What are you listening to right now #63

[paulfromcamden]

Paul, in addition to Seekers typography reply can I add that the bar over a capital A is known as a Macron and over a small a as a Grapheme and is used to indicate a long sounding A (vowel) certain Eastern European and Far Eastern languages including Japanese.

Very interesting Jim - thanks. I should perhaps have remembered that from taking Japanese classes. Though Japanese romaji is always lower case so I wouldn't have encountered an 'A' like the record sleeve (hiragana simply uses a repeated character so a long A is ああ whereas Katakana uses a following dash so A is アー) .

 

[paulfromcamden]

Vinyl, Verve by Request reissue.

Me too! Great minds and all that ;-)

 

[Eugene]

The New Tony Williams Lifetime - Lifetime: The Collection

 

[gninnam]

Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
Label: Atlantic – R1-536123
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, 180 Gram All Media, Deluxe Edition, Tri-fold Sleeve
Country: US
Released: 2 Jun 2014
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Arena Rock

 

[Featsdont]

I take that on the chin, bloody predictive text and 46% single malt

HaHa - nothing like a good malt to affect your spelling! - and many other analytical faculties!

 

[mikechadwick]

Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio. Qobuz 16/44 stream

 

[Big Tabs]

Wife is out, not that that makes a jot.
Plenty of afternoon volume.
Really makes a pleasant change after flogging headphones for weeks.
The hifi sounds good.

Leftfield – Leftism


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Label: Columbia – 4983102003, Hard Hands – HANDCD2X, Columbia – 4983102000
Format:
CD, Album, Reissue
CD, Compilation, Limited Edition
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 29 May 2000
Genre: Electronic

 

[poco a poco]

Very interesting Jim - thanks. I should perhaps have remembered that from taking Japanese classes. Though Japanese romaji is always lower case so I wouldn't have encountered an 'A' like the record sleeve (hiragana simply uses a repeated character so a long A is ああ whereas Katakana uses a following dash so A is アー) .

おかげで面白い
I wondered how you would indicate a long vowel in Japanese characters.

 

[Featsdont]

Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow - clear vinyl “Loser” edition

Natalie Mering’s most recent album - with her silky smooth vocals. Beautiful stuff.

 

[poco a poco]

Me too! Great minds and all that ;-)

Although it was good to get a vinyl copy I found this Verve by Requests a bit disappointing. This mastering is quite compressed, a bit flat and dull sounding. Pushing the volume up helps a bit, but It still seems to prevent the music really coming alive. I have no idea of the provenance of the recording used, but I was suspicious. I expect it is also partly due to the fairly long side lengths requiring the compression.

Luckily the AS Verve Karma is in a different league.

 

[gavreid]

The surprise of the year for sure. Atlantic – SD-1361. LP, 2022.

 

[paulfromcamden]

Forgot I had this. Some decent northern soul tracks but most of it isn't hitting the spot - one for the Discogs pile.

 

[daytona600]

BG - LP

 

[alan967tiger]

David Bowie - Divine Symmetry
Box set, CD1 (great Christmas present).

 

[mikechadwick]

David Crosby - If I could only remember my name. MoFi SACD rip

 

[webster]

David Gilmour - David Gilmour

 

[mikechadwick]

The Byrds - Never Before. CD rip

 

[paulfromcamden]

This nice Pacific Jazz compilation from 1978.

My copy arrived today still sealed in it's original shrinkwrap with a deletion hole punch in the sleeve corner. Despite being sealed since manufacture 44 years ago there were fingerprints on the vinyl... so much for the Good Old Days

 

[mikechadwick]

Crazy Horse - s/t. Qobuz 16/44 stream

 

[webster]

The Delines - The Sea Drift
So classy.