The Palladian-A step beyond

ct0517,

If the first song "You want it darker" of the LP doesn't thrill you something must be wrong with your playback system, maybe the tonearm?  😇
It is a good example showing the system is able to bring you into ecstasy!
No? 😱 Play it loud if it is possible...

Halcro, I got only the Live recordings "Songs from the road" and "Live at the Isle of Wright 1970". Thanks for the hint.

I am just listening to the early MFSL LPs like Bob Seeger - Night Moves. These early productions were really good, absolutely stunning in sound and quality (1-034).

Dear Chris,
please try this 2LPs:

****Pieter Nooten/Michael Brook-"Sleeps with the Fishes"
****This Mortal Coil-"Blood"

and if you like new wave from 80's: 
****Clan of Xymox-"Medusa"

there is beauty in this darkness

As for me, as much as I love both of my audio systems, nothing does it quite like live music.  So last night I went down to Blues Alley in Georgetown (DC) to catch the late show of the Cyrus Chestnut Trio.  For those who don't know, Cyrus is a jazz pianist of note.  I like that he still plays standards, and his improvisations are very imaginative.  As a surprise, he brought up onto the stage a young female singer imported from NYC.  Her name is Brianna Thomas.  I had never heard of her, let alone heard her.  She was utterly brilliant, a new major talent, in my opinion.  Sarah Vaughn and others, re-visited.  (Almost no one ever in history had the chops of Sarah, including opera singers. Well, maybe Aretha. Maybe Tebaldi.) Her work with Cyrus made my day and my night.  I had a conversation with her after the show, and I intend to hear more of her during future visits to New York.  She's on CD only, sadly.

I know he has a big following, but I cannot make myself love Leonard Cohen.  However, any man's death diminishes me, as John Donne said.
More than Leonard Cohen, I will miss my best friend, who was killed in a freak accident last April, 2016.

So sorry for your loss my friend.

From the time (I was 13 years old) that I’ve found Van Der Graaf, I’ve left behind my careless youth with Bowie,  Uriah Heep, J. Airplane, Joni Mitchell, CSN&Y and start digging into progressive. There is no turning back once you’ve taste the bitterness of being.
BTW I rate my avatar moniker as one of my most cheerful records.

Lewm - sorry for your loss.

I know he has a big following, but I cannot make myself love Leonard Cohen.

Lewm/Thuchan/Henry

he is an institution in Canada. if I say anything else, I probably risk Canada Grade A eggs being launched at my house, and the irony being, I am not even supposed to be eating them.

@Thuchan

I do not own this album and I have only a couple of his cd’s somewhere in the house. If the music (and more so the music message with Cohen) doesn’t capture me simply through internet means (like youtube); I won’t pursue buying the lp. Besides I have too many existing lp’s to get through right now.

Geoch (Giorgos)/Thuchan

Regarding Dark Music in general.

If I was still wearing my Monkey Suit every day, travelling, and working for others; by 6 pm, I always needed something to take the edge off - to bring me down a bit. Maybe a little dark music would be just the ticket if I was in that frame of mind. But I am in the light right now, and have been for quite some time. Right now, any stresses are brought on mostly as a result of my own decisions, and not those of others. (ones family excluded)