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What's your latest "Discovery"

You know when you buy a new album and it just clicks?! And then you have to play it rather frequently in the mix over and over for the next several days....What's the last album's you bought that really clicked for you?

I just picked up a Jazz trio album that is just a wonderful recording and performance:

It's called "Achirana" on ECM (that label seems to have a lot of great discs!). Vassilis Tsabroplulos, Piano. Arild Andersen, Double-Bass. John Marshall, Drums. Love the 5th cut! That double bass is right there in the room!

Also been enjoying a new classical guitar disc: Julian Bream, "The Ultimate Guitar Collection" on BMG. Great double-disc set. Not that crazy about the recording on this one, but the performance and breadth of the tapestry of work on those two CD's is remarkable.

Any new "discoveries" to share?
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johnrob
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BETHANY AND RUFUS - 900 MILES

I saw Bethany Yarrow, daughter of Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary, at the Canmore Folk Festiful yesterday was blown away. Bethany's mesmerizing and comanding voice blends seamlessly with the cello playing of Rufus to make a unique and powerful folk album with some Jazz elements. I've listened to their CD (900 Miles) 4x's today. Reminds of the first time I listened to Margo Timmims on the Trinity Session.
bongofury
1,160 posts
 
Two albums that rock from Down Under: Midnight Oil "Earth and Sun and Moon" and Paul Kelly "Live at the Continental".
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
Here's 6:41 o' fun if you dig Latin jazz: Go to young pianist Alex Brown's website and check out his composition "The Wrong Jacket", a positively infectious, multi-tempoed, acoustic bass/drums+percussion/electric piano workout (you can preview it in lo-fi, and the hi-fi download don't sound bad thru the big rig, but it's not yet released on CD).
bluecirclehead
79 posts
 
Feist "The Reminder"
Scissors for Lefty "Underhanded Romance"
Cat Power "The Covers Record"

Truly great stuff.
misterbill17
3 posts
 
The Wayfaring Strangers: Both "Shifting Sands of Time," and "This Train," are killers.

Thom Jurek (allmusic.com) writes about "This Train":
"........the virtually stunning "Sit Down Servant," where Delta blues, New Orleans jazz, country gospel, bluegrass, and strange Eastern modalism all come together to swirl into an organically transcendent groove. Even without the guest appearances by Ralph Stanley and Jennifer Kimball on "Shifting Sands of Time," "This Train," like its predecessor, is one of the most gratifying, provocative, and original takes on true roots American music — as it comes from the rest of the world — on record. It is simply moving and beautiful."
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