Retrofocus - about historical printing processes (a.k.a. Alt-Photo)

... about music in the dark room ...

Here's some fine music I like to play in my dark room - mostly on vinyl LP's.

Genesis - Carpet Crawlers (Peter Gabriel, 1975) or Carpet Crawlers (Phil Collins, 1976)

Peter Gabriel (reminding me of other times):
Solsbury Hill, Red Rain, Here comes the flood, Biko, Mercy Street, Don't give up

Phil Collins (in Genesis) - Driving the last spike, Dreaming while you sleep, Fading Lights (1991)

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms, Telegraph Road

Wim Mertens - Struggle for Pleasure, A Visiting Card

Itzhak Perlman - Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (beautiful violin)

Bo Hansson - Music inspired by Lord of the Rings (Vinyl LP - 1972)

Gandalf - Journey to an Imaginary Land

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allen Poe

Jean Michel Jarre - Zoolook

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene (1976)

And some fine albums on vinyl:

(Peter Green's) Fleetwood Mac (debute album 1968)

Steve Howe - Beginnings (first solo album of this Yes guitarist, 1975)

Genesis - The Lamb lies down on Broadway (live, 1974 - last album with Peter Gabriel)

Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (1976)

Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings (post-Genesis, 1979)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition (3rd album, live 1979)

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here (1975)

Fleedwood Mac - Rumours

Vangelis - China (1979)

Vangelis - Heaven and Hell

My Jazz section (mostly on vinyl):

Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (1959)

Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra - Falling Water (from the album "When the world was one")

Matthew Halsall - Together (from the album "Colour Yes") Jazz with a wonderful trumpet and a beautiful harp

Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Kenneth Knudsen ‎- Pictures (1977)

A beautiful Jazz song in Portugese by Esperanza Spalding: Cantora de Yala (from her album: Junjo, 2006)

Tina Brooks - True Bleu (1960)

Bill Evans - you must believe in Spring (1977)

Donald Byrd - Free Form (1961)

Thelonius Monk - Monk's Dream

Wynton Marsalis - Jazz in Marciac (live concert, 2009) with a fantastic clarinet player Victor Goines @ 32:20

Chet Baker - Chet Baker & Strings

Chet Baker Trio - Daybreak

Sonny Rollins - The Bridge

Howard McGhee & Teddy Edwards - Yardbird Suite (from the album "Young At Heart")

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, 1959

Miles Davis - Birth of Cool, 1957

Howlin' Wolf - Rockin Chair Album

John Coltrane - Blue Train

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Mahavisnu (John McLaughlin, 1984)

Use this link to my Spotify playlist with "Complete Jazz albums (50's - 60's)"

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Bert from Holland

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