Whats on your turntable tonight?

Fleetwood Mac - Rumors (hadn't heard it in years)

The Police - Synchronicity

Joy Division - Closer

Sade - Promise

The Eagles - Hotel California

The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band

* Vetiver- Things of the Past on Gnomonsong Records

A great cover album, only to be topped their own stuff. fun.

* Mono- Hymn to the Immortal Winds on Human Highway Records

beautiful, dense, euphoric

* Sting- The Soul Cages on A&M Polygram

a Russian pressing, sonically precious but, surface noise to challenge the best
(worst) Lost Highway vinyl.

* Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker on Blood Shot Records

This is the newerrr 2x 180 gm. pressing, much nicer. Can't quit playing this one.

* The Violet Archers- Sunshine at night on Saved by Vinyl

another very cool little indie Canadian band

Happy Listening!

humble pie: performance/rockin the fillmore--it's been sitting on my stack for about a 100 years before i actually deigned to put it on. surprisingly, it's pretty great--the pre-megastardom peter frampton was a pretty good guitarist who eschewed alot of blues cliches, while steve marriott was arguably the great white soul shouter--check out "four day creep". i'd sorta remebered their rhythm section as somewhat lumbering, but in fact they keep up nicely, and overall it's a helluva ride. you might also check out their first two studio records (as safe as yesterday and twon and country), which are suprisingly folky/acoustic and sound not wildly dissimilar to what led zeppellin did in their less electric moments.

Bach, Mass in b minor - Harnoncourt/Concentus Musicus Wien, Telefunken 6.35019 (a compelling performance and recording, even after 40 years)

Telemann, 12 Fantasies for blockflute - B.Kuijken, solo blockflute, Accent ACC 7803 (the Accent label continues to provide some of the most natural sounding chamber music on my shelves)
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Ryuichi Sakamoto's piano solo soundtrack album to "Merry Christmas, Mister Lawrence".