Listening to some Enigma at the moment.

 

 

 

Saw a couple of people posted Vagabond of the Western World by Thin Lizzy in the 'top 20 albums' thread, a brilliant album which I love but haven't listened to for ages:

 

 

 

 

It took me a while to even think of it, but Eric Bell might have been Thin Lizzy's best guitarist.

I never actually owned "Vagabonds Of The Western World", but I did have a double vinyl album called "Remembering", which contained most of the tracks from that album, along all but two of the tracks from "Shades Of A Blue Orphanage", and unless I'm mistaken, Thin Lizzy's first, self-titled album in its entirity, oh and Sitamoia which as far as I know never appeared on any of their studio albums:

 

 

 

I never actually owned "Vagabonds Of The Western World", but I did have a double vinyl album called "Remembering", which contained most of the tracks from that album, along all but two of the tracks from "Shades Of A Blue Orphanage", and unless I'm mistaken, Thin Lizzy's first, self-titled album in its entirity, oh and Sitamoia which as far as I know never appeared on any of their studio albums:

 

 

 

I used to have that on what we used to call an L.P. back in the Dark Ages.  When everything changed to CDs I gave a whole pile of L.P.'s away - Kicking myself now!

I've been listening to a Guinean saxophonist and singer called Momo Wandel Soumah after someone told me his voice sounded like it came "straight out of a graveyard":

 

I've been listening to a Guinean saxophonist and singer called Momo Wandel Soumah after someone told me his voice sounded like it came "straight out of a graveyard":

That description has piqued my curiosity as well, I'll have to check him out after work.

I've been listening to a Guinean saxophonist and singer called Momo Wandel Soumah after someone told me his voice sounded like it came "straight out of a graveyard":

That was awesome. It's a lazy and probably quite obvious comparison but he sounds a little like an African Tom Waits.

That instant when the sax solo kicks in for the first time is amazing.

I used to have that on what we used to call an L.P. back in the Dark Ages.  When everything changed to CDs I gave a whole pile of L.P.'s away - Kicking myself now!

It's too bad you did because vinyls actually have better sound quality than digital recordings as the audio is lossless (no information is lost).  The original recordings are made in analog (which is what vinyl recordings are) and digital does not capture the complete sound wave. Digital recording converts the sound to an analog signal, which is fed to an amp. The amp then raises the voltage of the signal to a level powerful enough to drive your speaker.  This is why dj's still use vinyls to this day.

Edited September 4, 201411 yr by TrueBlueTAT

Was really in the mood for Frank Sinatra today for whatever reason.

 

 

 

 

Ah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pqWvNZrF3k

A couple of my favourite songs from Vagabonds of the Western World

 

 

Lol granjerts

Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin play Coltrane:

 

 

^ can't find it on youtube, but I love the first track from this:

http://01fragments.blogspot.hu/2008/07/prima-materia-peace-on-earth-music-of.html

Looks interesting, but I'm getting a 404 on the Listen Now link. By way of compensation, this is the rest of the Santana/McLaughlin album: