CHRISTINE COLLISTER: Love (CD)

Our good friend Tony Andrews, a dedicated music lover, a deeply knowledgeable but completely unpretentious authority on certain types of Jazz, both live and recorded and an all-round decent bloke wrote this. Tony, we all thank you for this. Being as I am a devotee of real music one issue seems to get to me […]

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WHY: It’s why so many legitimate reviews of equipment today express an opinion on sound and ignore the details of performance!

PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan And continuing our thought from a recent post, only this time in reverse, isn’t it obvious that just because something has all the right stuff it doesn’t necessarily qualify as great itself? And doesn’t this observation help explain one of the age old mysteries in audio about how something can […]

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GENE CLARK: Falling In The Darkened Rain – 1975 – 1985 (Limited 7CD Box Set)

Limited edition 7CD Box Set featuring five FM broadcasts from 1975 – 1985 Gene Clark was born in Tipton, MO, in 1944. Clark’s father was an amateur musician with a passion for country music which rubbed off on young Gene; he began learning the guitar at age nine and was soon picking out Hank Williams […]

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Fairport Convention (original lineup), The Animals (expanded reissue), Buffalo Springfield (possibly definitive)

CDs and LPs; sometimes DVDs too. As editor I get advanced notification of music releases and so I’m sharing it. Primarily Blues, Jazz, Classic and Rock. I make no value judgements here i.e I am merely …. the conduit. Updated pretty much 24/7 @ https://www.facebook.com/groups/770803929775708/?source=create_flow Thanks HP

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PREMATURE DEATH: Were reports of classical music’s death premature?

Stereophile: Over the last several weeks, one newspaper after another has made note of Nielsen Soundscan’s 2006 point-of-purchase data, which showed classical record sales up 22.5%, making it the “fastest growing” category for the year. Hip-hop was down (-20.7%), R&B was down (-18.4%), alternative was down (-9.2%), jazz was down (-8.3%)—soundtracks were up (+19%), but […]

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BRYAN ADAMS: Reckless (2CD+DVD+Blu-rayA Box Set)

The ‘Reckless’ reissue has been personally overseen by Bryan working with many of the original team including Bob Clearmountain, Bob Ludwig and Jim Vallance. The 2014 deluxe remaster by Bob Ludwing enticingly includes seven previously unreleased bonus tracks. Of utmost interest to fans will be the actual inclusion of the track “Reckless” which due to […]

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CAT STEVENS: News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyVTPcQDWgo I played the album Tea for the Tillerman on 8-track till it warped as a freshman at University of Dayton. GREAT TIMES!!!!! I always wanted to he a hard headed woman. Imagined what that would be like – but remained soft hearted instead. Better than soft headed ?? OMG. He is so beautiful! It […]

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DAN ALLAN: “I Just Don’t Get… Muse”

Having read John Clarke’s elegantly-written, though fundamentally blasphemous, tirade against my beloved Smiths, I thought that as soon as calmed myself down a bit, I would indulge in some scathing iconoclasm of my own. Because there is one band that I have consistently disliked since the first time their fingernail-sounds scratched down the tonally-sensitive blackboard […]

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SCARLATTI: News

omenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas crop up regularly enough in recitals, most often in a group of four or five beginning a programme, or acting as a palate-cleanser between more substantial works. Concerts devoted exclusively to them are rare, but in doing precisely that harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani was on a mission to encourage his audience to […]

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