Saturday, January 31, 2009


DREAMS SO REAL
Music of Carla Bley
Gary Burton Quintet

ECM

QUADROPHENIA
The Who

MCA

SMOKIN THE DUMMY
Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band

Fate Records

MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD
Talking Heads

Sire

THE FUN BOY THREE
The Fun Boy Three

Chrysalis

LUX FEMINÆ
900 - 1600
Montserrat Figueras

Alia Vox

JOHN RENBOURN
John Renbourn

Reprise

GRATEFUL DEAD
Grateful Dead

Warner Bros.

PASSENGERS
The Gary Burton Quartet with Eberhard Weber

ECM

SHADOWFAX
Shadowfax

Windham Hill

Thursday, January 29, 2009


THEN PLAY ON
Fleetwood Mac

Reprise

ITALIAN RECORDER SONATAS CIRCA 1700
Corelli, Vivaldi, Veracini, and others
Frans Brüggen, recorder
Anner Bylsma, violoncello
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsihcord

Telelfunken Das Alte Werk

TO BE CONTINUED
Terje Rypdal
Miroslav Vitous
Jack DeJohnette

ECM

WATERCOLORS
Pat Metheny

ECM

MUSIC IN SIMILAR MOTION, 1969
MUSIC IN FIFTHS, 1969
Philip Glass

Chatham Square Productions

Wednesday, January 28, 2009


WHERE ARE YOU?
Frank Sinatra
Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra

Capitol UK

ICE WATER
Leo Kottke

Capitol

MAMBO SINUENDO
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán

Perro Verde/Nonesuch

FANTASIA ON A THEME BY THOMAS TALLIS
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Iona Brown, violin
Neville Marriner, cond.

Argo

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Sunday, January 25, 2009


CHANTS DE L'EXIL
Songs from Jewish Musicians in Exile, 1200-1600
Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, dir.

Erato

THE GREAT CONCERT OF ERIC DOLPHY
Eric Dolphy

Prestige

WISH YOU WERE HERE
Pink Floyd

Columbia

THE ENCHANTED VALLEY
Works Played on Hammered Dulcimer
Jim Couza
and friends

MHS

CANTICLES OF ECSTASY
Hildegard von Bingen
Sequentia

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Saturday, January 24, 2009


O CIECO MONDO
Die Italienische Lauda (O Blind World: The Italian Lauda) c 1400-1700
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel, dir.

DHM

THE NINE MAIDENS
John Renbourn

Flying Fish

PLAY
Moby

V2 Records

AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S
Jefferson Airplane

RCA

CANTUS ARCTICUS
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Max Pommer, cond.

Catalyst

HARMONIA ARTIFICIOSA
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber
Musica Antiqua Koln
Reinhard Goebel, dir.

Archiv Produktion

GOOSTLY PSALMES
Anglo-American Psalmody 1550-1800
His Majestie's Clerkes
Paul Hillier, dir.

Harmonia Mundi

IN RAINBOWS
Radiohead

TBD Records

SYMPHONY NO. 3, CANTICUM GRADUUM
Henryk Górecki
Ingrid Perruche, soprano
Sinfonia Varsovia
Alain Altinoglu, conductor

naïve