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April 14, 2020Episode #177 - Author Michael Connelly on Music in the Harry Bosch Novels and TV Series
Michael Connelly writes crime fiction, and his character Harry Bosch loves jazz. We talk with Michael about how he decided what music Bosch liked, and how he uses music in the novels and TV series.
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Guest:
Michael Connelly
The Murder Book Podcast
Sound of Redemption – The Frank Morgan Story
Music from Bosch playlist (curated by Amazon)
Bosch playlist (user created on Apple Music)
The house in Bosch
Bosch's stereo system (with a McIntosh 240 tube amplifier)
Apple Music Jazzzzzzzzz playlist
Show notes:
The Music in the Novels
The Bosch TV series
Our next tracks:
Kenny Wheeler: Angel Song
The Derek Trucks Band: Already Free
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Special Guest: Michael Connelly.
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April 10, 2020Episode #176 - How to Stream Music From Your Home
A lot of musicians, suddenly faced with no opportunities for public performance, are opting to stream live from their homes. Andy Doe joins us to discuss what it means for all the musicians to have to build streaming studios in their homes from scratch, and gives tips on how best to set up cameras, lights, and microphones.
Guest:
Andy Doe
Show notes:
Tim Cook's video
Rode NT-USB Mini, a small, inexpensive USB microphone with good audio quality
May Morning - Magdalen College
Impulse response reverb
Alex Ross's COVID-19 livestream list
Our next tracks:
Lou Reed: Street Hassle
DEVO: Duty Now For The Future
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April 07, 2020Episode #175 - Violinist Alina Ibragimova
We chat with violinist Alina Ibragimova, who is taking advantage of the lockdown to learn the Paganini caprices in her home in London.
Guest:
Alina Ibragimova
Alina Ibragimova on Hyperion Records
The Alina Ibragimova Violin Playlist on Apple Music
Show notes:
Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien
Review of Rolf Wallin violin concerto, Proms 2018
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin
Our next tracks:
Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time (CD); Berliner Philharmoniker & Yutaka Sado (DVD/Blu-Ray)
Zoë Keating: Into the Trees
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Special Guest: Alina Ibragimova.
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April 03, 2020Episode #174 - Pianist, Composer, and Author Stephen Hough
In this episode, we talk with the pianist and author Stephen Hough, about how the lockdown is affecting him, how he has "the backside of a rhinoceros," and we discuss how classical concerts could change in the future.
Guest:
Stephen Hough
Angela Hewitt on Twitter
Stephen Hough on Hyperion Records
The Stephen Hough Piano Playlist an Apple Music
Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More
Show notes:
I miss concerts but solo music-making seems more sublime than ever (Guardian)
MacArthur Fellows
Episode #18 – New Yorker Music Critic Alex Ross Discusses Listening to Classical Music
Piano Day
Our next tracks:
Nils Frahm: Empty
Fountains Of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers
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Special Guest: Stephen Hough.
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March 31, 2020Episode #173 - Pianist Angela Hewitt
In the first of a number of out-of-band episodes that we're planning to release in the coming weeks, we talk with pianist Angela Hewitt, best known for her extraordinary recordings of all of Bach's keyboard works.
Guest:
Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt on Twitter
Angela Hewitt on Hyperion Records
The Angela Hewitt Bach Playlist an Apple Music
The Angela Hewitt Baroque Playlist on Apple Music
Show notes:
Led by the hand (article about Murray Perahia's thumb injury)
Virtuoso mourns beloved £150,000 piano smashed by movers
Fazioli pianos
A Late Quartet
Our next tracks:
Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul (YouTube)
Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson: Ella And Oscar
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Special Guest: Angela Hewitt.
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36 min
March 25, 2020Episode #172 - Social Isolation and Music
These are difficult times for many people, who are now required to stay at home. Music can help us get through this. In this "two guys not in a pub" episode, Doug and Kirk reflect on social isolation and music.
