For all its delightful and ethereal tinkliness, the harp suffers from something of an identity crisis. It lacks the versatility of the piano or the piercing qualities of the violin, let alone the brute force of the brass, so if it isn’t careful it can find itself relegated to a soothing, background role. Catrin Finch […]
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Recorded as the legendary Fillmore West closed its doors in July 1971, this superb set finds the three-piece CCR firing on all cylinders as they entered the final phase of their career. Incorporating early classics with more recent material, it demonstrated clearly why they were the most successful American band of their generation. This new […]
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The past eight decades have seen many recordings of this tenor-led operatic masterpiece. Trawling through them all, Richard Lawrence finds at least three very special Otellos, and some electric conducting Continues HERE
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Jazz Saxophone legend Art Pepper’s Neon Art LP series coming to CD for first time on Omnivore Recordings. In 2012, Omnivore Recordings issued a series of unreleased music from jazz legend Art Pepper on colored vinyl. Now Omnivore, in conjunction with Laurie Pepper and Widow’s Taste Music, proudly offer these landmark recordings on CD and digital. Neon […]
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums. http://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen?language=en
We are told: Americana icon Peter Rowan has had a storied career. Whether singing & playing guitar for Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys, opening for The Doors as part of Earth Opera (with David Grisman), having Sir George Martin produce his work while a member of Seatrain, performing with Jerry Garcia in Old & In The […]
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Paul McGowan: Being a designer, an entrepreneur, a business owner, a creator, a writer is risky business. You risk failure at every turn. You risk not meeting your own expectations let alone those of your customers. Yet, without making those risks there are no rewards. And at the end of the day, the rewards seem […]
Robin Denselow writes: The singer learned to love music while listening to his dad’s Lead Belly records. On the eve of an Albert Hall gig celebrating the blues genius, he talks about his musical childhood in Belfast and early ambition to be … a vet Please click HERE to continue
They say ….. ELAC, a leader in premium loudspeakers and consumer electronics proudly unveils the Uni-Fi series of loudspeakers designed by Vice President of Engineering Andrew Jones.“My goal with the Uni-Fi series was to create a line of speakers with technology and performance normally reserved for speakers costing significantly more,” Jones said. “By going […]
Neil. Hi. Has anyone successfully used ceramics for a speaker cabinets? Yes indeed. Zako Audio spring to mind. Here’s the back story as best we can ascertain. “Company that started trading in 1999 as “Zako Speakers Inc” but was incorporated in 2000 as Zako Audio and was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Owned […]
“For the last few years i have made do with a high end headphone system, but am moving in the next 2 months and will have my own music room so have decided im going to give speakers a go. I’ve never owned Hifi speakers before but after selling my headphone system i will have […]
From our archives: Jazz editor Tony Andrews writes: Around 12 years ago I got involved in sorting out a tour for a very talented female Jazz Singer from The US. The person who was in charge of the project had got it into such a mess that it was destined to failure and so […]
Paul McGowan writes Let’s cover dipoles today, what they are, why I like them and then we’ll move back to the rebuilding of the new PS Sound Room as we ready ourselves for the most famous dipole/monopole hybrid of all time, the legendary Infinity IRS that we’ll be installing soon. BTW, I posted the first […]
