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1: Jazz Alley, You can tell it's the UK (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2018-01-10, 00:40:18 (175.32.41.66)
There's a lot of shocking teeth. .......
2: Jazz Alley, Joyous? That's cos it's Herlin Riley on drums! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2018-01-07, 04:16:39 (175.32.41.66)
Saw him in NOLA last July. Seems he just can't help spreading joy everywhere. Fabulous drummer. And, on topic, a modest and engaging person. .......
3: Music Lane, And then there's Woody Phillips (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-12-27, 23:49:14 (175.33.119.103)
- whose work has been sadly overlooked for decades .......
4: Jazz Alley, RE: Wow, Herbie's 77 and still going strong. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-10-24, 21:00:55 (203.189.2.101)
Saw HH and WS at Jazzfest last year: boy, did I need to leave my musical preconceptions at the door! A consciousness-expanding event it was, to be sure. .......
5: Jazz Alley, Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-09-20, 12:15:17 (175.33.207.84)
Put a little NOLA in it. .......
6: Jazz Alley, Is Johnny Smith forgotten? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-09-20, 12:02:23 (175.33.207.84)
Apparently. Oscar Aleman, Django (of course), Matelo, Baro & Sarane Ferret, Tchavolo Schmitt, Dorado Schmitt, Bireli Lagrene, Sonny Sharrock, Oz Noy .......
7: Jazz Alley, oh yes! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-28, 07:51:46 (175.32.1.127)
For mine the original Poinciana is one of the essential items of our culture, up with Richter playing Rachmaninoff's prelude Op 32 No 10. It's a remarkable performance. (And there were still a few clo .......
8: Jazz Alley, With the great Herlin Riley on drums... nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-28, 07:25:02 (175.32.1.127)
. .......
9: Jazz Alley, It does lend itself to vulgarity (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-17, 19:33:44 (175.32.1.127)
but in the hands of folk like John Medeski it has something else to it. .......
10: Jazz Alley, I've even worked with a pedal steel player! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-17, 19:29:36 (175.32.1.127)
Probably the most gifted musician I've ever had the pleasure of working with. .......
11: Jazz Alley, RE: Piano players (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-11, 19:06:23 (175.32.1.127)
Most of my favourites have already been pinged: Jamal, Garland, Hawes, Kelly, Ellington, Williams, Garner, Zawinul, Simone... Paul Lewis deserves a mention. Current NOLA players who satisfy include: E .......
12: Jazz Alley, Too true! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-11, 18:54:58 (175.32.1.127)
It shows, too, in Piano In The Foreground, Piano Reflections, This One's For Blanton... Ellington isn't the only pianist I've misjudged badly. .......
13: Jazz Alley, Agreed (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-11, 18:37:15 (175.32.1.127)
When first trying to seriously listen to this genre got hold of some of his trio & small group stuff. My initial reaction was that he had lead hands, bad tone. I was wrong. OK, he's not quite the tech .......
14: Jazz Alley, RE: Singer-Piano Players (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-11, 18:26:21 (175.32.1.127)
If Dr John is in, then we can have Jon Cleary too, please? And we can slip back then to Professor Longhair, and sideways to Henry Butler, Allen Toussaint. But is it jass music? But no Harry Connick Jr .......
15: Jazz Alley, RE: The ones who got me started (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-11, 18:19:10 (175.32.1.127)
Cannonball Adderley: Country Preacher at age 16 had some good bits in it Onward Brass Band: The Second Line at 20 or so was mad with exuberance From Spirituals to Swing at 23, especially Lionel Hampto .......
16: Jazz Alley, How 'bout Freddie Kohlman? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-08-11, 18:06:02 (175.32.1.127)
Or Placide Adams? That one snare drum... Influenced by that tradition though he's from Baton Rouge, the young Mark Whitfield Jr plays something monstrous, and with the joy of Herlin Riley in his work. .......
17: SET Asylum, RE: 300b set versus 300b parallel set (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2017-05-28, 19:09:42 (175.33.176.223)
If done well parallel 300Bs can sound mighty: witness Earle Weston's Artisan 300B from Australia (link below to more pics). It has the clarity and sweetness of the Luxman MB300 monoblocks (with which .......
18: Music Lane, Ms. Swift has simply caught the zeitgesit (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2016-04-08, 19:23:48 (107.206.22.42)
She's a modest talent with a reasonably nondescript instrument whose musical and lyrical ideas are far from profound. But she's pretty and well managed and she got lucky. Can't begrudge her that, any .......
19: Music Lane, You lucky man (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2016-04-08, 19:02:10 (107.206.22.42)
Is not the Franck one of the most beautiful works in the literature? Doesn't really matter that his oeuvre was quite small when it includes this. .......
20: Music Lane, Fabulous (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2016-04-08, 18:57:30 (107.206.22.42)
And down here in Louisiana, where 1/3 of all of what are euphemistically referred to as "minority" males will spend part of their lives in jail, it has a special resonance. .......
21: Music Lane, There was this guy called Reinhardt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2016-02-20, 08:31:54 (107.206.22.42)
Could play a bit, too. And a bunch of his cousins. But I guess San Francisco is a long way from the Atlantic and the news may not have travelled that far. These lists are pretty silly. This one's no .......
22: SET Asylum, woops! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2016-01-08, 22:24:35 (107.206.22.42)
For some reason I thought you were in Oz. Guess you'll have to forget Weston Acoustics then. .......
23: SET Asylum, And another thing (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2016-01-07, 20:12:02 (107.206.22.42)
Those speakers would justify the Artisan if you could stretch to it. .......
24: SET Asylum, RE: set amplifiers... Just pondering ideas on class a tube amps that are (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2016-01-07, 20:03:24 (107.206.22.42)
Tim, Seeing as you're south of the equator and well west of the pecos, and depending on the impedance characteristics of the Leonores and how loud you want and how big your room and what you listen to .......
25: Music Lane, Coitanly (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2016-01-02, 13:58:41 (107.206.22.42)
Moravec's is one of the better things about European culture. Stephen Hough plays Franck's piano music pretty well, too. But I'm surprised that his work would qualify as little-liked. .......
26: Music Lane, RE: Pieces That You Like That No One Else Does (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2016-01-01, 11:48:35 (107.206.22.42)
Piano-wise I've taken pleasure from, amongst others - David Rakowski Hans Otte Percy Grainger Ronald Stevenson Alexei Stanchinsky Boris Goltz Miloslav Kabeláč Jean Absil Ronald Center Nikolai Kap .......
27: Music Lane, RE: German Babes + Accordions = BLISS (or at least low comedy) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-12-23, 19:31:37 (107.206.22.42)
Richard Galliano is not exactly pretty, but much can be forgiven a musician of this calibre: .......
28: Music Lane, RE: Stereo piano music (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-11-10, 20:11:06 (107.206.22.42)
No piano of woman born sounds strictly bass-left treble-right from any perspective, for the lower strings cross over those of the middle register and, in any event, much of the sound of the entire ins .......
29: Music Lane, Love it! nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-11-07, 14:27:39 (107.206.22.42)
. .......
30: Music Lane, RE: Jazz clubs in New Orleans? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-11-06, 18:55:10 (107.206.22.42)
Maple Leaf bar in Carrollton several nights each week Le Bon Temps Roul .......
31: Music Lane, This is a sad loss (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-07-27, 17:59:23 (203.191.201.158)
His playing always seemed to me meticulous without being fussy, essentially humble. A servant of the music rather than an exponent of his own considerable brilliance. A very great pianist indeed. Of c .......
32: Music Lane, RE: "Editing it all is a hobby in itself!!" (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-07-17, 00:35:05 (203.191.201.158)
You've got better things to do than waste your life on this sorta nonsense. If I had my indexing time over again I'd probly be through page 2 AT LEAST of Franck's P, C & F - maybe even up to bar 24 or .......
33: Music Lane, RE: Classifying Classical albums on a server (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-07-17, 00:26:19 (203.191.201.158)
Yes, well, I'd not enjoy having to write up or edit meta-data for a collection 7-10 times the size of my own, as yours is, John. .......
34: Music Lane, RE: Classifying Classical albums on a server (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-07-16, 15:16:47 (175.32.140.73)
Meta-data for me is - Each track: composer by surname Each track: name Each track: soloist by first name; duo 1, duo 2; soloist, ensemble; ensemble - I'indifferent to conductors and make up my own ens .......
35: Music Lane, Orztrayer (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-07-14, 05:35:28 (175.32.140.73)
has arts ministries at both state and federal level, funding many many forms of endeavour in expression. Their impact waxes and wanes a bit, depending on the degree to which leaders of government are .......
36: Music Lane, RE: J*** at the pornshop (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-07-10, 23:47:59 (175.33.29.175)
Well, I expect to hear a lot of that shortly - going to be 10 months in NOLA from 4 weeks hence; anticipate it being quite a change from Oz. .......
37: Music Lane, Jixx at the pornshop (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-07-09, 19:39:49 (203.191.201.158)
Now that's JAZZ!!! With a 20 foot wide vibe - raphone: über-realistic. Better than sticking your head in a bassdrum. Other times I do lean towards Leon Russell playing Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, with the .......
38: Music Lane, Across the Pacific (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-07-05, 18:32:25 (203.191.201.158)
It's not possible to have too much of the yartz. .......
39: Inmate Systems, k-k-k-kenny's Work (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-06-07, 06:16:36 (175.33.29.175)
k-k-k-kenny 's Work System
IP Address: 175.33.29.175
Last Update: June 07, 2015 at 06:16:36
Amplifier: Weston Acoustics Artisan 300B: 18 w parallel SET Luxman MB-300 Luxman MQ50
Preampl .......
40: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: all timber speaker cabinets (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-06-03, 03:38:58 (175.33.29.175)
Ocellia make lovely timber cabinets from softwood. But being semi-open baffle I guess that doesn't count. .......
41: SET Asylum, Look to the orient (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-05-10, 20:08:50 (203.191.201.158)
I'd wager there is more SET fanaticism in Japan & China than anywhere else. None are readily "affordable", but the obvious Japanese candidates include: Luxman MB-300 monoblocks from 1983-4 Wavac MD-81 .......
42: General Asylum, RE: using Pack and Send for freight in Australia (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-03-04, 01:35:27 (175.33.25.35)
Sounds about right I had speakers from Perth to Melb. It was slow expensive but safe Then a TT from Sydney to Melb. It was quick, expensive and, as it turned out, broken. If ESLs are prone to damage f .......
43: SET Asylum, RE: Three questions, if you will, please (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2015-01-01, 20:11:00 (175.33.27.21)
1. Luxman MB-300 and Weston Acoustics Artisan 300B (made in Oz, right down to the OPTs he winds himself with 31 interleaves - a juicilicious dual mono SN7-> 300Bs in parallel thing) 2. Both the above .......
44: Vintage Asylum, RE: Anybody using gear 30+ years old that hasn't been restored? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-12-16, 19:21:28 (175.32.4.174)
Naim NAP12N and NAC 160 are unrestored and sounding intermittently. On the other hand, Luxman CL-40, MQ-50, MB-300 are all 30 years old this year and flying. A-3040 is only 29 so I spose it doesn't co .......
45: Vintage Asylum, RE: Ranking Of Vintage Tube Preamps While We Are At It (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-12-15, 04:00:38 (175.32.4.174)
You could do a lot worse than the Luxman CL-35 family, readily available in Japan. Or, if you're a bit more patient, CL-40 or CL-360/Luxkit A3040. I'm running an untouched 30 year old CL-40 with SET a .......
46: Music Lane, RE: Forget overrated or underrated. Who are you personal favorite pianists past and present live and recorded (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-11-30, 02:00:43 (175.32.4.174)
Not in any particular order apart from the first: Richter: in Rachmaninoff, Liszt and much else but not Chopin, although being Richter his frontal assault on various preludes is obviously not the prod .......
47: Music Lane, Dr. Wright vindicated, then. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-08-14, 04:19:18 (203.100.247.70)
Why the scorn, Chris? Haven't you heard his Op. 100: 100 VIctorian Girls paddling on Walberswick Beach? I thought not. Surprising as it may seem, neither have I. .......
48: Music Lane, RE: Heard David Smith's and Adam Kolker's groups last night at Smalls in Manhattan. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-08-13, 13:42:09 (203.100.247.70)
Too right - they were mighty good, as were the other bands: Anne Mette Iversen's and David Cook's. I missed Owen Howard though. I believe that the Brooklyn Jazz Underground have an album launch coming .......
49: Tubes Asylum, Weston Acoustics (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-07-15, 08:18:28 (42.118.238.26)
45w class A Earle Weston winds his own transformers, to a standard rarely if ever seen elsewhere. And that's only part of the story. Ask nicely he could probably do them in 117v or whatever funny volt .......
50: Music Lane, RE: Evgeny Koroliov (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-06-21, 19:01:43 (203.100.247.70)
A first rate interpreter of Bach. In a respectful, thoughtful way - neither cabaret nor ponderous. .......
51: Music Lane, RE: Bach Art of Fugue (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-06-14, 16:39:11 (203.100.247.70)
+1 for Koroliov. Nikolayeva, too, is rewarding, I believe. Must have benn a fine exponent of Bach to inspire the universally agreed worlds greatest 20th century composer (Shosty, Shosty he's our man!) .......
52: Vintage Asylum, RE: Vintage Luxman Tube Gear [Ping: Interstage Tranny] (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-06-03, 17:29:47 (203.191.201.158)
What I have (CL40 or A3040 into MQ50) sound sweet, dynamic and full. They aren't the last word in detail I guess, and those reared on solid state slam would say they're pipe & slippers gear. For their .......
53: Vintage Asylum, RE: Vintage Luxman Tube Gear [Ping: Interstage Tranny] (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-06-03, 15:27:00 (203.100.247.70)
As a Luxman tragic, I highly commend your leanings. Here in Oz, we were well served by supply in the 70s thru mid 80s. Basically anything prior to the Alpine takeover in 1984, but also some continuing .......
54: Music Lane, tanx! I shall listen out for these nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-01-08, 23:56:03 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
55: Music Lane, thank you and thank you and thank you again! nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-01-08, 23:54:07 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
56: Music Lane, Where's GEO's 2013 jazz favourites? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-01-05, 21:43:17 (203.191.201.158)
Last year's were an education and I'm eager for more ... .......
57: Music Lane, Could it be their smugness? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2014-01-05, 21:40:46 (203.191.201.158)
That's what I hear: a knowing and self-satisfied artifice, all art, no heart. On the rare occasions when I do hear them, that is. .......
58: Music Lane, I dunno what you're complaining about (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-12-06, 01:33:40 (203.100.247.70)
You yanks get it good: 11 albums worth of one of the best pianists ever to press a key for 30 bucks and you're whinging? So what if some of them are short? Talk about glass half empty ... .......
