Brittany Davis - Black Thunder
Jazz - Contemporary Jazz
13 June 2025
Qobuz 24/ 96
More: https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/immersive/an-instant-classic-brittany-davis-black-thunder-r1358/
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Big Brother & the Holding Company: Cheap Thrills
Acid Rock, Blues-Rock
Columbia - 1968 (Remastered)
DSD 64
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I share your feelings. I have many memories of him and strongest is the complete cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas during the 1990s . I attended the London concerts over a couple of years ( the cycle was presented on various locations throughout the world) . This resulted in his second recorded traversal of the cycle for Philip’s. I Remember the Gramophone review of one release that it was Brendel’s most recent episode of communing with Beethoven. Communing. A good choice of word.
I last saw him shopping for food in Marks & Spencer , Oxford Street. A memory that might amuse him ( he was famous for his sense of humour).
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Very sad indeed. Brendel was without doubt one of the greats of his generation. It must be nearly 25 years since I last saw him, at Stockholm Concert Hall playing a mixed bag of Schubert, Brahms and Mozart IIRC. However his Haydn Sonata cycle was my personal favourite. Now in heavy rotation.
Alfred Brendel “Haydn: 11 Piano Sonatas” 1986, Qobuz 16/44.1
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Blanco White - Tarifa
Qobuz
24-48
2nd album of Blanco White,the alterego of Londener Josh Edwards.
Melancholic neofolk.
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GoGo Penguin
Necessary Fictions
Alternative-Jazz/Electronica
Sony Classical - 2025
24/48 - DR: 9dB
Just released this week. Tremendous.
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I have just returned from a long weekend away with my partner.
Not surprisingly, I didn’t listen to much music, but I did play for her (on my A&K SP3000M DAP) some artists and albums that she hadn’t heard before. I’m pleased to say that she enjoyed everything she heard…
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. To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies. Well, she would say that wouldn’t she.
I once had a girlfriend who seems to have made a mental list of everything that I had played to her so that when breaking up she could tell me how much she had hated hearing every one !
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Ha! Good point, Pete.
However, I think that she genuinely did enjoy the music.
One of the albums that I played her was Buena Vista Social Club’s eponymous album, which she really liked.
That evening, when we were out for dinner, there was a live band playing.
Coincidentally, the female lead singer was Cuban. I asked her if they’d be willing to sing some of BVSC’s songs…
She sang ‘Chan Chan’ and ‘Candela’…
my partner was beside herself with excitement! 
EDIT:
This is is the album I was referring to;
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Yes, I love that album.
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Highly recommended to watch, hear and enjoy the BluRay live version by Wim Wenders of the Buena Vista Social Club:
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David Gilmour: Luck and Strange
Art Rock, Album Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
Legacy Recordings - 6th September 2024
24/96
DR: 8
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