neveronfriday

I usually paid below 40 by waiting long enough (sometimes a mere 15 - 20 on eBay), but too many people seem to have caught on and the new boxes have a way of disappearing relatively fast. I'm hooked, so I went the jpc route (I still had a voucher to blow there courtesy of a project I helped on, so the thing didn't cost me a cent). @brownie : I'm a nasty customer. I spend tons of time at the Harmonia Mundi store (small but good) ... and then buy elsewhere (or online). Harmonia Mundi/Chant du Monde is/are not well represented on the Internet, so checking out their stuff in Strasbourg has become a regular thing for me. Yes, a winstub it will be. There's a great one very close (forgot the name of the street) where we always go (I'm going with a French colleague of mine who drives to Strasbourg about once a week; it's only about 45 minutes away from here plus 15 minutes to get to some totally obscure parking lots he always uncovers) and where we get brilliant food from the Alsace region, usually too much wine, and about two hours of non-stop stories from the owner who lived through/suffered through the upheavals of French-German history. Very pleasant guy and the real Strasbourg atmosphere (the half-timbered bulilding is in the oldest part of Strasbourg, with Gudd Stub and all, if anyone knows what that is). Hey, I'm getting all tingly thinking about the trip. I'll be having 1/4 on each of you guys. Santé/Prost!

I'll have a look at their shop (Harmonia Mundi) in Strasbourg sometime next week. There's also a really nice café not far from there, so if it's not too cold and cloudy, I'll endulge in a nice glas of wine with some Distel playing on my mp3 player.

Duh. JPC already has it (just talked to them). *hits purchase button*

Yes, but try a reading from the original score (f. ex. the Dohnanyi recording with the Cleveland Orchestra) and not the reworked and overly syrupy Rimsky-Korsakov version produced about 20 years later, in 1886, which is the one found on CD/LP in 99% of the cases (and which is also the one in which it received its first performance). There is a world of a difference between those two versions.

Skaal! http://www.aperitif.no/images/72566/Lysholm-Linie-200b.jpg (Sorry, but I think the Norwegian one is best)

Ditto.

Hi, does anyone have "Spaceman" by 'Babatunde' Tony Ellis (late 70's/early 80's). If you do have this tune or the album it's on, could you send me a PM? Thanks.

Just had to check in quick. Thanks Brownie! And color me happy! Looking forward to that next box. I have the piano one as well. As you said, excellent job, a great selection of tunes to boot, always something to be discovered there, and just an all-around great job done by people who care about the music very much. Now I'm really off. Later, and thanks again!

I bought mine there a while back (actually a tiny bit cheaper) and a) they are still available and b) service is fast and professional. I've ordered tons from these guys (who actually also run other sites such as the Karstadt one (at least they used to ... same shop, same prices, different colors (blue)), and they've always had very good prices on especially their offers pages (they also have some great classical stuff ... the other day I bought an Anner Bylsma 10-CD Sony box for 9,95 (now 19 and something, I think)). Highly recommended!

I was wondering if André Francis & Jean Schwarz are still putting out this wonderful series. So far I've always managed to find each box (4 so far, up until 1953, plus two separate ones by the same editors), but this year ... no luck yet. So, does anyone (f. ex. Brownie) have an idea if this series will be continued? Any info appreciated (maybe I was just dumb again and didn't look in the right places?). Thanks! P.S.: I won't be able to check in here for answers until beginning/middle of next week. I'm away on a short trip as of ... now. (I) (II) (III) (IV) (V) [Edit: Added cover for 5th volume, now available)

I also thought things had at least eased up quite a bit. No such luck. I'm really sorry to hear that. I myself have been battling for weeks now with something the doctors simply can't get a grip on (as it turns out, I'm basically resistant to any antibiotics they have thrown at me [or rather the stuff screwing me up is resistant against that]). I've had to take some really strong pills which have given me an inflamation in all joints (no idea what the medical term is in English), to boot, and at the moment the doctors (three separate experts in the field) are just hoping it will go away by itself (fat chance). Basically, they don't know what to do. In comparison, it's only a nuisance, but I know what kind of frustration your wife and you are feeling. All the best. I hope you will find the cause of the problems and a treatment soon. I'm keeping my fingers crossed, as mucch as that is possible at the moment.

