What you are listening to now!

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 07:34 PM

Variety of Johnny McEvoy songs on you tube...I was not really familiar with him before.

Last night I listened to some old Irish Rovers videos on you tube and was struck by what nice voices most of them had...if Will had just sung straight instead of in a more theatrical manner they might not have been as popular of course..but the others could have shone more...one I especially liked was Joe and George Miller..not sure which is which..I think George has the dark hair..singing a duet on Murphy's Still. mg

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 03:17 PM

http://www.last.fm/music/Dick+Miles
i like to listen to myself, its a great way of trying to improve

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: olddude
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 01:49 PM

Graveyard Molly Tuttle now
work on my own crap later

Graveyard

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: olddude
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 01:31 PM

Sadly me, only because I am still trying to fix my picking on this one.. sigh ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkhZcr0Q7UM

darn fingers don't want to behave

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Auldtimer
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 12:26 PM

Sara Grey - Boy She's a Daisy CD

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 12:18 PM

Home Service in Doomsday at The Lyceum London 12/06/1985

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 11:20 AM

Snooks Eaglin

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 09:39 AM

Montserrat Figueras's divine essaying of Tarquinio Merula's Su la Cetra Amorosa. Here it is on YouTube supposing anyone here wants to share in such divine perfection...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuA5kN_9Qpg

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: cptsnapper
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 07:00 AM

Beth Nielsen Chapman singing ' I Find Your Love ' in commemoration of Lee Abbott who passed away earlier this week.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 06:08 AM

'Beyond Our Ken' on Radio4 Extra

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: stallion
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 06:07 AM

Finn & Haddie (various) & Bag 0 Spanners - Global Village
Bag O Spanners are a cumbrian version of the Pogues if you can listen through 100 mph the delivery of the lyrics they are very funny and a good live act.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 11 Mar 12 - 05:59 AM

Henry Purcell - Sonatas in 3 Parts, 1683 (Bezonik / Podger / Coin / Hogwood - L'Oisseau-Lyre, 1995).

Subject: thread drift, sorry.
From: Crowhugger
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 11:01 PM

Advance apology to thread purists: this is early music thread drift...
I love the Baltimore Consort!! And Hilliard Ensemble, Ensemble Obsidienne, Academy of Ancient Music, Dufay Collective. And although more baroque than true early music, Musica Antiqua Köln.

Alas, I just might give my right arm to have as clean a tone and true a pitch as Custer LaRue [sigh]. Okay, so I'm left-handed, still to consider giving up a whole arm!

I've loved early music since I was a toddler. The Huggett Family were my introduction to it at the ripe old age of 2 years. My parents knew them (maybe through Ottawa Phil. in which my father and uncle both played at one time) and convinced them I was worthy of a spot in an Orff class even though I was a year too young to start. I managed not to get kicked out for behaving my age and felt highly rewarded for my efforts when after at least 2 of the classes over the year, they invited a couple of kids and parents to stay afterwards for a short performance. Total magic it was to me. This was in 1960-61 and I've kept a taste for that sort of musicke.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Amos
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 05:40 PM

I am listening to the interesting 16th-note rhythms and modal noodles of Oumou Sangaré performing a number called DJama Kaissoumou.

I believe the disk is called Moussolou (1990).

From Wikipedia: "Oumou Sangare (born February 25, 1968, in Bamako, Mali) is a Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou." Wassoulou is a historic region south of the Niger River, and the music there is descended from traditional hunting songs, and is accompanied by a calabash. Her mother was the singer Aminata Diakité."

A

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Don Firth
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 02:38 PM

I have a fair collection of Baltimore Consort CDs, plus CDs of individual members of the group. Several of Ronn McFarlane on the lute, and one each of Custer LaRue singing British and American traditional songs (probably wouldn't meet the approval of folk purists, but nicely done nevertheless) and Julianne Baird (likewise).

I took in a concert by the group a few years ago at Seattle's town hall, and had a chance to chat for a few minutes with Ronn McFarlane.

