Month: April 2022
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The iconic tenor of my lifetime – and in terms of sheer voice, the very best – was Luciano Pavarotti. I only heard him once in the flesh, in a production of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera at London’s Royal Opera House. His interest in the stage action was limited, but his vocal resources were […]
A Coventry woman who won a legal battle to erect a gravestone with an inscription in Irish, to honour her late mother, has described Fontaines DC’s new song inspired by the case as “a fitting end to the journey that we went on as a family”. Bernadette Martin, daughter of Margaret Keane, and her family, […]
Michael Hann (The Guardian) writes: The baby needed bathing, the tape recorder needed batteries and the band needed cider … the veteran rockers on the classic Led Zep album that began life at a cottage in Wales Pl;ease click HERE to continue
Martin Chilton writes ….. Lead Belly is one of great musical influences of the 20th century and his work is celebrated in a brilliant box set Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection Continues HERE
It is a story as old as time itself. I’m sure that it predates rock’n’roll, but it is a paradigm which has appeared so many times within the canon of the sort of bands that I have spent the last four decades listening to, but it hardly bears repeating. Except, of course, that I […]
2-way, 3-way, even 4-way speaker systems have a lot of drivers. And then, there’s the Infinity IRS V with 132 drivers. What’s the impact of all those speaker drivers?
From the 1970s ….. Lecson AC1 and API pre-amplifier and power amplifier audio Units. Made by Lecson Audio Ltd, St Ives, Huntingdonshire. Designed by Robert Stuart, BSc (Eng), MSc, DIC of Lecson Audio and Allen Boothroyd, Mdes RCA, MSIA, DA (Manc), of HuIme Chadwick & Partners. Approximate retail prices: AC1 £100 API £75 ex VAT […]
The 25th Anniversary Series is very limited high quality vinyl releases of some of the best Walter Trout catalogue released in special packaging. Each release is very limited to only 2,000 copies worldwide and produced on high quality 180g vinyl and a maximum of 20 minutes per side. These are a must for […]
A double-sided dose of blues from the foremost progenitor of the art form, Two Sides of John Lee Hooker features the original Vee-Jay sessions on one side, and the Point blank versions from JLH’s renaissance period in the 1990’s on the other. Housed in a single LP sleeve featuring period specific photographs, this limited edition […]
In 2012, the Monterey jazz festival put composer/guitarist Bill Frisell in a cabin at a remote ranch on the Big Sur coastline, and left him there to come up with his reactions to the landscape. The project – combining the guitarist’s chamber-musical 858 Quartet and … Continue reading HERE
An equal-loudness contour is a measure of sound pressure (dB SPL), over the frequency spectrum, for which a listener perceives a constant loudness when presented with pure steady tones. The unit of measurement for loudness levels is the phon, and is arrived at by reference to equal-loudness contours. By definition, two sine waves of differing […]
Historical performance at the Monterey Festival Includes the entire NET-FM broadcast Complete with background notes and rare images By the end of 1967, Simon & Garfunkel were firmly established as the world’s most successful pop duo. That June they’d performed an acclaimed set at the Monterey Festival, before collaborating with Mike Nichols on The Graduate […]
