After getting the Verite last week, I’ve been rediscovering everything haha. Really into Holly Cole at the moment: https://open.spotify.com/album/0euzYEeBIUxjZa5wchI1sS?si=Pqw2deUVR_-_gcXmAi-wug
It sounds so incredible on the Verite with the sort of Django Reinhardt sounding guitar lines and somewhat klezmer clarinet solos on top of jazz classics. If you have a headphone that’s great with vocals, this album is killer.
Try this on Verite.
(Crap, find it on Spotify or Tidal, the Youtube version is compressed to crap and sucks butt. A good copy images/stages in a crazy holographic kinda way on Verite.)
along with what seems like trying to listen to Johnny Winter’s complete catalog, been listening to Billy Gibbons “TheBig Bad Blues”, CPE Bach Cello Concerto #1, Fauree: Pavane in F sharp minor, Buena Vista Social Club, Steve Khan “The Blue Man”, other than that it’s just random music with players set to shuffle.
Fun listen
Today I listened to the AM Radio as I drove my 1964 Olds F-85 to the Carlisle PA Spring Auto Flea Market and Swap Meet. I recall listening to this same radio play the Beatles, and later Talking Heads, but today it was just trashy advertising jingles, country music product, and politics or religion. The actual flea market was much better.
Here’s the Olds in $10 parking.
Lots of interesting cars as you approach the Midway from Gate 5
Just like the headphone hobby, it appears that cool cars can empty your pockets.
Very nice car you have there!!
For those that like acoustics recordings with few instruments, may I recommend Rosa Passos, the album Rosa, song Ate queen sabe. Also from Sera Una Noche, La segunda, the song Nunca tuvo novio.
Amazing recordings and beautiful music.
And find Mayte Martin. De Fuego y de Agua. She sings and twin sisters play two pianos, Katia and Marielle Labecque.
Love the last two War on Drugs albums. I’m not a Kurt Vile fan. You blew my mind when you said he was a member. Then I realized he left 7-8 years ago.
I prefer War on Drugs over Kurt Vile. But I like both. 
The first War on Drugs album has Vile singing on it and it’s a little different sounding than their latest stuff.
Was sort of finger-walking through TIDAL this afternoon, trying out the Sennheiser IE 40 Pro IEMs, and I came across Lizzo. I highly recommend the track “Jerome”
Lizzo is well recorded, gives the IEMs a workout, and has a gorgeous voice, if a bit of a potty mouth. Below is the You Tube official audio. I have a sneaking admiration for this music.
Oh yeah, also listened to a classic James Brown that is no, not highly recommend, but UNCONDITIONALLY recommended.
Find it on the music service of your choice, crank the volume, and LISTEN. If you have speakers and distant neighbors, all the better.
So … just “listening to” might not cover this one.
Apparently the combination of the Cayin N8, tia Fourté, unprecedentedly lovely Seattle weather, a couple of glasses more than was likely advisable of a 24 year old Teeling whiskey (I’m normally a single-malt Scotch drinker) and “The Irish Rover” (perhaps my favorite version can be found on “The Best of the Pogues”, and is a traditional variation performed with “The Dubliners”) … can lead to “singing”* … on the deck … in full ear-shot of the waterfront.
*Or, at least, highly vocal drunkeness.
I am pretty sure the bemused staring was not born of admiration for my latent vocal talents.
No cats were mangled in this “performance”, even if it may have sounded that way.
Electro Swing and a bit of Neo Swing:
On interesting music. First, my wife sang in a choir that played Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. From my mezzanine seat in the Thousand Oaks concert place, the volume never reached 100 db. She told me the conductor had to control the volume the orchestra was playing or it would drown out the 70 so singers. The sound was very, very nice. There was a Thaikovsky violin concerto before that sounded nice too.
Also, i was reminded of a concert a few years ago in downtown town Los Angeles by the Uruguayan singe/songwriter Jorge Drexler. We went early and he spent almost one full hour going over the sound with his engineer. They were both very particular about everything related to the sound. Another group also did sound testing and they lasted probably 10 minutes. When the concert started, the other band sounded pretty bad while Drexler’s sound was just incredible. I saw him live one other time and the sound was equally outstanding. You can also catch how good all his records are. A few years ago he won an Oscar for Del Otro Lado del Rio (Guevara’s film). Drexler is an ENT doctor and I wonder if he has a better sense of sound as a result of his professional/science training. If you speak or understand Spanish, his music is a not to be missed. The production is almost always wonderful. On speakers and on headphones.
One more listening recommendation. Again in Spanish (I am Hispanic, so there goes the reason for many options), listen to Buika, Mienteme Bien from her album Niña de Fuego. Voice and piano sound really intimate and cristal clear.
Ok, just to be clear I am not religious and don’t believe in pushing beliefs on people, but an acquaintance I know is(religious, not a pushy one for clarification lol)and they were demoing some of my gear and brought my attention to the following track and Live album of this Christian band…and I may not be religious, but I can appreciate good music when I hear it =)
This track is the track I liked the most, it just sounds good to me, the acoustics, organ, vocals, man I just like it! lol also surprise twist roughly about half way through:
This next track I’ve been pretty addicted to for the past two weeks:
Another three tracks I keep coming back to over the past two weeks:
This is just fun.
