Yep, I did. It’s possible you know.
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One of the most glorious genres ever I’d say. It’s as if tagging ‘music’.
If being viewed by one used to listen to classical music it might fit. Same if not, since then all classical music is simply ‘classical’ without any difference.
Pop/Rock was the very first argument to simply switch from prefer roon into prefer file.
Should one remind that Pop got simply nothing to do with Rock and vice versa.
Following isn’t Pop nor Rock either 
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Conatus , Joep Beving’s upcoming release, slated for 7 September, is a selection of “remixes” and a further expansion of his desire to create a simple soundtrack to accompany our complex human emotions. Its title comes from the philosophical concept of conatus – an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself. “If you see music as a living organism, then it’s something that will always adapt to new circumstances in order to stay present. This project is not about me. It is about the conatus of my music and for this album I’ve put their lives in other people’s hands.” Beving invited a range of artists he knows and admires – Cello Octet Amsterdam, Suzanne Ciani, Tom Trago, Eefje de Visser, Colin Benders, Andrea Belfi, CFCF and Thomas Bloch – to rework his music in their own way. The results are not remixes in the club sense, therefore, but new and original interpretations of tracks by Beving, woven together on Conatus to form a coherent album. As well as approaching legendary American electronic music pioneer Ciani, Beving was also keen to involve other musicians from his native Netherlands: “They’re all people I think easily hold their own on the international scene.”
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“Time and tide wait for no man,” so the saying goes. But ever since her EP, Tide & Time, came out in 2016, many have been waiting expectantly to hear Somerset singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane’s debut album. On September 21 the wait will be over as this fine young acoustic artist unveils the beguiling release ‘Namer Of Clouds.’ Produced by fellow musicians Sam Kelly and Jacob Stoney and released on Navigator Records, this is a captivating album.
Her sharply observed narrative songs are pure poetry, rich with visual imagery and written with an eco-eye woven loosely together into a theme of mankind’s relationship with the wild. Gathering inspiration from the sky to the seabed, Kitty’s lyrics touch on intervention and rewilding, climate change and migration and one singular song which is a magical aural tapestry of woman’s historical relationship with textiles and the land. The album is augmented by all kinds of ‘found sound’ recorded in locations from Somerset to Sardinia birdsong, waterfalls, the click of knitting needles- and is bookended by sounds of the wild.
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DSD256 file > RAAT > Sony TA-ZH1ES > Sony Z1R
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From their label’s website, but well summarized:
In the past, the members of the Oddgeir Berg Trio have remained in the background, acting as instrumentalists for renowned Scandinavian colleagues. With the release of Before Dawn, things are about to change. Their album instantly ranks as an excitingly different entry into the long list of piano trios. And despite their decades of combined experience, it sounds every bit as fresh and hungry as you’d expect from a debut.
It makes perfect sense, when Berg quotes legends such as Keith Jarrett and McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and EST as influences and inspirations. After all, it is precisely the link between the past and the present, the tension between tradition and progression, which turn the album into such an exciting proposition. Berg, Wisløff and Blomvik may not enjoy standing in the limelight. With material like this, though, they may soon have to get used to it.
Here’s a review from All About Jazz:
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Reminds me of Arlo Guthrie in some songs.
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Just discovered these guys.
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Remastered September 2018
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25 years old 
(TIDAL 44.1/16, not sure which master I have, but certainly doesn’t sound exceptional)
Edit: Based on the TIDAL product code, I think it’s the 1998 remaster. If so, could be worse.
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It’s very worrying when you think something is fairly contemporary only to find it really isn’t.
Is it just me or would anyone else like to see George Clinton with Nile Rodgers on one side of him and Flea on the other ?
So many memories. I was 19 when this was released.
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