59: Music Lane, Erroll Garner - Concert By The Sea (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-12-03, 04:42:32 (203.100.247.70)
A lot of his later stuff just went bang bang bang in the left hand, but this rekkid is extraordinary in rhythmic rightness. Also Sofronitsky and Moravec spring immediately to mind, along with a deal o .......
60: Music Lane, RE: Please recommend recordings of Scriabin's piano music (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-12-03, 04:37:11 (203.100.247.70)
Sofronitsky above all others, but lo-fi is being generous. Alexander Melnikov - has Horowitz' facility without being effete. Yevgeny Sudbin's Scriabin album is also good, but mebbe not quite as refine .......
61: Music Lane, Melnikov is excellent (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-08-30, 17:00:45 (203.45.46.234)
Very secure, thoughtful - kinda what you'd expect of him really. .......
62: Music Lane, Me three (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-08-30, 16:56:52 (203.45.46.234)
Although I only have her 1990 Hyperion recording. As far as I can gather she recorded then twice before: in 1962 (now on Doremi CD) and 1987 (now on Regis), both for Melodiya. .......
63: SET Asylum, RE: SET friendly speakers under $5k (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-08-12, 04:37:05 (203.45.46.234)
It's worth having a listen to WLM if you can: I am very happy with a combination of WLM Lyra and Wavac MD811 - punch, grip, subtlety, shimmer are all there. You might also listen to something based on .......
64: Music Lane, Tati, Jim Jarmusch, Mike Wadleigh, Beineix (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-08-12, 01:12:38 (203.191.201.158)
Variously the music of Jean Yatove, Franck Barcellini, Alain Romans, Francis Lemarque, Charles Dumont, Mulato Astatke, Wu Tang Clan, RZA, Ten Years After, Country Joe & The Fish, Richie Havens, Catala .......
65: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: SET friendly speakers under $5k (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-08-11, 05:19:23 (203.45.46.234)
It's worth having a listen to WLM if you can: I am very happy with a combination of WLM Lyra and Wavac MD811 - punch, grip, subtlety, shimmer are all there. You might also listen to something based on .......
66: Music Lane, That's a relief! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-07-02, 19:42:21 (203.191.201.158)
Solid gold toilet seats all round, then. .......
67: Amp/Preamp Asylum, RE: Then and Now and Next (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-06-25, 03:13:28 (203.100.247.70)
Then: Sansui AU-101 Thent: something by Rotel Then (and now): Naim NAC 32 & NAP 120 Then (and now): Wavac MD-811 Then (and now): Luxman MQ-50 Next: Weston Acoustics dual-mono 300B SE, 2 x 300B per sid .......
68: Music Lane, RE: Horowitz? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-04-22, 20:47:01 (203.191.201.158)
I've not heard Richter play the 5th sonata. The 6th would be the one recorded in a water-filled tunnel amongst the tuberculosis sufferers in 1955? Actually, listening to his etudes/preludes from 1952/ .......
69: Music Lane, Also (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-04-22, 17:43:48 (203.191.201.158)
Wojciech Kocyan – Skriabin Prokofiew Rachmaninow has very good accounts of the first 2 sonatas. .......
70: Music Lane, Horowitz? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-04-22, 15:38:04 (203.100.247.70)
Hmm - a bit too much "Hey! Look at me! See how sensitive I am!" for my taste. Agree wholeheartedly about Sofronitsky and not Richter - at least in the couple of albums' worth of the latter that I've h .......
71: Music Lane, ... from which it is yet to emerge. (Nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-04-03, 06:02:41 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
72: Music Lane, RE: Another marker of change: (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-04-02, 03:30:58 (203.100.247.70)
Sure - everything is as good as everything else now. So Stock Aitken Waterman or the Notorious BIG are the equal of Bach or Ellington. Which is perfectly sensible if you believe that if music were lan .......
73: Music Lane, Another marker of change: (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-03-30, 21:37:00 (203.100.247.70)
The fact that Bernstein could command general acceptance on both sides of the generation gap as the expert voice of high/square culture. The phenomenon presupposed a consensus that a hierarchy of cult .......
74: Music Lane, Andrew Lloyd Webber in a horsehair wig (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-03-25, 03:11:31 (203.100.247.70)
A mere notespinnner. Dunno what all the fuss is about .......
75: Music Lane, Yes (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-03-09, 11:45:26 (124.170.29.250)
Initially one is simply struck by the rightness of what they do. It's only later that the "how" becomes apparent. Along with the impossibility of emulating it. .......
76: Music Lane, Not - (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-03-08, 20:40:08 (124.170.29.250)
Simeon Ten Holt's Complete Multiple Piano Works (Brilliant Classics). 11CDs of 3&4 pianos slowly chipping away at change for an hour or two or three. I was ready to surrender and tell them everything .......
77: Music Lane, With you on the Sofronitsky (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-03-08, 20:24:21 (124.170.29.250)
- some of the finest performances of anything I have. Shame about the instruments, though ... I guess it's a bit like Richter's Sofia Recital or Erroll Garner's Concert By The Sea: performance transc .......
78: Music Lane, RE: Another take.... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-01-31, 23:50:59 (203.100.247.70)
Of about 6 or 7 versions of the Busoni transcription that I know, my favourite would probably be Ronald Stevenson's from Cathedrals in Sound. Nikolayeva punches it a little hard for my taste (though s .......
79: Music Lane, I third nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-01-30, 02:09:40 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
80: Music Lane, This girl has a real instrument AND a ukulele (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-01-11, 22:01:45 (203.100.247.70)
I am not much one for classical or classically derived singing, but she such has a beautiful strong pure voice that I'm willing to make an exception. Such a contrast to the subject of a recent post. .......
81: Music Lane, "Eastern Germany's largest piano maker ..." (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-01-10, 18:30:30 (203.100.247.70)
The Trabant of grand pianism? .......
82: Music Lane, And for all you auto-tune fans ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-01-08, 22:19:41 (165.228.179.151)
I have put on my foil hat ... .......
83: Music Lane, Well (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-01-04, 05:37:44 (203.100.247.70)
There's always the Jacques Loussier Trio, if you like fizzy Bach. Well, mildly effervescent with no tiresome bending, then. And yes, I see that in 2005 he ripped out Mozart Concertos 20 & 23. Doesn't .......
84: Music Lane, Coming from the ignorant side of the fence here ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2013-01-04, 05:03:19 (203.100.247.70)
I do like the Brooklyn Jazz Underground - A Portrait of Brooklyn. Contrasting works by each of the members of the collective who perform it. I cannot speak to its accuracy as portraiture, because I'm .......
85: Music Lane, Bleagh (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-12-11, 16:20:37 (165.228.179.151)
There is a great deal more wrong with the linked artifact than the use of autotune, quantisation, compression and other production devices. The whole thing is wrong on so many levels it's hard to know .......
86: Music Lane, Musician becomes babe (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-12-02, 15:26:43 (165.228.179.151)
When I went to see David Smith playing with the big band in NY, there was a girl on tenor - very nice and friendly and modest in her achievements, and not a babe by any conventional measure. But when .......
87: Music Lane, "... a world-famous star musician, which I love being ..." (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-11-05, 13:05:33 (203.100.247.70)
Says much, I think. Really very sad, because of course Lang cannot see what has been done to himself or imagine what might otherwise have been. For all I know he really does have music in him as well .......
88: Music Lane, RE: Let's expand this a bit... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-10-29, 04:13:58 (203.100.247.70)
I'm a big rap for Bavouzet. He makes a fine record, although I gather that he may not be so crash hot live. His complete Ravel is technically very sound; almost makes it appear easy (which it surely a .......
89: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, RE: Post a pic of your Hi-Eff system (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-10-04, 19:28:57 (165.228.179.151)
Sonos - Benchmark - Wavac Dandy - WLM Lyra II. I didn't have the courage to go below 10w for my first excursion into SET ... .......
90: Music Lane, They'd be into prog rock, no? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-09-24, 18:22:00 (165.228.179.151)
The genius of Steve Hackett, Phil Collins and their ilk. Lord spare us ... .......
91: Music Lane, RE: I've been enjoying Chabrier! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-09-19, 06:44:13 (203.100.247.70)
Good then - you won't need the Planès disc, I don't think. I haven't heard the one on Spotify, but I reckon Tharaud's pretty good. Recommend a nice album of his playing Satie with a few folk (songs, s .......
92: Music Lane, Some definite maybes (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-09-19, 00:57:44 (165.228.179.151)
Chabrier - Oeuvres Pour Piano played by Alain Planès (Harmonia Mundi). Fairly slight salon works, but pleasant enough. Maurice Emmanuel: 6 Sonatines, Sonate Pour Clarinet, Flûte et Piano, played by Ma .......
93: Music Lane, Oi, that's a bit harsh (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-09-18, 02:03:01 (203.100.247.70)
I guess not all female performers have publicity stills worked up like those the latest from Ms Krall - is she a singer or a stripper? Anyhoo, I stand by my judgment. .......
94: Music Lane, I think I know the one you mean - I enjoy that expression, too (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-09-17, 01:49:48 (203.100.247.70)
though in a different context I've probably said enough ... .......
95: Music Lane, Babe (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-09-16, 21:33:10 (165.228.179.151)
accordionist. More like a real woman than some of the ingenues featured in these pages. Frankly, I don't care (and it's very hard to find out) how she sounds - I'm in love and prepared to travel ::: T .......
96: Music Lane, You are not alone (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-09-16, 03:56:49 (203.100.247.70)
Unlike you, Andy, I've never "got" Mozart. Quite why, I'm not entirely sure, but it sounds so terribly polite after the knottiness of Bach. I'm listening to the Jupiter symphony as I type, and can adm .......
97: Music Lane, RE: k-k-k-kenny - nice to hear from you - haven't seen your posts here in a while [nt] (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-08-30, 15:34:15 (165.228.179.151)
Thanks, Chris. I have been lurking, but so little time, you know ... .......
98: Music Lane, RE: Marina Baranova - anyone know this pianist? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-08-29, 05:13:26 (203.100.247.70)
No, don't know her. She has strong arms, though. Are these girls all made to play either piano or tennis? In my limited exposure to modern etudes, I've come to think that those of David Rakowski deser .......
99: Tubes Asylum, That is an electronic udder (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-07-17, 20:37:09 (69.203.0.6)
Not much use unless you find the rest of the cow. .......
100: Music Lane, I'd be peeved (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-07-17, 20:33:30 (69.203.0.6)
for sure. On the other hand, were I Robert Johnson or Buster Keaton I'd no longer be caring. I'm not against strong copyright for the lifetimes of artistic creators, and a bit over: say 20 years, to .......
101: Music Lane, Yes - (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-07-17, 14:40:24 (69.203.0.6)
I guess my comments were not of as much relevance to the music industry as to other fields of endeavour. I do think it is absurd, though, that all mashups are regarded as infringing. Once the source c .......
102: Music Lane, Also (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-07-17, 14:33:50 (69.203.0.6)
mebbe beside the point, but French label Frémeaux & Associés released the entirety of his output (or so they claimed) in a series of 20 double-CDs between the mid-90s and around 2006. All are still av .......
103: Music Lane, Ping David Smith (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-07-15, 06:20:19 (69.203.0.6)
You got any gigs coming up in the next couple of weeks? Happen to be in NYC, and wd like to catch anything going. I think me inmate email works K .......
104: Music Lane, RE: Next battle in the illegal download wars (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2012-07-15, 06:14:06 (69.203.0.6)
As a visitor to your beautiful country some things strike me which may not be obvious to those who live here. Among them, the desire of those who own property to extend their rent-collecting powers, u .......
105: Music Lane, Much of Sofronitsky qualifies (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-09-20, 07:55:49 (188.220.140.50)
Not only bad recordings, but in his last things from around 1960, also a badly tuned instrument. The reason Richter called him a god, though, remains apparent. .......
106: Music Lane, Piano bars (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-08-29, 21:36:37 (165.228.179.151)
The under-appreciated composer reduced to doing requests for the tips jar takes a break and on his return a customer sings out "Hey, you know your fly's undone and your d*ck's hanging out?" The player .......
107: Music Lane, It's the swing of the kilt, ain't it? nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-08-08, 04:32:16 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
108: Music Lane, She sure is! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-08-07, 18:21:34 (165.228.179.151)
That was terrific. Thanks so much. Fairy music? .......
109: Music Lane, Sounds like your friend may have got well beyond pipe band music (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-08-06, 20:11:55 (203.100.247.70)
I do still enjoy the sound of a pipe band, but there are distinct limits to what can be done with just nine notes. Those limits seems to be transcended once you get into piobaireachd - a stage beyond .......
110: Music Lane, The pity of it is that the drums themselves sound crap. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-08-06, 07:30:37 (203.100.247.70)
Over the years, as the snare drummers' technique has improved they've wound the heads and snares up to a frightful high pitch. It's the only way they can articulate the speed and precision with which .......
111: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Dunno if this is any help (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-07-21, 20:14:17 (165.228.179.151)
French on-line retailer. Site not hard to navigate, but not clear to me from a quick look whether they ship outside France: .......
112: Music Lane, My love for this disappeared in the first six bars (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-07-16, 23:38:29 (203.100.247.70)
- long before she started. I want to strangle her. .......
113: Music Lane, J. Strauss père et fils (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-07-16, 09:12:41 (203.100.247.70)
If there is a hell, and if I go there, I know what will be playing. Instument scraping that makes me want to tear my clothes off and run around screaming. Mozart sounds good by comparison. Was there s .......
114: Music Lane, Maurice Emmanuel (1862-1938) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-07-06, 21:10:27 (203.100.247.70)
The little I've heard is very good, if not as profound as JS Bach: 6 Sonatines (piano) Trio Sonata (clarinet, flute, piano) Sonata (cello & piano) Emmanuel taught Messiaen, was much interested in folk .......
115: Music Lane, RE: Who's your favorite keyboard player/musician... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-07-03, 02:13:27 (203.100.247.70)
Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint, Ray Charles, Leon Russell, Ray Manzarek Jimmy Smith, Melvin Rhyne The living: Martha, Bavouzet, Kocsis, Melnikov, Moravec The dead: Bolet, Gilels, Nikolayeva, Sofr .......
116: Music Lane, Overture schmoverture - Enzo condenses the whole thing to 4 minutes! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-06-26, 16:53:09 (165.228.179.151)
Done live at the ABC's Iwaki auditorium right here in Melbourne a couple of years ago. Enzo Toppano - then 82 - with his son on bass, leaves out the boring bits, i.e. the singing, and leaves us with a .......
