What are you listening to right now?

here is a fun way to spend your Monday:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lnY2qrCYxHwptdXywzDQ8xGSKqZvj3W7Y

 

Here are a few anachronisms I've been enjoying recently thanks to the Qobuz algorithm

The best 80s song released in 2023
Riverside - Friend or Foe



Greta van Fleet taking us back to a better time in a somewhat surreal way



Andrew Stockdale (of Wolfmother) with a fun 70's inspired groove

 

Listen particularly to the tuba player. Just drifting along enjoying every note. How I feel right now.

 

Feelin' good

 

Thinking of my Jewish friends and neighbors, I put this on:

 

oooh...the 80s...i'll play

 

Some upbeat new wave pop punk for a rainy Sunday.

 

Can't remember this sounding so good:

Cyan 2, EC Studio B with Elrog 300B and GE Jan 5670W, JAR800

 

Never heard this. Excellent!

Love the Lou Reed "Walk on the Wild Side" bass line.

 

More Taj Mahal. It that's wrong, I don't want to be right....

1st is my favorite cut from my favorite of his many albums. the 2nd cut is his superior cover of a Louis Jordan tune.

 

4/19 - anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

 

I remember when the Gorecki/Upshaw CD launched. Heard it on the radio, immediately bought it. I listen to a lot of modern choral music, then and now, but never saw a modern composition hit the charts like that one. It was everywhere. I still hear it at least once a week on streaming classical radio. Symphony No. 3 is mournful & beautiful.

 

@Pharmaboy , there's a rawness to this Naxos Polish recording, different from that iconic Upshaw recording.

 

(Listening to the Upshaw/Gorecki right now) Guess I'll have to try this Naxos recording. It won't be easy ... Dawn Upshaw's singing of this part is burned into my brain.

It's not the only time this happened to me. She also gives an iconic interpretation of Samuel Barber's wonderful "Knoxville, Summer of 1915." IMO Ms. Upshaw is an ideal interpreter of 20th centural vocal writing.

 

I adore this piece. I saw it played by the BSO last spring and it brought me to tears.

 

Bass is wonderful!!