Month: August 2017

• Yaniv d’Or: Thoughts Observed

  This is a beautiful collection of music, but quiet. It’s one for reflective evenings alone; they’re love songs sung sparsely by countertenor (falsetto) Yaniv d’Or. Dan Deutsch accompanies equally sparsely on the piano. The sleeve notes say that d’Or has previously explored the music of his Sephardic heritage, with his Spanish, Turkish, Egyptian and Libyan […]

  jerobear

  August 18, 2017

  Classical, Singers

  Naxos 8.573780, Yaniv d’Or Thoughts Observed

• Heath Common: Heath Common and The Lincoln 72s

  Heath Common is a beat poet whose previous efforts have been a little hit and miss, but this new album is his most musical and probably the most likely to raise his profile. Admittedly that profile will go from cult figure’s cult figure to merely cult figure but we can at least recommend you consider […]

  jerobear

  August 16, 2017

  Avant-garde, Singers

  Heath Common and The Lincoln 72s

• William the Conqueror: Proud Disturber Of The Peace

  William the Conqueror, aka Ruarri Joseph, played the Just So Festival at Rode Hall last year and his show was so impressive that he and it are tied together in the Review Corner collective memory. He was so good we bought two of his solo albums, second hand. In his youth (he was taking his […]

  jerobear

  August 14, 2017

  Indie, Pop rock

  baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Cold Ontario, Congleton Chronicle, Did You Wrong, early, funk, In My Dreams, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Manawatu, Mind Keeps Changing, music, Pedestals, pop, Proud Disturber Of The Peace, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Sunny Is The Style, Tend To The Thorns, The Many Faces Of A Good Truth, William the Conqueror

• Danny and The Champions Of The World: Brilliant Light

  Danny and The Champions are one of those bands that make you shake your head at the fickleness of music: they should be playing big venues but last year (?) they played Biddulph Up In Arms; prestigious as that is, it’s not Manchester Apollo or even Band on the Wall. The last album was more […]

  jerobear

  August 11, 2017

  Folk, Pop rock

  baroque, Blues, Brilliant Light, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Danny and The Champions Of The World, early, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe Brilliant Light Double CD Danny & The Champions Of The World (Artist) Format: Audio CD Waiting for the Right Time Bring Me to My Knees It Hit Me You’ll Remember Me Swift Street Consi, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul

• Brazilian Landscapes

  This fascinating CD is nominally classical with jazz influences, but you could call it world because of the rhythm, which leans towards the Latin. It’s a quiet and reflective album. The percussion plays varying roles in the music, coming to the fore in places and dropping back in others. There’s a sense of fun about […]

  jerobear

  August 10, 2017

  Classical, Uncategorized, World

  A Fala De Paixao, Brazilian Landscapes, Cancao, Cauteloso, Choros No. 2, Choros No. 5: Alma Brasileira, Cirandinha, Danca, Final, Fon-fon, Homenagem a Debussy, II, Jongo, Karate, Modinha, No Balanco, Olha Maria (Amparo), Pingue-pongue, Sao Jorge, Toada, Valsa Triste

• Steve Earle and The Dukes: So You Wannabe An Outlaw

  Outlaw country had peaked by the time the Review Corner bought Steve Earle’s fantastic debut Guitar Town, but he was in the outlaw vein, both musically (blending rock and blues with country) and with his hell raisin’ lifestyle. With this new album, he reflects on the choices he made, now free from drugs and not […]

  jerobear

  August 9, 2017

  Country, Rock

  Audio, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, Fixin’ to Die, funk, Goodbye Michelangelo, If Mama Coulda Seen Me, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Lookin’ for a Woman, music, News from Colorado, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, So You Wannabe an Outlaw, soul, Steve Earle, Sunset Highway, The Firebreak Line, The Girl on the Mountain, This Is How It Ends, Walkin’ in LA, You Broke My Heart

• Klyne: Klyne

  We’ve waited a long time for an electro/dance/pop album as good as CagedBaby’s* 2005 Will See You Now … and we’re still waiting. We had high hopes for Klyne, as the early tracks we heard were good. Like Cagedbaby, they were pleasant pop tunes played electronically and with edge and coolness. Obviously, the early tracks […]

  jerobear

  August 8, 2017

  Dance, Pop rock

  All You Ever Needed Ecstacy, baroque, Blues, Break Away, brother, CagedBaby, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Don’t Stop, early, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Klyne, Like A Razor, music, Paralyzed, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Still Not Over You, Sure Thing, Water Flow, Your Touch

• Wendy Bevan: Rose and Thorn

  Bevan sounds like she’s from the 80s but isn’t. She writes electronic pop that’s rooted in the electronic pop of the late 70s/early 80s, the kind of stuff the geriatric part of the Review Corner bought from A&A’s indie-band shoebox. The sound of early Human League, or even Visage; too arty to be New Romantic […]

  jerobear

  August 7, 2017

  Dance, Pop rock

  baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Sweet Dedication Rebel Rouser Rose & Thorn Lover In Ghosts We Trust Be Gentle Love From The Moon Bad Manners Twin Porcelain Black Kat Romance, Wendy Bevan Rose and Thorn

• Fritz Kreisler: The Complete Solo Recordings, Vol.7

  It’s slightly misleading to call this classical: it’s a bloke playing popular tunes on the violin, so it’s really pop music, just pop from the days when a new tune was Dame Clara Butt singing Old Folks At Home. Austrian-born Kreisler was busy after WWI with a comeback in America, world tours, and a warm […]

  jerobear

  August 5, 2017

  Classical, Uncategorized

  8.111406, Apple Blossoms: Letter Song Apple Blossoms: I’m in Love Les millions d’Arlequin Sérénade Sérénade espagnole Old Viennese Dances Viennese Waltz Fantasy Mélodies pour le piano Pièces: No. 2, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Dear Rose-Marie: Indian Love Call, early, Fritz Kreisler The Complete Solo Recordings, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, La cinquantaine Paraphrase on 2 Russian Folk Songs Aloha ‘Oe Symphony No. 9 in E Minor From the New World 4 American Indian Songs From the Land of the Sky-blue Water La Ritrovata Figlia Di Ottone Gavo, music, Naxos, Op. 18 Londonderry Air Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Marche miniature viennoise Syncopation Gli tre cicisbei ridicoli Tre giorni son che Nina Andante favori Klavierstücke für kleine und große Kin, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Sérénade viennoise, soul, Vol.7

• Art of Noise: In Visible Silence

  Art of Noise were momentarily big in the 80s, partly because they had one good song, Close (To The Edit), which the Review Corner bought on a 12” picture disk that looked like a piece of candy Willy Wonka would peddle to small children. They were odd even then, the label ZTT’s contribution to art, […]

  jerobear

  August 4, 2017

  Dance, Pop rock

  Art Of Noise, Backbeat, baroque, Beatback, Blues, brother, Camilla, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Duane Eddy, early, Eye of the Needle, funk, Instruments of Darkness, jazz, Jem Condliffe In Visible Silence, Legs, Max Headroom, music, Opus 4, Paranoimia, Paul Morley, Peter Gunn, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Slip of the Tongue, soul, The Chameleon’s Dish, Trevor Horn, ZTT