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Bowers & Wilkins big week (part 1)
|Bowers & Wilkins had a busy week. First there was the launch of the in-car audio, navigation, and comms system of the new Volvo XC90. This was swiftly followed by the announcement of the complete ...read more -
Classic Album Sundays: Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
|In 1973, Herbie Hancock surprised his many of his followers with his new album ‘Head Hunters’. The record seemed to mark yet another direction for the pianist and composer who had developed his sound under ...read more -
Classic Album Sundays: The Pixies - Doolittle
|The Pixies’ Doolittle stimulated a slew of early nineties indie acts to shape their guitar-led onslaught with more imagination. The Boston quartet culled a sweeping sound, but although they harvested from an expansive musical field, ...read more -
Classic Album Sundays: The Cure - Disintegration
|Although The Cure were lumped in with Goth Rock and had a sea of powdered skin, thick black eyeliner and raven-haired heads undulating at their live shows, they never became a parody of themselves. The ...read more -
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For whom the bell tolls – Mike Oldfield interview
|If you had written Tubular Bells as a teenager and saw it go on to sell in excess of 17 million copies worldwide, in the process setting you up for a critically acclaimed and eclectic ...read more -
Vangelis Interview
|Although most now associate the name with the Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks and the score for Carl Sagan’s epic Cosmos TV series, Vangelis’ career as a composer, musician and producer spans more ...read more -
Setting up home with Shelby Lynne
|I recently overstayed my welcome at a dealer event. It was at KJ West One in the heart of London, where Jason the salesperson was busily preparing a Naim Statement versus Constellation Audio Performance demonstration ...read more -
Demystifying Mastering (Part 1)
|We recently scurried down to deepest, darkest Devon to chew the fat with Simon Heyworth at his beautiful state-of-the-art Super Audio Mastering (SAM) facility. Simon kicked off his audio career in the early-‘70s at Virgin’s ...read more -
Interview – Paul Rodgers
|Last year former Free and Bad Company front man Paul Rodgers went to a classic soul studio in Memphis and hooked up with the ‘house band’ to record the songs of his youth. That studio ...read more -
The Lyrical Bassoon
|This SACD contains tracks from Saint-Saëns and Elgar and lesser-known composers such as the German born Hindemith and Polish Tansman. The bassoon is an instrument with phenomenal range, which Hannisdal shows off with great ease ...read more -
Bartlomiej Pekiel: Ave Maria, Missa Concertata La Lombardesca, Audite mortales
|This disc is conducted by The Sixteen’s Associate Conductor, Eamonn Dougan. Polish-born Pekiel was one of the most respected composers of choral music of the 17th Century. There are only 29 of his works surviving ...read more -
John Danyel: Like as the lute delights
|This disc contains a total of twenty-five tracks from the English composer and lutenist John Danyel. He was a contemporary of John Dowland and the two of them were said to be the greatest lute ...read more -
Flute Fever
|Jonathan Horwich continues to select out of the way little masterpieces for well executed reissues on his label International Phonograph. This time around it’s Jeremy Steig’s first album Flute Fever featuring Denny Zeitlin on piano ...read more -
Blue Train
|Does any jazz lover not have a copy of Blue Train? Coltrane’s only Blue Note session as a leader is one of the most iconic jazz titles in existence. I’ve owned several copies for decades ...read more