Year: 2022
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From the first time Walter Trout, as a tormented teenager, heard the haunting guitar playing of Mike Bloomfield he instinctively knew the blues was his calling. 2014 marks the year that Trout looks back at an almost 50-year commitment to playing and singing the blues. The songs on “The Blues Came Callin’” reflect Walter’s thoughts […]
“An intimate portrait of five key years in David Bowie’s career. Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved, from Ziggy Stardust to the soul star of Young Americans and the ‘Thin White Duke’. It explores his regeneration in Berlin with the critically-acclaimed album Heroes, his triumph […]
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A beginner’s guide to some of the finest Rubinstein recordings currently available Continues HERE
John Hartford, Joni Mitchell and Pete Seeger live on KCOP-TV’s Special ‘Gentle On My Mind’ in Los Angeles on Ocober 18, 1970. On October 18, 1970, John Hartford, Joni Mitchell, and Pete Seeger shared the stage for TV Special ‘Gentle On My Mind’, broadcast on KCOP-TV in Los Angeles. The twelve tracks on this CD include five […]
There is a very funny scene in The Sopranos when the family get into an argument over whether Herman Melville’s Billy Budd is a gay novel. Carmela, who has seen the 1962 movie version with Terence Stamp, claims it’s “the story of an innocent sailor being picked on by a cruel boss”. But her daughter […]
The sound is tremendous in the big choruses in this recording of Mendelssohn’s epic Old Testament oratorio, Eliijah, conducted by Paul McCreesh, writes Geoffrey Norris. MORE
Tell a false fact or a mistruth enough times and people will believe it to be accurate. I wonder if the same thing applies to music and its reproduction. Could it be that with enough repetition the hyper-compressed music of acts like Kanye West and Diddy is how music is supposed to sound? What happens when enough […]
Dave Thomas writes: A 3 disc set. 82 tracks in all. No information other than track listings on my copy – but with a beautiful wood-cut of Lightning on the paper slip-case. (£7.99 from Amazon) Playing these CDs I realised that I’d first heard some of these tracks fifty years ago on the LP […]
A key and compelling component to Brady Corbet’s directorial debut is Scott Walker’s first score since his remarkable Pola X soundtrack back in 1999. Partly inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre’s short story of the same name, The Childhood of a Leader is a tense psychological drama tracing the formative years of a young boy and set […]
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First published in 2014 Show a child an old cassette and you’ll probably get a snigger or two. But, says Rhodri Marsden, a breakthrough from Sony could make them regard tapes with a certain awe Continue HERE
The composer’s pacifism seems an irrelevant curiosity now, his homosexuality of even less concern. Benjamin Britten’s coronation opera Gloriana had its early performances in the gilded splendour of the Royal Opera House. The new monarch herself attended the premiere on June 8 1953. Two months later, the work had its next outing, in Bulawayo, second […]
Martin Chilton 28 April 2016 • 7:49am Joan Armatrading has written some of the most memorable songs of the postwar era, including Love and Affection, Willow, Me Myself I and Drop the Pilot. The musician, who was born on December 9 1950 on the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts and grew up in Birmingham, embarked in 2015 […]
We are told: There are a number of reasons why ‘Money Jungle’ is considered a unique jazz recording. First of all, the album stands out for its superb musical quality. It also marks a very rare trio session in the otherwise prolific discography of Duke Ellington. The album is best known, however, for being Duke’s […]
These go for reasonable money compared with the similar looking A21 which was produced until a few years ago. Familiar with A21 sound but how does this more powerfull A/B class version compare. Dip in and out HERE LEAK VINTAGE units NOT on ebay https://www.hifianswers.com/2022/10/leak-vintage-not-on-ebay-via-the-audio-miser-this-list-created-09-08-21/
