Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery. It's nice to listen to some progrock once in a while, though their time signatures can sometimes get a bit too much, sounding forced and taking away from the musical flow.
Vinyl I am listening to...
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Bugsnest,
Those are two of my all time favourite albums.
Liege and Lief, in fact, could well be the finest folk-rock album ever made. And ground breaking in conception, form and sound. Sandy Denny R.I.P
Cheers!
Those are two of my all time favourite albums.
Liege and Lief, in fact, could well be the finest folk-rock album ever made. And ground breaking in conception, form and sound. Sandy Denny R.I.P
Cheers!
sounds like a wonderful album
Anil kumar
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The Temptations - MASTERPIECE - 1973 Motown Records
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Josh,
Seems Bernie Grundman is a hallowed name in mastering. Any other such names that I should look out for, when buying vinyls online, especially in Western Classical & Jazz?
Regards
P.S. do you have any compositions conducted by Kleiber?
Anil kumar
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APP - Eye in the sky - 1982 Arista
Another name that comes to mind is Bruce Swedien. He's the guy who has mastered all Michael Jackson albums. MJ albums are known for the punch of their sound, while never getting distorted. I think that's what AR Rahman also tries to sound. Another great album Swedien had mastered is Srgio Mendes' Brasileiro. MJ albums and Srgio Mendes albums are popular with some studio engineers in Mumbai who reference it for equipment setup and tuning.
Kleiber: I need to check. I normally don't buy records on the basis of the conductor. For me the composer (or the "song") is first and foremost. Second comes the artist (say a Joshua Bell, an Ingrid Fliter or an Artur Rubinstein), then comes Conductor and Orchestra. As one grows, I have a feeling this sequence will be upended. Reason being - as one becomes more familiar with the music of a particular composer, one would yearn to hear the best rendition of it.
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Re. Western Classical music, of which I have only a passing idea, the well known compositions are well known ( an oxymoron! such as Beethoven's 5th & 9th, Bach's Brandenburgs, Mozart's 40th and so on.
So my method of searching for vinyl nuggets is :
1. Composition
2. Conductor ( Furtwangler, Karajan, Kleiber, Klemperer, choose your own greats) &
3. Orchestra (my favourites incl. VPO, BPO, KCO,)
4. Label - seems DG, EMI & Decca are the best but I run across Angel also
5. Mastering ( & recording) engineer
You see some conductors are renowned for some compositions, for instance I found out that Kleiber is/was particularly outstanding for Brahms' Fourth, Schubert's Unfinished, apart from Beethoven's 5th, 7th and so on. So choice of conductor becomes important for me. Next come the orchestra, then the label. My fifth priority will be the mastering engineer and probably the recording engineer because their keen aesthetic sense will definitely add another layer of pleasure.
That's how my reasoning goes.
Regards
Re. Western Classical music, of which I have only a passing idea, the well known compositions are well known ( an oxymoron! such as Beethoven's 5th & 9th, Bach's Brandenburgs, Mozart's 40th and so on.
So my method of searching for vinyl nuggets is :
1. Composition
2. Conductor ( Furtwangler, Karajan, Kleiber, Klemperer, choose your own greats) &
3. Orchestra (my favourites incl. VPO, BPO, KCO,)
4. Label - seems DG, EMI & Decca are the best but I run across Angel also
5. Mastering ( & recording) engineer
You see some conductors are renowned for some compositions, for instance I found out that Kleiber is/was particularly outstanding for Brahms' Fourth, Schubert's Unfinished, apart from Beethoven's 5th, 7th and so on. So choice of conductor becomes important for me. Next come the orchestra, then the label. My fifth priority will be the mastering engineer and probably the recording engineer because their keen aesthetic sense will definitely add another layer of pleasure.
That's how my reasoning goes.
Regards
Well thought out reasoning.
When it comes to western classicals and jazz, I am still at that stage where I try to ingest as much as possible, which translates to "accumulate as much as possible" and also "listen as much as possible". Digesting is slow and ongoing. I am guessing some amount of excretion will also happen in future as it is not possible to digest all that we eat.
One blessing of vinyl is the sheer amount of titles of western classical records available in the used market. And that too in the best of conditions (of the inner and outer sleeves and the record itself) and at no premium. Sadly one can't say the same of jazz, my current other interest.
Anil kumar
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am listening to Yudda Kanda : Kannada Vinyl
Have not heard that in a while... have most of his tapes from Premaloka, Ranadheera, Yuga Purusha, etc. of that period known for his musical hits.
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Which Moody Blues Album ?
Do you work in the censor department? :lol::lol::lol:
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