What are you listening to right now? #49

Cavalleria Rusticana. Karajan's 66 recording at La Scala. It's astonishingly good.

 

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage BST-84195 ("Blue Note Masterpiece Special Replica 15" Japanese pressing)

 

New Paul Simon album - really interesting and on first listen I would say better than So Beautiful. Certainly the best of the last 20 or so albums I ordered from Juno - the James Blake ones are interesting but the pressing quality is not so good.

 

Bob Weir - Blue Mountain.

Its his first solo album for a decade and is pretty good for an old bloke from The Grateful Dead. He's helped out by Josh Ritter among others.

Jack

 

The Stone Roses - S/T

 

Spacemen 3 - The Sound of Confusion

 

au pairs - playing with a different sex

 

Nadia Reid - Holy Low, gorgeous vocals

 

Bach Harpsichord Concertos. Trevor Pinnock & The English Concert.

 

obituary - slowly we rot

 

David Bowie - Station to Station

 

On a blue note binge of late. Now it is Grant Green - Idle Moments. Inexpensive 75th Anniversary reissue lp sounds great.

 

Ashra - New Age of Earth
Manuel Gottsching - Dream and Desire

 

John Abercrombie @ Ronnie Scott's in 1998 - Radio 3 broadcast that I recorded back then.

 

Van Der Graaf Generator - Do Not Disturb

Pretty good on first listen.

 

Solange (Knowles) - the new album.

Never been much bowled over by Beyonce but this one by little sister is kind of nice. I like it.

 

Ryan Adams - S/T

 

Klaus Schulze - Miditerranean Pads

 

"This is Dollar Brand", on LP. Wonderful dynamic solo piano recording of him by Bob Auger made at Pye Studios in 1965 before he changed his name To Abdullah Ibrahim.