Peter Gabriel - Us 8/10
Abdel Gadir Salim - Nujum Al-Lail (Stars of the Night) 7.5/10

Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood 7.5/10
Panjabi MC - The Album 7.5/10

Hariprasad Chaurasia - Raga Bageshri 8/10
Kiranpal Singh - Moments in Time 8/10
Patricia Petibon - Nouveau Monde 7.5/10


I've also been listening to Kiran Ahluwalia's Beyond Boundaries, but I only started yesterday so I'll wait until next Friday to pass judgement.

Kiran Ahluwalia - Beyond Boundaries 8/10
Clutch - Blast Tyrant 8/10
Steve Earle - El Corazon 7.5/10

Wow! I haven't heard any new album since Drake's "retail mixtape".

Wayne Shorter - The Soothsayer 8/10
Rush - Permanent Waves 8/10

Dear El Vaq, do you (like) listen to music exclusively or in the background?

What now?

Do you take out the time to listen to music exclusively or do you listen to it while attending other matters :?:

A bit of both. At the moment most of my listening is while I'm travelling back and forth to work, which usually takes around an hour each way on the bus.

Tarun Bhattacharya - Sargam 8.8/10

Cristina Branco - Post-Scriptum 8/10

Marc-Andre Hamelin - Dukas: Piano Sonata/Decaux: Clairs de Lune 7.7/10
I think I need to listen to last album several more time before I will begin to fully appreciate it.

Kala Ramnath - Kala 8/10
Om - Advaitic Songs 7/10

iTunes Music and Spotify have made me lazy. I don't listen to entire albums anymore.

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire 8/10
Jeff Beck - Truth 6.7/10

Wu Man - Chinese traditional and contemporary music for pipa and ensemble 8/10
Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang 7/10

Dr. Dre - Compton: A Soundtrack

9/10

Haven't a heard single album in a while :(

Tarun Bhattacharya - Raga Basant Mukhari 8.5/10
Kuniko Kato - Iannis Xenakis 7.7/10

Wonder if people still maintain music libraries on their computers with respect to streaming services...

The New Classic by Cal Chuchesta - 100/10

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For El Vaquero de Infierno

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What is not to love about Ravi Shankar? He's a musician that those not used to Indian classical music can listen to, as he plays like a rock musician (with serious swagger).

I bought another one of his albums, along with several other Indian classical albums, this week, including Aashish Khan and Allah Rakha's Live in Los Angeles 1968 record; I hadn't heard of Aashish Khan until a few nights ago, and he is pretty great on the Sarod, but he is the son of Ali Akbhar Khan, so he should be.

Torche - Harmonicraft 7.5/10
Chilingirian Quartet - McEwen: String Quartets Vol. 1 7.5/10

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - 4 out of 5

Vilayat Khan - Live in Mumbai: Raga Jog Kauns 8/10
Aashish Khan and Alla Rakha - Live in Los Angeles 1968 8.7/10
Ella & Duke at the Cote D'Azur 7.7/10

Awesome album

For the first time since 2008 I bought a CD

Metallica Master of Puppets-The last Metallica album that is worth listening too. Too bad Burton died while they were on tour for this album. Since then they have been shit.

Amjad Ali Khan - Shuddh-Sarang/Piloo-Kafi 7.5/10

High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves 7/10

Kathryn Tickell and The Side - Kathryn Tickell and The Side 9/10

Ghazal - The Rain 8.3/10

Attempting to listen to the curated playlists in the "For You" section of Apple Music. Apple has done a humongously bad job at the UI. Spotify's weekly discover playlists are ridiculously good.

Niyaz - Nine Heavens 8/10
Tarun Bhattacharya - The Exotic Santoor (Raga Charu Keshi) 8/10


Off to rock four Indian classical concerts, this weekend, in London. Awesome.

It has been two weeks since I lasted posted my latest albums, so:

Miles Davis - Miles Smiles 7.5/10
Boris - Heavy Rocks (2011) 8/10
Shiv Kumar Sharma - Raga Puriya 8/10
Nikhil Banerjee - Misra Kafi 8/10

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 1 8.5/10

Ranjani and Gayatri - The Awakening 7.5/10

I think they are far better live than recorded.

Kiran Ahluwalia - Wanderlust 7.3/10
Aashish Khan and Zakir Hussain - Golden Strings of the Sarod 8.8/10

Dr Dre - 2001 6.9/10
This is the first time I have heard the album since I bought it the first time round in 2000; it has got some tunes, but it doesn't touch the Chronic and the OTT gangsta stuff borders on self-parody.

Camille Thomas and Beatrice Berrut - A Century of Russian Colours 8.5/10
Funkadelic - One Nation under a Groove 7.3/10

Geza Anda and the Camerata Academica des Salzburger Mozarteums - Mozart: The Piano Concertos (8 CDs) 9.3/10
I have been listening to a new CD each week for the past two months; tasty stuff. I don't have other recordings of these works (except concertos 20 and 21) to judge against, but I have no complaints regarding the performances.

Listening to "To Pimp A Butterfly". So far so good. This d*ck ain't free...

The Spirit of India: Ravi Shankar Plays Ragas 8/10
Cynic - Focus 7/10

COCKSURE BY LAURA STEVENSON... REALLY GOOD

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly 9/10

Friedrich Kiel Complete Piano Quartets 8/10
Kayhan Kalhor/Erdal Erzincan - Kula Kulluk Yakisir Mi 8/10