Guys, you're killing me. But thanks for the heads up on this stuff. P.S.: I just checked and I also have the two folkvisor as *.mpc files (THAT must be the old twofer [without checking]) ... below a quick tag export ... Jan Johannson: Folkvisor (I guess that was the release title ('94)) ... I'm just too exhausted at the moment to check anything online: Titel: Visa från Utanmyra Titel: Gånglek från Älvdalen Titel: Polska från Medelpad Titel: Visa från Rättvik Titel: Brudmarsch efter Larshöga Jonke Titel: Vallet från Jämtland Titel: Emigrantvisa Titel: Berg-Kirstis polska Titel: Leksands skänklåt Titel: Gammal bröllopsmarsch Titel: Visa från Järna Titel: Polska efter Höök Olle Titel: Nära hemmet Titel: På ängen stod en björk Titel: Stepp, min stepp Titel: Bandura Titel: Längs floden Titel: Det går en kosack Titel: Mellan branta stränder Titel: Pråmdragarnas sång på Volga Titel: Jag broderade till gryningen Titel: Kvällar i Moskvas förstäder Titel: Entonigt klingar den lilla klockan Titel: Ströva omkring

Thanks. Shall do. (And now go away. You're making me spend money) I fell in love with Johansson's playing a looooong time ago and it's time to add some CDs to the collection. I have the folk ones on LP, but they've been played thin ... They look like frisbees.

I distinctly remember that this was supposed to be a new (+ newly remastered) one with some bonus tracks as a twofer this or next month. The list I read that on wasn't that old and used to be very reliable. But looking at what came out beginning of this month, I guess those were the ones and the twofer idea died along the way. Anything else I should get (Johansson) while I've got my credit card out (besides the twofer you mentioned above)?

I guess they were wrong about the twofer then. And, I keep forgetting about CDon. Thanks for the link again. My wallet, my wallet, my wallet. *groan*

Thanks, but I don't think it is what I meant. There's some sort of remastered/expanded twofer coming out (end October?/November?) ... I read it on some odd jazz list I received from a website in DK that has gone offline. I checked my usual Danish mail order sources, but so far nothin g is listed.

I heard that Jan Johansson's stuff ('64 "Jazz på svenska" and more?) was supposed to be re-released as a twofer in Scandinavia (Denmark/Sweden?) this month. Does anyone have any info on this and what is supposed to be on there, who's releasing it and when it's supposed to be out? For me it is must-have material, but I had trouble finding any info.

Sure.

The usual arrogance when threads like this one pop up?

Sounds like Turkish fast food to me. Uncool.

Copeland. (unless this was supposed to be a cop joke)

Just for the sake of argument: How do you know what the people want? Isn't it more the case that everyone is assuming that they know what the people want? Not much has changed since Woodrow Wilson, I think. From what I heard, the people want to have an atmosphere in which they can leave the house without getting shot, blown up and/or dismembered. They want the same for their children. I'm not going to argue the human rights aspect here or others (since I tend to agree with a lot of what you said), but it's a very comfy attitude to have and say "The people want this or that, no matter what the cost", all the while zapping through the news programs in your safe home. I talked to a representative from a southern province (Iraq) who said (and I'm paraphrasing here): "I don't give a f*ck about democracy, elections, human rights and international involvement. I want to live." Later he added that the population itself should be allowed to follow up on tendencies of westernization that were there before, without having the whole state dragged from a somewhat pre-industrial state into the 21st century (a process, I may add, we allowed ourselves 1 1/2 centuries to complete) in a few measly years.

