• Brilliant performance live in Tokyo • Includes the entire broadcast • Digitally remastered • Background liners On his tour of Japan in early 1975, Miles Davis presented some of the most searing, electric fusion ever heard in concert. The performances on this 2CD set, FM broadcast, hail from a January 22 gig at Shinjuku […]
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Classical pianist and Young Steinway Artist Haley Myles is releasing her second album, dedicated to Chopin’s Nocturnes. Inspired by the intimate salon aesthetic that was prevalent in Chopin’s time, Haley recorded and produced the album on her Steinway and Sons M at her home in Lyon, France. ‘The Complete Nocturnes’ is a natural extension of […]
One day, Bryn Terfel’s eldest son fell asleep at the opera. It was during the first act of Welsh National Opera’s 2010 production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Cardiff. Only when his father came on and started singing as Hans Sachs, did he awaken. “My first line woke him up. He apparently […]
We are told: This 3 x CD Collection brings together a set of rare recordings by the Velvets, 50 plus years (for most) after they were first made and which will complete collections worldwide for the millions of fans still flying the flag for this strange collective. Everything about The Velvet Underground was astonishing. Take […]
ACE writes: Neither David Crosby nor Graham Nash played lead guitar in CSN, only rhythm. Stephen Stills was their lead guitarist, and with no disrespect to Crosby and Nash, Stills was far and away the best guitarist of the three. In fact he’s widely considered one of the best guitarists in popular music history by […]
EML writes: When you think of the Grateful Dead, you think of a band with a cult following—not a band that captured the American zeitgeist and held it for an extended period. But the band’s touring success rivals all others, and surpassed any other American band during the height of their era. The Grateful Dead […]
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Nina Simone was one of the most original artists of the 20th Century, a unique talent whose music transcends most of the pigeonholes that make up the predominantly genre led world of popular music. This collection presents her first four albums between 1958 and 1960 and includes her international hit “My Baby Just Cars For […]
When a system plays at all levels without ever drawing attention to itself we might say it was without noticeable effort. Years ago when I was deep in design that was perhaps one of the more elusive goals for a power amplifier. Time and again my designs would sound right until the music got loud. The […]
AJ writes: Good question. This answer may help to illuminate general questions about people’s preferences for mono over stereo. For most of the 1960s, mono was the default format in which most people listened to recorded music. Radios looked mostly like this: Record players (cassettes were not yet a thing, and digital music was decades […]
Greg Brice – Work For A LivingFive Points Gang – The Only OneBates Motel – Bar TenderBrave Rival – Run & HideRedfish – Together Is BetterDom Martin & The Savages – Drink In Blue ColoursDC Blues – Rollin’ & Tumblin’The Cosmic Trip Advisors – Going DownThe Bad Day – Wake Up CarolinaThe Milk Men – […]
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The terms wow and flutter will bring back memories of tape recorders to some, perhaps pictures of butterflies to others. Wow is a low-frequency fluctuation while flutter is a much faster version of the same thing. Steady state instruments like oboes and piano are particularly affected by these mechanical distortions prevalent in tape recorders and record players. I […]
A brand new compilation that charts the period when the Climax Blues band accelerated from club act to US Top 40 regularsand, finally, Top 3 hit makers with ‘Couldn’t Get it Right’.Accompanying frontman Colin Cooper (vocals, sax) and Pete Haycock (guitar, vocals), both now sadly deceased, were JohnCuffley (drums) and Derek Holt (bass, vocals). The […]
In yesterday’s post on subwoofers, I cautioned about the use of series crossovers: one low pass filter in the receiver feeding another in the subwoofer. What I did not address is the age-old advice from speaker and receiver manufacturers to lessen the demands on the main speakers by means of adding a high pass filter—rolling off […]
This week’s Podcast guest is pianist Angela Hewitt, who tells Editor Martin Cullingford about her beautiful new album ‘Love Songs’, transcriptions of songs by composers including Schumann, Schubert, Richard Strauss, Gluck, Grieg and De Falla – with arrangements by pianists and composers including Liszt, Godowsky, Grainger and Hewitt herself. The album is out today on […]