I find this album to be beautiful sounding, and very relaxing.
I really like the sound of the Kora, which (for those that don’t know) is a fretless, harp-lute instrument with a soundbox made of a large calabash gourd that was cut in half and covered in thin animal skin. It has 21 strings attached to a long rosewood neck.
Whilst contemplating which albums to add to my playlist, I decided to narrow the search in my library by utilising the Roon Focus function. I selected Production, Bob Ludwig.
Much to my surprise it identified 258 albums!
I know that Bob Ludwig’s discography is phenomenal, but I had no idea I have so many albums that he’s worked on in my library…
So, December is here and time to kick off my “December Project”. I have the whole thing planned. My aim is to try to listen to three albums a weekday, four on Saturdays and five(!) on Sundays. All contemporary-ish,
This will not be easy (but luctor, non mergor as the old man used to say), and will mean I will not have time to follow up on all @bauer’s and others’ great recommendations so I will have to just add them to my backlog.
So you were listening to the original 1965 Rubber Soul LP? Terrific . I have this ( Mono UK) plus an early 70s silver and black Parlophone stereo vinyl 70’s, Vinyl Mono 2014, original George Martin CD, Beatles Mono Japanese CD and I guess I am awaiting a Giles Martin remaster ( though so far I don’t like his Red and Blue versions though).
Haha. I do have the LP original, unfortunately I currently lack a phono stage with which to replay it. I was in fact listening to a rip of the CD, but my posting related to the recording not the pressing/version.
Greg are you recommending the whole album or only the first track " School". Is the recommendation for any release of the album or just the MoFi pictured?
Hey Pete. The whole album (I was listening on Apple Car Play at the time, and thus the non-Roon/non-album screen shot). I happen to love School, but it’s all great. I own several versions (and at one time owned the MFSL LP), and in my experience, the original recording was so well done, that it’s more difficult to find a poor version than a good one. But overall, I prefer the MFSL Gold CD.
The first is to properly understand what you were listening to. Last time In saw Supertramp was with a guitarist friend auditioning for the position. He failed ( too jazzy).
The second can be picked up from the last posting on the November "What’s Spinning thread. This is ensuring that unsighted friends can understand what is posted by identifying the album in accompanying text as their special software cannot read images ( in this case the text that is visible to us is not translated by this software to audio for the blind as it is part of an image).