There's quite a bit of interest in Early Music here in Seattle. Several groups, plus individual performers such as e.g., Elizabeth C.D. Brown who, in addition to modern classical guitar, plays lute and Baroque guitar—no idea what the "C.D." stands for.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 10 Mar 12 - 10:58 AM

"The Coleman Archive Vol 2 - The Home Place"

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 04:09 PM

The Goon Show (Nadgers)

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Dave Illingworth
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 01:49 PM

Promised Land CD by Lil Band O Gold
Sandhorn CD by Sigrid Moldestat
Ramble At The Ryman CD by Levon Heln

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Jon Corelis
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 01:42 PM

Just listened to Adio Espana, one of the best records by the really excellent Baltimore Consort, one of the best early music groups. This is a collection of early renaissance Spanish music, and one of the things you learn from it is how varied that music is. You can find some knowledgeable reviews and samples on amazon here. Early music fans will certainly enjoy this cd, but one thing about the Baltimore Consort is that their recordings also tend to be attractive and accessible to listeners new to the music. It's the kind of record that serves equally well for casual or serious listening. Very good booklet included with a brief overview of the music and all lyrics in the original languages and English -- an example (to stray into another current thread) of why the supersession of CDs by mp3 files is a cultural disaster.

Jon Corelis
Euripides' Hippolytos: A performance version with music

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 12:55 PM

Hank Wangford Band - Sir George Robey North London 27/02/1985

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 12:00 PM

Early music classic: Rene Clemencic et Ses Flutes.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Elmore
Date: 09 Mar 12 - 11:45 AM

Attn: Don Firth Thanks for the story about del Monaco. I've come to opera in recent years because of some classes for old geezers that I'm taking at a local college.Those of us who find live opera too pricey have the option of catching Metropolitan Opera telecasts at selected theaters throughout the U.S. Tickets are 20 bucks or so.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 09:28 PM

You're more than welcome, Crowhugger.

Unfortunately, del Monaco is no longer with us. He died in 1982 of kidney disease. But he did some mighty impressive singing when he was!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Crowhugger
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 08:18 PM

Thanks Don for introducing me to Mario del Monaco. I don't follow opera closely but I do enjoy a fix of it now and then (radio or youtube, since tickets to the real thing are wayyyy out of my price range). I'm always glad to hear a tenor with lots of warmth in his voice and who doesn't overwork the vibrato.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 08:05 PM

I was listening to Gordon Lightfoot, and before that, Priscilla Herdman.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 05:59 PM

Some of Bobby Horton's Confederate songs

The first series on this page

He's very good and does the research

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Crowhugger
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 05:43 PM

A parody of The Churchbells Are Ringing for Mary right here. Went looking for a straight-up version of this for comparison but didn't find one. I've sung the original in a chorus; it's a shameless tear jerker.

Before coming across that I'd listened to and watched this rendition of Lucky Old Sun, and a great version of Blue Skies.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: olddude
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 04:21 PM

drove back from the airport, Art Thieme all the way

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 03:39 PM

My wife has a vinyl recording (boxed set) of Cavalleria Rusticana, and I Pagliacci with Mario del Monaco singing the leading tenor roles.

Del Monaco was a handsome sucker (CLICKY) with an extremely powerful voice. When he was first hired by the Metropolitan Opera (to sing Radames in Aida), for some strange reason some opera critics panned him even before they heard him on stage. The big tenor aria in Aida occurs at a very difficult spot for the singer—in the first act, just a few minutes after the curtain goes up, with no chance to warm up (making it essential for him to be well warmed up before going on stage).

Del Monaco launches into "Celeste Aida," sings it beautifully and powerfully all the way, then when he hits the big, high Bb at the very end, he hits it so powerfully that he bends the walls of the opera house out and it registers on seismographs in California! And he holds it until Tuesday morning.

The audience when absolutely nuts! Standing ovation. Cheers and applause lasted for several minutes. Del Monaco had made it plain that he owned the role of Radames, and just about any other operatic role he wanted to tackle.

The critics who had pre-trashed him hid under their seats and slunk out of the opera house afterwards with their coats pulled over their heads.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 11:16 AM

Boccherini week on BBC iPlayer.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Elmore
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 09:53 AM

Sorry. Pagliacci is a two act opera, but the second act is very short.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Elmore
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 09:48 AM

Just finished listening to and watching a dvd of two one act operas: Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Both starred Placido Domingo. They were performed in 1978, but the dvd is of excellent quality.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 05:57 AM

Moving swifty on, in the spirit of spring, renewal & recherche du temps perdu. 12-string players will love this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmSD1nCQZwc

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: David C. Carter
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 04:47 AM

Just been listening to Lonesome EJ's "Provo's Song".Another fine piece of work from this Gentleman!