Show notes:
Bus-sized fatberg weighing 40 tonnes cleared from London sewer
GrimeGran's Twitter feed
The Dropkick Murphys - Streaming Up From Boston
Royal Shakespeare Company in cinemas
National Theatre Live
Dead & Company YouTube channel (lots of videos, including full concerts)
The Rolling Stones: Four Flicks
The Berliner Philharmoniker's Digital Concert Hall
Alex Ross's COVID-19 live streams list
TJ Connelly's "Uncertain Times" streamcast (M-F, 10-12 ET)
Rugby Meets Red Rover: Kabaddi Has Captured the Heart of India
Take Control of Working from Home Temporarily
Our next tracks:
Roger Eno and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours
Freak Power: More Of Everything For Everybody
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March 11, 2020Episode #171 - Vintage Audio Gear
While there are lots of reasons to opt for minimal audio equipment, for some people there is an enduring allure for vintage stereo amps and receivers from the hi-fi heydays of the 1970s. The time when audio gear had knobs and dials and VU meters, like the fins and grilles on 1950s cars. We discuss our lust for those baroque audio devices of yore.
Show notes:
How a Digital Guy Fell in Love with a Vintage Stereo Receiver
Braun Regie 550 CEV550 Dieter Rams Design
Flickr stream of vintage hi-fi gear
Quadraphonic sound (Wikipedia)
Onkyo RN855
Yamaha AS-801
Our next tracks:
Robert Fripp at the Kitchen 2/5/78
Hot Tuna: Hoppkorv
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February 26, 2020Episode #170 - Miles Davis's Landmark Album Kind of Blue
Ashley Kahn wrote the book on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, the jazz album everyone owns if they one at least one jazz album. We talk with Ashley about the recording of Kind of Blue, and about its legacy. (Apologies for the audio issues.)
Guest:
Ashley Kahn
Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
Show notes:
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Glenn Gould's 1955 and 1981 recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations
Episode #1 – Songs to Albums to Songs
Miles Davis: Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud: Original Soundtrack
Richard Williams: The Blue Moment
Ashley Kahn: A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (documentary)
Our next tracks:
Miles Davis: Circle in the Round
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
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Special Guest: Ashley Kahn.
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36 min
February 12, 2020Episode #169 - The Environmental Impact of Vinyl Records, CDs, and Data
We talk with Kyle Devine, author of a new book about the environmental impact of music recordings, which raises a number of issues that we had never previously considered.
Guest:
Kyle Devine
Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music
Show notes:
Nightmares on wax: the environmental impact of the vinyl revival
Shellac (Wikipedia)
Vinyl Record Production in Peril After Fire at California Plant
What the Vinyl Records Comeback Really Looks Like…
Phtalate (Wikipedia)
William T. Vollmann: Carbon Ideologies
Our next tracks:
Sir András Schiff plays The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Visual Album)
Cream: Goodbye Tour - Live 1968
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January 29, 2020Episode #168 - L'Affaire Sonos and Obsolescence in Audio Equipment
Andy Doe joins us again to discuss the perils of having software-controlled audio equipment. After the Affaire Sonos, when the company announced that a lot of its older products would become "obsolete," perhaps it's time to think more carefully about how long hardware we buy will last, when it depends on software.
Guest:
Andy Doe
Show notes:
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
LSO Live
Starting in May 2020, some of our oldest products will no longer receive software updates or new features. We want to explain why and your options.
Sonos Recycling Program Just Creates Waste
Playing Multi-Room Audio After Sonos
Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google – The New York Times
HomePod vs. Sonos One Stereo Pair Comparison
AirPlay (Wikipedia)
Sonos, Squeezed by the Tech Giants, Sues Google – The New York Times
Episode #147 - Kirk's New Sonos Amp
Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
The Cost of Avast's Free Antivirus: Companies Can Spy on Your Clicks
Internet of Shit
Our next tracks:
Yesterday
The Rezillos: Can't Stand The Rezillos
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.
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Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.