What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report

Well, I had some time to myself to do some listening today and found myself listening across many genres. Was fun for sure.

A friend loaned my some speaker cables and so I pulled out a couple of known quantities for reference purposes: Pinback – Blue Screen Life (still my favorite by them) & Hugh Masakela – Hope. This is an SACD and it is one of the two or three best recorded CDs I have in my collection. Worth the purchase based on that criteria alone. Plus it has the ten-minute jam Stimela.

Signal Hill – self entitled. If you like instrumental post rock, this is one you may enjoy.

Switched to female vocalist: Robin Holcomb – Rockabye. Still wonderful after 22 years; moody, introspective, with excellent musicianship. Then on to JJ Heller – Only Love Remains. Largely acoustic and great songwriting.

Finally moved on to the experimental genre with Vernon Reid – Known Unknown (not as good as Mistaken Identity) and then to The Books – Thought for Food. This is a pretty strong effort by them.

After all these CDs, the only thing I wish I had was more time. I’m not sure I’m in the minority on that though!

I busted out with Josh Rouse "The Happiness Waltz". Great mellow Sunday morning coffee music.

More than one night's worth of digital listening here...
Thanks to Pokey77 for the Rasinhill recommendation. Found "Nameless" on YouTube. From that upload stumbled onto some interesting post-rock stuff by Moonlit Sailor ("So Close to Life"; "Colors in Stereo") and Sunlight Ascending ("All The Memories...."). [FWIW - Subscribe to 9eCn3 aka 9EricCN3]. The gem, though, might be iambic2, "Under These Stars We'll Sleep Again".

In addition, I can't recommend strongly enough "Unleft" by Helios or "Copia" by Eluvium. I wish more were able to hear and appreciate this music.

Forgot to add El Ten Eleven to the previous installment on this thread.

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