117: Music Lane, Well, he was as mad as a meataxe, so you can hardly expect good handwriting! nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-06-22, 04:03:23 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
118: Music Lane, My word, yes! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-06-21, 23:24:53 (165.228.179.151)
All I have is the disc that Mali's referred to and a few of the preludes by Jenny Lin, but it's top quality music. I gather that Stanchinsky destroyed the bulk of his manuscripts, which is a damned sh .......
119: Music Lane, You too, eh? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-06-17, 21:25:19 (203.100.247.70)
I find a lot of his stuff difficult to follow - and I've not a tenth your experience & knowledge. The disc I'm speaking of - Piano Music From Scotland on Regis - is a deal more accessible than much of .......
120: Music Lane, Ronald Stevenson transcriptions (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-06-16, 05:36:32 (203.100.247.70)
of 8 songs by Francis George Scott. Murray McLachlan in the driver's seat. I find them very touching. .......
121: Music Lane, RE: Wowzers (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-06-05, 18:02:52 (165.228.179.151)
Lettberg plays this (and much else) a little more modestly. Her approach overall seems to emphasise the elements that Scriabin had in common with his predecessors rather than the more mystical aspects .......
122: Music Lane, RE: Wow - Interesting (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-06-03, 00:53:18 (165.228.179.151)
I think it's recently been repressed and can be got on amazon UK for as little as 18 of their English pounds. I saw it recommended on the GMG forum. Been half-listening to it most of the day at work, .......
123: Music Lane, Is this the longest debut album ever? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-06-02, 21:15:28 (165.228.179.151)
From Finland, whipping out the entirety of Scriabin's solo piano oeuvre. And more than respectably, too. .......
124: Music Lane, RE: what is your favorite movie soundtrack ? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-05-12, 00:32:42 (165.228.179.151)
Would be out of ... 42nd Street (1933) Flying Down To Rio (1933) Les Vacances De M. Hulot (1953) Brigadoon (1954) - only joking Mon Oncle (1958) The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) Woodstock (1970) De .......
125: Music Lane, Agreed (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-05-06, 18:54:21 (203.100.247.70)
The first thing that really made an impression on me was Louis Kentner's account of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - at about age 6. I've just picked it up on CD (apr) and learnt that it was recorde .......
126: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, The Calliope .30 co-ax are lovely things (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-04-02, 23:11:19 (203.100.247.70)
I had the pleasure of an afternoon with them in a VERY high end digital/tube set up last year. Responsive, splendid mid-range timbre, excellent imaging (although I didn't hear my host's assertion that .......
127: Music Lane, Touché (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-03-12, 17:56:09 (203.100.247.70)
what I should have made clearer is the other half of it - the implied assumption that anything other than the western tradition (from say 1700 to 1850) is somehow NOT natural .......
128: Music Lane, And it works in reverse, too (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-03-12, 17:50:32 (203.100.247.70)
So that when we do hear certain recent compositions, they may present themselves to the mind's eye as in some way cinematically narrative, tho the pictures are not there, or may conjure emotional reac .......
129: Music Lane, Couldn't agree more (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-03-12, 17:33:23 (203.100.247.70)
Which I suppose was my main point in the first place, only you expressed it far more clearly. These weird sounds beyond Mozart take some getting used to, but hard listening can get us there. The most .......
130: Music Lane, Of course you may, John (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-03-11, 21:26:21 (203.100.247.70)
Ronald Stevenson maintains that the essential strengths of African and Eastern music are rhythm and melody respectively, noting that the Indian scale contains 22 notes to our 12, and that each in thei .......
131: Music Lane, I think you're assuming that classical harmony & melody are somehow innately natural (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-03-11, 15:53:37 (203.100.247.70)
And if they were, it is surprising that the music of the orient, the middle east and so on has not developed along the same lines as that of Austria and Germany. Our "western" sense of harmony is a hi .......
132: Music Lane, The Rest Is Noise (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-03-07, 16:35:11 (203.100.247.70)
You've read the book, now listen to the man speak, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra play ... Alex Ross has curated two shows for the ACO currently touring Oz. I'm no great lover of stringed music .......
133: Music Lane, Magnepans be damned - o' course it was "special" (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-03-04, 15:44:04 (203.100.247.70)
Even better than "special", this, my man, was HI-FI! - the illusion of reality which surpasses the truth. It's uncanny, almost as if they were right there in the room with you. Plus, check this: strin .......
134: Music Lane, Why symphonies, though? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-02-25, 21:50:11 (203.100.247.70)
Why should composers of the new world turn out works in the forms of the old world? I know that Alex Ross and his ilk might have it that only symphonies and operas really count as the pinnacle of art .......
135: Music Lane, Sports shoes. Works for me - I bought two pair (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-02-22, 23:30:53 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
136: Music Lane, RE: Question for (exlusive) piano and chamber listeners... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-02-22, 18:51:02 (165.228.179.151)
My WLM Lyra IIs give satisfying results - 98dB, but at -3dB at 30Hz (claimed) they could do with a bit of reinforcement, particularly at lower listening levels. And I do listen to a lot of piano. Can' .......
137: Music Lane, She looked like a waitress nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-02-10, 19:24:21 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
138: SET Asylum, Since you might have to import it anyway ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-02-06, 19:15:53 (165.228.179.151)
this thing from Australia might interest you ... or not, as the case may be. .......
139: Music Lane, Most is rubbish (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-02-06, 18:32:11 (165.228.179.151)
However, a couple of years ago DLB recommended the following to me: krill.minima: Nautica (Native State Records nscd-07) Lagunamuch: Deep Sea Shipping (Lagunamuch LMC-800) Collection: Bioluminesence ( .......
140: Music Lane, Alexandre Tharaud et al (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-02-04, 15:46:17 (203.100.247.70)
This really is an excellent album. Second disc isn't pure piano, though: piano 4 hands, violin solo, piano & tenor, piano & chanteuse .......
141: Music Lane, Apparently they are (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-02-04, 15:34:10 (203.100.247.70)
Charlie The 5 disc EMI France set (released 2001, S/N 7243 5 74534 2 4), though not containing any session details, is marked Ⓟ1967 - Ⓟ1971, so it would seem that these are those from Cicc .......
142: Music Lane, You cannot be serious! Where's Kenny G? Huh? nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-02-01, 19:35:03 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
143: Music Lane, Some ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-31, 23:02:40 (165.228.179.151)
New Century Saxophone Quartet - several albums on Channel Classics, very fine, with an interest in US composers in addition to the usual Françaix, Désenclos, Creston & other French composers. Good EMI .......
144: Music Lane, Oh la! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-29, 15:52:06 (203.100.247.70)
You've outdone yourself this time. She does the same sort of things to me as the divine Martha ... Oh - she also plays piano, you say? .......
145: Music Lane, The 76th regiment light flight attendants sure are purty (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-25, 19:07:52 (203.100.247.70)
But for funky beats and quality marching you need a proper band. And the only sort of proper band is a pipe band. Rat of Tobruk Drum Major Bob Semple is still leading them, in his advanced 80s. ::: TO .......
146: Music Lane, He sure is (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-21, 21:51:13 (203.100.247.70)
And as funny as Satie, and self-effacing - what's not to like? .......
147: Music Lane, RE: His Top 10 are certainly not mine (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-21, 16:00:42 (203.100.247.70)
In alpha order, what's listened to the most: Bach Busoni Chopin Liszt Messiaen Nancarrow Otte Rachmaninoff I don't think it's any easier if instruments apart from solo keyboard only find their way in .......
148: Music Lane, Presaged the Parrot sketch by, oh, a bit over a century (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-17, 22:14:17 (203.100.247.70)
Just had a look at the score- 22 pages of "As tu dejeuné, Jaco?" interspersed with "Et de quoi?" and "Ah!" - a fitting tribute to the bird, no doubt .......
149: Music Lane, Yes, and a lot else besides! nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-08, 04:24:32 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
150: Music Lane, Well I'm glad that SOMEBODY likes them (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-04, 14:29:57 (203.100.247.70)
I was beginning to think it was some sort of weird conspiracy ... May you continue to enjoy! .......
151: Music Lane, You didn't miss much (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-03, 20:20:42 (203.100.247.70)
... apart from the macabre spectacle of the Viennese audience: a curious admixture of self-satisfaction and self-loathing. A glummer, more jaded looking lot is hard to imagine. Is it because they are .......
152: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Thankyou, Henry and the best of the new year to you, too (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2011-01-02, 00:22:53 (203.100.247.70)
But I couldn't find the grubs on your site That said, there ain't a lot of them to be had in sunny Melbourne No matter - great site of yours! Cheers K .......
153: Tube DIY Asylum, Supravox make some (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-31, 16:02:17 (203.100.247.70)
Euro vendor here. Not exactly cheap, but not in the $5K per pair realm, either. Dunno what they bring in the US .......
154: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, I didn't last long in Monaco meself (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-30, 16:29:10 (203.100.247.70)
being ugly, poor and having no great objection to the payment of taxes for the benefit of the common weal, but I gotta say it was the strangest place I've ever been. A parallel universe of impossible .......
155: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Hmmm 2 (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-29, 20:23:03 (203.100.247.70)
Product launch in the casino "principality" of Monaco tells you something about where this finely finished furniture is pitched. "Tudor's final polishing grit for ther Vox Olympian was 9 microns" ... .......
156: Music Lane, Dunno where the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir fit in all this (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-29, 18:16:36 (203.100.247.70)
, me not being a choral aficionado, but their Gloria with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra is passing beautiful to hear .......
157: Music Lane, Just didn't get it, huh? No matter how nice you are to some people ... nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-22, 02:51:55 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
158: Music Lane, Yeah, but I broke the last one I bought - built like a Lada. nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-21, 19:13:54 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
159: Music Lane, The subject was marriage, actually (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-20, 21:09:56 (165.228.179.151)
You know how it is - poor little Russian girl sick of drunken Russian mafiosi, prefers drunken Ozzie layabout, fires cri de couer at random across the interweb ... but if I'd realised she could play t .......
160: Music Lane, +1 for Melnikov and Faust (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-20, 05:11:19 (203.100.247.70)
And also Café de los Maestros (2005) - a tango equivalent of the Paris Musette series or Buena Vista Social Club. OK - 50's-60's tango was not (to my mind) as gutsy as that of the 20s and 30s, but it .......
161: Music Lane, I think I've had an email from Alina (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-20, 03:55:03 (203.100.247.70)
I really should have paid more attention. Maybe she will correspond again. I hope so. .......
162: Music Lane, Funny you should ask (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-18, 15:23:34 (203.100.247.70)
Woody Phillips' orchestration of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", performed on mandolin, hand drill, hammer, anvil, t-square, framing square, level, pipes, bottles, 2x4s, table saw, power drill & dril .......
163: Tubes Asylum, Thanks, Jack nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-12, 12:15:45 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
164: Tubes Asylum, Which 6Y6? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-12, 00:39:40 (203.100.247.70)
Hello boys & girls I've a small Japanese SET amp & part of the complement is "6Y6 x 2". I've looked around the web and see 6Y6G and 6Y6GT, but no valves called plain 6Y6. Being iggerant as they come, .......
165: General Asylum, Monster Cable running up against an IP lawyer at Blue Jeans (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-12-12, 00:09:18 (203.100.247.70)
made for satisfying reading. And, for oldies but goodies, the Lampizator's "under the hood" CD player investigations are hard to go past: Wadia WT3200 = Marantz; Goldmund = Pioneer. For (I assume) a n .......
166: Music Lane, Sounds like you needed a PRODUCER who could tread on the engineer (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-24, 00:48:03 (203.100.247.70)
But maybe the engineer was the producer? Sounds hellish to me. Yer ideal engineer is familiar with the space and his or her gear, sets up pretty close to final mic placement straight out of the box, .......
167: Music Lane, You leave us Aussies alone, y'hear? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-17, 21:07:21 (165.228.179.151)
You reckon he's bad - you should oughta hear ME! .......
168: Inmate Systems, k-k-k-kenny's [insert name] (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-17, 00:39:48 (203.100.247.70)
k-k-k-kenny 's [insert name] System
IP Address: 203.100.247.70
Last Update: November 17, 2010 at 00:39:48
Amplifier: Naim NAP 160 Wavac MD-811 Sonos - whatever it is
Preamplifier (or No .......
169: Music Lane, Kocsis gave the original version a fair workout in 1994 nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-16, 23:37:52 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
170: Music Lane, You're right o' course (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-13, 15:46:52 (203.100.247.70)
Anywhere you can get a pianist's ear view is good enough - tho that will vary from place to place. And maybe there is visual interest for the initiated in watching other instrumentalists. I shall give .......
171: Music Lane, ... for which you have to sit behind the pianist (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-12, 16:04:39 (203.100.247.70)
Which is, of course, where the piano sounds at its best, if you can get close enough. .......
172: Music Lane, Yeah, but how often do you play it? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-09, 02:34:32 (203.100.247.70)
Honestly, we all have some things in our lives that we don't particularly want others to know about. We'll save them until the last trumpet sounds, and try to mumble our way through when it does. But .......
173: Music Lane, Yep: it's darn good, too (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-08, 00:46:35 (203.100.247.70)
That recording was made in 1960. The other Kabelac track on the album, the Hamlet Improvisation, in 1966. A composer not at the forefront of present attention, then. Mind you, they sound quite ok. ::: .......
174: Music Lane, Oh lord, a genre even more hideous than regular opera (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-08, 00:38:27 (203.100.247.70)
... with the worst excesses of broadway and "art"-rock thrown in for good measure. Few things inspire me to violence as does this topic. Pete Townshend, who knows three chords, meets the boys from Flo .......
175: Music Lane, RE: Don't know his music at all - thanks for the recommendation! [nt] (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-07, 20:06:21 (165.228.179.151)
Supraphon released a few albums in the 90s, but most seem out of print or gone to stratospheric prices Ivo Kahánek has a really good album of Janacék, Kabeláč & Martinů piano works - the Kab .......
176: Music Lane, Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-1979) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-06, 17:26:16 (203.100.247.70)
Kabeláč, that is ... 8 symphonies (very little recorded it seems), other orchestral and chamber works, piano, organ, songs & choral works in a list that ran up to Op. 58 or so. I've only his 8 pr .......
177: Music Lane, Oscar Alemán, Matelo Ferret, Angelo Debarre mebbe nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-03, 23:36:55 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
178: Music Lane, Bewdiful! nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-01, 16:07:37 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
179: Music Lane, And some do not rise above mf and do not have a lot of notes (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-11-01, 16:06:01 (203.100.247.70)
I'm thinking particularly of some of his transcriptions. The absolute rightness of, for example, his Schubert Litanei S.562/1 gives the lie to the notion that his writing was all display. It's so simp .......
