Santana Live At Cow Palace San Francisco, CA December 31st 1977. Santana are one of the great American bands from the last forty five years. Beginning life as the Santana Blues Band in the mid-sixties, the band went through a number of changes in personnel before arriving at the “classic” line up of Carlos Santana, […]
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They write … Essentially, the covid-19 got to us and to our advertisers and subscribers. The issue shown, Vol. 19, No. 5, is our last one.
I’m interested in getting some feedback on legendary pieces…vintage and the like. I’m not talking “good” or “in my opinion”, I’m talking widely accepted legends of the audio world. For example in my opinion, Evander Holyfield is a good boxer, but everyone knows that Muhammed Ali was the all time greatest…an undisputed legend. That’s the […]
Paul McGowan writes: Have you ever stopped to notice that your high-end audio system has a personality? Mine sure does. Just about everything we interact with has a story or a personality that describes the way we relate to it. Your hi-fi system’s no different. I have two listening systems, the first is my big […]
One of a tiny number of female recording engineers, Rogers was there at birth of some of pop’s classics, including When Doves Cry. She recalls the man she knew – and shares her theory about why he loved working with women https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/09/princes-sound-engineer-susan-rogers-he-needed-to-be-the-alpha-male-to-get-things-done
Staff member Michael Vronsky writes: BitStream DAC Optical (TOSLINK) + Coaxial Elegant and space-saving combination of BitStream CD player and Preamp. The preamp makes a particularly good variable output facility for the CD player. Articulate sounding, with great resolution and sound staging. £1,550 when new.
In yesterday’s post about the fluidity of my stereo system, I mentioned upgrading from the amazing BHK300 monoblock amplifiers to the newer BHK600s. More than a few people emailed me asking why. Why would I upgrade what is already an overkill amplifier to one with even more wattage? It’s a good question. Let’s look at some of […]
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Paul McGowan: Just for grins I pulled out a 30 year old preamplifier from PS Audio and gave it a listen. I was stunned at just how good it sounded. At first I was depressed because it immediately said to me that we can’t have made much progress over the last three decades. But then […]
A documentary series about Demi Lovato shows how brutally controlled the singer’s diet once was, and, as other pop performers attest, it’s control that underpins damaging behaviour MORE
Unique WGOE-FM Performance at the Alpha Sound Studios, Richmond VA, 31st May 1973 • Includes the entire broadcast • Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality • Background liners Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band provide a snapshot session for WGOE-FM at the Alpha Studios in Richmond, VA, to unveil a taster of their […]
The story of Fairport Convention is the story of British folk-rock. Founded in mid 1967 as a British counterpart to Jefferson Airplane, they combined the talents of guitarist Richard Thompson with singers Ian Matthews and Sandy Denny.After losing their drummer in a fatal motorway crash in 1969, Fairport decided to carry on with a completely […]
John Cahill writes: While reading Channa Vithana article about Joe Satriani I was inspired to write about some of my favourite guitar based albums. I enjoy listening to a wide variety of music, but my biggest passion is the guitar. I guess somehow for the guitar is a instrument that is able to capture a […]
• This is the definitive collection of the Pretenders’ recordings issued under the Warners banner from 1979 to 1999 in unique outer slipcase. • This 22-disc box set (14 x CD, 8 x DVD) brings together all eight deluxe digipak reissues (six 2 CD + DVD sets and twoCD + DVD sets) of Pretenders (1980), […]
Dhrupad is the oldest existing form of North Indian classical music. The dhrupad tradition is a major heritage of Indian culture. The origin of this music is linked to the recitation of Sama Veda, the sacred Sanskrit text. Dhrupad is the oldest vocal and instrumental style, and the form from which Indian classical music originated. […]
Psychology of Music publishes peer reviewed papers directed at increasing the scientific understanding of any psychological aspect of music. These include studies on listening, performing, creating, memorising, analysing, describing, learning, and teaching, as well as applied social, developmental, attitudinal and therapeutic studies. MORE
George Sawa was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He studied piano with Irene Drakides, a student of Alfred Cortot, and at the Higher Institute of Arabic Music he studied voice, theory, and qanun (Arabic psaltery). His qanun teachers are Muhammad al-Sa‘duni (a student of Mustapha Bey Reda), Milad Mansur (a student of Abdel-Hamid al-Addabi), Amin Fahmi […]
The band’s Columbia album from 1973 coupled with the three Ariola Records albums from 1975, 1976 and 1977 Three of these albums made the US Top 200 but the writing was on the wall and the group split in 1977, with Bill Champlin pursuing a solo career before joining Chicago In recent years the Sons […]
“Do you want to engineer top acts in top studios? Are you prepared to devote your entire life to music recording? In this new series, David Mellor explains how you can become a professional music recording engineer. This is the first article in a four-part series. Read Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Project studio equipment is becoming ever more […]
To celebrate the 80th birthday of the legendary American composer, The Complete Sony Recordings is the first ever release of Philip Glass Sony Classical recordings together in a limited-edition box set. The 24-CD set includes the first ever release of Glassworks specially mixed for your personal cassette player on CD, a 44 minute interview with […]
Ray Davies musician-songwriter, formerly of the Kinks. London 9th July 2012 To mark their 50th anniversary, The Kinks have announced details of an extensive re-release programme covering their classic 1964-1970 catalogue. The first album in the series will be 1970’s Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One, which will be reissued on August 18. This 2-CD reissue […]