23449. (Ferde Grofé) Hudson River Suite
23450. (How To Dress Well) Love Remains
23451. (Leoninus [Leo Léonin]) Messe du Jour de Noël
23452. (Nathan Chan & ThatViolaKid) “Hello” [Adele cover]
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Category Archives: CG - Listening 2015
First-time listening for December 2015
Posted by Phil Paine
on December 31, 2015
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Mbongwana Means Change
Posted by Phil Paine
on December 28, 2015
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Mbongwana Star
I fell in love with African pop music long ago, in Nigeria, during the heady days of Victor Owaifo, Dele Abiodun and King Sunny Adé (whose hand I got to shake in Toronto, many years later). I’ve tried to follow it ever since, but there is simply too much to keep track of. Africa produces wave after wave of new music, the hotspots shifting back and forth from region to region. Kinshasa is a hotspot, lately.
Mbongwana Star is taking African pop in a new direction with the release this year of From Kinshasa. Mbongwana actually means “change” in Lingala, and the change is apparent. Musicians in the Congo* have long been in a groove whose outside influences were primarily reggae, soukous and classic rhyhm and blues. From Kinshasa is quite different. It has a spacy, almost psychedelic sensibility that pulls influences from punk and electronica, and has an ambience something like the science fiction-motown experiments that George Clinton made back in the 1970s. This amount of innovation is all the more remarkable because the founders of the band, Yakala “Coco” Ngambali and Nsituvuidi “Theo” Nzonza, are men in their sixties, confined to wheelchairs, and veterans of the brief celebrity of Staff Benda Bilili. Read more »
First-time listening for November 2015
Posted by Phil Paine
on November 30, 2015
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23399. (Ferde Grofé) Aviation Suite
23400. (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) Missa Viri Galilaei
23401. (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) Motet: Viri Galilaei
23402. (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina) Magnificat Primi Toni
23403. (Alpha Blondy & The Solar System) “Yitzhak Rabin” [single]
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“Hallelujah”
Posted by Phil Paine
on November 10, 2015
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Leonard Cohen’s 1984 song “Hallelujah” has been covered by many artists (beginning with John Cale), but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything as magnificent as this performance by Francesco Yates, a soul-pop singer from Toronto who has entered the music scene with an EP, but has yet to release his first album. I just heard it on the radio a few hours ago, and was astonished by it. In the interviews I googled, he comes across as witty and intelligent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3d8_wmzBAg
After this Youtube clip check out his fine rendition of Kendrick Lamar’s bitter “Swimming Pools (drank)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMt5v8lXy_g
and he’s just as good at the piano, reincarnating Marvin Gaye:
First-time listening for October 2015
Posted by Phil Paine
on October 31, 2015
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23351. (Zchiw Song Ensemble) Zchiw [Жъыу] [Zamudin Ghwch’e & Zawir Neghwey on
. . . . . ancient Adigean instruments]
23352. (Orb) Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
23353. (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros) Here
23354. (Glenn Miller) Second Pressing [5 disk set]
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First-time listening for September 2015
Posted by Phil Paine
on September 30, 2015
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23340. (Girolamo Frescobaldi) Messa Madona
23341. (Adam and the Ants) Dirk Wears White Sox
23342. (Gilles Binchois) Triste plaisir et douloureuse joie [instrumental version]
23343. (Fuck Buttons) “Bright Tomorrow”; “Little Bloody Shoulder” [single]
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First-time listening for August 2015
Posted by Phil Paine
on August 31, 2015
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23327. (Philopoctus de Caserta) En remirant vo douce pourtraiture
23328. (Henri Dutilleux) Timbres, espaces, mouvement, ou ‘La nuit étoilée’ Part 1
23329. (Iron Butterfly) Heavy
23330. (Adam & the Ants) “Deutscher Girls” [from Derek Jarman’s Jubilee soundtrack]
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First-time listening for July 2015
Posted by Phil Paine
on July 31, 2015
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23304. Didjeridoo: Musique aborigène d’Australie
23305. (Offspring) The Offspring
23306. (Kassiani) Doxazomen sou Christe
23307. (Kassiani) Ek rizis agathis
