Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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It's been a 60s & 70s morning...
CSN&Y - So Far
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear (great LP!)
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Cheers, Spencer
Playing now:
Varese: Ameriques; Milhaud: L'homme et son desir; Honegger: Pacific 231, Abravanel/UtahSO, Vanguard SRV 274 Classic Records reissue - WOW!

Planned for later:
Pentangle: "Cruel Sister", Reprise 6430
Na Cabarfeidh: "stick it in your ear" - highland pipes, whistles, drums, guitars - these guys can play!
Pentangle: "Basket of Light"

Sonny Rollins: "Way Out West" (45 rpm reissue from Analogue Production's Fantasy series).

And, as it is now getting later in the evening (and no one else has posted so I can still edit this post), the significant other has gone to bed so music with a lot of bass energy is no longer an option. So let's move to "music-with-no-bass": Renaissance music for viola da gamba, lute and voice:

"Songs of a Travelling Apprentice" Cohen/CambridgeConsort, Titanic TI 19. (If you enjoy early music, the recordings on the Titanic label are very worthwhile picking up whenever you see them. Nice performances that are well recorded.)

As an aside, here was another example of what a difference a good record cleaning fluid can make to the sound of an LP. I'd cleaned this LP originally (some years back when first purchased) with a home brew alchohol-based solution and VPI RCM. I hadn't played this LP for several years, and listening tonight, I was bothered by some sibilance I just couldn't eliminate (VTA adjustment, add a touch of dampening, nothing worked). So, since I'd never cleaned this "clean" record with Disc Doctor, back it went for a quick clean using my recently adopted Disc Doctor regimen. BINGO: no more sibilance.
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Ali Akbar Khan (serod) and Sri Swapan Chaudhuri (tabla) on "Maihar" - a marvelous recording by Kavi Alexander, Water Lily Acoustics 10

Earlier this evening:
Joan Baez, "In Concert" Vanguard VRS 9112
Cannonball Adderley, "Somethin' Else" Blue Note 1595 (Classic Records reissue)
Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" (Classic Records reissue)
Mingus - Ah um (reissue)
Monk - Mysterioso (riverside)
Sibilius/Walton - Violin Concertos - Francescatti NY/Bernstein, Philly/Ormandy (Cbs Masterworks)
Ravel - Daphne & Chloe - Munch/BSO (Camden)
Mussorsky - Pictures@An Exhibition - Shura Cherassky
(Nimbus Super Analogue 45rpm) Sweet!

Cheers, Spencer