What are you listening to? Part III

S.B.G · Jul 8, 2019

LizKat · Jul 8, 2019

mikzn said:
Still listening to this - weeks later - such an awesome track - it's stuck in my head

I can't help commenting it is more Peter Bourke than Lisa Gerrard?

Well Pieter Bourke and Lisa Gerrard are said to have co-written all the music for Duality, the album in which Sacrifice is one of the tracks, except for the track Tempest, for which they share credit with Iranian composer Madjid Khaladj.

Gerrard and Bourke are both Australian and had worked on an album together; she later invited him to work with her on what became the Duality album (1997). Gerrard performs the vocals (although it's not been made clear whether Bourke also contributed some vocalization to Duality). Bourke is a percussionist and keyboardist, composer, sound engineer and he co-produced that album, which was recorded and produced at his home studio. Garrard is known for her remarkable range, ability to control her vocalizations, and the fact that glossolalia rather than English are predominant in lyrics of many but not all of her compositions. In interviews, she has characterized that aspect of her writing as an inner response to the music rather than an intentional obscuring of lyrical meaning.

Scepticalscribe · Jul 9, 2019

SandboxGeneral said:
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That photograph brings back memories; from a purely physical perspective, I think it far nicer - more elegant - more of a sense of occasion - to remove a record from its sleeve, blow on it, and place it carefully on the turntable before one can commence playing it.

That is a memory from teenage and university days; heading over to a friend's house, (perhaps after a phone call, "do you want to come over and listen to ----?" a new album that they may have bought and that we hadn't managed to buy yet, or vice versa, with us - my brother and I - extending the invitation to come over to listen to a new LP) and watching this careful and very enjoyable process run its course.

Yes, CDs were convenient, played for almost eighty minutes instead of the 30 (or 20) per side of vinyl, and gave a satisfying click as they slotted home, but vinyl was magic.

S.B.G · Jul 9, 2019

Scepticalscribe said:
(perhaps after a phone call, "do you want to come over and listen to ----?") and watching this careful and very enjoyable process run its course ... but vinyl was magic.

Indeed. I think music sounds better when played on a physical medium like vinyl and even CD. There's a certain intangible feel to the music when you are using that physical record or disc that we don't get when we stream or just play on a computer/portable device.

Scepticalscribe · Jul 9, 2019

Scepticalscribe said:
That photograph brings back memories; from a purely physical perspective, I think it far nicer - more elegant - more of a sense of occasion - to remove a record from its sleeve, blow on it, and place it carefully on the turntable before one can commence playing it.

That is a memory from teenage and university days; heading over to a friend's house, (perhaps after a phone call, "do you want to come over and listen to ----?" a new album that they may have bought and that we hadn't managed to buy yet, or vice versa, with us extending the invitation to come over to listen to a new LP) and watching this careful and very enjoyable process run its course.

Yes, CDs were convenient, played for almost eighty minutes instead of the 30 (or 20) per side of vinyl, and gave a satisfying click as they slotted home, but vinyl was magic.

That was it; music and coffee.

You couldn't afford alcohol as a student, and parents would have murdered you if you had raided their drinks cabinet without permission (unless it was a special occasion, when you were allowed a glass or two of wine, or they were away, and you might then opportunistically plan to raid a bottle of wine from the drinks cabinet and hope that this petty larceny would go unnoticed by them on their return), but, usually, it was LP, turntable, mugs of (real) coffee, chat, and music.

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SandboxGeneral said:
Indeed. I think music sounds better when played on a physical medium like vinyl and even CD. There's a certain intangible feel to the music when you are using that physical record or disc that we don't get when we stream or just play on a computer/portable device.

Agree completely.

Playing music on a computer or streaming it - or even listening ti music on my exceedingly convenient mp3 player - just doesn't feel the same.

LizKat · Jul 9, 2019

SandboxGeneral said:
Indeed. I think music sounds better when played on a physical medium like vinyl and even CD. There's a certain intangible feel to the music when you are using that physical record or disc that we don't get when we stream or just play on a computer/portable device.

So true... until a scratched disc becomes an issue! A time that stands out in memory when I might have wished for even a CD in preference to an LP was when one of my friends or brothers had removed a classical recording from the turntable and not knowing where the sleeve was at that moment, turned around and set it down on top of the baby grand piano. With the lid closed, that instrument always had a protective drape on it to guard against attentions of the two cats who found that spot a great place to nap when no one was around to deter that choice.

Right so of course Murphy's Law kicked in and one of those cats leaped up onto the piano and made a 20-point, sliding landing atop that recording.... it was totally unplayable from that instant. Much, much later when I got a rack system for my place upstate and saw its CD player, first thing came into my head was to leave one slot open for someone else to park something in... because CDs aren't immune from scratches either and the rack system was conveniently next to the same damn piano where two cats of another generation were inclined to nap. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...

This morning I'm reaching back for summer fare I remember liking from ten or so years ago, currently listening to tracks from sniffies's Seventh Tree...

S.B.G · Jul 9, 2019

LizKat said:
So true... until a scratched disc becomes an issue! A time that stands out in memory when I might have wished for even a CD in preference to an LP was when one of my friends or brothers had removed a classical recording from the turntable and not knowing where the sleeve was at that moment, turned around and set it down on top of the baby grand piano. With the lid closed, that instrument always had a protective drape on it to guard against attentions of the two cats who found that spot a great place to nap when no one was around to deter that choice.

Right so of course Murphy's Law kicked in and one of those cats leaped up onto the piano and made a 20-point, sliding landing atop that recording.... it was totally unplayable from that instant. Much, much later when I got a rack system for my place upstate and saw its CD player, first thing came into my head was to leave one slot open for someone else to park something in... because CDs aren't immune from scratches either and the rack system was conveniently next to the same damn piano where two cats of another generation were inclined to nap. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...

This morning I'm reaching back for summer fare I remember liking from ten or so years ago, currently listening to tracks from sniffies's Seventh Tree...

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I fully understand. I have to be careful with my records and CD's and equipment with my two kitties as well. That record I pulled out yesterday got cat hair on it before I could get it on the turntable. The stuff is in the air!