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November 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Jeff Beck: Live At The Hollywood Bowl
Jeff Beck Live At The Hollywood Bowl Eagle Vision Jeff Beck celebrated 50 years as a performing artist with a run of shows at the Hollywood Bowl, guest artists, material from across his career – including a dig back to The Yardbirds, the various versions of The Jeff Beck Group, his seventies fusion, right up […]Archive
September 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Baby Driver [OST]
Various Artists: Baby Driver [OST] Columbia Records It’s a fun film and a big part of that fun is in the soundtrack. Baby Driver is one of those don’t-think-too-hard films filled with car chases and rock’n’roll and soul and its soundtrack album works well as both a character (of sorts) in the film and as […]Archive
June 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
John Martyn: Head & Heart – The Acoustic John Martyn
John Martyn Head & Heart: The Acoustic John Martyn UMC Purists might claim this to be some sort of grave-robbing or merely superfluous; standard anger towards posthumous compilations – but Martyn, a tricky man to pin down, was re-recording his own material in his lifetime; was subject to far too many compilations – some of […]Archive
November 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Eric Clapton: Live In San Diego (with Special Guest J.J. Cale)
Eric Clapton Live In San Diego (with Special Guest J.J. Cale) Reprise He’d be wise – with the recent retirement news – to leave this as his final offering. For it never really got better for EC than this. I saw one of the shows on this same tour and, having seen him previously at […]Archive
November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Instrumentals Soul-Style
Various Artists: Instrumentals Soul-Style History of Soul All those great soul/RnB combos from the 1960s – and so many of the great instrumental cuts, things from Junior Walker and Booker T, Ray Charles and Allen Toussaint…well they’re all here. Them and many more. A double disc packed with short, sharp blasts from horns and stabs […]Archive
July 30, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Gigi Masin: Talk To The Sea
Gigi Masin Talk To The Sea Music From Memory Italian musician Gigi Masin has been making music for 30 years or more, part of a small underground scene. His compositions are quiet, introspective, intricate – this is ambient music as approached with a singer/songwriter care and focus. Small worlds of frozen jazz (Redanzen) mingle with […]Archive
February 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Purple Snow – Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound
Various Artists Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound Numero Group Here we have a double disc compilation that aims to place some of the antecedents to that disco/funk/soul/R’n’B/pop sound that Prince made his own. A goldmine for deep-cut enthusiasts, Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound features plenty of obvious names including early Jam and Lewis, […]Archive
January 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Sing Me The Songs – Celebrating The Works of Kate McGarrigle
Various Artists Sing Me The Songs: Celebrating The Works of Kate McGarrigle Nonesuch Sometimes it takes an artist’s death to really bring home what they meant. Hang on, what do I mean sometimes? This is – most often – almost always the case. In visual art and film and across writing mediums – including music […]Archive
July 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman