Joan Shelley), to be released tomorrow

breathtaking in its beauty: lovely, graceful songs that glide and swoop like far-off birds.

Bystander · September 29, 2014

Birds or bears? (Ursa.) Though I guess bears don't do much gliding and swooping.

Not your regular bear anyway...

Bystander · October 31, 2014

András Schiff / Peter Serkin – Mozart, Reger, Busoni: Music For Two Pianos

Great, great stuff.

Bystander · November 15, 2014

Foreign Fields – Anywhere But Where I Am

These guys deserve to be much more popular, in my opinion.

Bystander · January 8, 2015

I rented the movie (which was ok) based on the soundtrack.

Made me listen to Richard Thompson's soundtrack of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man

Bystander · September 4, 2015

Joan Shelley's Over and Even

Bystander · July 15, 2017

Bystander · August 19, 2017

Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins.

Got the version off Bandcamp at a great price (48khz / 16bit). Nice mastering, too:

Bystander · August 19, 2017

1 hour ago, Apesbrain said:

Just listened to this album yesterday. Very nice.

It really is. Although, after being impressed with the look of the waveform, I'm now realizing something's really wrong with the sound quality of that Bandcamp version – like it's a low quality stream or something – proceed with caution. I had only really listened to the Apple Music version before.

Bystander · August 20, 2017

1 minute ago, new_media said:

That's odd, I bought this from HDtracks and it's 24/44.1. Had to be a sample rate conversion in there one way or the other.

Yeah. That's the highest quality version sold on Qobuz and 7Digital as well. The Bandcamp page for the album now seems very fishy to me as the the official band website doesn't appear to contain a link to it. Somebody may have literally put up a recorded stream there. I've contacted Bandcamp's support to see what they have to say about it and am now listening to a 16/44 version bought elsewhere that sounds great (although with a somewhat limited dynamic range).

Bystander · August 28, 2017

On 8/27/2017 at 6:03 PM, Musicophile said:

I don't meditate but listening to the Goldbergs on a regular basis is my form of switching off.

Today, one of the absolute best versions out there, just perfect:

Though I own it, I think I've only listend to it once and not actually til the end. A little too cute for me, and I couldn't stand his adornments. The '81 Gould will always be the perfect version to me. Andrei Gavrilov's version is another favorite.

Here's mine: