Manafonistas

Nachdem nun die anderen Manafonisten, Michael und Jochen, bereits am 17.03 und 21.03. die Vierteljahrsliste ihrer Lieblingsplatten verraten haben, möchte ich nun auch kundtun, welche Schallplatten in meinen Plattenschrank im ersten Quartal dieses Jahres eingeordnet und für sehr gut befunden wurden. Vierzehn neue CDs möchte ich vorstellen, die Reihenfolge stellt keine Hitliste dar, sie ist rein zufällig:
 
 
Vijay Iyer: Accelerando
Hank Jones & Charlie Haden: Come Sunday
Tindersticks: The something rain
Dario Castello / Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonate concertate in stil moderno
Garth Knox: Saltarello
Peter Boderick: https://www.itstartshear.com
Nils Okland / Sigbjorn Apeland: 1982 Pintura
Michael Chapman: Trainsong: Compositions 1967-2010
Tord Gustavsen Quartet: The Well
Bonnie Raitt: Slipstream
Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral
Dan Michaelson: Breaking Falls
Krzysztof Penderecki And Jonny Greenwood: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima /
Popcorn /Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia.
John Zorn: Mount Analogue
 
 
 

 

The riddle asks: if you replace the head of your broom, then replace the handle, have you still got the broom you started with? So it is with M Ward and his relationship to American music in that period between Elvis leaving the army and the Beatles appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show. Ward’s music takes the shape of the declining years of rock’n’roll and of Brill Building pop, then removes its constituent parts and replaces them with newer versions: it’s not a retooling, so much as a careful restoration job designed to make it sound like something meant to last for ever. Is it still just early-60s pop, or is it something timeless and new? Ward’s seventh album finds him mixing up the country-blues picking of the title track with a rockabilly-noir portrayal of the musician’s life on Me and My Shadow. Ward’s partner in She & Him, Zooey Deschanel, duets on Sweetheart, but Ward’s voice, a little cracked, but also easy and beckoning, is the sweeter.