We are told: All the News That’s Fit to Sing was Phil Ochs’ first official album. Recorded in 1964 for Elektra Records, it was full of many elements that would come back throughout his career. It was the album that defined his “singing journalist” phase, strewn with songs whose roots were allegedly pulled from Newsweek […]
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‘Part hip vaudeville and part musical inspiration… His arrangements were imaginative embellishments of full-blown ideas… Among the freshest things to be heard in jazz-rock’ – New York Times, August 1968 Classic summer 1968 performance Remastered sound Background notes / photos included First time on Vinyl 2x 180g Vinyl w/ insert in sleeve This superb set […]
Complete with the original Gramophone reviews of 50 of the finest JS Bach recordings available Continues HERE
By early 1972, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were enjoying massive success, both as a group with tremendous album sales, and as a touring band in high demand. Individually, they had recently recorded career-defining solo albums, but had not toured together in well over a year, which heightened the frenzy for any public appearance. […]
Hugo Shirley listens to the available recordings of Strauss’s opera and recommends his favourite The original Ariadne auf Naxos (1912), a chamber opera appended to a reworking of Molière’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme, was not a success. Reluctantly, Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal decided to embark upon a reworking of their bold experiment. The Molière […]
Collection of outakes, 2LP in gatefold sleeve. Limited edition of 1000 Record 1 Transparent Red With Glitter Record 2 Transparent Blue With Glitter Record 1 All Tracks Recorded 11th February, 1963 Record 2 Side 1 Recorded 5th March, 1963 Record 2 Side 2 Tracks 1-6 Recorded 12th September, 1963 Record 2 Side 2 Track 7 Recorded […]
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Originally published 2015 Progressive music, the oft-maligned genre that had its heyday in the 1970s, is to be endorsed by the Official Charts Company (OCC). More HERE
Previously published here Cheap Trick’s 17th studio album ‘Bang Zoom Crazy…Hello’ follows the recent announcement about the band’s forthcoming induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. The long-awaited news celebrates the pioneering sound that has led to sales in excess of 20 million and more than 40 international gold and platinum certifications for […]
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Gary Lemco (Audiophile Audition) writes ….. Despite having virtually “retired” from the active concert stage in 1947 in order to fulfill her teaching duties and her parenting role, Nadia Reisenberg (1904-1983) once more commands our attention in a series of chamber (and solo) works organized by her son, producer and commentator Robert Sherman. With the […]
The centenary of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps was widely celebrated in 2013, and since then recordings have increased dramatically, suggesting that this groundbreaking ballet has lost none of its power to intrigue and enthrall. Alpha’s 2017 recording of a concert by Krzysztof Urbański and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester offers a vivid performance that […]
In 1995, after temporarily reorganising the E Street Band for a few new songs recorded for his first Greatest Hits album, Bruce Springsteen released his second solo guitar album, The Ghost of Tom Joad, inspired by John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and by Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass, a […]
Usually we mentioned like best #1 Clifford Curzon-George Szells performance, and like best#2 Sviatoslav Richter-Erich Leinsdorf version, a recording that curiosly Richter in his own words hated! But times have changed and at this time there are 100 or more new recordings of this marvelluos works, and because of that the competition is very fierce […]
Judas Priest’s 18th studio album, FIREPOWER began under inauspicious circumstances. First, guitarist Glenn Tipton, diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease a decade ago, found it necessary to retire from the road; second, they lost out to Bon Jovi for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; and finally, former drummer Dave Holland passed on before […]
We are told: Rather than drudging up scandal and outworn hypothesis about his lifestyle and ultimate death, this new film looks at Hendrix as the master of electric guitar, as told by a selection of the world’s greatest musicians in all new and exclusive interviews. Contributors include Dave Mason, Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Eric Burdon, […]
And I really liked it – even on a car stereo! A professional (i.e, not by me) review HERE Reviews by buyers HERE Get a new copy at low cost HERE
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When it comes to violin concertos, concert programme content is pretty predictable. Jeremy Nicholas throws down the gauntlet to those responsible with a selection of lesser-known works showcased on disc Continues HERE
We are told ….. Disc 1 RAGGED AND DIRTY ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE BLOOD IN MY EYES QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT DISEASE OF CONCEIT I WANT YOU RING THEM BELLS MY BACK PAGES FOREVER YOUNG Disc 2 RAGGED AND DIRTY LAY LADY LAY TIGHT CONNECTION TO MY HEART WEEEPING WILLOW […]
We are told: 1. Paint an 8 2. Grinnin’ 3. If It Ever Stops Raining 4. Wyoming & Me 5. Predictable 6. Never Forget This Song 7. Life Vest 8. Another Roadside Tragedy 9. My Heart’s Killing Me 10. Peace Anyway Disc: 2 1. A Conspiracy 2. Evil Eye 3. Cursed Diamond 4. London P25 […]
This was the very first disc record company in the UK, later becoming well known as HMV and EMI, and was the London affiliate of inventor Emile Berliner’s US National Gramophone Company. The first inventory consisted of imported parts for 3,000 gramophones and 150,000 American records. It was swiftly obvious that British tastes meant local […]
I lived in Manchester in the mid 1990s and looked in the ad paper Loot and saw a Linn Sondek with Lingo and ekos for £50 , I immediately phoned at 9.30am thinking I’d be first in but a caller had already seen it and was on his way to buy, I was gutted for […]
After gaining local popularity in Gainesville, Florida with his band Mudcrutch, Tom Petty hooked up with The Heartbreakers (Mike Campbell, guitar; Benmont Tench, keyboards; Stan Lynch, drums; Ron Blair, bass), went to L.A., signed to Leon Russell s Shelter Records, and cut Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, the debut album released in 1976. Although Petty, […]