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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?
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dewald_visser
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DNA Strings - El Nino

South African instrumental band. Imeadiatly it was a WOW! I love it...

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eldulcesol
197 posts
 
Johnny A. "Sometime Tuesday Morning" Nice jazz, rock and blues mix trio. Mostly all original muic that can be listened to more than one or two tines in one sitting.
restock
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Time to dig out this thread - some new discoveries over the last few months. In the process of "becoming Canadian" I discovered some Canadian singers:

Jill Barber - For all time (check out the song "Hard Line")
Matthew Barber - Sweet Nothing
Feist - The Reminder
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971

I had the chance to listen to both Jill and Matthew (sister and brother) live at the Bookshelf in Guelph. Jill has an amazing voice - by accident I had listened to the song "Hard line" on itunes and it literally cought my ear.

Some more good alums I picked up:
Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball
Eddi Reader - The Songs of Robert Burns

Eddi remains one of my favorite female voices (ever since Fairground Attraction). This ones a very folky album with wonderful interpretation of the tradionals by Robert Burns. Emmylou's fragile interpretation of Neil Young's Wrecking Ball captured me.

Enjoy!
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synthfreek
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That Feist album is tops. Much better than her debut. She's also in the band Animal Collective which is nothing like her solo stuff.
gslone
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My brother gave me his record collection he had from the 70's and 80's and asked me record them on to CD's... One of the LP's in the collection was a funky-jazz album by Ramsey Lewis called Tequila Mockingbird from 1977. If you enjoy this type of electric-funky-jazz style music from the late 70's, played by real musicians playing real bass guitar and drums with out sequenced synthetic tracks in the mix, you will love this recording produced by Larry Dunn
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