The ongoing drama this week in these parts involves the renovation of my bathroom. After the last long project at work I took a few days off to get this done, with thoughts of selling the condo at the back of my mind. I used a highly recommended friend-of-a-now-former friend and things quickly spiralled into Bob Villa hell. After some low level violence and threats of more to come and legal action it was "decided" that I would bring in a different crew to recontruct my master bath. Note to self, you get what you pay for in construction.

Anyway, me being me and doing what I do, I decided to take some of the money that I'm not going to be paying this jackass and shop my anger away. This week's take and some highlights include:

The Band~Last Waltz
Sade~Stronger Than Pride Aahhh
Horace Silver~Six Pieces of Silver Good call jim
Stan Getz~Reflections 24 bit/96 kHz transfer, nice
Roger Waters~Thw Wall Double Live SACD
Pink Floyd~Obscured By Clouds
Gary Burton~Like Minds Concord Jazz SACD with Metheny and Corea
Miles Davis~Dark Magus:Live At Carnegie Hall SACD
Skrowaczewski/Minnesota Orch.~Ravel Mobile Fidelity
Putumayo Presents~Latin Jazz Machito with Cannonball Adderley, niiiice
The National~self titled
The White Stripes~Ickey Thump yeah, I jumped on board
Marvin Gaye~The Collection SACD
The Stan Getz Quartet~Pure Getz more Concord on SACD
Cat Power~The Greatest Hits
Herb Ellis/Joe Pass~Seven, Come Eleven notice a theme?
The New Pornographers~Twin Cinema Love Neko, thanks Swishy and FA
David Byrne~Live in Austin, Texas can't wait to see this & tonight's the night

A few more that have really been extravagantly good and that I can recommend to any and all are:

Jane's Addiction~Up From The Catacombs a much-needed remastering of one of the most effin' rawking bands from the late Eighties and early Nineties. "Pigs in Zen" was worth the price of admission alone.
Willard Grant Conspiracy~Let It Roll the 2007 release; a little bit of an uptempo affair with a couple of slow dirges reminiscent of "Regard The End"; production is not stellar but good enough on some solid material
Robert Shaw/Atlanta Symph~Stravinsky's "The Firebird Telarc SACD, need to say more? Incredible dynamics and presence with a fantastic crescendo to the final apex

and maybe the underdog of the group...

The Pixies~Surfer Rosa on MoFi, yeah that's right a DSD transfer from the original master tapes. Wow. Cuts like "River Euphrates" and "Toney's Theme" with that enveloping distortion...damn

Maybe I went a little overboard but I figured it was better than making bail.

Cheers