I thank him for sharing it with us.

David

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 08 Mar 12 - 04:42 AM

Inspired by Don's post above, my first record of the day (vinyl, natch) is the debut Sequentia album Spielmann und Kleriker (um 1200) (AKA Minstrel and Cleric released in 1981 on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. It kicks off with a near definitive take on Olim Sudor Hercules (light & sprightly, especially compared to the Clemencic Consort's bleak take on it) and wraps up with the truly stunning Samson Dux Fortissime. They re-recorded the latter, acapella, on the Visions from the Book CD (1996), but here in the quartet with Barbara Thornton (voice), Margriet Tindemans (mediaeval fiddle), Crawford Young (gittern) and Benjamin Bagby (voice & harp) it really swings, as does the rest of the album - the best they ever did in my humble opinion.

*

The best Beowulf I ever saw was Julian Glover's one-man show in the medieval library of Durham Cathedral one rainy afternoon in 1988 to an audience of about five as I recall. Afterwards it was truly an honor to shake the hand of Colonel Breen...

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Don Firth
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 04:20 PM

Well, lemme see, now. . . .

On KING-FM, a local classical music radio station, I'm listening to Capriccio Italien, written by Pyotr ilyich Tchaikovsky and played by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. This is a fantasy inspired by Italian folk songs and street songs that Tchaikovsky heard during a carnival while he was visiting Rome sometime in the late 1870s.

Italian music written by a Russian composer and recorded by a Norwegian orchestra.

Recent listening has included a DVD by Benjamin Bagby reciting the first thousand lines of Beowulf, an epic poem considered to be one of the very first pieces of English literature, at least the first to be preserved in manuscript form. The manuscript was found in 1000 A.D., but the epic poem itself is believed to date back to around 700 A.D.

Bagby recites it in the manner of the ancient bards or skalds, sometimes chanting to the accompaniment of and Anglo-Saxon lyre-harp. He does it in Olde English (with modern English subtitles). Olde English sounds like a mixture of a Scandinavian language and German, which it was before the injection of French after the Norman Invasion. The DVD is complete with extra features in which Bagby discusses his approach to the material and his use of the Anglo-Saxon lyre-harp. Fascinating!

Hark! to the Song of the Spear-Danes!.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 03:55 PM

Recently tapping into Swamp Funk, funky dance thing borrowing inspiration from Dr, John & Chocolate Milk inter alia. I could dance all night to this, yummy funkyness. Uh huh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyzo8BJyfn4

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 03:49 PM

Scottish Tradition Volume 5 - The Muckle Sangs

(Cop that, CS, you nocturnal soul-stealer you.)

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 03:26 PM

The last two things I've listened to:

A new (to me ) CD, Celtic Wales (Arc Music 2001), part of their excellent Celtic Music series, with good liner notes in English and Welsh.   I particularly liked Seidr Ddoe ("Yesterday's Cider") by Plethyn, set to music by that group for a poem by Myrddin ap Dafydd, a poet hitherto unknown to me, but judging by these lyrics even in translation (I have no Welsh) is one I should look up.

And an old favorite I hadn't listened to for a while, Lads & Lasses: Music of the English Countryside (Soundalive CD, 1995), with performances by groups I haven't known from other CDs, The City Waites and The Noise of Minstrels. They are very much in the style of such better known (to me at least)groups as The Baltimore Consort. The spirited performances are mostly from Playford, and will be very attractive to anyone who enjoys this period of English music. Of particular note was a Playford song called here "Rufty Tufty," which proves to be yet another name for the tune most commonly known now as "Cold and Raw." This is a fascinating tune, some say originally Scottish, but reappearing again and again in British music, even having been used as a surprisingly good fit for the words of The Vicar of Bray. I've adapted it myself as a setting for Housman's Oh, when I was in love with you.

Jon Corelis

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Larry Saidman
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 03:16 PM

David Essig's double cd "A Stone in My Pocket" is what's on my cd player right now.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Uncle Phil
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 03:11 PM

"The Very Best of John Lee Hooker" ransomed from the bargain bin at the discount book store yesterday for a couple bucks. Good therapy after all of the harps and fiddles at the Irish festival last weekend.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 03:09 PM

Distillery Blues Band for me.
Oh my,those voices!Those guitars !


http://www.reverbnation.com/distillerybluesband

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 03:02 PM

Suibhne, one day when you and your long haired Mrs are safely akip, I shall park up in a suitably shady looking transit van with blacked out windows and steal your entire record collection away. And probably your soul too..

