Ascend Acoustics Official Music Recommendation Thread

[curtis]

Very cool, thanks! I'm going to try that tonight...might make it in to my next review!

Brad, you should ask for a reference footnote if it does.

Because of you two or three, I just ordered "Cachaito" and "Entre Amigos/Among Friends".

[curtis]

OK...because of this thread, another thread here, and thread over at AudioCircle, I have four new discs:

Orlando Cachaito Lopez - Cachaito, the guys did not steer me wrong on this one. I played it this morning while getting ready for the office.

Rosa Passos & Ron Carter - Entre Amigos/Among Friends; I fell asleep to this one last night. Sounded great, very relaxing to me.

Chantal Chamberland - Serendipity Street
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0005JB6SQ

Erin Boheme - What Love Is; Incredible voice for an 18 year old.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E6EIVW

Too funny....as I was writing this, my Dad called. He is at my house picking my kids up after school. He saw the "Cachaito" and "Entre Amigos/Among Friends" discs and said he was borrowing them. Good thing I already ripped them to FLAC.

[clarke68]

Rosa Passos & Ron Carter - Entre Amigos/Among Friends; I fell asleep to this one last night.

Not exactly the strongest endorsement I've ever heard... ;-)

I had a listening party at my place Friday night (guys loved the Sierra-1). Lots of great stuff was played, but this was my favorite discovery:

Dark Side of the Moon A Capella - incredibly original and successful take on the Floyd classic. Super well-recorded, the bass (singer) sounds awesome and the voices just float. Highly recommended for fans of Pink Floyd or vocals.

[curtis]

Not exactly the strongest endorsement I've ever heard... ;-)

Ha! That didn't come out very good.....but if you knew the weekend I had, you'd understand.

[Quinn]

For vocal and gospel I like The Fairfield Four- Standing in the Safety Zone. I use track 6 as a favorite torture test as to whether speakers play the 4 voices distinctly separate and in harmony or are just a blend of voices.

[pegleg]

Josh Groban's new Noel displays the male voice to perfection (at least on Ascend).
I also love acappella, especially Toxic Audio, The Real Group, Rajaton and Idea of North. Anything by those groups sounds fantastic.

[curtis]

I think we have a lot of guitar fans here.

If you are one of them, this disc from various artists doing "new" flamenco style of playing is very good. I was surprised to find out that one of artists is Slash from Guns & Roses.

http://www.amazon.com/Gypsy-Soul-Fla...0069608&sr=1-1

[kyzersoze98]

OK...because of this thread, another thread here, and thread over at AudioCircle, I have four new discs:

Orlando Cachaito Lopez - Cachaito, the guys did not steer me wrong on this one. I played it this morning while getting ready for the office.

Rosa Passos & Ron Carter - Entre Amigos/Among Friends; I fell asleep to this one last night. Sounded great, very relaxing to me.

Chantal Chamberland - Serendipity Street
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0005JB6SQ

Erin Boheme - What Love Is; Incredible voice for an 18 year old.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E6EIVW

Too funny....as I was writing this, my Dad called. He is at my house picking my kids up after school. He saw the "Cachaito" and "Entre Amigos/Among Friends" discs and said he was borrowing them. Good thing I already ripped them to FLAC.

Listening to Rosa Passos & Ron Carter for the first time right now......great stuff!!!! I love threads like this I'm going through ever page. Thank you!!!!

[kyzersoze98]

Whoever recommended Emerson, Lake, Palmer-Trilogy album thank you for that i just ordered it on amazon. I've never heard of these guys (don't kill me).


For my guitar lovers:
Strunz,Farah-Americas; just listen to the first track (caracol) to get a feeling awesome stuff. LOVE this album.

John Mclaughlin, Al Di Meola, Paco De Lucia-Friday night in San Fransisco (live)

Al Di Meola-Elegant Gypsy


Heavy stuff

Megadeth-Rust in Peace

Rage against the machine-Self titled first album. If you can find the original version (not the heavily compressed remaster) its sound fantastic.


Random stuff

Terry Callier-Timepeace; if you have tidal look up the songs "java sparrow" and "love theme from spartacus" both sound incredible on my sierra 2's.

Elvis Crespo-Suavemente (song and album). Not sure if their's in merengue/salsa fans on the boards if so "Tu Sonrisa" off the same album sounds great.

[davef]

Not my usual -- but I have been enjoying this quite a bit lately. Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It is very melodic and extremely emotional when played though the right speakers

http://www.metacritic.com/music/skel...-the-bad-seeds