This is probably the most anticipated review I’ve written all year. Critics have loved the band’s recent offerings, yet fans have been left slightly bemused, some condemning them as self-indulgent twaddle. The 2nd Law is the 6th album from the Devon UK three piece (not their second as the title would suggest to the uninitiated). […]
Americana is the artist’s 34th studio album and his first recorded collaboration with Crazy Horse since 2003’s Greendale. It’s a collection of traditional and folk tunes from America given Young’s and Crazy Horse’s “unique” grunge treatment. What you get are twelve tracks that don’t do a great deal to surprise, but will welcomed by Neil […]
This arrived only a couple of hours ago and was immediately placed in the cd player. I’m a bit of a Hawkwind fan! It’s a double CD and comes in a gatefold type case…very nice. Track one kicks off proceedings and is Hawkwind at their riffing best and with the usual electronic twitters that Hawkwind […]
This is the second album by Leo Kottke and one that possibly contains a few of his better known tracks too. The album features (as the title suggests) a number of 6 and 12 string guitar solos, which are for the most part pretty engaging and upbeat in the American Folk Guitar style. In fact […]
Ronald Corp conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Dutton Epoch CDLX 7233. Released 2009
Michael Erxleben (violin), Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Claus Peter Flor conducting. Berlin Classics CD 0183632BC . Released 2003.
Klaus Tennstedt/London Philharmonic EMI Digital – CDC 7 49951 2: 1990
Naxos 8.572554. Released 2010.