180: Music Lane, I've Leslie Howard's version of the 1837 Études (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-10-31, 15:43:57 (203.100.247.70)
Yes - they are considerably more difficult than the later revision. In soccer parlance I'd score it Liszt 3: Howard 1. Perhaps the test he posed was more like: when this sounds like music, then you ha .......
181: Music Lane, That's very true (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-10-30, 18:21:04 (203.100.247.70)
He recorded a deal of Liszt in the late '30s. Later, I gather, he worked often with his brother in law, Yehudi Menuhin. .......
182: Music Lane, If only it were FLAC (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-10-30, 00:52:09 (203.100.247.70)
Kentner is WAAAAY out of fashion these days, and, in what I've heard, did not have the technique of some. But he, I feel, did have a fine musical sensibility. He wrote a really good little book about .......
183: Music Lane, LIszt was the first thing I remember hearing (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-10-29, 04:54:16 (203.100.247.70)
Louis Kentner, playing rhapsodies 2, 6, 9, 12? & 15 - when I was 6 years old. I fell in love instantly, and the thrill's never really gone. While I've been through many years treating his music as a b .......
184: SET Asylum, Thankyou Thorsten (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-10-15, 23:24:02 (203.100.247.70)
I think I sorta get it The words "no free lunch" come to mind Since I don't know what's inside the little amp (and wouldn't begin to understand it iven if I did know) I shall resume testing wiv me ear .......
185: SET Asylum, Aye, thanks - it's only got 8Ω taps (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-10-15, 16:45:27 (203.100.247.70)
And I've become aware that some speakers rated at 8Ω have deep dips in their impedance curves, so the 5.5Ω minimum may be kind of arbitrary. But do I also lose power if I go the other way - .......
186: SET Asylum, Ok - so here's a question from a dummy (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-10-14, 17:32:36 (165.228.179.151)
I got hold of a 2x15 watt RMS SET amp a year ago (811A tubes) and have been reading into the speaker question ... Its output impedance is 8Ω, and I think I'm right in understanding that I should .......
187: Music Lane, I believe so (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-10-12, 00:07:56 (165.228.179.151)
For those who don't know how, or who have been told that they cannot, I suspect that the first necessary skill is to learn to hear, and that comes from listening. And, in particular, listening to thei .......
188: Music Lane, RE: Jazz suggestions for the beginner? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-09-30, 04:56:41 (203.100.247.70)
I don't know Jeff Golub, but I do know what Jon Cleary does. So, you like that funky fat-assed New Orleans sound, huh? You should oughta listen to some Professor Longhair - that being where Jon Cleary .......
189: Music Lane, Ry Cooder's your man (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-07-24, 00:39:34 (203.100.247.70)
Geat a hold of Showtime & Paris Texas .......
190: Music Lane, Wilde. Had to be one or the other, didn't it? nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-07-09, 21:34:39 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
191: Music Lane, Of course not. You are a gentleman. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-07-09, 05:27:33 (203.100.247.70)
And a gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. .......
192: Music Lane, Nope (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-06-29, 06:03:28 (203.100.247.70)
The US insistence on ever-longer copyright periods is part of a general slide towards a rentier economy which stifles innovation and is as backward in its own way as agrarian England's reliance upon l .......
193: Music Lane, +1 for 1) & 4) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-05-16, 18:05:20 (165.228.179.151)
and only because I don't have the others. 1) is an essential addition to western culture .......
194: Music Lane, A sweet story nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-05-14, 22:29:02 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
195: Music Lane, Since he's my new best friend I shall be checking out as much as I can nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-05-14, 22:26:42 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
196: Music Lane, I am now awaiting that one from the US (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-05-13, 04:37:10 (203.100.247.70)
The sample I heard from his website sounded good, playing-wise. Can't comment on the recording, but there again, my system is very forgiving of rubbish engineering. .......
197: Music Lane, Strangers on a train (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-05-11, 20:14:28 (165.228.179.151)
Last week on train from London to Edinburgh I found myself seated across from an elegant if rather frail looking man and his wife. A senior citizen, if you will. Wearing an enamel badge of a piano. "A .......
198: SET Asylum, Might be worth listening to Ocellia (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-05-03, 04:24:04 (94.193.242.233)
I had the pleasure recently of hearing the Calliope .30 - coaxial 12" + tweeter. I guess it's a kinda weirdified open baffle: very light sides, top and front, bottomless, and with a door at the rear t .......
199: Music Lane, Is it not true of anyone truly following a path in the arts (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-05-03, 04:13:02 (94.193.242.233)
that you do it because you have to, not because you want to? "I want to be a writer/dancer/musician/sculptor" is a recipe for disastrous self-delusion. Then there are those who are impelled to follow .......
200: Music Lane, RE: Alice Sara Ott -- Great Performances (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-05-03, 04:00:20 (94.193.242.233)
Hey Chris, I knew not and know not of the various editions of Chopin (I never got that far before falling into blues n New Orleans piano) - I had to rely on my ears! They were pleased with what they s .......
201: Music Lane, RE: Alice Sara Ott -- Great Performances (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-05-02, 10:37:41 (94.193.242.233)
I heard a deal of the Chopin a couple of weeks ago on a very fancy system (of a sort n quality which I don't usually get to hear, either - Metronome Technologie Kalista/Tosca amp/Ocellia Calliope .30 .......
202: Music Lane, That's the one (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-04-10, 08:19:22 (203.100.247.70)
I got it in the package with the Beethoven and Mozart discs. If he can make me listen to Mozart, he must be good ... .......
203: Music Lane, Thankyou again (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-04-10, 08:17:24 (203.100.247.70)
I shall be off the air for a month, but on my return shall pursue your suggestions. .......
204: Music Lane, Thanks, comrades. nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-04-08, 17:12:55 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
205: Music Lane, Any more Franck? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-04-08, 06:00:23 (203.100.247.70)
I keep returning to Ivan Moravec's sublime Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, and it makes me hungry for more. Are there other gems of Franck pianism which I can greedily devour? I do have versions of his Sy .......
206: Music Lane, It's always worth a look here for piano scores - (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-03-29, 19:44:38 (165.228.179.151)
http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page Of course, I frown upon the notion that US and European publishers should be deprived of the opportunity to profit from the invention of dead Soviet Russians, and there .......
207: Music Lane, Today's arrival was Hans Otte (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-03-19, 03:03:44 (203.100.247.70)
das buch der klänge/stundenbuch/face à face - played by the composer The next thing to come will be the Webern box - Berg & Schönberg (or their academic followers) don't do it for me near as much as h .......
208: Music Lane, I'm not yer man, but ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-03-18, 06:26:28 (203.100.247.70)
I caught about 20 minutes of it - probably about half an hour in. Now, I know nothing of opera, and this one probably ain't a good place to start, but a few things struck me: The orchestral/instrument .......
209: Music Lane, ... and the difference between a drummer and a roadie? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-03-05, 16:10:01 (203.100.247.70)
the drummer takes the dishes out of the sink before he has a leak Sorry - I played in a rock band .......
210: Music Lane, Yes, please. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-03-03, 16:08:04 (165.228.179.151)
You can do all the heavy lifting, of course, and await the casual criticisms of the likes of me! .......
211: Music Lane, Might be the instrument for Messiaen, then. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-03-02, 14:54:30 (165.228.179.151)
Or Cage. I spent a little time looking at the Stuart & Sons website the other day. Would love to hear one in the flesh, but Newcastle is a pretty fair hike from sunny Melbourne ... .......
212: Music Lane, Rory Gallagher (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-03-01, 22:53:07 (165.228.179.151)
There's a lot of celtic in his playing - more than you might expect of a strat-slinger. .......
213: Music Lane, 'Twas Chopin's birthday today (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-28, 18:18:58 (165.228.179.151)
Could the cyborg composer bring so much joy to so many? Perhaps, but pity all those who'd have missed out during the intervening two centuries. No matter where my listening wanders, I keep on coming b .......
214: Music Lane, Agreed (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-27, 21:04:28 (220.238.226.202)
Good on you for doing this, John what think those who've played the instrument of its character/qualities, I wonder? It sounds to have plenty of bite, but the web may deceive. .......
215: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, No-one will ever be able to prove otherwise (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-21, 21:32:10 (165.228.179.151)
You can't really imagine the lucky purchaser ever fessing up that they've just wasted near 5,000 real dollars on something that sounds totally cack (if they sound anything other than a noxious low buz .......
216: Music Lane, Creeping socialism emerging from the badlands of Dakota, eh? Who'd a thunk it? nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-17, 16:16:37 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
217: Music Lane, Yep. And all sorts of irony is involved in that situation. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-16, 14:48:45 (203.100.247.70)
Your Fed Reserve being made by what we would see as a very conservative government to pump gazillions of invented dollars into the system in the wake of 9/11, the smart guys then finding something (an .......
218: Music Lane, Going waaaaaaaay off topic ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-15, 23:33:05 (165.228.179.151)
Home ownership here remains reasonably widespread, but it's getting harder and harder for the young employed to get in. This - THE great Australian dream - is becoming just that. Past generations coul .......
219: Music Lane, It's always interesting to those of us on the sunny side of the Pacific (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-15, 05:25:09 (203.100.247.70)
to read these sort of thoughts. The risk of failure in the esoteric areas of financial abstraction gets socialised, whilst the fees and bonuses go into the hands of the most greedy and undeserving cit .......
220: Music Lane, Plus one for Janis & Richter nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-12, 17:09:01 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
221: Music Lane, believe it's a model D Steinway (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-12, 00:45:55 (165.228.179.151)
In the interview I read, he asserted Bach's intention that it be played legato cantabile. He could be right, tho I don't recall any such marking. .......
222: Music Lane, Roger Woodward's WTC (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-02-11, 14:42:43 (165.228.179.151)
Just wondering whether any lucky listeners have yet heard this? It got a big tick in our local paper (because he's an Aussie oi oi oi), but the question arises - how much do I really need another rend .......
223: Music Lane, You could get into gospel (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-01-28, 14:39:52 (165.228.179.151)
Some of the most beautiful voices, and a whole lot of conviction, too. Stirring, even for an agnostic like me. Stuff like the Soul Stirrers, Swan Silvertones, Roberta Martin Singers, Staple Singers, 5 .......
224: Music Lane, Jazz schmazz (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2010-01-21, 01:03:36 (58.109.23.217)
1959 will be better remembered for the release of Marty Robbins' Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs ... such was my love for this Mexican maiden ... ... And the notches on his pistol numbered one and .......
225: Music Lane, Sonny Sharrock again (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-12-16, 01:44:19 (203.100.247.70)
Musetap, it arrived today. If this is what they call jazz, I can hack it. Initial impressions are of the nakedness of his communication - all heart. No mediating intellect saying "I should do this tri .......
226: Music Lane, Go easy! Who you calling crazy? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-12-09, 19:55:38 (165.228.179.151)
We know that the moon landings were faked and that Paul is dead and that the market knows best - all this on far more slender evidence than you are criticising as inadequate. I could go on, but it's t .......
227: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, And yet, only 4 days ago the search was over (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-12-07, 03:40:43 (203.100.247.70)
You've got it bad. I've a mate who's been in the audio sales business 30 years, and has described your symptoms ... just a little bit more, what if I do this? etc. He assures me that any new interconn .......
228: Music Lane, Wow (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-12-06, 12:12:32 (203.100.247.70)
And jazz does about as little for me as opera. I've ordered it. Thanks .......
229: Music Lane, Messiaen had a pretty solid go at it nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-11-29, 22:55:12 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
230: Music Lane, Cage's definition may be good enough, actually (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-11-28, 06:17:37 (203.100.247.70)
A clock's ticking (well, those that do tick) is a necessary but unintended by-product of the working of its escapement - it just happens to make noise. So do chainsaws. It is regular, but the sound is .......
231: Music Lane, You'd be wanting Frank Crumit (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-11-18, 12:54:30 (203.100.247.70)
Mountain Greenery - ASV CD AJA 5001 - has the original song, whilst Frank Crumit Returns - Naxos Nostalgia 8.120620 - has The RETURN of Abdul Abulbul Amir on it. The former also has a terrific version .......
232: Music Lane, And Mahalia! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-11-12, 18:59:46 (165.228.179.151)
no no no no no .......
233: Music Lane, Gershwins, Brian & Edward Holland, Brownie & Stick McGhee, Jimmy & Joe Liggins ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-11-12, 17:21:31 (165.228.179.151)
Clarence & Spencer Williams ... .......
234: Music Lane, Paul & Linda oh dear oh dear (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-11-12, 05:18:35 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
235: Music Lane, Wasn't aware that Barbara & Richard were related (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-11-12, 05:17:34 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
236: Music Lane, Gypsy jazz is kinda dynastic (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-11-12, 05:15:23 (203.100.247.70)
Joseph & Django Reinhardt, Babik, David, Dotschy, Lulu, Mandino, Mike, Noé & Sony R (some not relations?) Richard Manetti & father Romane Matlo, Baro, Sarane (brothers), Challain & Maurice (cousins) F .......
237: Music Lane, Second recommendations of Koroliov (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-10-25, 20:05:28 (165.228.179.151)
Very fine WTC, Goldberg and Inventions. Haven't heard his Art of Fugue. Also a plug for Tatiana Nikolayeva - Art of Fugue etc on Hyperion and a Regis records release with Italian Concerto and other bi .......
238: Music Lane, That would be 3 double-CDs, I imagine (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-10-23, 22:57:36 (203.100.247.70)
- each double corresponding with one of the original double LPs. It's a great release - good thing Harry Smith and Moe Asch didn't give a toss about copyright. Couldn't happen today. .......
239: Music Lane, The Brilliant classics 9CD box, maybe? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-10-23, 17:17:37 (203.100.247.70)
It has 1 and a bit of 2 discs of Scriabin said to have been recorded January and February 1960. The January tracks include sonata 3. The latter kicks off with 20 preludes and includes sonatas 9 & 10. .......
240: Music Lane, Sofronitsky and Scriabin were a match made in heaven. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-10-20, 15:56:12 (165.228.179.151)
Though I've not heard him play this, I imagine it is of the first water. And, if it's like most of what I've heard of Sofronitsky, a dire recording and instrument. Such a shame - Richter's assessment .......
241: Music Lane, Any such place which ignores Martha is seriously wanting. nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-10-20, 15:45:56 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
242: Music Lane, Nostalgic? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-10-07, 16:56:59 (165.228.179.151)
If, like me, you've never heard KOB (and never all that likely to, but let's assume I did), it wouldn't be nostalgic - that is only for those who were there at the time. It might be quaint, though. No .......
243: Music Lane, You get used to it (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-10-06, 22:12:56 (165.228.179.151)
There is a real logic to it. At first, of course, it is weird going in different directions to play contiguous notes, but after a bit you find that most of what you wish to play is quite close to one .......
