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First published 2012 The strings play in helicopters, the trumpeter’s on a trapeze, and a camel dances around while defecating planets. Alexis Petridis on Birmingham Opera Company’s bid to stage a mind-boggling Stockhausen opera. MORE
The Strawbs’ concert in the Bedrock series is known as ‘Greatest Hits Live’, testament to the definitive nature of the ten-song set performed in 1990 by Dave Cousins, Tony Hooper, Brian Willoughby, Richard Hudson, Rod Demick and Chris Parren. This line-up of the ever-British changing folk-rockers played for seven years from 1986 through to 1992 […]
DIMITRI KEN: From a fringe musician to a superstar of Hip Hop: Let me tell you about this French guy, I mean, this genius: guy, I mean, this genius: This is Alain Mion, a Jazz Funk pianist. Back in the 70s, he formed a group named Cortex, and they released 3 albums between 1975 and […]
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If you are a music-lover of a certain age, and it is the age of people who run the world, this is how a typical conversation about your abiding passion goes: you first of all lament the witless banality of reality shows, the ubiquity of Simon Cowell, and the way that singers can’t hold a […]
“In the early years of her career, it was extremely difficult for women to progress in the BBC, but Maddalena Fagandini became a brilliant mentor and trainer of younger programme makers. She had a wonderful ability to make people feel valued, as I found when working with her on The Devil’s Music for BBC1 in […]
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Jan Garbarek. Just bought 2 of his CDs off eBay for not much money. The first, ‘Sart’ is to my ears very odd indeed. A bit too way out for my taste. So after 6 repeat plays (I try to give everything a fair chance) it’s going back on eBay when I can get around […]
Blind tests show that louder is better (hence the importance of precise level matching). In practice (and I assume in blind tests, too), this is true up to the point at which too much volume produces effects that are detrimental to sound quality–distortion, for example, or excessive room resonances. This leaves me with a couple […]
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Perahia discusses and performs Bach’s French Suites to introduce his new album Continues HERE
We are told: Disc 1 shows the Wildman Of Rock n Roll, Ted Nugent, in full swing A stand-out performance from his 1984 tour with Humble Pie Featuring hits including Stranglehold, Cat Scratch Fever and Dog Eat Dog Disc 2 shows Nugent surfing the wave of success brought about by “Free For All” Recorded live […]
The Western world’s love affair with “world music” has always had its blind spots. Japanese traditional music is one. You won’t find recordings of Shomyo Buddhist chanting or bunraku ensembles among the world music bestsellers. And you certainly won’t find gagaku, even though it’s the most extraordinary and riveting of all Japanese traditional musics. The […]
Originally published in January 2012 Until last year Sameer Rahim had little interest in classical music – but now he is hooked on opera. In a new column he offers a novice-eye’s view of this seemingly forbidding but truly magical art form. Continues HERE
1000 only! On the weekend of April 4-6, 1969, the Grateful Dead headlined at the Avalon Ballroom, the last rock show at the Avalon for almost 40 years. The final night was broadcast on KPFA-FM Berkeley, generating a tape that was one of the few good quality ’69 tapes in early circulation. The two opening […]