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We are told: (Limited Edition 7CD Box set/rare,deleted,used) 1 copy only !!! Audio Remasterers: Alan Silverman; Bob Ludwig. While the Kinks are thought of as one of the major bands of the 1960s, die-hard fans know that Ray Davies continued writing intriguing, beautiful, and insightful tunes through the end of the millennium. This seven-CD collection […]
THE GUARDIAN: She’s gone from ringletted country artist to feminist role model and the world’s most charming pop star. As she returns with her catchiest material yet, she talks awards-ceremony etiquette, autobiographical lyrics and why she puts nice before naughty. In Manhattan’s chi-chi Sant Ambroeus restaurant, the pair of smartly dressed women at the next […]
If your thoughts could power music, what sound would they make? The BBC met programmer Adam Williams who, along with team members Robert Wollner and Alex Wakeman, created a program which uses a brainwave-sensing headset to power a musical composition. The Soul Filter was on show at Art Hack, an event organised by 3beards, a […]
Background music has been found to have beneficial, detrimental, or no effect on a variety of behavioral and psychological outcome measures. This article reports a meta-analysis that attempts to summarize the impact of background music. A global analysis shows a null effect, but a detailed examination of the studies that allow the calculation of effects […]
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One of my all time favourite albums. It really does polarise opinions. Saw them twice in Manchester in the late 1960s and this not only left an indelible positive impression but made me very sympathetic to their idiosyncratic sound. Read a proper and full review HERE HP
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We are told ….. Pearl Jam and Neil Young performing at their very best, broadcasting live and taken from the archives. This CD contains the hits Act Of Love, Mr Soul, Mother Earth and many more. 01- Big Green Country 02- Song X 03- Act Of Love 04- Downtown 05- Mr. Soul 06- Scenery 07- […]
When you set about writing a book covering the whole history of pop music, you’re bound to learn something. Here are three things… Continue
Who best to describe Paul Weller’s first album for the Parlophone label other than Paul himself: “I think it’s one of the best things I’ve done. I can’t compare it to any of my other albums. I think it’s different – not just for me, but different for what else is around. It’s defiantly 21st-Century […]
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“Guardian writers fish out their favourite lesser-known tracks of the year from an emotional ballad to mellow rap” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/26/the-best-songs-of-2021-that-you-havent-heard
Over the last decade and more, no Lieder recitals have given me more intense pleasure than those by the tenor Christoph Prégardien. Though he is now in his mid 60s, and his voice has inevitably lost some of its former bloom and flexibility with age, this Brahms disc, recorded in 2020, confirms that the sheer […]
“A shivering seabed of sound, haunted by barely there vocals and stitched together with lo-fi production – McElroy has made a beautiful early year listen” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/14/ben-mcelroy-how-i-learnt-to-disengage-from-the-pack-review
“Now an internationally venerated and still sometimes audience-baffling 72 year old, Bob Dylan started to be increasingly broadly recognised as a significant songwriter and maverick entertainer between 1963 and 1965, depending on your local media coverage. For a couple of years before that he had been the new kid on the block within NYC’s Greenwich […]
Roy Harper has a glittering list of admirers, from Pink Floyd to Kate Bush. He tells Rob Hughes why it’s taken 13 years to make a new album. Roy Harper has spent the past five decades crafting some of the most vivid, ravishingly beautiful music of our times. He’s 72 now, one of […]
Will someone please show illustrate to me why there is no point going beyond 16/44. Personally I cannot discern any difference, I would however appreciate knowing why, in detail. Many thanks.
We are told ….. Nonesuch Records releases Dark Matter, Randy Newman’s first album of new material in nine years. The record is the follow-up to 2008’s acclaimed Harps and Angels, which the Guardian praised for its ‘sumptuous melodies, devastating pathos and thorny, irony-laden character songs’, calling it, ‘the work of a true master […]
What HiFi writes: Some records are more use than others when it comes to putting your system through its paces. And, obviously, some records come with better songs on them than others. As whathifi.com marks Record Store Day on 19th April with a week of features, here’s our list of the albums that manage the by-no-means […]
This delightful James Taylor concert from 1976, broadcast live in FM stereo from Pennsylvanias legendary Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh, admirably displays the cream of the artists sublime songwriting abilities in the early-to-mid 1970s, as well as highlighting his skills as one of the most consummate performers around at the time. Sharing the stage with […]
Following his series of solo albums for Columbia, Roger McGuinn recorded infrequently during the 1990s, so this live recording from a1991 concert broadcast, played at Electric Ladyland studios in New York, will have huge appeal for fans of this maverick composer and performer. McGuinn revisits some older material with success, including “Tiffany Queen” (first […]