244: Music Lane, Superb! The prince of instruments! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-10-05, 19:13:09 (165.228.179.151)
I could try to explain the right hand, but a picture works better. In the left hand (120 bass i.e. full sized stradella bass system, which is most usual), each row below is a fourth higher than the ro .......
245: Music Lane, Swarthy Europeans for the most part (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-30, 14:38:27 (203.100.247.70)
Of course, now that you mention it, no self-respecting Australian male would sing anything more sophisticated than our glorious national anthem, so on that basis the residents of your various archipel .......
246: Music Lane, Because it's dross (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-30, 04:15:37 (203.100.247.70)
Honestly, how can anyone seriously regard this grotesquerie as art? Neither fish nor fowl, its audience subjected to the most absurd pretence - aged harridans and flabby foreigners simulating all that .......
247: Music Lane, RE: Re: Opera having become a rich-person's art (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-29, 20:25:53 (203.100.247.70)
Friend of mine works in the theatre and has been horrified by the contrast between the staging of drama, where costumes and props merely have to look like whatever they are supposed to represent, and .......
248: Music Lane, yep, the headphones too ; ) nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-22, 23:43:57 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
249: Music Lane, Thinking piano only (since that's all I listen to ...) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-22, 22:10:06 (165.228.179.151)
Post-Chopin: Piano Music of Boris Goltz - there's only about 45 minutes of it: he died in the siege of Leningrad Post Rachmaninoff: York Bowen, or Sergei Bortkiewitz Post Scriabin: Alexei Stanchinsky .......
250: Music Lane, As were Tom Lehrer, and Jonathan & Darlene Edwards (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-17, 03:02:53 (203.100.247.70)
- who had to try to be funny without swearing. Big challenge, I know. But they managed quite well. .......
251: Music Lane, Trick question (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-15, 14:02:24 (203.100.247.70)
Answer: none of them Seriously though, you might do better on the rock forum .......
252: Music Lane, What is this thing called Christmas music? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-10, 16:00:51 (203.100.247.70)
Some sub-genre of the holiday classification? I'm familiar with "Bankers bearing pine trees", "Rockin' with the prophet" and "Moses puts his feet up", but I seem to have missed out on something here. .......
253: Music Lane, Live performance for 4? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-07, 23:11:48 (165.228.179.151)
How? Where? What? .......
254: Music Lane, Very sorry to hear it. Elliot imparted much. nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-09-07, 23:10:56 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
255: Music Lane, This is the big box (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-08-21, 17:54:40 (203.100.247.70)
It's cheaper at Amazon France, so get out your cheque-book and fire up a Gauloise. I seem to remember that there was a continuation of this series, but I suspect that this is not it: http://www.amazon .......
256: Music Lane, RE: What cds are currently in your "heavy rotation" pile? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-08-14, 02:23:16 (203.100.247.70)
Satie/Alexandre Tharaud - Avant Dernières Pensées - nice survey of Satie's variety (sez he who only a couple of months ago heard his first Gnossiene) Messiaen/Osborne - Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant-Jésu .......
257: Music Lane, Mine was Hubert Sumlin - a semitone sharp all night (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-08-01, 07:33:14 (203.100.247.70)
His only visit to Melbourne, and he'd plainly been on the piss all day. Was truly excruciating. Rory Gallagher was pretty well lit up at a concert I saw in Paris once, too. But being a man of generous .......
258: Music Lane, RE: Tony Faulkiner (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-07-14, 01:25:14 (165.228.179.151)
If its Tony Faulkner of whom you speak ... Bortkiewitz Piano Works - Coombs - on Hyperion 2008 series of Mahler symphonies on LSO Live 2002-03 Alexandrov Piano music - Milne - Hyperion 2002 Scriabin P .......
259: Music Lane, Thanks, Mali (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-22, 22:34:28 (165.228.179.151)
Babyan disc has arrived. If you've not seen my post below, you were right - it's a cracker. Cheers K .......
260: Music Lane, You bet I do! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-22, 22:21:37 (165.228.179.151)
Thanks for the tip - this is really fine stuff. Should be compulsory in every home. .......
261: Music Lane, Of course! n.t. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-19, 23:56:06 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
262: Music Lane, Oh, and if you're a completist (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-19, 17:27:54 (203.100.247.70)
Fremeaux & Associés have released a series of 19 or so double CDs of complete Django in chronological order. If you're that keen, be prepared to open your wallet wide: you'd probably have to get them .......
263: Music Lane, Others who cook (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-19, 17:19:42 (203.100.247.70)
In my usual way, I explore the surrounding countryside instead of the hill, so whilst Django is regarded by all manouche guitarists as the man whose shadow casts long, there are plenty of others, real .......
264: Music Lane, Yeah, and he combines them, too. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-12, 18:42:16 (203.100.247.70)
I only have his Carnegie Hall disc, but it's a programme that worked: Berg - Appassionata - Liszt - Debussy - Ligeti .......
265: Music Lane, thank yez all for your recommendations (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-12, 00:41:42 (165.228.179.151)
Which largely bear out my suspicions - new artists to explore, for the main part. .......
266: Music Lane, it's on the way ... nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-12, 00:40:13 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
267: Music Lane, Pianists of the atonal and beyond repertiore (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-11, 05:33:15 (203.100.247.70)
Something has struck me as I look into 20th century and later pianism. I get the impression that your really famous pianists don't touch anything later than Rachmaninoff/Scriabin/Debussy/Ravel, whilst .......
268: Music Lane, He's hardly a household name (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-04, 23:34:56 (165.228.179.151)
I picked up on him from a couple of things Sofronitsky recorded in 1938. Man, was Sofronitsky a beautiful player or what? Pity everything I've got by him is so badly recorded/out of tune ... ::: TOPIC .......
269: Music Lane, Boris Goltz - highly recommended (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-06-04, 07:32:57 (165.228.179.151)
I recently picked up the "complete" piano music of Boris Goltz, performed by Sergei Podobedov on Music & Arts. When I say "complete", it runs to about 54 minutes: a scherzo and 24 preludes, written ar .......
270: Music Lane, Bit late to this thread, but ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-05-31, 22:54:46 (165.228.179.151)
Hey Tom How's the recording quality of the Sofronitsky discs? And what's on 'em? I've a few things he recorded, and understand why Richter called him a god. Such as I have, though, tend to be ordinary .......
271: Music Lane, I take my hat off to you (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-05-25, 23:53:33 (165.228.179.151)
That's a seriously long list of difficult work. If I could manage just one of those in a year I'd be pleased with myself. .......
272: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, thanks - so even Phy is not perfect, eh? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-05-20, 13:31:49 (203.100.247.70)
I've read, of course, the 6 Moons visit to the south of France, which gives an impression that no compromises are taken and that the only reason we are not all listening to fullrange single drivers is .......
273: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Thanks, Thomas (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-05-19, 21:01:04 (165.228.179.151)
I've been away, and your post gives me great encouragement. .......
274: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Thanks Peter. But in my difficult little room? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-05-16, 18:29:29 (203.100.247.70)
I'm apprehensive that I might be attempting the impossible in such a space. I guess that one plus is that I don't need a lot of grunt to fill it with sound ... .......
275: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Balsa eh? I imagine the Rullits sound great on Hawaiian music (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-05-16, 18:23:17 (203.100.247.70)
I guess you'd want to hear them before opening your wallet for a pair. But thankyou Thomas - your experience points in the direction I would like to go. One thing I wonder: my room is quite small (and .......
276: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, You got it in one (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-05-15, 03:56:13 (203.100.247.70)
although I'd prefer to think of myself as Otto, I have to be a bit realistic .......
277: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Full range advice sought (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-05-14, 20:53:32 (165.228.179.151)
I wish to simplify things - or maybe just to have change for its own sake. My room is far from ideal: almost square at 14', ceiling 11'9", near full height bookshelves along one wall. To say it needs .......
278: Music Lane, Repetitive strain injuries are the ailments that dare not speak their name amongst musicians (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-05-12, 03:42:18 (203.100.247.70)
I don't recall whether it was David Burge, Alex Ross, Oliver Sacks or whomever that I've recently read who devoted some time to this issue. Once upon a time, the listening public avoided mentioning/le .......
279: Music Lane, Bingo! nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-27, 20:01:47 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
280: Music Lane, I suspect that most reviewers aren't listening to a $100 gorilla system (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-27, 05:53:38 (203.100.247.70)
Or on a $100 gorilla system, either. They tend to be music buffs, not audio buffs. For what it's worth, I've found valuable guidance from Classics Today - both US and French sites. And several folks h .......
281: Music Lane, Couldn't agree more. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-17, 22:48:45 (203.100.247.70)
Other very good sounding piano is coming from Chandos, Harmonia Mundi, MDG, WERGO, Dux, Hännsler Classic, BIS, Tall Poppies (right here in Oz - they've got a catalogue somewhere above 100 and I'd be s .......
282: Music Lane, Jorge Bolet was very good in Liszt's Schubert transcriptions (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-12, 04:18:46 (203.100.247.70)
Although I have it in a 9 CD Bolet/Liszt compilation, and you might not want to spring for that. (although you'd be missing out of you didn't) Also, amongst many others no doubt, Vladimir Sofronitsky .......
283: Music Lane, Thanks - but can I overcome my prejudices? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-07, 05:23:18 (203.100.247.70)
My wife is a masseuse by occupation, and so I have developed an abiding distaste for lower-end ambient noises (angels, whales, wind noises that are not percussive). Mind you, I did import a copy of Ph .......
284: Music Lane, RE: Never Satie Sated (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-04, 21:05:08 (203.100.247.70)
Yes. Bambi, I can imagine that. I may be way off the mark, but I hear a composer who hid often highly serious intent beneath a satiric surface. Minimal in the sense that the irrelevant is stripped awa .......
285: Music Lane, Heard a few sample snippets of Tharaud (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-04, 20:56:25 (203.100.247.70)
Seems like typical lovely Harmonia Mundi piano engineering, and fine playing too. But not cheap. .......
286: Music Lane, How have I managed without Satie until now? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-03, 21:15:50 (203.100.247.70)
Picked up a cheap compilation yesterday, played by Aldo Ciccolini with Gabriel Tacchino in the four-handed works. Not very good mastering, but ear-opening nevertheless. Ah! so that's what Cosma used i .......
287: Music Lane, Oh for the days of old Vienna ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-03, 19:04:09 (203.100.247.70)
But how many folk were actually at the premiere of Salome? I somehow doubt that "classical" music of the concert hall or salon has ever been more than a minority interest. The boost given in the US be .......
288: Music Lane, Koroliov on Tacet is very nuanced, & beautifully recorded (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-04-02, 00:10:34 (165.228.179.151)
Richter is typically muscular and the ferocious intellect is present Hewitt is o.k. Fischer on Naxos suffers from bad sound quality, tho the playing is first rate. It's available elsewhere with better .......
289: Music Lane, Agree - Ashkenazy from March 1963 is very fine (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-03-09, 05:38:30 (203.100.247.70)
Also Martha w. Chailly/RSO Berlin is, ah, humid & tempestuous, and understandably celebrated. Haven't heard Horowitz. .......
290: Music Lane, Just quickly and in no particular order - almost no compilations (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-03-01, 17:37:59 (165.228.179.151)
Richter/Rachmaninoff - Préludes & Etudes-Tableaux Which is not to belittle the superb recent efforts of Alexander Melnikov Matelo Ferret - Tziganskaia & Other Rare Recordings Gypsy jazz with crunch Jo .......
291: Music Lane, Maybe the best 20 bucks I've ever spent on music (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-02-27, 22:55:48 (203.100.247.70)
And it was 20 Pacific pesos, not USD, neither. For 10 CDs. Comes in at 10 cents per track. Magical historical stuff from about 1930 to 1955. Quite a bit of it otherwise totally unavailable for years a .......
292: Music Lane, I gather that the list of the world's finest brews is exceedingly long nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-02-08, 22:18:47 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
293: Music Lane, About copyright (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2009-01-13, 04:27:33 (203.100.247.70)
In most civilised places authorship of the song (either words or music) generally lasts for the life of the writer plus x years = the x varying from country to country. After that, anyone can copy it. .......
294: Music Lane, Round here I believe it's called a Kylie machine, in honour of our very own Ms Minogue (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-12-30, 00:00:53 (203.100.247.70)
You may not have heard of her, despite her desperate attempts to crack the US market. You've missed little. .......
295: Music Lane, Drag acts are seldom convincing nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-12-30, 00:00:26 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
296: Music Lane, Agreed on both counts (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-12-29, 23:52:12 (203.100.247.70)
At the risk of generalisation Stevie Wonder only uses it with taste, Marvin Gaye was outa his skull and searching for a right note somewhere, whilst Patti Labelle must have gone deaf along the way - s .......
297: Music Lane, Or they do all that hideous r'n'b gymnastic stuff (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-12-28, 21:27:55 (203.100.247.70)
Stevie Wonder has a lot to answer for ... .......
298: Music Lane, Where would you put Lou Reed, then? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-12-28, 21:25:37 (203.100.247.70)
Laziest vocalist I've ever heard. Sometimes highly effective, often merely perverse. And doesn't always have something worthwhile to say. Can't agree with you about JR Cash, though. By the time of his .......
299: Music Lane, I have just listened to Malambo #1 in respectful memory. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-11-23, 03:37:35 (203.100.247.70)
That's enough for the time being. .......
300: Music Lane, Does 42nd Street count? Or Top Hat, maybe? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-11-17, 04:17:24 (203.100.247.70)
If not, it doesn't get any more evocative for me than Alain Romans: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot never fails. And Jim Jarmusch knows how to pick music - Neil Young's stuff on Dead Man works mightily .......
301: Music Lane, Is it usually any good? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-11-05, 23:13:12 (202.44.191.121)
I ask because in my limited delving into their classical guide I find myself seriously disagreeing with their recommendations. Could be mucho different for jazz, I guess, with the emphasis on performe .......
302: Music Lane, Well that's a different view, eh? nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-11-03, 14:40:17 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
303: Music Lane, RE: Piano Clip..... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-11-03, 05:07:33 (203.100.247.70)
I thought it mighta been Richter for a bit. Some serious technique and good thinking involved, despite the atrocious sound. Whoever it is has a big left arm .......
304: Music Lane, RE: You are so right (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-30, 23:46:04 (202.44.191.121)
Since I'm not really interested in anything except solo piano, classics-wise, I'll continue to miss out on his collaborations with others, and be spared the pain, eh? Agreed, it would be revealing to .......
305: Music Lane, And now for something completely different ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-30, 04:58:16 (203.100.247.70)
Any wonder I'm enthused? .......
