Tank Engine said:
Just got Kate Bush's new album. A seasonal offering for us Northerners. Her warm voice against a sometimes soothing, sometimes cold background with some close harmonies from time to time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3BzjfAjug4
I was so inspired by 2 recent musical purchases that I felt I had to post them on here. I too just acquired Kate Bush's new cd. Firstly, she is a one of a kind artist, and I mean that she is a true artist along with her being a musician. For me this just may be her masterpiece. The music is hauntingly beautiful with, as Tank Engine mentions, a concept that cold weather inhabitants can truly appreciate. Personally I can tell when I've struck gold when I have a cd
that upon each initial listening I find more and more to appreciate and admire about it. This release has me under it's spell where I can play it over and over again, simply sitting in a chair with no distractions and bathing in the ambiance of it's textures/layers of sound and the mood that's created.
The other purchase is one from my much younger days. Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66. Primarily any track with the magnificent voice of Lani Hall but also any of their first 3 or 4 releases. Many of the compositions are bossa nova variations on melodies by the Beatles, Burt Bacharach, Cole Porter, Simon and Garfunkel and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Playing this music warms my soul and brightens any dreary day that I may be having. Lani's voice, especially on "So Many Stars" is bewitching.
I've also been listening to vintage Carlos Santana, specifically the releases "Welcome", "Love, Devotion and Surrender" (with John McLaughlin), "Caravanserai", "Blues For Salvador" and "Live at the Filmore '68".
...and I've finally found my Keith Jarrett "The Koln Concert" and that's been getting alot of time in my current rotation.