As a new member I've started looking through some old threads. I ended up spending a fantastic Sunday yesterday working through this thread and listening to as many of the recommendations as I could find on Qobuz, what a treasure trove, love it. Here are some thoughts on a few of the highlights for me, I am aware many of these posts/recs were made 6 years ago, but good music is good music......
Bobby McFerrin - Spontaneous Inventions
Loved this, sounded great, amazing vocal performances. However I listened to most of the rest of the album, it's mostly on similar grounds and is great...but after about 4 or 5 tracks it was just a bit too much, too similar. It's not something I would listen to regularly, but a couple of tracks every few months. A bit like Katie Melua the unusual vocals initially attract you, but after a few tracks just grate somewhat.
Hawkwind - Space ritual.
Interesting disagreements here. I love this album, its not what I would consider a reference level recording, but Lemmy's bass guitar throughout is superb, the epitome of space rock.
Paul Desmond - Desmond Blue
Loved that track and sounded great on the Qobuz stream I used, however the other tracks on the album didn't really appeal at all, too much like elevator music.
JOHN MAYER - Where the Light is
Already had and knew this album. Many tracks are from his Continuum studio album which is excellently recorded and is his best album IMO. Well worth trying as potential Reference material.
Burak Malçok - Sakli Nefes
What a great sounding track, very nice recording, interesting material.
Robert Miles/Trilok Gurtu
Crushing bass, nicely recorded.
Doug MacLeod -Come to Find
I couldn't find the album on Qobuz, but I found the track on album 'Acoustic Blues' loved it. listened to the whole album, nothing pushing any boundaries here but just well recorded and performed acoustic blues, I will be exploring some more of his catalogue as he is not an artist I am familiar with.
All the above
@amirm, thanks for pulling these refs together.
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo
What the heck is this!! Banjo virtuoso mixed with Jazz and rock, sounds like your worst nightmare but it's brilliant. God only knows what that track would be like with even more bass because it's pretty trouser flapping as it is. The whole album though is great and pretty well recorded. Also been dipping onto their previous album which also seems good. Id never heard of this guy but it seems he's done dozens of albums collaborating with various other artists. This to me was find of the day thanks
@Chris A
Tengger Cavalry - Blood Sacrifice Shaman / Heilung - Futha/ SuidAkrA - Book of Dowth/
Metal with Celtic/folk and other atypical elements. The tracks highlighted were great, digging further material has some promise at its best.
Dalriada - Napisten Hava
This seemed the most consistently strong album (too me) of the Folk Metal you highlight
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Swallow The Sun - Songs from the North I, II & III
Again - more for me to delve into, I quite like this.
Black Market Brass - Undying Thirst
What the heck? Like the Bela Fleck albums, I'm not quite sure what this is but I quite like it. Track NBT seemed to have a bit of distortion/clipping distortion in a couple of places though. Love discovering these 'strange' albums
James Blake - James Blake - Limit To Your Love
More trouser flapping bass. Put his Overgrown album on my listening list.
Thanks
@foxxx0 for the above recs.
Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom (Israliens II - Bizarro)
Not sure I found the right track, but I delved into their catalogue and have 'I am the Supervisor' on my list to explore further, seemed good stuff Thanks
@metasharp
Anyway that's enough for now. Love this type of thread, thanks to all those that made suggestions. I did listen to most of the albums that anyone suggested that I didn't already know, 12 hours yesterday in fact...
But still, I find quite a few gems in scanning the reviews for music.
