Title: Miles Smiles Label: Mobile Fidelity Often thoughtful and sometimes brooding, you often had the feeling that Miles Davis self analysed while he played that famous, economical, ‘cool’, often muted, trumpet.…
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Title: Lone Wolf: The Roost Alternates Label: Run Out Groove A man with a sax, Sonny Stitt was skilled on both tenor and alto although if you shoved an alto in…
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Titles: Nazareth/Exercises/The Fool Circle Label: Salvo A new batch of individual vinyl LPs from the band has been released from Salvo and I managed to grab three often ignored titles to…
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Title: Ogdens Nut Gone Flake Label: Charly There are classic albums, then there’s classic albums, then there’s this stone cold classic from the little mod lads. A stormer, you might say.…
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Title: 50 Years Don’t Stop Label: Warner Bros I have to admit, when I initially heard that Fleetwood Mac were releasing a new compilation of their works, I slumped just a…
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Title: Live and Direct Label: Music on Vinyl Aswad largely considered to be Britain’s greatest ever reggae band, this West London outfit began with Brinsley “Dan” Forde on guitar and vocals…
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Title: Absolutely The…Uniques Label: Music on Vinyl Trios were a popular group format in the early 60s as ska became a popular phenomenon in Jamaica. In this rocksteady/reggae case, the trio…
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Title: Everything is Everything Label: Speakers Corner Frustrating. That’s Donny Hathaway. That this soul man, with a smooth voice, an accomplished interpreter of the protest song, a singer who some believed…
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Title: Rejuvenation Label: Demon Thought they’d all died? Or had retired to become postmen, street cleaners and shelf packers in Tescos? Oh no. Simple Minds might have moved out of the…
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Title: The Complete Landsdowne Recordings 1965-1969 Label: Jazzman The Lansdowne label was founded by British producer/writer Denis Preston, in 1956. The West London company produced works for Joe Harriott, Amancio d’Silva, Stan…
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Title: The Max Roach Trio featuring the Legendary Hasaan Label: Speakers Corner It’s an intriguing album. Partly because Hasaan’s name is emblazoned upon the sleeve, retaining a larger font size even…
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Title: The Soul of a Bell Label: Speakers Corner Flip over this new reissues and take a quick look at the 11 tracks listed on the rear and you’ll notice that…
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Title: Ray Charles Presents David Newman Label: Speakers Corner Although Ray Charles’ name is on the front of the sleeve and his piano is heard within, this album was a launch…
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Title: At the Control Dubwise Label: Music on Vinyl Known to punk fans as a producer who worked with the Clash, Mikey Dread was much more than that. He had a…
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Title: The Birth of Ska Label: Music on Vinyl Taking the Jamaican styles of mento (itself a combination of African and Latin rhythms plus British folk) and the Trinidad and Tobago…
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Title: Masque Label: Music on Vinyl Moving onwards from any successful and accepted genre can be difficult. Hard core prog bands like Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer did well in…
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Title: Music by Xolotl Label: Wah Wah Born in France, Xolotl moved to California when he was 17 although he offered a rather enigmatic opinion of his home base, “I am…
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Title: To The Land of No Return Label: Wah Wah Originally released on France’s Musical Touch Sound in 1983, Yan Tregger was best known as a creator of library music. As…
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Title: Welcome to Hell Label: BMG The uniquely British heavy rock phenomenon, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) allowed heavy rock to evolve and move forwards by adopting elements…
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Title: BBC Radiophonic Music Label: Silva Screen Formed in 1956, the BBC’s Radiophonic Music was created to be the in-house music team, creating incidental and title music for a host of…
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Title: The Vinyl Collection 1995-2001 Label: Demon Cast popped up along with a host of other bands during the Brit-pop era in the mid-90s, although they had to fight their corner…
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Title: The Essential Album Collection Vol.1 Label: BMG Classic krautrock all the way from Munich and all the way from 1970 when Popol Vuh were initially formed. They were the first…
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Title: Loose Salute Label: Music on Vinyl Who would have thought that an ex-Monkee would end up being a space cowboy? More than that, who would have thought that his solo…
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Title: I Love Marijuana Label: Music On Vinyl Hardly subtle, is it? A multi-talented producer, song-writer and performer, this comparatively little known (in broader terms at least) man from Jamaica is…
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Title: The Crossing Label: Music On Vinyl The band’s debut release from 1983, this rock outing had an expansive and anthemic feel to it. Big, bold rhythms and arrangements with hooks…
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Title: Voyage aux fonds de la Mer Label: Wah Wah We’re taking a trip to the bottom of the sea on this outing with Alain Meunier. The LP was originally released…
