July 11th, 2023
"Rough Mix" Should Be Renamed "Crap Mix"! Jon Astley assisted Glyn Johns on the exceptional sounding original production and decides 46 years later to ruin it!By: Michael Fremer
Where to start here? They still can't spell the late Doug Sax's name correctly so let's start there. It's not "Sachs". They made a mistach on the original, understood. If they repeated it to preserve the jacket's "authenticity", then why add the additional credits? But more to the point, why take a wonderful, magical recording, with depth, space, transparency, transient purity, shimmer, delicacy, three-dimensionality and... Read More
June 16th, 2023
The Electric Recording Company Reissues Rare, Beautiful Folk Gems from Both Sides of the Pond Vashti Bunyan and Terry Callier expand ERC's palette of lavish reissuesBy: Jan Omdahl
Vashti Bunyans's Just Another Diamond Day (1970) and Terry Callier's The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier (1965) are classic, collectible folk records from artists who never got their deserved attention. Both have been reissued by The Electric Recording Company, makers of limited and very expensive reissues of often quite rare recordings.
Read MoreApril 26th, 2023
Absolutely Astounding New LPs From Yarlung Records Violinist Petter Iivonen and mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke Each Deliver Mesmerizing PerformancesBy: Jacob Heilbrunn
April 24th, 2023
Deep Catalogue Gems from Wheeler and Vasconcelos Lead Off ECM Reissue Series Arvo Pärt, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek and others to followBy: Jan Omdahl
ECM is arguably the most influential jazz label since the heydays of Blue Note and Impulse!. The German label recently announced Luminessence, its first ever audiophile vinyl reissue series. The two first releases, reviewed here, are Kenny Wheeler's Gnu High and Nana Vasconcelos' Saudades.
Read MoreMarch 29th, 2023
How To Ruin 40 Good Songs In Three Hours U2's 'Songs Of Surrender' is a dreadful failureBy: Malachi Lui
Almost no one asked for 2014’s spotty, blandly produced 'Songs Of Innocence' to be shoved into their iTunes library, and even fewer asked for a nearly three-hour compendium of mostly acoustic rerecordings from the catalog. Of course, U2’s latest project 'Songs Of Surrender,' conceived by The Edge and billed as a companion to Bono’s aforementioned book, is exactly that.
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