306: Music Lane, Études-Tableaux ... yawn (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-30, 04:53:16 (203.100.247.70)
Oh yes, I thought I had heard these - after all, I already had Lugansky and Richter to listen to (even if SR's muscularity and intellect seemed to shade NL's version) ... In support of a local retaile .......
307: Music Lane, By the way: it's worth the wait for the link to load up nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-28, 01:38:56 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
308: Music Lane, Yeah! Is this what the commercially available Rach/Ampico releases sound like? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-28, 01:33:42 (203.100.247.70)
If so, count me in. I got the impression from the site that they had run the rolls again through their highly superior restored player piano, but I could be wrong. At all events, it has an eerie seanc .......
309: Music Lane, Probably Woody Phillips (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-26, 02:59:33 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
310: Music Lane, You're still pretty safe with Lang Lang, though nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-24, 17:16:37 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
311: Music Lane, Not a bad night's work, huh? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-13, 22:25:39 (202.44.191.121)
Couldn't agree more with your assessment - it is incandescent. No wonder they've named a distant star after him. And no matter the recording quality with playing like this. Paul Geffen's discography i .......
312: Music Lane, In my uncool experience, yes ; ) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-03, 18:24:07 (203.100.247.70)
Although I must say that I don't listen to anything much of theirs outside the 1969-74 live album range. The fragments of late 70s onwards stuff that I've heard are pretty dire vocally, and the studio .......
313: Music Lane, As far as the Dead are concerned (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-10-01, 21:46:30 (202.44.191.121)
The track that made it click for me was Me & My Uncle, off the GD double album. After that, I could put up with Garcia's frequently off vocals and iffy lead playing. He was an extraordinary songwriter .......
314: Music Lane, Heard Woody Phillips' Toolbox Christmas by any chance? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-30, 05:47:39 (203.100.247.70)
His version of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy hooked me into the whole wonderful world of music meets woodwork. You can probably pick it up for under a buck, so there's little lost by trying it. ::: TO .......
315: Music Lane, Oh yes. Also important, I think, to do it with music you love (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-24, 21:23:54 (202.44.191.121)
Also in Scriabin: Alexander Melnikov - Scriabine Piano Works (Harmonia Mundi) (somewhat gentler interpreter and less closely miked than BIS) Bach: Tatiana Nikolayeva - Art of Fugue on Hyperion Bach: E .......
316: Music Lane, But, except for accordion, there is not more to music than pianos, so what's the point? (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-24, 17:37:50 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
317: Music Lane, Thanks, all for yer guidance - I won't give up on him yet (nt). (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-23, 17:54:57 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
318: Music Lane, Maybe, but I'm reasonably used to ordinary source material (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-21, 14:50:20 (203.100.247.70)
- no to mention ordinary reproduction. (You'll not see my modest if reasonable system trumpeted anywhere here) It's the window and door effect - how thick is the door through which I'm listening? How .......
319: Music Lane, Present participle (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-20, 17:33:49 (202.44.191.121)
as in "I am flaming ..." ;) .......
320: Water Cooler, Hope you private enterprise market knows best guys are enjoying the transition to socialist banking (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-19, 07:46:00 (203.100.247.70)
We here in Oz created such institutions in the wake of the 1890s depression, but have dismantled them in past decades- so passé, and history couldn't repeat itself. Oh yes, American economists are so .......
321: Films/DVD Asylum, Strange how differently we react to it (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-19, 07:31:58 (203.100.247.70)
For me, it was one of the best films I've seen in a very long time. The close made sense to me, in that it's a logical extension of the ruthlessness of DDl's character. And throughout, DDL walked a fi .......
322: Music Lane, Flaming Horowitz (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-19, 07:23:52 (203.100.247.70)
What is it about Vlad the impaler which generates such veneration amongst listeners? I've only 10 CDs of Horowitz, from the Columbia/Sony box, but I find him remarkably unconvincing, and in view of th .......
323: Music Lane, I thought it was Lindsay Lohan, only with different t... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-17, 02:22:18 (203.100.247.70)
...eeth. .......
324: Films/DVD Asylum, Evil Roy Slade, then nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-09-04, 00:14:57 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
325: Music Lane, I've had a bit of a look around - seems we're out of luck (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-08-26, 03:22:02 (203.100.247.70)
I see he was nominated for Grammy for Les Adieux + the Pastorale in 1971, but lost out to Oistrakh & Rostropovich (Szell/Cleveland Orchestra) - Brahms Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello. Only ve .......
326: Water Cooler, Don't worry, Kevan has it all under control (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-08-14, 21:52:56 (202.44.191.121)
Gosper was on ABC Oz radio yesterday morning and doing his oily best, as IOC man in charge of the media centre, to keep us asleep. When asked about the bashing - sorry, alleged assault - his immediate .......
327: Music Lane, Has anyone yet heard the Sofronitsky box from Brilliant Classics? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-08-12, 19:45:04 (203.100.247.70)
Any opinions would be welcome, although I'm pretty sure to get it in due course unless they are totally negative. .......
328: Music Lane, Am I being obtuse, or is anonymous Alf shilling this Marillion thing? nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-08-06, 05:18:13 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
329: Music Lane, love it! nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-08-03, 20:37:35 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
330: Music Lane, Hey, I never said Franz never had an off day, now did I? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-08-03, 02:03:05 (203.100.247.70)
But the 15th rhapsody, for me, wasn't one of them - he managed, uh, restraint (well, it's all relative) and it has a shape to it. Vlad the impaler did not improve it, I reckon. On the other hand, I'll .......
331: Music Lane, Reminds me of the volodos (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-08-02, 17:47:38 (203.100.247.70)
... who, I'm sure, is a cheery and amusing young fellow, but all his taste is in his mouth. On this link he gives us the 15th Rhapsody with, if I'm not mistaken, "improvements" suggested by Horowitz d .......
332: Music Lane, The link reminds me of my mother (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-07-23, 03:00:01 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
333: Music Lane, For what it's worth, I've found FNAC entirely reliable (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-07-23, 02:56:22 (203.100.247.70)
It is a very big retail business for books, electronics, music & dvd, stores all over France, and although often not cheap, has been a reliable mail-order source to Oz .......
334: Music Lane, This seems to be the CD, but who knows where you might find it? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-07-21, 21:27:13 (202.44.191.121)
and this link suggests that it is the only recording of the work ever made: http://www.violadagamba.org/html/ccaix.html#Discography Bonne chance! .......
335: Music Lane, Does Esquivel count? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-07-21, 20:55:08 (202.44.191.121)
Wild stereophonic latinisms, with nonsense lyrics, horns, zinging pedal steel and, most importantly, plenny-o BONGOS .......
336: Shady Lane, It's only a faint hope (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-07-02, 01:50:04 (203.100.247.70)
You could try the UK Office of Fair Trading: http://www.oft.gov.uk/ 70 bucks or whatever it was may not light their fire - after all, you're dealing with the land which gave us Nick Leeson, but you ne .......
337: Films/DVD Asylum, Too right (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-06-29, 02:57:01 (203.100.247.70)
If you winced at parts of Pulp Fiction, you'll do the same here. But it's a very funny film, of the ironic gallows sort. Read is a bit of a legend in his own lunchtime - not quite as serious a crim as .......
338: Music Lane, Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two Headed Love Child (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-06-07, 21:35:51 (203.100.247.70)
Mojo Nixon .......
339: Inmate Central, Bewdiful! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-06-06, 02:17:40 (203.100.247.70)
Rants over at the watercooler indicate that US politics does generate a lot of heat: a lot more than you'd find amongst Orstrayans. That's because we, like our Canadian cousins, are too wise to believ .......
340: Water Cooler, Subject to a very strict PG rating, of course (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-06-06, 00:39:26 (203.100.247.70)
which for those elsewhere means that parents of children under 12 should exercise discretion before allowing their tots to view them. Still, the choirboy maintained on radio this morning that he still .......
341: Music Lane, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-06-02, 17:10:49 (202.44.191.121)
It seems that his recorded output dates from the 50s when he was at MIT, and was recorded in a hall there. The samples on amazon sound like a very live square room, which is a bit of a pity. He sounds .......
342: Music Lane, Comments on Ernst Levy, anyone? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-31, 17:45:26 (203.100.247.70)
I heard Ashkenazy's Shostakovich preludes, which were o.k., then bought the Hyperion recordings of Tatiana Nikolayeva. All of a sudden, it all fell into place - and others say these were the least aut .......
343: Music Lane, You're not the only one. I'm scared to look! nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-30, 01:27:24 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
344: Music Lane, Pretty much all the time. And I hum on the way in - can't whistle for ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-28, 16:57:24 (202.44.191.121)
Right now it's Jean-Efflam Bavouzet doing Debussy vol 3, since it just came in the post. He's very good. Since I work in my own office I do the choosing. It's probably a distraction from work a good d .......
345: Rocky Road, Wow - that's a tough one (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-28, 00:53:44 (202.44.191.121)
In no particular order, and avoiding those already listed: Blues With A Feeling - Little Walter Dark Was The Night - Blind Willie Johnson Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - ah, I guess Muddy Waters' ver .......
346: Music Lane, Where does solo piano fit in all this? Just wondering nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-27, 01:06:41 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
347: Water Cooler, Nope. I'm right. You're wrong. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-25, 14:55:49 (203.100.247.70)
I know we all bring our preconceptions to it, but one reaction that I don't have is sexual arousal. You have to actually look at the image and see what is there. What I see is a very poignant image. .......
348: Water Cooler, Actually, there's a good deal of 'art' in it (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-25, 14:43:38 (203.100.247.70)
... the way it's lit, the way she stands, the direction of her gaze and so on and so on. .......
349: Films/DVD Asylum, Le moment de l'apparition de Mme Kelly m'a coupé le souffle nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-24, 19:09:35 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
350: Water Cooler, I hope he is prosecuted (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-24, 18:03:34 (203.100.247.70)
I feel sorry for Henson having to put up with this crap, and it makes me wince to see this cringing response to his work displayed internationally, at least a prosecution would afford the opportunity .......
351: Music Lane, Thankyou one and all - most informative nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-23, 00:54:48 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
352: Music Lane, Living piano soloists in concert (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-21, 22:20:04 (202.44.191.121)
Down here in the antipodes we do not necessarily get to see all those whom I would wish to see perform. It's all very nice having Vladimir Ashkenazy as the big cheese of the Sydney Symphony, for examp .......
353: Water Cooler, That sounds better overall than having to infuse meaning into Alf Garnett's life nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-21, 20:41:16 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
354: Water Cooler, As a no account powerless aussie in the middle of nowhere (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-21, 05:14:02 (203.100.247.70)
I ask, politely I hope, just what are the qualities of the US body politic which make it of such account, and place it in the middle of somewhere, ah, else? I don't need to ask about the power bit, o .......
355: Water Cooler, I know you say "probably not", but don't you wonder a little what might have been? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-21, 04:11:53 (203.100.247.70)
This whole topic is very fraught, I know. On the general level, it seems to me that most forms of celebrity begin with hungry parents, whether in sport or performing arts. (You've seen the unspeakably .......
356: Films/DVD Asylum, 2 French children's films - real, Disney-free cinema (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-20, 18:02:53 (202.44.191.121)
I should probably start with a disclaimer. I loathe the works of Disney: their single plot pseudo-quests leavened only by in-jokes for the lazy grown-ups who pay for the tickets, their relentless can .......
357: Music Lane, I'd add her "legendary 1965 recording" on EMI (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-20, 16:24:18 (203.100.247.70)
It's all Chopin and all juicy goodness, done when she was in her early 20s. If you want a taste, you can look her up on youtube - she hacks out the Op 53 polonaise from this session or thereabouts. It .......
358: Rocky Road, Which is not to say that they're any good, apart from Rory's nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-19, 00:42:14 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
359: Rocky Road, In no particular order: Irish Tour - Rory; Who Live at Leeds; Mountain Twin Peaks nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-18, 22:01:52 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
360: Rocky Road, killer album nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-18, 21:49:10 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
361: Music Lane, RE: What 10 CDs Are You Playing The Most Often Lately? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-15, 23:52:15 (202.44.191.121)
Richter: Rachmaninoff Étude-Tableaux, Preludes Ultra-Lounge Vol 4 - Bachelor Pad Royale Medard Ferrero/Gus Viseur/Jo Privat/Lucienne De Lyle: Mon Amant De Saint Jean Richter/Wislocki/Warsaw Philharmon .......
362: Music Lane, Ethel Merman nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-08, 01:05:19 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
363: Water Cooler, Actually, hearsay in terrorism matters only secures convictions in US "military commissions" (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-07, 20:07:32 (202.44.191.121)
Tho it is true that our former terrified federal govt has enacted legislation that permits folk to be incarcerated without ever knowing what the evidence against them is: too secret to be contested, a .......
364: Films/DVD Asylum, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-05-07, 16:43:00 (202.44.191.121)
I was about 4. The chase on the stairs gave me nightmares for years. Great Expectations - terror in the graveyard The Nutty Professor - I recall falling instantly and deeply in love with Stella Steven .......
365: Music Lane, Too right - consume it a little at a time. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-26, 00:33:54 (203.100.247.70)
For what it's worth, I also like Adam Harasciewicz' playing of the polonaises, Claudio Arrau's nocturnes (I can already hear the sneering), second Perahia's etudes and REALLY like an Andante historica .......
366: Water Cooler, It doesn't lend itself readily to posturing from one or other political wing (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-23, 20:38:56 (202.44.191.121)
- so I guess it's not interesting, huh? Cute that Mr Farfel is now looking after WTC fallout - there must be a few janitors and doormen amongst the bankers & brokers, I suppose. .......
367: Music Lane, 2 bob each way (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-20, 18:47:58 (202.44.191.121)
On the whole I have always preferred music created in the moment, and bought many more live than studio rock albums for that reason when I was a kiddie. UN-tech would have robbed us of the whole of hi .......
368: Music Lane, Question for any tech-savvy folk (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-20, 17:50:50 (202.44.191.121)
Having read Andrew Rose's post, I wonder whether the differences in the recordings which he has noted could be the result of careful use of EQ? I'm kinda out of the loop on developments in recording t .......
369: Music Lane, Vlad the Impaler? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-17, 04:55:43 (203.100.247.70)
Because, as the Phlorescent Leech said: he knew when he was licked ... all over. That wasn't supposed to make much sense, you know. .......
370: Music Lane, Bangin on about rach 2 & 3 (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-16, 05:56:22 (203.100.247.70)
How come Richter never played the 3rd Concerto? How come Gilels never did the 2nd? Was this the dead hand of the Ministry of Culture at work? Any rate, thanks to your lengthened, sage advices - Ramesh .......
