PEER GYNT: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner

A live performance from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with soprano Ann-Helen Moen The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra have Edvard Grieg’s music in their blood (the composer was the orchestra’s artistic director from 1880-82) and the wonderful performance of highlights from his Peer Gynt below simply bursts with energy. The concert is …. Please click HERE to […]

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MUSIC THERAPY: Advances in Neuro-disability: Innovations in Research & Practice

“They don’t treat you like a patient, they treat you like a person” Mike, Alan’s son. Alan had locked-in syndrome. There is something very different about the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability. We don’t just treat people with profound disabilities, we care for them as individuals, creating care plans that resonate with them on a personal […]

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J M HENDRIX: Paris 1967/San Franciso 1968 (CD)

Part one of this collection features The Experience’s October 9, 1967 performances at Paris’ famed L’Olympia Theatre. These raw, direct to two-track live recordings made for French radio document The Experience’s triumphant return to Paris almost one year to the date of their 1966 showcase as a support act for Johnny Hallyday. This return engagement […]

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CLASSIC KIT: What is the attraction?

Whilst my recent additions are for a secondary system, they certainly are competitive with today’s offerings at a corresponding price point (well, I believe so) albeit not likely to replace my main system. I could so easily have popped into Sevenoaks or the Classifieds and put together a middle of the range system but just […]

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Mind Over Music

Two articles from the July 2013 issue of Psychology of Music: Exploring a rationale for choosing to listen to sad music when feeling sad  Enhancing genre-based measures of music preference by user-defined liking and social tags Continue reading HERE

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Designing A Movie For Sound

Randy Thom wrote in 1999: The biggest myth about composing and sound designing is that they are about creating great sounds.  Not true, or at least not true enough.  What is Sound Design?  You may assume that it’s about fabricating neat sound effects. But that doesn’t describe very accurately what Ben Burtt and Walter Murch, […]

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THE GRATEFUL DEAD: Winterland, San Francisco, New Year’s Eve 1971 (3CD) (1000 only limited edition)

As an eventful year comes to a close, the Dead pull out all the stops in this revelatory hometown performance. Out of the block with an incendiary “Dancin'” there is no let up as Jerry shines during “Tennessee Jed” and “Loser” and Pigpen’s tight and surging renditions of “Chinatown Shuffle” and “Same Thing”. Disc 1: […]

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JBL L212 Floorstanders and B212 Subwoofer – Charge Coupled Crossovers – Rebuilt Plate Amp

Rebuilt subwoofer plate amp, every component replaced besides the tranny. All tracks resoldered. Larger Mundorf filter caps and bridge rectifier. This sub digs very deep. The plate amp was always a little underpowered hence on the 2nd hand market they are always blown. This one has been rebuilt. It would have been cheaper/better to use […]

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The decline and fall of rock and roll

From our archives: Andrew Wood (The Telegraph) writes: Rock and roll died at some indeterminate point during the Noughties. No one saw the body or heard a shot, but it had been in bad health for quite some time. Once the talk centred around the medium and not the material, and the moneymaking suits moved […]

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Terry Riley – The 3 Generations Trio (CD)

… I like to work with these more open forms in order to bring out the best in my own playing as well as that of my collaborators, freeing up our abilities to improvise in diverse ways and for the music to exist in the moment. The music might encompass Asian, African, Western Classical, Jazz or other aesthetics as Tracy and Gyan have the ability and awareness to […]

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