Previously published on September 17, 2012Channa’s (formerly of Hi-Fi World and now of Hi-Fi Choice joins us as guest writer for a short series of contributions. Prologue Music continues to be within the very structure of my life. Consequently, I use it as non-background direct stimulus when I work, or equally as engrossing and positively […]
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Gramophone Magazine write: Schoenberg may fairly be said to have been one of the most influential musicians in history with his advocacy of the 12-note technique. The events in the life of this brave giant can be briefly sketched; his music and his ideas need a book to themselves. His father Samuel, who ran a […]
Professor Gloria Moss writes ….. Like it or not, looks affect our responses. So Nicola Benedetti’s comments that “classical music isn’t supposed to be sexy” and that her success bears no relation to her looks flies in the face of volumes of marketing research. It also flies in the face of history, since you have […]
“This is the debut album for Johnny Halifax’s Honkey Finger and the first album release from Hoarse Records. HR’s aim is to only put out music from one man bands, and Honkeyfinger is the most innovative of their artists. He uses a lap steel guitar as a base instead of a guitar – although it […]
Kicked out of his family home at the age of 14, Steve became a genuine hobo, hopping freights all over America. Always travelling with his guitar – having been taught a few chords as a kid by Delta bluesman KC Douglas, an old pal of the legendary Tommy Johnson – in the ’60s he began to play at […]
From the archives Of the compilations released to mark the 150th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s birth this year, this is the most treasurable. As a survey of the music of perhaps of the greatest 20th-century composer it could hardly be bettered, especially within recordings from a single label, or rather, a single group of labels, […]
Oval wished they thought of this back in the 90s. Ryan McGuire, a PhD student in Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia Center for Computer Music, has created the project The Ghost In The MP3 which shows the amount of data lost when compressing music to MP3 while also turning that data […]
Peggy Seeger, purist queen of the folk revival, has released an album of electronic dance versions of her songs. She talks to Colin Irwin. It’s bizarre enough that a 77-year-old grandmother is picking up radio airplay and making her mark in clubs singing on an uncompromising dance record that hurtles at you in a blazing […]
The new generation of talent meets a jazz institution as we play out tracks from the Blue Note re:imagined session. The session was recorded at the BBC’s Radio Theatre and features Ezra Collective as the house band, with guest performances from the likes of Yasmin Lacey, Jordan Rakei and Poppy Ajudha. We speak to Ezra […]
We are told ….. Originally broadcast by Hempstead, Long Island’s WLIR-FM, this superb set captures Dr. John at the height of his powers, as he transitioned from his psychedelic phase into a full embrace of New Orleans R&B. Backed by Sugar Bear Welch on guitar, Darrell Leonard and Jerry Jumonville on horns and John […]
This morning started pretty good I thought. Okay, I spent a bit too long in bed, but the sun was shining and there was fresh melon in the fridge and I hadn’t run out toothpaste. And there were clean pants in the drawer. All fairly mundane stuff – but it made me feel okay. I’m […]
Albert King, BB King and Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, live together, at the Memphis Blues Festival, TN on 8th November 1975. With the recent acclaim of BB King and Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland’s joint double album venture Together For The First Time… Live, the addition of another King could only double the impact. The performance at the […]
A collaboration of two great musicians from totally different backgrounds, brought together through a passion for playing blues slide guitar and many years of mutual admiration for each others’ work. MORE
Marcus Bonfanti Cheap WhiskeyKing King – I Will Not FallDelta Fuse – Letter On The TableThe Black Keys – Crawling King SnakeMary Stokes Band – MoonshineSon Seals – Telephone AngelsAtomic 44s – Barbwire And FencesTail Dragger – BettyThe Dynamite Blues Band – Double Barrel ShotgunMuddy Waters – Sad Sad DayJed Potts & the Hillman Hunters […]
Debate: This is a great topic. Paul, could omni directional speakers compensate for expanding the sweet spot vs a conventional speaker? Not sure what the pros/cons are of these types of speakers. Paul replies … You might get a broader more diffuse sweet spot with omnis or the whole affair might become muddled. Hard to […]
Boogie Beasts – Who’ll Be NextThe Cold Stares – Nothing But The Blues Mud Morganfield – Blues In My ShoesJohn Angus Blues Band – Life’s What You Make ItJohn Angus Blues Band – Hey MamaThe Alligators – Ninety Nine And a HalfCanned Heat – On The Road AgainClarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Okie Dokie StompEddie 9V – […]
We are told: Volume 72 of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series comes to the rescue of yet another neglected figure. London-born composer, pianist, writer and educator (he was an early Principal of the Royal Academy of Music), Cipriani Potter was encouraged by Beethoven and admired by Wagner. Howard Shelley and his Tasmanian forces give […]
This is the second in what promises to be a definitive collection of jazz soundtracks to feature films. Following on from last year’s film noir set, this five-CD box covers …….. MORE
We are told – and it’s a LONG read @ 3,374 words! “After a brilliant performance on June 19, 1989, the band returned after an odd day off, to play not only on the summer solstice, but also nationally on Pay-Per-View. In fact, I believe that I purchased this event way back when… As could […]
John Adams has managed both to provoke and to console a nation with his trailblazing works. Philip Clark meets the American composer Please click HERE to view
For most of history, the territory of what people called music didn’t extend very far. It consisted, by and large, of the sounds and styles they grew up with. Anything else was a barbaric noise. Now, the territory seems endless. It stretches outwards to “ethnic” non-Western instruments and beyond them to electronic sound. And part […]
Owen Houlston has been a much-respected figure on the London blues scene for a while now, in various bands and at some of the better jams. He’s something of a guitarist’s guitarist, subtle when it suits but just as adept at giving it large when the force is with him. Mostly to be found wielding […]
First transmitted in 1972, B.B. King is filmed at a recording session at Command Studios, Piccadilly, London during the sessions that led to the ‘B.B. King in London’ album. The blues legend talks about himself and the guitarists who have inspired him, including Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker. MORE