New official remastered edition of the classic 1971 album by progressive / blues rock group steamhammer Fully restored artwork and liner notes Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered edition of the classic 1971 album by British Progressive / Blues Rock band Steamhammer. Formed in 1968 by Kieran White and […]
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He may have been less adventurous than Brahms but Bruch had a remarkable ear for melody, and in his late works he captured a profound level of expression, writes Andrew Mellor as we approach the centenary of the composer’s death https://www.gramophone.co.uk/other/article/max-bruch-touching-the-divine
Another release from the archives of the late great RANDY CALIFORNIA. Recorded in 1978 at London’s now defunct Rainbow Theatre, this 2 CD set features SPIRIT in power trio mode with a line up of RANDY CALIFORNIA, ED CASSIDY, and on bass LARRY ‘FUZZY’ KNIGHT. Painstakingly assembled by keeper of the flame MICK SKIDMORE from […]
Limited edition six disc box set. Rhino explores the incomparable footprint of the Ramones’ musical legacy with a boxed set featuring the band’s seminal first six albums, each presented with their original running order and artwork. Their first six studio albums in mini-LP sleeves! “Ramones” (1976), “Leave Home” (1977), “Rocket To Russia” (1977), “Road To […]
Born in England in 1944, Joe Cocker undeniably had one of the most distinctive voices in music. He first rose to fame in the late 1960s with his cover of the Beatles’ song “With a Little Help From My Friends”. Cocker made a name for himself after his hypnotic performance at the legendary Woodstock music […]
Pianist Murray Perahia tells Ivan Hewett about his belief in improvising and the greats who shaped his career. MORE
Franz Schubert’s songs sometimes found their way into his instrumental works, perhaps most famously in the fourth movement of the Piano Quintet in A major, D667, “Trout,” which was based on Die Forelle, D550; the Wanderer Fantasy in C major, D760, which was inspired by Der Wanderer, D489; and the second movement of the String […]
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Music touches us in many different ways and for every person there is a certain element that hits the spot more than others and that usually drives us to search out types of music with this as its main requisite. It could be tone, rhythm, lyrics, music complexity or simplicity, certain people love female vocalists […]
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Disc 1. – Old Roslyn, New York 29th November ‘77 I Need To Know 2:37 American Girl 4:24 Fooled Again (I Don’t Like It)5:50 Breakdown 5:06 Listen to Her Heart 3:50 Strangered in the Night 4:22 Anything That’s Rock ‘n’ Roll 3:41 Dogs on the Run 10:12 Shout 6:30 Route 66 3:50 Surrender 3:17 Jaguar […]
Eva’s seminal, UK No.1, x6 Platinum Award Songbird album, unavailable in vinyl form for 8 years, returns to the European marketplace in re-sequenced and re-mastered form. The remaining four albums, available on vinyl for the very first time, have similarly been re-sequenced from their CD counterparts to maximise the audio quality. The Platinum Award, UK […]
Joy emanates from Angela Hewett’s piano playing on this Schumann CD, writes Geoffrey Norris. Angela Hewitt (piano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, cond Hannu Lintu Hyperion CDA67885, £12.99 The sense of joy that infallibly emanates from Angela Hewitt’s piano playing is fully evident here in three works by Schumann – the A minor Concerto, the Introduction and […]
Robin Ticciati, Principal Conductor of the DSO Berlin, has just released an album that couples two tone-poems, Don Juan and Tod und Verklärung, with the six songs, Op 68, often called the Brentano songs, sung by Louise Alder. As Ticciati rehearsed at Glyndebourne for the much reduced 2020 season, James Jolly caught up with him […]
The October 1971 release of American Pie catapulted Don McLean to stardom, and the ensuing three years saw him touring internationally and recording further albums whilst coming to terms with his huge success. This superb live set was taped for broadcast on WNYU-FM in New York’s legendary Bottom Line club in April 1974, and contains […]
Amar Edirlwira writes: The birthplace of Rough Trade, Honest Jon’s, Virgin Records and Rock On, amongst others, we take an extended look at the evolution of record shop culture in west London’s most vibrant community. More HERE
We are told: This limited collector’s edition comes in a two-part rigid mirror-board box set with a 32-page, bound fan booklet, and contains the double CD, DVD and Blu-ray edition of the live spectacular, as well as the bonus CD “The Angelic Sessions” (exclusive studio recordings of selected songs that Black Sabbath did not perform […]
May 6, 2021
The Shadows remain one of the most prolific bands of the last 60 years. They had 31 hit singles (plus 30 with Cliff Richard), which include 16 Top 10 hits (plus 25 more with Cliff), 5 No. 1 hits (plus 7 with Cliff). They’ve also spent 361 weeks on the albums chart (plus another 400+ […]
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“Sexual intercourse began in 1963, noted Philip Larkin, between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles’ first LP. The career of Indian classical music in the western world began roughly three years later, when George Harrison, alerted to Ravi Shankar’s virtuosity by the Byrds, took a short crash course in the sitar from […]
For decades, multi-Grammy-winner Ry Cooder has used his virtuosic command of the guitar to explore countless genres across more than a dozen solo albums. But he’s also a master at using music to conjure moods and atmospheres, a skill that’s earned him acclaim as a soundtrack producer with film credits that go back more than […]