What are you listening to at the moment... revisited

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[Xairbusdriver]

Recess Monkey's latest 2-disk albumn, <Wonderstuff>. Just bought two for some young friends of mine.

[Jack W]

The Lion King original soundtrack.

Fabulous!

See my response to this thread:

No, I'll just copy it below.

QUOTE(Gregg @ Feb 14 2008, 09:09 PM) We're getting more snow tonight. And a bigger storm is coming on Sunday. I hope very late on Sunday. We have tickets to see The Lion King in the early evening hours.

Snow is better than bullets.

Enjoy that Lion King. If it's the same troop we saw last year in Cleveland, you will enjoy it tremendously.
We had excellent seat on the aisle back about row 20, center.
At the start, the actors in full regalia march down the aisles from the rear.
Also on elevated pedestals on each side in the front of the stage sat the drummers.
Were they good or what!!! In my estimation the music is in the jungle drums and of course the singers and the band.

I had to go downsatairs and get the CD.

It's playing now, nice and LOUD since my wife just left for a day trip.

I'm also importing it to my iTunes library.

Thanks for the reminder!!, Jack

[gunug]

I'm listening to Laura Nyro's Eli & the Thirteenth Confession.  She was such a phenomenal talent as a singer and a songwriter!  I guess I thought she'd died younger than she did (almost lived to be 50!) but I really remembered a profound feeling of loss when she passed in 1997.  I liked this bit from the Wikipedia about her:

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Laura Nyro's music was the subject of an in-depth 2003 study by music theorist Ari Lauren at the University of Chicago. By analyzing the rhythmic and chordal progressions of Nyro's early work, Ms. Lauren elucidated the similarities between Nyro's songs and the compositions of the Tin Pan Alley era, arguing that Laura Nyro deserves a place within the pantheon of the Great American Songbook, alongside such composers as George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, and Jerome Kern.

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What's up with the "x's" in Sandboxes contributions?

[Frances144]

Yeah, what has happened to the Sandbox? I don't understand.

Music ATM?  Oooooh Boismortier Six Concertos for Five Flutes because I am trying to learn it!  No success at all.  Still I can try!

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[gunug]

I think the cat has got his Sandboxes tongue!  Probably taking it to the litterbox!  

[Xairbusdriver]

Snow! It's so sothing, especially knowing that it won't stck to the streets!

[Frances144]

Still battling with the Boismortier, but learning how to mime it now so no one can tell!!!

Also listening to lots of audiobooks including Nick Gaiman reading Stardust, Wodehouse's Jeeves, Jeff Wayne''s War of the worlds, and Gordon Lightfoot.

Fx

[Xairbusdriver]

Our county Library System has a 24/7 FM station that uses volunteers to read the Newspaper, Useless Today, bits of several other papers, some magizines, ect. In the afternoon, they read novels. I've started listening to it (when I can stand the reader!) since the local NPR station has only classical music now that they have two digital stations, also. Although they do still broadcast Morning Edition and ATC and Saturdays are filled with Weekend Edition, PHC, Wha Diya Know and some other light entertainment. I'm too cheap to pay $500+ for two digital radio's (one fixed, one mobile), so it's jazz on the local college station (often interrupted with some game broadcast) or 'readings' from the Library station.

OTOH, most of my radio time is in the car. Don't usually listen while at home. Except, I've listened several days this week to Pat Metheny Radio (streaming). But I can't do that too much when Judy is also in the room working. So sad...

[gunug]

I was just listening to "Nickel Creek" but my wife was on the computer so I couldn't write this then; very nice in a Bluegrass vein!

[Highmac]

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Mar 7 2008, 11:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Except, I've listened several days this week to Pat Metheny Radio (streaming). But I can't do that too much when Judy is also in the room working. So sad...

Couldn't you use headphones? Or did you have enough of those when you were flying?

[Xairbusdriver]

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Couldn't you use headphones?

Then I might not hear SWMBO! Actually, the headphones I now have are not even full ear types. But you may have an idea!

Right now, I'm listening to 6 inches of snow melting!

[gunug]

We are often not others or even ourselves take us to be.  I'm reminded of the life I thought to lead as a "long-haired freaky person" that I was in the 1970's.  I used to go to concerts with the Jefferson Starship, Hot Tuna and others of their empirical view of the world at the Cowtown Ballroom in KC.  I would pay for tickets by selling copies of and "underground arts" paper called the Westport Trucker at my high school.  My father, who was way to the right at the time once called the FBI field office due to his concerns about my reading material.  I went from there to a Maryland liberal arts college and by and by moved back to Kansas, married, and even voted Republican as needed.  I am reminded by this of Charles Ives, who was kind of a great musical version of Walt Whitman, full of life and dissonance.  His music drove him, but only so far as he sold insurance all of his life in order to feed his family even as he ran around the Connecticut hills blowing horns in the summer evenings (I remember this from a long ago PBS special about his life):

"A man cannot let his children starve due to his own dissonances!"

He said something like that anyway, although I cannot find the quote itself right now!  Anyway I'm listening to Ives unfinished "Universe Symphony" right now in honor of what we all were back then and what we are in the present day.  

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Ives left behind material for an unfinished Universe Symphony, which he was unable to assemble in his lifetime despite two decades of work. This was due to his health problems as well as his shifting conception of the work. There have been several attempts at completion or performing version. However, none has found its way into general performance.[13] The symphony takes the ideas in the Symphony No. 4 to an even higher level, with complex cross rhythms and difficult layered dissonance along with unusual instrumental combinations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives

Be warned this is kind of "painful" music!

[sandyman]

Just now I'm listening to The Age of the Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets. It's a collaboration between Alex Turner of The Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane of The Rascals.

Now most folks here at TS will think, "yet another of Sandy's 'Skinny White Guys' playing guitar, Indie Bands".  This one is a bit different though

It's more, "English Indie Songwriters meet Jacques Brel via Scott Walker". Throw in a large dose of '60's British Pop, then, add a hint of John (James Bond) Barry and Burt Bacharach, a wee bit of Ennio Morrocone and you will get a better idea of the feel and sound of the album.

All sung in a Yorkshire (and Scouse) accent

My favourite album of the year so far

Can Alex Turner do no wrong? . Not on the strength of his offerings so far


Sandy