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Sorry, just noticed my permissions on that file I posted weren't open, but I fixed that just now.
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Doofy, nice find! Thx
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Greg, I compiled a list of long emu jazz tracks (>10 mins) a while back, to be used for this very purpose - it may help (or not).
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Have a good day, bn! Tell us what presents you bought yourself!
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Gp has it - took that myself, made my day when I saw that.
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Btw, someone needs to prove their geek cred and remark on my totally awesome cover photo.
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thom, see the live show thread for the summaries.
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As mentioned in the fb thread, I had a run of concert attendance in the DC area recently:
9/16 - Ned Rothenberg's Sync (Ned Rothenberg - reeds, shakuhachi, Jerome Harris - guitar/bass, and Samir Chatterjee - tabla)
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Craig, recent weeks have been a rare bonanza, and my wife did indeed grouse quite a bit. Was going to try to post to the show thread, but 3 weekends ago we saw Metric and Stars, then the next weekend I saw a night of an experimental music fest, then…
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bn, I'd rather you start on last.fm first if you're looking to expand your social outlets! Easier to browse listening activities there.
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I don't know the state of people's finances, of course, but given the levels of music expenditures I imagine typifies the folks here, I find it hard to imagine not finding $5/month worth of value in a streaming service with an enjoyable interface. I…
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greg: (Quote) Definitely Jonah - the Halsall/Birchall Gondwana crew just plays too close to the style that you mention for my tastes - too much Miles, too much Trane - the original era is enough for me.
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Enjoyed listening to their new one Piramida last night on Rdio.
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Enjoying the Beresford/Homler/Sanderson, bn. You should seek out other Beresford if you can, you'd like. Especially The Bath of Surprise. Hm, you…
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That set is Ornette's Atlantic years, one of the great "sets" in jazz history. Completely essential. However, it's undoubtedly a bootleg of this fantastic box: in Post your inside tips and mispriced box sets right here Comment by kargatron September 2012
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Fans of gentle, song-oriented experimentalism will probably like this very much:
Gosia Winter and Barry Chabala - Anankein Bandcamp Goodies Comment by kargatron September 2012
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That's kinda insane, BT - disregarding the practically free price, do you consider it worthwhile? Regarding required time and listening opportunity cost, of course.
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Gp, not sure what format you're listening to A Love Supreme, but it's pretty important to realize a specific fact about "Psalm" - that Coltrane is "reciting" in his solo the prayer that he includes in the album's liner notes. You can read abo…
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BDB, if you don't have those recordings, I couldn't think of a more significant jazz no-brainer. Crazy crazy not to check that box.
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(Quote) This statement just kinda makes me shrug in befuddlement. In my experience (and, surely, nearly everyone here?), it's so, so easy to access music that's not particularly blues-influenced, it strikes me as peculiarly trivial, or just munda…
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My (previous) suggestion for the jazz folks here is to use it for:
John Hollenbeck & Orchestra National de Jazz - <… -
Never tried his Baroque Cycle, but I did really enjoy his later Anathem, and Reamde has gotten good reviews, I think.
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I gain to 89db on average, an ok compromise given a lot of my softer improv and experimental, but that pulls contemporary pop music down from 96+, so it's way softer than the originals for that stuff. It's funny when mp3gain tries to find the averag…
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I use Mp3Gain, which is an implementation of the ReplayGain standard. It's a process that measures the average volume of a track, and adjusts the header t…
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Another angle is that, all else equal, louder generally sounds "better". With the typical listening situation moving to digital immediate-access (and often shuffle), unless users are deliberately volume-equalizing, older masterings will sound softe…
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Craig, are you familiar with Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun? That is one of the most prodigious and challenging works in all of science fiction, and qualifies as exp…
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This isn't really that new, but I must mention it because I only got it recently, and it's so great:
John Hollenbeck & Orchestra National de Jazz - Shut Up and Dancein New & Notable releases Comment by kargatron August 2012
