Brian Eno is usually credited with the claim that everyone who originally bought a Velvet Underground album subsequently formed a band. It’s no less valid to suggest that many of those involved in electronic music might not have been but for “No Pussyfooting” and “Evening Star”. Indeed few contemporary albums can claim as much lasting […]
Month: May 2021
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Trailers for Eternals, The Suicide Squad, The Batman and more have twisted vintage pop – from Nirvana to Steely Dan – into epic new shapes. Industry insiders explain why https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/27/trailerisation-the-movie-trend-resurrecting-old-pop-music-trailers-eternals-suicide-squad-batman
The definitive chronicle of Dylan’s legendary 1967 sessions with The Band Historic 6-disc set includes 138 tracks Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes Exclusive 120 page deluxe-bound book containing rare and unseen photographs and memorabilia Extensive liner notes Compiled from meticulously restored original tapes – many found only recently – this historic six-disc set is […]
57th & 9th represents a wide range of Sting’s musical and songwriting styles, from the ferocious, Road Warrior-style imagery of “Petrol Head,” to the anthemic, “50,000” and the raucous, guitar-driven first single, “I Can’t Stop Thinking About You.” The album was recorded with Sting’s long-time collaborators Dominic Miller (guitar) and Vinnie Colaiuta (drums) and includes […]
They tell us…… Lock and load with a high-powered chronicle of one couple’s failed marriage. Shoot Out The Lights is Richard and Linda Thompson’s final album together and, ironically, the folk-rock couple’s most artistically acclaimed and commercially successful. The album was recorded, scrapped, and rerecorded before finally emerging in 1982, arriving just around the time […]
Paul McGowan / PS Audio A very kind HiFi Family member generously sent me a few Sheffield Direct to Discs. These treasures are hard to find and I was extremely grateful to have received them. Upon playing the Lincoln Mayorga and Friends disc I was reminded of just how direct and dynamic they were. There’s […]
One day, about a year ago, I thought to myself “I want to make a jug band album.” One of my favorite groups is the Christmas Jug Band. I knew that Tim Eschliman was my contact for the couple of times I played with them and I figured he was their producer guy. So I […]
David Oldroyd-Bolt writes as follows: “Early Beethoven belongs to an intimate sound world best evoked these days on period pianos, rather than on a loud Steinway,” declared John Allison in his review of Steven Osborne’s recent Wigmore Hall recital. Much as I admire Mr Allison as a critic, he’s dangerously close to the mindset adopted […]
As far as album concepts go, Francis Trouble’s is one of a kind. For his fourth solo effort, Albert Hammond, Jr. took inspiration from the fact that a small part of his stillborn twin Francis — a fingernail, to be exact — remained in the womb with him until his birth six months later. This […]
The Move – Message From The Country (CD1) Message From The Country Ella James No Time Don’t Mess Me Up Until Your Moma’s Gone It Wasn’t My Idea To Dance The Minister Ben Crawley Steel Company The Words Of Aaron My Marge The Electric Light Orchestra – The Electric Light Orchestra (CD2) 10538 Overture Look […]
This new box set, supported by Mike Oldfield, contains 8 albums from the Warner years: – Tubular Bells II – The Songs Of Distant Earth – The Voyager – Tubular Bells III – Guitars – The Millennium Bell – Tr3s Lunas – Tubular Bells 2003 After leaving Virgin Records, Oldfield joined the Warner […]
The viola was the instrument of choice for Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Dvorák and Beethoven; Jimi Hendrix and John Cale both played it; violinists turn to it to improve technique. So why is the viola the butt of jokes? Tabea Zimmermann defends her instrument Please click HERE to continue reading
Kate Molleson writes ….. The lone cello has played gateway to many a composer’s soul. Bach and Britten, most famously. Ernest Bloch wrote his three solo cello suites in the 1950s, near the end of his life, and they are fleeting and strange. As performed by Natalie Clein, their small scale is poignant – melancholy […]
Recorded live at My Father’s Place, Old Roslyn, New York, USA on 8th May 1974. Dave Swarbrick: Violin, Vocals Trevor Lucas: Guitar, Vocals Sandy Denny: Vocals, Piano Dave Pegg Bass: Guitar Dave Mattacks: Drums Jerry Donahue: Guitar Track list: Matty Groves Solo It’ll Take a Long Time Dirty Linen Brilliancy Medley-Cherokee Shuffle Like an Old Fashioned Waltz Ballad of Ned […]
Kate & Anna McGarrigle, live at the University of Toronto, Canada on 29th May 1982 On this May 29, 1982 CBC broadcast of a Toronto concert, Kate and Anna McGarrigle presented highlights of their first two critically acclaimed albums, as well six songs from their most recent LP, Love Over and Over. The eclectic folk […]
Following on from its award winning Family box set Once Upon A Time, Snapper Music has created a new box of wonder on its Madfish imprint guaranteed to reinvigorate the reputation of one of the 1970s most underrated and ageless Rock bands. I’m Walking, Complete Streetwalkers 1974-77 is a gloriously packaged 15 CD collection of Streetwalkers […]
Not sure why it never dawned on me, but I sat listening to Kansas – Point of No Return, trying to compile a list of other American prog bands, and… nada. Zip. From my own collection, I guess maybe King’s X, and Zebra, but it’s still a pretty poor showing. Ok, some Zappa/Mothers stuff ends […]
Bought this on eBay for around £1.50. On and off yesterday I’ve been listening to her album ‘Filth & Fire’. Usually background listening. However every now and then I’m pulled back to a track here and I have to stop what I’m doing. Two of these are ‘Sugar Cane’ and ‘Camelot Motel’. Terrific stuff. Overall, […]
Between February 1973 and October 1977, Queen recorded six sessions for the BBC – twenty four new and alternative recordings spanning four albums. They revisited nineteen different songs in all: My Fairy King (the first Queen song ever to be broadcast on radio), Liar, Son And Daughter, Doing All Right, Great King Rat, Modern Times […]
We are told: The icon of the punk movement, poet and exceptional artist Patti Smith was rarely on stage, that’s why the breath-taking concerts of the legendarymusician were huge highlights.On stage there is just power, music and those messages of Mrs Patti Smith, which made this Rock’n’Roll Queen to a preacher: not more gentle, butcalmer […]
We are told: Laura Nyro Was One of the Great Singer-Songwriters of Her Generation She Penned Such Classic as “Stoney End,” “And When I Die,” “Wedding Bell Blues,” “Eli’s Comin’,” “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “Sweet Blindness,” and “Blowin’ Away,” All of Which Came from the Two Albums That Make Up This Two-CD Collection A Little Magic, […]
We are told …. EXCEPTIONAL LIVE RECORDING FROM LEONARD COHEN IN ZURICH 1993 Leonard Cohen’s 1993 world tour may well have been the man’s last had he not discovered in 2004 that his manager had been embezzling his earnings – leaving him with little from his long career in music and publishing to assist in […]
Both Sides of the Sky is another collection of high-quality studio recordings, dating from 1968-1970. It might surprise some that, 45-plus years after his death, there’s still good material that hasn’t been previously released, but Hendrix was recording nearly all the time at this point, whether they were demos done in his apartment, late-night jamming […]
The news of Jack Bruce and Robin Trower performing live for the first time spread like wildfire. For more than 40 years the legendary Cream bassist and singer and the immensely talented guitarist of Procol Harum made history in the Rock ‘n’ Roll business. It was in the early 80s when they first collaborated, releasing […]