01) lmao - Doesn't take much brains to figure out who is going to comply with that rule. It's like giving a kid a bar of chocolate and saying: "You can take it home, but you CAN'T EAT IT. HA!" Plain stupid. 02) What we have yet to mention here are many live tapes with godawful sound. What you have are all these amateurs with equipment they can't handle, people who had board access and then ran their files through enhancers and whatnot, just because they also stole the software and CAN manipulate the sound files ("cool, man"), idiots that place their microphones right next to that fat dude who yells "YEAH, MAN" into every quiet passage or next to the only couple having sex during the concert, and so on. 03) The whole discussion is superfluous. The traders will record and trade no matter what. As mentioned many times here, more often than not they belong to a sub-breed that does not give a hoot about anything or anyone as long as they get their fix and can wank off next to fourty piles of once-heard recordings (respectable traders not withstanding). 04) The collectors I've run across on the Internet are often the types that WILL collect anything, no matter how bad, retag it, list it, annotate it, whatever ... they probably also collect Japanese teenage girl's spit in plastic bags (new fad hopefully not heading our way soon). Waste of time.

Yep, I also have older Sony stuff that (still) works like a charm. These past years though I've had several terrible Sony products. The DVD player was the last in a line of consumer products with declining quality (control). If you read the forums around the Net (and I know you do ) you know that I'm not the only person complaining about this decline in quality. I think Sony has been trying to get out of that by introducing new product lines and pushing the quality factor again, but I don't think we'll see if this worked until middle of next year or so. Philips I'm very neutral about. Mine works. So, ok with me. BTW: To make such a strict decision and saying that I will NOT EVER touch Sony again is perhaps the last piece de resistance we consumers can pull out of the hat these days. I don't care if they ever improve - they've lost me as a customer because they just swallowed up too much of my money with crappy products (and HORRIBLE service on several occasions!). There's enough competition to turn to, so ... no more Sony.

What I said elsewhere on this board: The West is making a huge mistake by imposing its values and its worldview. It's going to prove to be/have been one of the biggest mistakes of the 21st century. We haven't even started to see the backlash that's going to happen. P.S.: I say this as a stern advocate of, for example, Marshall and Truman without whom my country would have been a lot worse off. But I also say this as someone who has known Iranians and Iraquis for most of his life (many of which were refugees who came to Europe end 70's) and understands that even the ones who did find refuge in the West are highly critical of current and past European and American foreign policy. I'm not going to quote any of their statements here (we need a *beep* smiley) but this summer I took part in a conference on Middle Eastern affairs and what I (over)heard in the evenings, at the bar or at dinner, conversing with many of the guests from the various Middle Eastern states, scared me, to say the least. With our (continuous) intervention(s) we have not only managed to kill more people than all secret services of the region couldn't have killed in a hundred years, but we will, in the end, pull out and leave the place in shambles, something the entire region will need decades to recover from (if at all). We've given a huge boost to fundamentalism and have practically handed the power to radicals that have the region in a vice grip that tightens every time we move a finger. Pants suits? Well, not much longer I would think. Altogether a dreadful situation and a policy which is completely counterproductive. As an aside: if you visit, as I did this year, the Turkish countryside and see the effects of the central government's imposing of new laws (and radical break with traditions) to comply with European requirements for membership in the EU, you can see in a nutshell what's happening south of there as well: the common people don't get it and people who were completely apolitical (is that the right word) are being radicalized in a very short time. I talked to some Turkish farmers who had absolutely no idea what was going on, why things were changing at such a rapid pace, sometimes in direct confrontation with (religious) traditions and every single one of them favored a return to a more traditional leadership (authoritarian) to get things "back to normal". No matter what I thought of those utterances, to me (and the representatives of the EU that were along) it looked like major trouble brewing. We're in over our heads here. Time to rethink our agenda before things really blow.