371: Rocky Road, And some parts of the story are best passed over in silence. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-16, 04:12:03 (203.100.247.70)
At a certain age I bought Deep Purple In Rock. The most remarkable thing about that particular period of my life was my ability to produce spermatozoa. And pour my love out in my hand. I'm not running .......
372: Inmate Central, If you aren't grown up by the time you're 50 then you don't have to. nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-16, 03:37:35 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
373: Rocky Road, A few glass cutters, rather than head shredders (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-16, 00:39:04 (202.44.191.121)
James Burton - Oh Suzie Q Garcia & Weir - China Cat Sunflower Hubert Sumlin - Wang Dang Doodle, Back Door Man, Commit A Crime (or if you haven't got it, Carry On: Stephen Stills) Elmore James - Dust M .......
374: Music Lane, Ignore previous post: w-a-a-a-y off the mark (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-06, 19:17:35 (202.44.191.121)
It's not Richter playing the 3rd, but Victoria Postnikova. As I wd have realised if I'd read more carefully .......
375: Music Lane, Feb 1959? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-06, 15:57:05 (203.100.247.70)
Paul Geffen lists only 2 traversals of the 2nd, both 1959, Sanderling in February and Wislocki in April. There again, he seems pretty positive that Richter never recorded the 3rd, which isn't what Yed .......
376: Music Lane, Richter/Rachmaninoff 3 (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-05, 16:34:16 (203.100.247.70)
I BELIEVE that he did it in 1991 with Rozhdestvensky & USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra. It's on a Yedang release with the Sanderling Rach 2. Dunno about the ministry of culture, but I figured that .......
377: Music Lane, Which Richter/Rachmaninoff 2? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-04, 16:53:56 (203.100.247.70)
Searching on the forum suggests that Sviatoslav Teophilovich crunched out one or more mighty renditions of Sergei Vasilyevich's second concerto in the 50s. I see with Wislocki & Warsaw Philharmonic, a .......
378: Inmate Central, Quality cinema nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-03, 15:26:16 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
379: Films/DVD Asylum, Keaton launches the Damfino (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-02, 18:07:32 (202.44.191.121)
At about 4 minutes in ... There's something about his stoicism which is also very touching. It's the antithesis of cheap laughs. .......
380: Inmate Central, ... people who made foolish short-sighted economic decisions ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-02, 01:05:29 (203.100.247.70)
... and expect those of us who didn't to bail them out. You're talking about lenders, right? Jack up the rates of those who can still bleed, to make up for what they're not getting from those who have .......
381: Rocky Road, Ha ha ha (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-01, 17:50:37 (202.44.191.121)
I'd forgotten about the Cambridge magic elf lyric school. Mostly written by Dopey. The best thing about Yes was that the music was every bit as bad as the words - so at least you couldn't feel let dow .......
382: Rocky Road, So was I, at the time. Well alright! nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-01, 00:21:46 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
383: Rocky Road, Best fun you can have without laughing, or so I'm led to believe. nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-04-01, 00:18:53 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
384: Rocky Road, Most self-indulgent song? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-31, 20:30:43 (202.44.191.121)
Remember when rock music was the chosen artistic medium and voice of a generation? How much of what then seemed profound, now appears merely to have been plumbing the depths? One that comes readily to .......
385: Rocky Road, No-one's mentioned the original Blind Faith cover (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-31, 19:53:51 (202.44.191.121)
oh hush my mouth .......
386: Films/DVD Asylum, If this is atonement, the sin must have passed beyond mortal (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-31, 18:42:30 (202.44.191.121)
Part the first: period country house costume drama Part the second: expressionist fantasy on the BIG themes - blood, loss, war etc Part the third: Maggie to camera verité Part the fourth: see, Maggie .......
387: Films/DVD Asylum, U-571 (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-31, 18:23:58 (202.44.191.121)
Oh, hang on, of course it was those brave, resourceful Americans who recovered the Enigma machine, wasn't it? The only real surprise is that Jeremy Irons wasn't cast as the German commander, for, as w .......
388: Music Lane, Maybe she recorded twice for Melodiya (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-27, 19:42:06 (202.44.191.121)
Trawling around the web suggests that her 1987 recording was for Melodiya, later issued on CD by BMG/Melodiya and now issued, remastered, by Regis. As for the 1962 effort - I shall keep looking ... :: .......
389: Music Lane, Thankyez all. Time to break out the credit card (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-26, 21:32:14 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
390: Music Lane, I have the impression she recorded the lot 3 times (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-26, 21:28:33 (202.44.191.121)
Hyperion around 1990, Regis (DDD) a few years earlier, and Melodiya maybe as early as the 50s. Melodiya got released on CD in the mid-90s and seems to command premium prices now. Still, what price art .......
391: Music Lane, QED. Bloke didn't have a clue (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-26, 21:21:41 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
392: Music Lane, Can't be real jazz unless it's played by an American (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-26, 15:50:40 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
393: Music Lane, How about accordion AND banjo AND bagpipes? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-26, 15:44:38 (202.44.191.121)
It's, uh, confronting. But fun. And if you need persuasion that accordion can make great music in the right hands, listen to Manouche Partie by Jo Privat. .......
394: Music Lane, Shostakovich preludes & fugues - recommended? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-25, 02:32:08 (203.100.247.70)
Tatiana Nikolayeva's Die Kunst Der Fuge arrived today. I'm mightily impressed and thinking to follow into one of her readings of Shostakovich's preludes. I see there's one on Hyperion and and earlier, .......
395: Music Lane, Gypsy jazz maybe? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-14, 14:30:04 (203.100.247.70)
Django Reinhardt's output was vast - Frémeaux & Associés complete recordings runs to something like 20 double CDs - and I don't know it well enough to make sensible recommendations. He was such a towe .......
396: Water Cooler, This, of course, is true nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-13, 01:34:37 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
397: Water Cooler, She does have youth and beautiful skin (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-13, 00:49:56 (203.100.247.70)
but the degree to which she's been slobbered over suggests to me that it's been a long time between drinks for some of the boys here. As for paying - well - see my post above .......
398: Water Cooler, 4 gorillas ain't a cheap root (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-13, 00:42:40 (203.100.247.70)
Still, my first cost me about half a million, give or take. .......
399: Music Lane, Some wild guesses on the piano front (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-12, 00:49:08 (203.100.247.70)
You mention the Goldberg variations, so I have in mind smaller scale piano works, or those which comprise a series of shorter parts. A few possibilities, all on CD: Bach - Well tempered clavier. Richt .......
400: Music Lane, Couple of hints (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-07, 01:59:50 (203.100.247.70)
Bear in mind that central Paris is very small by comparison with US cities and has excellent and cheap public transport - Metro & bus. Nowhere in the city is far from anywhere else. They publish a sma .......
401: Rocky Road, I'll have to take your word for it (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-03, 23:48:15 (203.100.247.70)
A lifetime of self abuse has resulted in almost total failure of my eyesight But the reactions of those around do suggest that the man in green did something unsavoury, and probably worse than ordinar .......
402: Rocky Road, Right where? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-03, 03:42:31 (203.100.247.70)
Once again, I'm prepared to bow to the superior perceptions of those who were there. Was there a gun seen? .......
403: Films/DVD Asylum, she hasn't spawned yet, as far as I know (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-03-02, 15:10:18 (202.44.191.121)
but when she does there will be jubilation throughout the known world. Will she have a caesar and quick trim? or will the guitar slinger be holding her hand as she pushes? My money says that her offsp .......
404: Films/DVD Asylum, Our very own poor little rich girl (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-29, 19:31:43 (203.100.247.70)
Like her former husband, has done nothing worthwhile in her entire career and, again like him, there's something creepily non-human about her screen presence. .......
405: Shady Lane, The Lads From Lagos (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-29, 18:32:09 (203.100.247.70)
If you are at a loose end for an hour or two, there's amusement to be had in following the adventures of recipients of correspondence from the dark continent. Includes cross-dressing counter-scams, se .......
406: Rocky Road, You're not alone (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-29, 17:47:30 (203.100.247.70)
He's got that raspy timbre like Richie Havens. And the man can write an anthem, too. .......
407: Rocky Road, Yeh - Tempus Two Winery in the Hunter valley 1 March (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-26, 15:32:41 (202.44.191.121)
So they'll all get on the sauce and it will be August 1969 all over again .......
408: Rocky Road, Carlos in Melbourne (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-26, 06:07:48 (203.100.247.70)
Got home an hour ago, or so. I've never been a big fan, except for Caravanserai and Welcome. We were stuck up on the side almost behind the stage at the tennis centre, where the sound was less than id .......
409: Water Cooler, Which is exactly what the Church (snigger) of Scientology says, too (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-26, 05:58:57 (203.100.247.70)
The hell with it - I'm going straight on to a high vitamin, low thetan diet. .......
410: Rocky Road, thanks again cheers nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-23, 04:16:52 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
411: Rocky Road, thank yez, both nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-21, 16:37:41 (202.44.191.121)
. .......
412: Rocky Road, Australia's federal minister for the environment singing "I said to h-i-i-m ..." (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-21, 16:10:45 (202.44.191.121)
This I gotta hear. First time the Oils came to Melbourne, they were playing in the next room at the Tiger Lounge in Richmond. Leader of the then better-known Paul Madigan & The Humans sez "Will someon .......
413: Rocky Road, weren't they cookin, eh? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-21, 15:51:45 (202.44.191.121)
There is real grandeur in their sound that's unlike anything else in the rock world. The closest anyone else gets is merely "loud". And I say this as one having an abiding love of The Band. I think it .......
414: Rocky Road, Q. for DaveC - Larry Wallis (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-21, 03:07:59 (203.100.247.70)
Seeing your post below re Stiffs Live Any idea what happened to Larry Wallis? And how come Police Car was not the mega international hit which wd allow him to live in luxury having his pits nuzzled by .......
415: Rocky Road, A fair question, since it's total crap (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-21, 02:38:27 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
416: Rocky Road, Plainly, you are much closer to these idols than I, but (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-21, 02:36:02 (203.100.247.70)
listening from across the Pacific, some of the Dead phenomena perplex me. I haven't listened to everything, like some, but I've never bought the Jerry Garcia as great guitarist thing. And his singing .......
417: Rocky Road, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-21, 02:25:27 (203.100.247.70)
I've neglected this kinda music of recent times. Ye singer-songwriters are a dime a dozen, but what impressed me about him was his way of digging into the dark side of human nature without making a bi .......
418: Rocky Road, A fine singer and a fine sensibility (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-20, 04:11:35 (203.100.247.70)
Tho I've only got one album of his - Forbidden Songs of the Dying West - I couldn't agree more. I bet he's got a copy of the english and scottish popular ballads in his suitcase, too .......
419: Music Lane, Out here in the sticks we continue to go for colour and movement (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-09, 16:31:28 (203.100.247.70)
We're not as civilised as ye Bostonians .......
420: Music Lane, There's a deal of truth in this, I reckon (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-08, 20:14:19 (203.100.247.70)
Of course, there are difficulties for those soloists who give themselves the freedom to depart from the text. Audience expectations are confounded. Some will be dissatisfied, irrespective of quality. .......
421: Music Lane, Thanks (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-06, 04:22:12 (203.100.247.70)
I have heard him on the 90s Paris Musette comps from La Lichére - will look further. K .......
422: Music Lane, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Leon Russell and, um, Moby (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-05, 03:37:07 (203.100.247.70)
The last not in a good way. Not in a good way at all .......
423: Shady Lane, It's really disappointing, isn't it? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-04, 03:37:56 (203.100.247.70)
I wanted a hot rooskie but scored a border leicester from Auckland. Still, 2 years on and she's furnished me with a couple of sweaters, and she's going to be converted into chops this coming weekend. .......
424: Music Lane, Anybody here interested in musette or accordion swing? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-04, 02:37:36 (203.100.247.70)
I've kinda fallen into it over the past few years, gone mad for French accordion music - though truth be told most of their best accordionists seem to have been born either in Italy or Belgium: Viseur .......
425: Music Lane, Paul Jacobs - Legendary Busoni Recordings (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-02-02, 23:15:23 (203.100.247.70)
This pair of CDs is the closest I've heard to the sensation of playing a big piano in a medium-sized room. And the stereo perspective is that of the pianist - a rare and beautiful thing in the recorde .......
426: Films/DVD Asylum, Yeah, well (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-26, 19:25:37 (203.100.247.70)
To me it was just a bunch of folks getting off on mutilation etc - and I couldn't relate at all. Other Cronenberg I have enjoyed/admired, but not this one. .......
427: Films/DVD Asylum, I know that one man's meat is another's poison (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-25, 17:38:07 (203.100.247.70)
but can you explain to me anything that's good about this film? Don't worry about the technical qualities of cinematography, sound and so on - I know they're o.k. .......
428: Water Cooler, I was thinking more of US and Australian citizens (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-23, 00:50:12 (203.100.247.70)
- whose appetite for credit is as limitless as their indifference to the despoliation caused by their wasteful self indulgence. Of course, we may yet become customers of the IMF ... .......
429: Films/DVD Asylum, FZ was a better composer than film-maker. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-22, 19:03:54 (203.100.247.70)
And he never should have sacked Ray Collins at al. Boy, those original mothers gave him plenty. Swap them for the squealing of Napoleon Murphy Brock and so on? No thanks. .......
430: Films/DVD Asylum, The remake, I presume. What a pointless exercise. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-22, 18:57:26 (203.100.247.70)
John Waters' Hairspray was a lot of fun .......
431: Water Cooler, I didn't realise that it was (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-22, 18:49:29 (203.100.247.70)
Doubtless some wise head will in the fullness of time judge the economic wisdom of the present US administration. Of course, at this distance, one gets the impression that recent presidents are in the .......
432: Rocky Road, Top marks! (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-22, 18:12:35 (203.100.247.70)
And if you ain't heard it, give a listen to "Teenage Blues", particularly the live version on Last Drive In Movie Show. Tougher than their usual 50s revival type stuff. Link to the studio version on t .......
433: Water Cooler, Maybe (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-22, 18:00:24 (203.100.247.70)
The degree of governmental responsibility for the economic situation from time to time wd depend on the degree and manner in which it collects and spends taxes - that wd be its direct impact - and the .......
434: Water Cooler, NASDAQ was a product of the much-vaunted market at work (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-22, 01:21:18 (203.100.247.70)
Like other market bubbles. And the greedy got what they deserved. Had eff-all to do with the Clinton presidency - unless you think that he should have regulated the market, of course. Which, as I unde .......
435: Films/DVD Asylum, Jim Carrey as ACTOR. Oh spare me! (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-22, 01:01:31 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
436: Films/DVD Asylum, Tough question (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-22, 00:58:49 (203.100.247.70)
Anything by Ed Wood has to be a candidate, though they do have such an absence of production values and lo-fi ideas that they can charm some. But the most pointless couple of hours I ever spent in a t .......