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First-time listening for June 2015
Posted by Phil Paine
on June 30, 2015
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23285. (Henk Badings) Symphony #3
23286. (Wu-Tang Clan) Enter the Wu-Tang
23287. (Real Estate) Days
23288. (Tarun Bhattacharya) Hypnotic Santoor
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First-time listening for May 2015
Posted by Phil Paine
on May 31, 2015
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23200. (Sergei Rachmaninov) Liturgy of St. John Chrysistom
23201. (Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd) The Moon and the Melodies
23202. (Bohuslav Martinů) Concerto #1 for Cello and Orchestra
23203. (Kendrick Lamar [as K‑dot] & Jay Rock) Training Day [mixtape]
23204. (Suede) Suede
23205. (7oi) Lost Under a Pile
23206. (Jhené Aiko) Sailing Soul(s)
23207. (Jefferson Airplane) Takes Off [2003 remaster]
23208. (Mini Mansions) The Great Pretenders
23209. (Kendrick Lamar) Overly Dedicated [mixtape]
23210. (Run the Jewels) Run the Jewels
23211. (Veldhuis & Kemper) We Moeten Praten
23212. (La Rue Kétanou) Live at Furia Sound Festival
23213. (Charlie Parker) The Complete Verve Years CD2 1950–1952
23214. (Anthrax) Armed and Dangerous
23215. (Jefferson Starship) Dragon Fly
Abbeville Breakdown 1929–1939:
. . . . 23216. (Amédée Breaux) “Vas y Carrément”
. . . . 23217. (Joe Falcon) “Poche Town”
. . . . 23218. (Cleoma Breaux) “Prenez Courage”
. . . . 23219. (Cleoma Breaux) “Quand Je Suis Partis Pour le Texas”
. . . . 23220. (Joe Falcon) “Aimer Et Perdre”
. . . . 23221. (Breaux Frères) “Egan One Step”
. . . . 23222. (Breaux Frères) “T’as Volé Mon Chapeau”
. . . . 23223. (Breaux Frères) “Home Sweet Home”
. . . . 23224. (Breaux Frères) “Le One Step à Martin”
. . . . 23225. (Breaux Frères) “La Valse du Bayou Plaquemine”
. . . . 23226. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Abbeville Breakdown”
. . . . 23227. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Te A Pas Raison”
. . . . 23228. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Se Toute Sain Comme Moi Ma Sain”
. . . . 23229. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Jolie Petite Fille”
. . . . 23230. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Quel Espoire”
. . . . 23231. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Moi Et Ma Belle”
. . . . 23232. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Je Vous T’Aime Lessair Pleurer”
. . . . 23233. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Es Ce Que Tu Pense Jamais A Moi”
. . . . 23234. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Tu Ma Quite Seul”
. . . . 23235. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Jolie Petite Blonde”
. . . . 23236. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Apres Jengles A Toi”
. . . . 23237. (Alley Boys of Abbeville) “Te Bonne Pour Moi Estere”
23238. (Shellac) At Action Park
23239. (Django Django) Django Django
23240. (Childish Gambino) Camp
23241. (Belle and Sebastian) If You’re Feeling Sinister
23242. (Chvrches) The Bones of What You Believe
23243. (Gwendal) Joe Can’t Reel
23244. (Judy Garland) Judy Garland in Hollywood
23245. (NONONO) We Are Only What We Feel
23246. (Of Monsters and Men) “Little Talks” [single]
23247. (Mumford & Sons) Babel
23248. (Aulis Sallinen) Symphony #3 “The Sea Symphony”
23249. (Anthrax) Spreading the Disease
23250. (Mr. Twin Sister) Mr. Twin Sister
23251. (Sleater-Kinney) Call the Doctor
23252. (Drake) Take Care
23253. (Charli XCX) True Romance
23254. (Will Butler) Policy
23255. (Björk) Vulnicura
23256. (Mumford & Sons) Wilder Mind
23257. (Soldat Louis) Bienvenue à bord
23258. (Peter & Gordon) The Best of Peter & Gordon
23259. (Ghostpoet) Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
23260. (Nuclear Assault) Survive
23261. (Trombone Shorty) Backatown
23262. (Alan Stivell) Tro Ar Bed
23263. (Josquin des Prez) Motetti De Passione: “Tu solus qui facis mirabilia”
23264. (Josquin des Prez) Motetti De Passione: “Domine, non secundum”
23265. (Josquin des Prez) Motetti De Passione: “Ave verum corpus”
23266. (Josquin des Prez) Motetti De Passione: “O Domine Jesu Christe”
23267. (Josquin des Prez) Motetti De Passione: “Christem ducem; Qui velatus”
23268. (Josquin des Prez) Tout a par moi
23269. (Josquin des Prez) Missa faisant regretz
23270. (Chance the Rapper) 10Day
23271. (David Bowie) Rare Singles, Outtakes & Lives,1969–74
23272. (Killers) Battle Born
23273. (John Renbourn) Live in Italy
23274. (Of Monsters and Men) My Head Is an Animal
23275. (Armens) Sans contrefaçon
23276. (Patrick Watson) Waterproof9
23277. (Overkill) Feel the Fire
23278. (Shellac) Live in Tokyo
23279. (Vielles Pies) Utopies de Comptoir
23280. (Paolo Nutini) Caustic Love
23281. (Paloma Faith) A Perfect Contradicton
23282. (Ellie Goulding) Halcyon Days
23283. (Pharrell Williams) G I R L
23284. (Bastille) All This Bad Blood