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What's your latest "Discovery"

You know when you buy a new album and it just clicks?! And then you have to play it rather frequently in the mix over and over for the next several days....What's the last album's you bought that really clicked for you?

I just picked up a Jazz trio album that is just a wonderful recording and performance:

It's called "Achirana" on ECM (that label seems to have a lot of great discs!). Vassilis Tsabroplulos, Piano. Arild Andersen, Double-Bass. John Marshall, Drums. Love the 5th cut! That double bass is right there in the room!

Also been enjoying a new classical guitar disc: Julian Bream, "The Ultimate Guitar Collection" on BMG. Great double-disc set. Not that crazy about the recording on this one, but the performance and breadth of the tapestry of work on those two CD's is remarkable.

Any new "discoveries" to share?
jax2
restock
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Michel Godard - Cousins German

I just heard Michel Godard live in concert yesterday at the Bolzano Jazz festival. His mastery of tuba is unparalleled - the sounds and melodies he extracts from the tuba are incredible. His work with Pierre Favre (Souffles) and Rabih Abou Khalil (Sultan's Picnic) is little more oriented toward world music, but this piece of jazz is original and beautiful in very different ways.
henryhk
648 posts
 
Here are three
Mau Katche: Neighborhood...w/ Tomasz Stanko, Jan Garbarek etc. Just incredible music, etheral and romantic Stanko's trumpet, vivid Garbare's piano and endlessly imaginative drumming by Manu. Makes this hobby worthwhile.

Novelle Vague: Punk rock gets bossa nova, lounge treatment.

Bernard Allison: Live in Europe: smoking blues, SVR influence, funky as hell.
bdgregory
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2 of them: Petra Haden with Bill Frisell (same title) - amazing voice, great guitar - excellent songs. And, KT Tunstall "Eye to the Telescope" - she's a Scottish singer-songwriter, excellent all the way around.
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pehare
835 posts
 
The Handsome Family, Through the Trees, a wonderful alt-country album.
ogsarg
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I love these threads. So many great suggestions. Here are a few that I'm listening to a lot right now.

Check out the Pete Bernhard Solo CD, Things I left Behind from CD Baby. I like it better than his stuff with Devil Makes Three.

Howl, from the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Band of Horses, Everything All The Time, are a couple of others that I can't stop playing right now.

Another discovery from CD Baby is from the Band May Pole. Progressive Pop that reminds me of a mellower Porcupine Tree.
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