The stark but simple image of a prism on a black background is a far cry from the bombast of a giant pig flying over Battersea power station or flaming businessmen. Yet the cover of Pink Floyd’s classic 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon is probably one of the most instantly recognisable ever […]
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Excellent value, budget-priced new collection of x20 (various artists) CD’s in a cardboard lift-off lid box Sometime after the Great War of 1914-1918 the American music business really started to get going. Much of what was recorded is now forgotten, whilst the most historically important work was being done away from the mainstream with pioneering […]
Kate Molleson writes … Violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong play together with an easy spark and suppleness that only old friends really can. In the past they’ve done excellent things with Franck, Strauss, Debussy and Elgar; now they turn to Beethoven with the same combination of light touch and searing focus. There’s a […]
“Beaver and Krause were light years ahead of everyone else when it came to the new age era and beyond..” MORE
Michael Vronsky writes: Who’s leg? Hmm. Even as I write this I sense a few of you out there might feel I’m pulling your leg re this. I assure you – I’m not.This first tuning tip is without doubt the most cost-effective I have ever encountered. I used a few drops (exactly as directed) of […]
Andrew Clements writes: Though Aeschylus’s triptych of tragedies has influenced opera composers from Wagner to Birtwistle, relatively few of them have been tempted to fashion a stage work of their own from the Oresteia plays. There is Sergei Taneyev’s ambitious, evening-long version, while Iannis Xenakis’s Oresteia compresses the whole drama into just 50 minutes, with […]
This deluxe collection features Tokyo Dome Live In Concert and the newly remastered Van Halen and 1984 albums into a four-CD set and a six-LP vinyl set in special packaging. TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT is set to become Van Halen’s first-ever live album to feature original singer David Lee Roth. Recorded on June 21, 2013 at the famed Tokyo Dome […]
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In 1972 Elton John and Bernie Taupin released the song Rocket Man on John’s 1972 album Honky Château. The track became a hit single, rising to No. 2 in the UK and No. 6 in the US. The world premiere for Rocket Man was played on Armed Forces Network on my radio program called Underground. I […]
America’s ‘top-selling premium loudspeaker brand’ is coming to European shores armed with several £499 – £3399 speakers. Definitive Technology, founded in 1990 and now owned by Sound United (whose brand catalogue also includes the likes of Denon, Marantz, Classe Audio and Polk Audio), is bringing various home cinema and hi-fi speakers to UK and European markets. […]
Audiophile Audition / Gary Lemco writes ….. Strong collaborations and incisive sound editing give us fine interpretations of Prokofiev’s major violin works. Continues HERE
Jazz Bassist Jonah Jonathan Interviews Legendary Jazz Pianist Mulgrew Miller. Mulgrew Miller is one of the golden fingers of jazz. February 2012. Mulgrew Miller passed away on May 29th, 2013 from complications from a massive stroke. He will always be remembered as one of the greatest jazz pianists to ever grace the planet.
This eight-CD set should be a part of any collection that presumes to take American music — not just rock & roll or rhythm & blues — seriously. Atlantic Records was one of dozens of independent labels started up after the war by neophyte executives and producers, but it was different from most of the […]
From The Guardian / Rolling Stone: Folk music, which pushed rock’n’roll into the arena of the serious with protest lyrics and blendings of Dylan and the Byrds back in 1964, has re-entered the pop music cycle. Once again, with a new crop of guitar-toting composer-singers at the vanguard, folk is “in”. As with country, jazz, […]
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