Michael Vronsky writes: Joke, truism or what? It’s a standard joke and also to some extent a truism that female classical composers are extremely rare and in quizzes, at best some people can only ‘point’ to two, possibly three. For myself, I can’t even point to one! This doesn’t mean that women in general are […]
Month: June 2021
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We are told ….. 01 Right Now 02 Red Staggerwing 03 Michaelangelo 04 I Dug Up a Diamond 05 Born to Run 06 Red Dirt Girl 07 Band Introductions 08 Done With Bonaparte 09 Romeo & Juliet 10 Song for Sonny Liston 11 Belle Star 12 If This is Goodbye 13 So Far Away 14 […]
Paul McGowan writes: In yesterday’s post we covered how the mysterious crystals used to make radio receivers first were spun off to the vacuum tube and later rediscovered to become transistors. Today let’s cover some of the fundamental differences between tubes and transistors. Let’s start with what the two have in common: they both are […]
Previously published here Astovox combines pure form with great performance. The cubic casings are handmade from African Mahogany while the front panels comes in a classic brushed aluminium finish. If desired, the wooden stands can be removed – offering the user optional arrangements. This modular design allows the system to blend into any space. The Astovox […]
In 1972 Captain Beefheart released two albums; ‘The Spotlight Kid’ and ‘Clear Spot’. He also toured the UK and Europe with the Magic Band, even performing two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall as part of an extensive British and European tour. On the 12th April, in the middle of the European leg of the […]
Michael Vronsky writes: Occasionally I talk to people about streaming audio. Yes – despite that, I do have a life. However it would be rash wouldn’t it to ignore this rapidly growing music source? More often than not though I hear the phrase – “I don’t want a computer in my listening room” or words […]
Kate Molleson writes … Debussy looked east for inspiration, enthralled by Javanese gamelans and Japanese woodcuts. Toshio Hosokawa, born in Hiroshima in 1955, writes wispy music rooted in the western tradition. Pianist Momo Kodama grew up in Osaka and studied in Paris; her first ECM album paired Takemitsu with Ravel and Messiaen. You can […]
4CD Limited Edition Box featuring live FM broadcasts from South America. Bowie’s 1990 Sound + Vision tour was billed as a greatest hits tour. Bowie intended this to be a live swansong for his catalogue of old favourites, after which Bowie declared that they would disappear from his live performances. This powerful four disc anthology […]
We are told ….. Two legendary performances broadcast on the BBC Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners Traffic, live on BBC radio, 1967. Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi formed Traffic in April 1967. Expectations ran high, and were triumphantly met by Paper Sun, which became a smash […]
After my experiences with “SART” I’m having a much more pleasurable listening experience with “In Praise of Dreams”. Hardly off my machine today, nor last Saturday for that matter. Deeply haunting. This was another eBay purchase for not a lot of money. I’ll probably purchase a few more and then I’ll post my thoughts. do […]
‘ Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testiment, written when he was in an anguished state whilst comming to terms with deafness. He moved forward to an explorative and innovative period in his life. Written in 1802, the same year he wrote his 8th Violin Sonata in G major, opus 30/3. The Heiligenstadt Testament is a letter written by Ludwig […]
This limited collector’s edition comes in a two-part rigid mirror-board box set with a 32-page, bound fan booklet, and contains the double CD, DVD and Blu-ray edition of the live spectacular, as well as the bonus CD “The Angelic Sessions” (exclusive studio recordings of selected songs that Black Sabbath did not perform on the tour […]
The pianist Charles Owen has recently released a two-CD set of Brahms’s late piano music (the Opp 76 and 79, as well as Opp 116-9 pieces) on Avie, also available to stream and download. James Jolly caught up with Charles recently for the latest Gramophone Podcast to talk about ……. Continues HERE
This epic live radio broadcast captures ZZ Top at the very cusp of their worldwide success, recorded during the East coast leg of their 1980 breakthrough tour at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. Available on remastered CD and audiophile quality LP. 1. I Thank You 2. Waitin’ For The Bus 3. Jesus Just […]
Besides releasing two classic longplayers and many more singles (including the smash, “Gloria”), touring/behaving badly all across America and appearing on TV shows like ‘Upbeat’ and ‘Where The Action Is’, the Shadows of Knight also ruled at suburban Chicago’s hands-down hippest teen club, The Cellar. Over the decades, their Cellar performances have become the stuff […]
£8.99 or less On the 28th of July 1968 Tim Buckley took to the stage at the Newport Folk Festival after being introduced as an artist who “in the great Ogden Nash tradition of poetry, has been writing and singing his own songs, in a fairly modern idiom, which sits, however, very, very comfortably on […]
We are told ….. As a founder member of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, Chris Hillman requires no introduction to fans of folk and country-infused rock. Launched in 1985, his Desert Rose Band blended bluegrass with traditional country and country-rock, as well as topical lyrics. Originally broadcast on syndicated radio, this superb live […]
Paul McGowan writes: I never connect my stereo equipment with single ended cables if I can avoid their use. Balanced cables always sound better. I am surprised this is still new information for many people, and not just newbies entering the field. Perhaps part of the reason is slow acceptance by manufacturers of audio equipment […]
They tell us ….. ACOUSTIC RADIO BROADCAST COLLECTION – 2CD BOX SET FEATURING 4 EARLY RADIO APPEARANCES In an effort to promote his first two albums, Bruce Springsteen and certain early E Street Band members performed in-house at a numberof FM Radio Stations during 1973 and 1974, the results of which were transmitted live over […]
Paul McGowan: Here’s an interesting piece of history for you. Before the cable companies existed, no one paid any attention to the wires or cables used to connect our systems. Speakers were connected to power amps through lamp cord purchased at the local electrical store without any fanfare. We knew heavier sounded better, but that […]
“Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is in a bit of a grump. He’s just been giving a lecture at the Royal Academy of Music, and can’t understand why the students are so enthused by the fashionable minimalist music of Steve Reich. “It’s all so repetitive,” he says. “There’s no proper development.” This sentiment would surprise anyone […]
‘The debut solo album from Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top guitarist/vocalist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, who is backed by a handpicked group of musicians dubbed. The BFG’s on this unique outing. As the title may suggest, the album takes on a bit of an Afro-Cuban flavour that may come as a surprise […]
In 1969 Pink Floyd unveiled their 2-part conceptual live production of ‘The Man’ and ‘The Journey’, covering a 24-hour period of dreaming, waking and other activities. Never released in that form, however some of the songs were used on the ‘More’ soundtrack and the ‘Ummagumma’ album. This volume refers back to ‘The Man’ and ‘The […]