Short lists of music I am listening to
It’s been a while since I posted a quick summary of the music I am listening to. If you have been reading my blog for a few years (yes, you at the back with your eyes closed!) you will know that I am mad about music and have pretty diverse tastes. So, for what it’s … Read more
Subtitled, ‘Manafon Variations‘, this album takes tracks from David Sylvian’s last album and combines them with new ones. The songs are restructured from the voice upwards using two different approaches. For some of the songs, the composer Dai Fujikura has developed string pieces. Working with a string quartet, but using treatments and microtonal layers together … Read more
A lot of posts to this blog are about music at the moment. There’s a lot of stunning music around to listen to. Here’s a Friday playlist: 1. Porcupine Tree – The Incident Already reviewed this. It’s their best album to date. The range of music and variety from intense to melodic. 2. David Sylvian … Read more
It’s been a while since I posted a Friday Playlist. Here is a list of the albums I am listening to at the moment: 1. Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum I have their first two albums – I love the way their music is developing. The psychedelia of this one particularly attracts me. … Read more
I know everyone is doing it, but here is my list of favourite albums bought in 2007 in no particular order: 1. Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet 2. Rush – Snakes and Arrows 3. Joanna Newsom – Ys 4. David Sylvian – When loud weather buffeted Naoshima 5. Robert Wyatt – Comicopera … Read more
I have a heap of fantastic albums which I am listening to at the moment. They include: The Guillemots – Through the Windowpane Badly Drawn Boy – Born in the UK Duke Special – Songs from the Deep Forest Tracy Thorn – Out of the Wood Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet Rush … Read more
It’s been a while since I did one of these – a list of the albums I am listening to at the moment. (Earlier ones are here and here). The music which is forming the soundtrack for my life at the moment is: 1. Nine Horses – Money for all I bought the original album … Read more
Here are a few albums which I just can’t stop playing at the moment: 1. Mark Hollis – Mark Hollis I have been looking for this album for years. It is the only solo album to date, by the singer from Talk Talk. The later albums by Talk Talk before they split up took them … Read more
The Friday playlist: The Open – Statues The Liverpool band’s second album begins with a track recorded in deepest Wales – yearning trumpet and a voice that comes from god knows where. This is a classic track called ‘forever’ which is one of the best album openers I have heard in ages. The second track … Read more
Been listening to these CDs over last couple of weeks: 1. David Sylvian – The Good Son vs The Only Daughter Remixes of the ‘blemish’ album – remarkably coherent, total retakes on some tracks, warmth brought to some of the more stark pieces from the original album. 2. Porcupine Tree – Stars Die A 2-CD … Read more