Ibibio Sound Machine eponymous first album (Qobuz)
A new band to me - really enjoyed seeing them play a couple of excellent tracks from their later album "Uyai" on Jools Holland's Later (BBC TV) last night. As far as I can see, that album hasn't made it onto Qobuz yet.
(By the way, 10cc were also completely excellent, I thought! Sounded rather like a UK Steely Dan.)
Roon (Mac Mini), Wilson Benesch Full Circle, Expert 1000 Pro CI, Kaiser Chiara
21-May-2017, 23:08 (This post was last modified: 21-May-2017, 23:10 by Hifi_swlon.)
Not a bad weekend - saw Sasha at the Barbican Saturday - doing half Scene|Delete and half older stuff. String section, percussion, synths, keyboards and vocalists.
Then discover this.
>>> 1st Place Award: Devialet, last decades most disappointing technology purchase. <<<
Music from Free Creek is an album from a series of 1969 "super session" recordings by Free Creek, a group composed of a number of internationally renowned musical artists of the time, including Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Keith Emerson, Buzz Feiten, Mitch Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt.
Jaco Pastorius; Truth, Liberty and Soul. Live in NYC. 192/24
Not much to say, actually, but simply stunning. The recording is wonderful, the music more so, and they guy is (as we all know) simply beyond belief... at the same time it was new to me as this is recorded with Word of Mouth, his "big band", mainly a top-notch wind section, no less than 15 musicians there. Simply unmissable.