What are you listening to?

[Maurizio]

I've stopped obsessing about CD vs Hi-Res because, at 57, and having been to quite a few LOUD shows over the years, I can't tell a difference between the two. Sure, from mp3 to CD-quality I can but that's my limit.

I work in an operating room and I will make an appointment with an excellent ENT doc and request a hearing test. I'm sure it won't even come close to 20khz

Speaking of female singers, I am absolutely taken by Lisa Gerard of Dead Can Dance and her solo work. IMO, her voice is other-wordly. Puts me in such a relaxed state of mind.
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Optimal choice I like this Folk Prog genre and, of course, Dead Can Dance. The voice of Linda is evocative, i would say mystical. Real joy
About hearing, once i did a test with a frequency record. Resulted that i’m below 16.000

 

[Maurizio]

I've stopped obsessing about CD vs Hi-Res because, at 57, and having been to quite a few LOUD shows over the years, I can't tell a difference between the two. Sure, from mp3 to CD-quality I can but that's my limit.

I work in an operating room and I will make an appointment with an excellent ENT doc and request a hearing test. I'm sure it won't even come close to 20khz

Speaking of female singers, I am absolutely taken by Lisa Gerard of Dead Can Dance and her solo work. IMO, her voice is other-wordly. Puts me in such a relaxed state of mind.
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I would have a suggestion. I think that you should like also a group whose name is “Analogy”. Resembles a bit to DCD, with suggestive female voice.
Doing a search i saw they are not in Qobuz, but they are on Amazon & Spotify.
One album title is Konzert. 1st album title is equal to group’s name Analogy.

 

[Mr Ee]

Have you got the biggest of them all??

 

[FerengiROA]

I hope not

Well, we all know what age and gravity can do, unfortunately.

 

[FerengiROA]

I would have a suggestion. I think that you should like also a group whose name is “Analogy”. Resembles a bit to DCD, with suggestive female voice.
Doing a search i saw they are not in Qobuz, but they are on Amazon & Spotify.
One album title is Konzert. 1st album title is equal to group’s name Analogy.

Thanks for the tip.
I'm a sucker for female vocalists. Sarah MacLachlan, Enigma, Alanis Morisette.
Someone linked me to this song and, while I am not a country music fan, I gotta say its one hell of a duet.

Never realized until recently how fantastic Olivias' voice was until hearing this song.

And, speaking of gravity, Dolly has entered the chat!

 

[FerengiROA]

What's about Lana del Rey? I love this timbre. Dark and kind of mysterious. On the go, a picture will follow.

Thanks...always open to suggestions

 

[Maurizio]

I know you wanted something for the afternoon, so rummaging through my LPs and came up with these:
Jan Matthews "Plainsong"


and this rarity

 

[Maurizio]

Velvett Fogg! Tony Iommi's first appearance before Sabbath. Some magic mushrooms will make it even better. Gosh...we've been so psychedelic

Mate you are a force of nature. May be there is something unknown to you? Anyway i wil have more occasions to try your competence.

 

[Maurizio]

Internet? What is that ? Never heard. May be that we poor Italians are a bit cavemen?
And of course from here on you are free to charge
By the way, much appreciated your suggestion about Herbie Hancock.
Great album, great personnel
I’ll go for a

 

[Maurizio]

R.I.P. Tony Bennett
One of, if not the last big crooners passed today.
The duets with Diana Krall are part of his later recordings, already with the Alzheimer diagnosis. View attachment 1437

 

[FerengiROA]

I'm gonna mix it up a bit. Opeth is the band from Sweden. They used to be much heavier, with death-metal vocals, but they progressed to a more mellow, intricate sound. They are fantastic musicians and lyricists and the vocals are surprisingly beautiful yet powerful, IMO. They might be an acquired taste but, thanks to the internet, I discovered them about 20 years ago. Glad I did.

This album is their latest (2019) and they just keep getting better.

 

[Maurizio]

What's happening this morning? A flock of early birds? And, as usual, that @Achim1811 has beaten me.
As I am jealous, digging deeper into my record collection I would have found these.
An obscure prog group

Lynda Hoyle worth a listen. Jazzy Prog

Here it comes the third. Murray Krugman and Sandy Pearlman, the duo behind Blue Oyster Cult.

I love as Brian Auger as Julie Driscoll and her voice so...

Enjoy, or.......may be not

 

[Mr Ee]

A flock of early birds?

Been up hours and hours...

 

[Maurizio]

But they can take a nap whenever they want, no time wasting job any longer

The wisest words I've ever heard and...that's exactly what I'm going to do this afternoon.

 

[Maurizio]

As time goes by...
Remember the drum solo in the title track?

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How to forget both the song and the Album? It marked my youth.

 

[FerengiROA]

As time goes by...
Remember the drum solo in the title track?

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One of my most favorite songs of all time. Primitive, raw precursor to the sound that I've chased since I was a kid. This, Whole Lotta Love and Voodoo Chile started my journey to guitar nirvana.

Excellent post, Achim1811!

 

[Mr Ee]

Seeing as we like a story with every post...

Mid 90s. Kensington, London.
Although I had spent my childhood maybe 35 miles south of London, I had recently moved there for a job.
Sitting in a pub, drinking a warm pint and eating a big bowl of chips (hot chips, for any Aussies) when this came on.
Still reminds me of those good old days...
(I didn't say it'd be a good story.)

 

[merifon]

A little self promotion...
Captured and played with MConnect lite and WiiM mini, on DO100, Nad and Kef ls50 meta...
In the past century, I was involved in the production...

 

[Maurizio]

To awaken the senses numb from the nap. Mike Patto & his Band



Happy listening

 

[d6jg]

FLAC from my original vinyl

♪ Playing Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley by Robert Palmer from Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley (1973) (Local • 958kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)