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Joe_F
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 02:31 PM

Now? Nothing. Background music would distract me from reading & writing.

What's on the turntable for continuation on washing up from tomorrow's breakfast is The Weavers' reunion at Carnegie Hall, 1963

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 02:26 PM

Now I'm onto the new edition of Matching Mole's Little Red Record, complete with revelatory extras...

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 02:10 PM

Right now? The David Munnelly Band, Tight Squeeze.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,nygelgoose
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 01:54 PM

today I have been mostly listening to Cath & Phil Tylers' album Dumb Supper.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 01:37 PM

Air - http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Universal+Traveler/2B2WPW?src=5

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 12:28 PM

Jordi Savall / Concert des Nations : Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764) - L'Orchestre de Louis XV

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: SteveMansfield
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 12:13 PM

Right now, via a link on concertina.net, Swedish music played on guitar, clarinet and concertina by Burgess, Ådin & Wingård - scroll down the page to 'Lysnna'.

I'd never heard of them up until about five minutes ago - absolutely lovely stuff!

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: stallion
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 12:11 PM

oh and The young 'ins are on now

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: stallion
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 12:09 PM

oops I forgot they have just banned slapping more than seven times in a session and no more than four in the last four furlongs

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: stallion
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 12:05 PM

Not sure you should be listening to Lenny too melancholic Nic! Hope the leg is getting better.
Tim you should put a link to a sampler it really is a superb cd it ought to reach a wider audience. Humidifier humming tunes! Whatever next the William Hill overture played on my slapped arse!

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Nick
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:29 AM

Oh I've been listening to the Leonard Cohen one too. I still reckon that only he and Lee Marvin could get away with singing like that.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Elmore
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:21 AM

Bird's Advice by Elizabeth Laprelle, Old Ideas by L. Cohen.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: RTim
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:19 AM

Last weekend we had Bruce Molsky at our club in Woods Hole.
So I have been listening to his "Soon Be Time" recording.

A superb musician and singer!!

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,Banjiman
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:14 AM

"We had a humidifier that used to hum "In the air tonight" by Phil Collins - what does yours do?"

I'm sure it would have been better than the original.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Nick
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:12 AM

We had a humidifier that used to hum "In the air tonight" by Phil Collins - what does yours do?

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Musket
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:06 AM

Martin Simpson, The Unthanks, Seth Lakeman, Roy Harper and in the study for background, the usual Bach, which at the moment is the cello suite. (Maurice Gendron, hoopy cellist.)

At the weekend whilst pottering in the garage, I indulged myself with some nostalgia, in the form of Vin Garbutt, Martin Carthy and Harvey Andrews.

I also listened the other day to some of my own gear, but looking for things to improve rather than vanity.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 11:03 AM

What I hear at this moment is the sound of the humidifier humming away on the far side of the room.

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 10:41 AM

Right now it's Lost Children of Babylon, which features some of the farthest out-there hip-hop lyrical content that I've ever heard, but with lovely little loops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTYI3BlAx54

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: Nick
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 10:39 AM

Exiles Return - Karan Casey and John Doyle
Kan - Kan
The Haven - Flook
The Ravishing Genius of Bones - Brian Finnegan
Secret Symphony - Katie Melua
Madison Violet - The Good in Goodbye

One of the bonuses of the broken leg...

Subject: RE: What you are listening to now!
From: RTim
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 10:37 AM

Thank you Pete.

Tim Radford

Subject: What you are listening to now!
From: stallion
Date: 07 Mar 12 - 10:26 AM

I occasionally browse through the collection of cd's to learn new songs and such and every now and then I forget i am on a mission and find myself listening to and thoroughly enjoying the music, yesterday I put on Tim Radfords - George Blake's Legacy and it has been playing ever since as I am working when I put it on I had in mind the learning of the song "In a British Man 0 war" but I forgot and just listened! So I thought I would flag it up, Tim gets on here I would thoroughly recommend the cd. So what is everyone else listening to?
Peter