437: Music Lane, For finding new music I was blown away by Rhapsody (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-17, 04:44:06 (203.100.247.70)
Mate of mine who's been in the hi fidelity business for decades has installed a Sonos system at home and subscribes to Rhapsody. He's been raving about it for months, and I finally got to try it out a .......
438: Water Cooler, Not that it's any of my business, but that's a terrible thing to say (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-06, 05:32:46 (203.100.247.70)
about a former first lady. Though if truth be told, I DID see a pitcher of her with her mouth looking like the other end of her alimentary canal. Not that I've actually inspected the other end of her .......
439: Films/DVD Asylum, Agreed (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-02, 21:17:05 (203.100.247.70)
Though I love both. .......
440: Films/DVD Asylum, I guess I prefer the euro version (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-02, 15:28:44 (203.100.247.70)
As I imply below, one of the things I most enjoy about Leone is that his plots don't drive along fast - lots of individual elements in his films appear a bit purposeless, or could have been done more .......
441: Films/DVD Asylum, Well - I MIGHT be drawing a bit of a long bow, you know (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-02, 14:57:13 (203.100.247.70)
But the naturalism of Olmi bears comparison with Tolstoy and the larger than life all over the place Leone epics are a more Homeric way of storytelling. The thing about good bad ugly, in particular, i .......
442: Films/DVD Asylum, Homer and Tolstoy both had valid things to say (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-02, 04:46:19 (203.100.247.70)
Leone made art, IM-not-so-HO. PLus it IS great entertainment, as you say. .......
443: Films/DVD Asylum, What a cracking bunch of films they are (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2008-01-01, 15:12:15 (203.100.247.70)
The thing Leone understood, and had the budget to make, was that these sprawling tales of good and evil needed length. To develop the argument, as the music critic wd say. So they move along slowly bu .......
444: Films/DVD Asylum, M. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-25, 20:33:30 (203.100.247.70)
Couldn't tell you if they are in 5.1, quadraphonic or glorious mono. .......
445: Water Cooler, I might not agree with your point of view (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-21, 01:50:15 (203.100.247.70)
but I have to hand it to anyone who takes on the task of formal education of their children - particularly where, as in your case, you make such a good fist of it. I can't imagine having the inclinat .......
446: Music Lane, Dichter/Marriner is perfectly acceptable. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-19, 08:44:00 (203.100.247.70)
Mischa Dichter is a very fine pianist who receives less than his due, I think. The philharmonia orch accompanying is a good tight outfit. A good programme, too: Gershwin, Addinsell, Litolff, Chopin, L .......
447: Water Cooler, You do have to wonder: "Where do they get these crazy ideas?" (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-12, 02:03:29 (203.100.247.70)
Ok - so you start out pulling the wings off flies, or inserting crackers into felines. And we're not to know , of course, how realistic this reenactment for the benefit of the already convinced may be .......
448: Music Lane, Who knows? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-11, 23:43:50 (203.100.247.70)
Some stuff looks fairly cheap, others not so. Why not burn a couple of hundred bucks and let us know whether it disappeared into another space time continuum? .......
449: Water Cooler, Your analogy with the war on drugs is very apt (if I may piss in yer pocket) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-07, 16:19:32 (203.100.247.70)
For long I've maintained that illicit drugs are not evil: in themselves they are chemicals having no moral dimension whatever. The next step (or leap) in the libertarian argument is to grant individua .......
450: Water Cooler, I dunno that arming the victims would have made a lot of difference (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-07, 15:58:56 (203.100.247.70)
in any of these cases. Arsonists often have a sexual agenda of the solitary type. They find something loin stirring about the rising flames and the terror inspired in the occupants. Whether that was s .......
451: Rocky Road, Five: (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-07, 00:41:31 (203.100.247.70)
24 bars worth of Clapton in Crossroads itself. Must be kinda hard to live with the fact that the best two things you ever did in yer life occupied around half a minute each and were only one verse apa .......
452: Water Cooler, That makes me an accessory to murder, I guess (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-06, 18:26:47 (165.228.179.151)
but I can live with it. Granted, because there are so many firearms already in circulation in the States, you'd have a helluva job taking them out again. But I have a sense that folk on your side of t .......
453: Water Cooler, After which event, our firearms laws were greatly tightened (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-06, 17:58:36 (165.228.179.151)
and that despite the opposition of our admittedly far less powerful gun lobby. It's the only piece of statesmanship on the part of our former prime minister that I can recall, but good on him for doin .......
454: Water Cooler, What are those speakers, Dave? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-06, 02:54:00 (203.100.247.70)
And do they delight you? .......
455: Water Cooler, Whether Cain slew Abel is hardly the point (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-06, 02:48:31 (203.100.247.70)
Relatively few disaffected teenagers are able to take the lives of 8 people in the space of minutes if the most deadly object to hand is a piece of cutlery. We here do not have the right to bear arms .......
456: Water Cooler, Fortunately, guns still don't kill people (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-05, 18:41:50 (165.228.179.151)
. .......
457: Water Cooler, Nope (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-12-05, 18:38:57 (165.228.179.151)
His arm is straight as it comes past the shoulder. That quasi-javelin slinging action isn't conducive to chucking, or control, but sure aids speed. If he had the flexibility in his back to bring his a .......
458: Water Cooler, Not near as well as some have made out. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-25, 00:08:43 (203.100.247.70)
Gross relaxation of access to credit is not the same thing as prosperity, eh? There will be a bust unless we have some very very subtle folk in charge of monetary policy. And unless there IS a bust, m .......
459: Water Cooler, No - we don't yet know what it said (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-24, 16:43:17 (203.100.247.70)
except that it has tired of the despicable moral pygmy who's been at the head of the show for too long. Now, what the Milky Bar Kid has up his sleeve, apart from a command of Mandarin (which may prove .......
460: Water Cooler, Heard Mark Vaille on the wireless the other night (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-20, 18:57:27 (203.17.236.101)
telling us how they'd restored the balance between employer and employee. He didn't mention that the balance had been restored to that obtaining in 1850. Why do these people hate unions so much? Why d .......
461: Water Cooler, How will you feel if he gets back? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-20, 18:39:02 (203.17.236.101)
If this shifty little prick, who was so keen on restoring the public's trust in politicians 11 years ago, and has behaved so disgracefully since, is returned, I should like to emigrate. Take up reside .......
462: Water Cooler, Dispepsia strikes incumbent during patriotism test nt. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-16, 22:17:20 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
463: Water Cooler, majority of presidential hopefuls suffer heart attacks in attempt to prove loyalty nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-16, 22:14:32 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
464: Music Lane, Gilels' Appassionata is very noble - highly recommended (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-15, 00:00:45 (203.100.247.70)
I haven't sufficient comparisons to add much to the debate, other than to say that Barenboim from the 70s is not as moving. .......
465: Water Cooler, According to urban legends, the real quote was (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-08, 18:35:32 (203.17.236.101)
"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves .......
466: Water Cooler, Still, we'll miss him when he's gone (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-08, 03:50:04 (203.100.247.70)
He's just so easy to despise. .......
467: Water Cooler, It works kinda like this (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-08, 03:46:40 (203.100.247.70)
- at least beneath the equator You cannot assert intellectual property rights in your likeness, as such, BUT, if you are a famous pop-start, then you buy the copyright in your most fetching photos, a .......
468: Water Cooler, I'll be damned: thinking troglodytes (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-06, 19:05:44 (203.17.236.101)
Ye americans' Center for Strategic & International Studies has just published a draft report on the decline of the States' influence and ideas for its remedy. Longish, but readily comprehensible. When .......
469: Music Lane, Thanks, John (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-06, 14:12:35 (203.100.247.70)
The rest of that disc is 20th century chamber music: violin & cello Duo from Kodaly and clarinet, violin & Martha Contrasts from Bartok. I don't know quite how the Liszt fits into that program - it's .......
470: Water Cooler, Hope you had purple moon for the place (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-05, 20:22:17 (203.100.247.70)
I lost 20 bucks on a horse once and have resented it ever since. Not as much as the 5 I put into a one-armed bandit, though: boy, that was fun. I can see how you cd get seduced by the punt, or cards, .......
471: Water Cooler, They say "k-k-k ... k-k-keep yr hands in yr pockets, k-k-k-kenny" (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-05, 19:29:12 (203.100.247.70)
and count yr nuts Beautiful day for sheilas in high heels to get shit-faced and start putting out, though. (As long as you catch them before they start spreading carrots and tomato skins down their fr .......
472: Music Lane, A plea for Liszt: Grosses Konzertsolo/Concerto Pathétique (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-05, 18:48:52 (203.100.247.70)
Liszt's only sonata apparently qualifies as part of the canon, and it seems that every big time piano player has a crack at it at some stage. Often just after they've digested their final lump of Chop .......
473: Water Cooler, I found it made a nice change from the voices in my head nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-05, 17:57:13 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
474: Water Cooler, Yeah, but I never got into the habit before (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-05, 17:06:05 (203.100.247.70)
Apart from when travelling, I don't reckon I ever used more than a couple of bucks worth of mobile calls a month. And those were only to the talking clock. .......
475: Water Cooler, I was first shown a blackberry at a wedding reception (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-05, 15:39:21 (203.100.247.70)
by a merchant bwanker. There was a tell-tale patch forming on his trousers as he persuaded me of his self-importance. Years later I did have a mobile phone with bells & whistles - GPS was good oversea .......
476: Water Cooler, better'n skidmarks, though. nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-03, 06:13:17 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
477: Music Lane, He was wearing a yarmulka (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-11-03, 06:10:37 (203.100.247.70)
And yes, Jewish musicians frequently are better than goyim. Barenboim is better than me, for instance. .......
478: Water Cooler, And two pages further on, we find one Hal Turner as the original "source" (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-29, 05:37:22 (203.100.247.70)
45 year old married catholic family man, broadcaster and jew-hater with all the usual trimmings: start storing your canned food for armageddon, buy yesself a jena-6 style noose if you're TIRED OF BLAC .......
479: Water Cooler, Dried Rover (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-27, 14:42:35 (203.100.247.70)
I dunno whether the entire pic might be a bit offensive for the delicate sensibilities of the board. .......
480: Water Cooler, Why, I ... (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-25, 22:16:58 (203.17.236.101)
. .......
481: Water Cooler, Yum! Just like prosciutto, only you can prepare a whole beast this way (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-25, 20:02:09 (203.17.236.101)
The rest of the picture ain't for the faint-hearted. Wasn't it the duke of edinburgh who said "If it's got 4 legs and isn't a chair, the Chinese will eat it"? .......
482: Water Cooler, With you on that one (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-25, 06:54:19 (203.100.247.70)
Cd get used to it, I guess. Like horse. Or pekinese. It makes o.k. snags, but. .......
483: Water Cooler, I already have many of these desirable features (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-25, 06:12:49 (203.100.247.70)
hairless skin on the lower legs, pert breasts of the man-boob variety, glossy hair - well, what remains of it. And I've lost love, sympathy, trust and respect. I'd preferred to have got a bigger penis .......
484: Water Cooler, You're too cryptic for me, I'm afraid. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-20, 20:38:38 (203.100.247.70)
Cheers .......
485: Water Cooler, Is that a joke or an insult? nt (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-20, 18:30:13 (203.100.247.70)
. .......
486: Water Cooler, Like the late K Packer of sainted memory? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-20, 14:08:53 (203.100.247.70)
I've had someone tell me that he paid bulk taxes on behalf of all those media vultures working for him, did so much good etcetera. I don't buy it. Remitting your employees' group tax is not the same t .......
487: Water Cooler, How? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-20, 01:07:22 (203.100.247.70)
Is this maybe one of those paradoxes like Reaganomics? .......
488: Water Cooler, Of course you're right, Abe (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-20, 01:01:20 (203.100.247.70)
We have a lot of highly educated young folk down under who might, once upon a time, have found careers in manufacturing, but now work in the "service" sector. Serving coffee, principally. It is not al .......
489: Water Cooler, Thus capitalism devours itself (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-19, 19:11:11 (203.100.247.70)
When the last Michigan auto worker turns out the lights, how does he buy the Mexican Chevrolet? The notion of "freedom" being granted to such abstractions as the body corporate or money is, I think, p .......
490: Water Cooler, Paying taxes where you make the money (longish) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-19, 18:40:09 (203.100.247.70)
You largely got it. Most advanced communities require their tax residents to pay tax on income earned in the jurisdiction. Some - the US and Australia being examples I know of - require their tax resi .......
491: Music Lane, You've been right all along, but since we are recommending films, maybe try Diva (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-18, 05:17:21 (203.100.247.70)
by Jean Jacques Beineix. Has Wilheminia Wiggins Fernandez singing the aria from La Wally, which is a beautiful piece of singing of a beautiful piece of music. And I say this as one who has utter cont .......
492: Water Cooler, You don't wanna see Maurice, so here's something else instead (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-09, 05:43:06 (203.100.247.70)
And "Maurice" was NOT my idea. BTW, those are not my legs. .......
493: Water Cooler, I would have agreed with you 6 or 7 years ago (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-09, 05:33:53 (203.100.247.70)
Having used PCs quite happily (though not on the web), and I thought my wife's first gen iMac was kinda dinky - until I'd used it for a couple of hours. I will not go back to a PC as long as Apple are .......
494: Music Lane, Like it cool? Check this (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-05, 00:47:27 (203.17.236.101)
kinda daddio gravy or somethin' .......
495: Music Lane, Nice work! under the knife, that is. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-05, 00:40:51 (203.17.236.101)
. .......
496: Water Cooler, Shee-yert! That's much worse than here. (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-05, 00:35:06 (203.17.236.101)
We're at about 39%. And worried. But that's just Melbourne, which has the numbers and the votes and is being looked after at the expense of the bush. .......
497: Water Cooler, Jeez, you blokes are a bit harsh (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-05, 00:30:22 (203.17.236.101)
Mind you, I AM a wanker .......
498: Water Cooler, In a former life he was a barrister (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-05, 00:28:40 (203.17.236.101)
He was a turd then, too .......
499: Water Cooler, The "nuffink's good as it is at 'ome" types? (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-03, 22:27:03 (203.17.236.101)
I reckon we've a sprinkling of oz-born ones, too. Mind you, a disproportionate number have been members of federal cabinet over the last decade and a bit. .......
500: Water Cooler, It's different down south (0.00)
Posted by k-k-k-kenny on 2007-10-03, 22:15:25 (203.17.236.101)
We're very keen on bathing here in the drought-stricken part of the country. No irrigation, but at least we've got the crunchy bits out of our forks. .......
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