SUN RA: Space Is The Place (Limited Colour Vinyl LP)

We are told: Available on vinyl for the first time ever is the soundtrack to the legendary Sun Ra film, Space Is The Place. Featuring some of Sun Ra’s most adventurous and uncompromising compositions ever, the soundtrack incorporates vocal chants, harsh synthesizer and organ blasts along with film dialogue, heavy percussion and just all around […]

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PINK FLOYD: Sublime menace and sonic enormity

THE INDEPENDENT / Mark Beaumont n 1 March 1973, a new moon rose over rock music. Immersive, quadrophonic, celestial and deeply introspective, Pink Floyd’s eighth album arrived in a heady flurry of cash tills, chiming clocks, pained-angel arias and cold, disembodied voices speaking of violence, death and insanity. Where their prog-rock peers were busy crafting […]

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SCHUBERT: News

THE GUARDIAN / Andrew Clements Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Vogt(Ondine, two CDs)The late pianist is outstanding in these last recordings, accompanied by his longtime collaborators, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff and his cellist sister Tanja The pianist Lars Vogt died in September last year. His cancer had been diagnosed in 2021, and he was already ill when, against doctors’ advice, […]

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KBC – KBC (CD)

  One and only album by former members of Jefferson Airplane   Band features Paul Kanter, Martin Balin & Jack Casady The KBC BAND was almost but not quite THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE.Formed in 1985 by AIRPLANE members PAUL KANTNER, MARTY BALIN, and JACK CASADY, and on guitar SLICK AGUILAR who later played with JEFFERSON STARSHIP. […]

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BLUE CHEER: 7 (Vinyl 150g Limited LP)

This deluxe gatefold 150 gram multi colored vinyl edition will only be available in 500 numbered copies. All subsequent pressings will be standard black vinyl. Produced by Eric Albronda and Jim Keylor and recorded at Army Street Studios in 1979. Previously unreleased vintage studio tracks Summertime Blues Route 66 Take Me Away I Want You Once […]

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PAUL SIMON: Kodachrome At The Tokyo Dome (CD)

We are told ….. KODACHROME AT THE TOKYO DOME – LIVE BROADCAST FROM JAPAN 1991 By the beginning of the 1990s, Paul Simon had achieved one of the most spectacular career comebacks in the history of modern music. Having enjoyed considerable success since parting ways with his former partner Art Garfunkel in 1970, Simon had […]

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CHRIS DIFFORD: Pants CD

In 2016 Chris Difford, co-front man of Squeeze and Ivor Novello award-winning lyricist, collaborated with Boo Hewerdine to write Fancy Pants; a musical narrative, (described variously as a Play On Words and a Mid Life Musical). Fancy Pants tells the story of how love comes along later in life to save a formerly famous prog-rock […]

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MARIANNE FAITHFULL: Horses and High Heels

Our view: Hardly a week goes by without us playing this at least once! allmusic.com writes: Produced by long-term collaborator Hal Willner, Marianne Faithfull’s 19th studio album, Horses and High Heels, sees the ’60s icon revisit eight classic songs from her heyday on her second consecutive covers-heavy album, following 2009’s Easy Come Easy Go. Its […]

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STAX/VOLT: The complete soul singles … 1972-1975 10CD Box set

This 2015 reissue comes in sleek, new packaging, presented in a rigid lift-off 5.5-inch x 5.5-inch box. The 10-disc set features 213 tracks and a full-color booklet with a 47,000-word essay by Stax historian Rob Bowman. The third and final chapter of the definitive collection of the great Memphis soul label Stax focuses on the […]

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READER REPLIES: Does mood affect music?

Here is where you, our readers, can comment on matters of mutual interest. A1: The question is incorrectly phrased: mood does not affect the music which are sounds reproduced by your stereo system which will register on sound analyzing devices the same regardless of you mood (barring you going into a rage and destroying things, […]

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