What are you listening to right now #56

David Bowie : The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars : LP (my first LP)

 

Need to do some serious chilling, so I’m on the corner of Miles and Glenfarclas...

 

Amanda Shires : Into the Sunset :LP

 

I love this Album on all formats but having a problem To not keep playing these.

 

Neil Young: Keep on Rockin in The Free World. It seems very necessary to hear it today and tomorrow.

 

Fotheringay - original album on late 70s reissue vinyl. Played to death, but the music never fails to move, culminating in 'banks of the nile'.

 

Velvet Underground & Nico. Mrs H's vinyl copy. Only slightly knackered.

 

This brilliant album.

Sinematic Limited 180gram Vinyl 2LP Set
by Robbie Robertson

Release Date: 20 September 2019

Format: LP Double Vinyl

Label: UMC

£18.99


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Robbie Robertson Sinematic Limited 180gram Vinyl 2LP Set

Overview:

The title says it all, Sinematic, Robbie Robertson’s sixth solo album, sprang from a deep immersion in film work, his own dramatic life story and a fascination with the darker corridors of human nature.

Robertson sings the opening verse on the album with malevolent delight: “Shall we take a little spin/To the dark side of town?”

It sets the stage for gripping tales of villainy and vice, for character studies of mobsters and gangsters embroiled in corruption and crime and for melancholy stories about destruction and devastation.

Narrated in Robertson’s cool parched croon, the yarns unspool over his tasteful vibrant guitar stylings and a bedrock of moody, midtempo rock anchored on most tracks by bassist Pino Palladino (John Mayer Trio, The Who) and drummer Chris Dave (D’Angelo, Adele).

Produced by Robertson and recorded at The Village, the 13-song collection is the songwriter’s first set of originals since 2011’s introspective collaboration with Eric Clapton, How To Become Clairvoyant. In the interim, he penned his bestselling memoir, 2016’s “Testimony,” praised by The New York Times for having “the mythic sweep of an early Terrence Malick movie.” He composed music for “Once Were Brothers,” a documentary based on “Testimony,” and scored “The Irishman,” director Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel.

Each project inspired Sinematic’s evocative imagery and shady themes. Why the perverted spelling? Cinematic felt too serious and obvious, Robertson decided. Sinematic is noir with a wink.

“There’s some naughty subject matter here,” he says.

Explaining how Sinematic evolved, Robertson adds, “I was working on music for “The Irishman” and working on the documentary, and these things were bleeding into each other. I could see a path. Ideas for songs about haunting and violent and beautiful things were swirling together like a movie. You follow that sound and it all starts to take shape right in front of your ears. At some point, I started referring to it as ‘Peckinpah Rock’,” a nod to Sam Peckinpah, the late director of such violent Westerns as “The Wild Bunch.”

Enhancing the album’s cinematic thrust is a suite of multimedia images that Robertson created, including art work for the cover and each individual song. Listeners are brought even further into his Sinematic world with a series of striking portraits and abstract images that range from expressionist paintings to experimental photography. In one depiction, a photo of Robertson’s Walther 9mm pistol, “the same gun James Bond used,” drenched in crimson and gold, is juxtaposed next to a menacing figure, in another, paint seeps into a textured canvas as if it’s been burned in.

Featured Tracks:

SIDE A

1. I Hear You Paint Houses

2. Once We Were Brothers

3. Dead End Kid

SIDE B

1. Hardwired

2. Walk In Beauty Way

3. Let Love Reign

SIDE C

1. Shanghai Blues

2. Wandering Souls

3. Street Serenade

4. The Shadow

SIDE D

1. Beautiful Madness

2. Praying For Rain

3. Remembrance

 

David Bowie: Station to Station

 

Charlie Byrd - Byrd at the Gate, MFSL vinyl

 

This is sorting my head out nicely:



I think it'll be onto Erland Cooper next

 

In the car...ISIHAC anniversary special on cd.

 

Rex Orange County live on Radio 2. Sounds great... even if it is 320MP3 on BBC Sounds. I hadn't realised he's British!

 

50 years ago next year. 50 years?

 

Bob Willis and His Texas Playboys: The Tiffany Transcriptions Vol 1.

HMHB: Voyage to the Bottom of the Road

 

Lou Donaldson - Mr Shing-A-Ling. Tone Poet 180g Vinyl

 

Irish Tour '74 Limited Reissue 180gram Vinyl 2LP Set

 

Ian McNabb's last most excellent album on signed double vinyl.

 

John Martyn - Solid Air