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  • Beautiful People: If 60s Were 90s

    This came out ages ago in 1992. We were never too sure of it at the time, being massive Hendrix fans and unable to see the point of adding dance beats to a genius, but it seems much better all these years on. Perhaps we all need cheering up just now. (Though it did cost […]

    jerobear

    July 17, 2021
    Dance, Pop rock, Soul/funk
    Beautiful People, If 60s Were 90s, Jimi Hendrix, Remastered
  • Motörhead: The Löst Tapes

    We don’t know what’s worse: the fact that the members of the classic line-up of Lemmy, Philthy and Fast Eddy are all dead, or that Lemmy’s death killed Motörhead. But Motörhead recordings are far from dead and on Motörhead Day, 8th May, (say the eighth of May and Ace Of Spades quickly to see why) […]

    jerobear

    July 12, 2021
    Blues, Metal, Rock
    Congleton Chronicle, Jem Condliffe, Lemmy, Live, Madrid, Motörhead, Sala Aqualung, The Löst Tapes
  • El Michels Affair: Yeti Season

    El Michels (and see here) is clearly a man obsessed with music. He previously made an album of imagined music from “adult” films and this new one is imagined music from another kind of film, one set in somewhere like Turkey. Goodness knows what Yeti Season is. There’s a lot of funk with a stylised […]

    jerobear

    July 11, 2021
    Fictitious Film Score, World
    Congleton Chronicle, El Michels Affair, film score, Jem Condliffe, Turkish, Yeti Season
  • Pet Shop Boys: Discovery (Live in Rio 1994)

    The album opens with a brief and tender Tonight Is Forever before Ab Fab’s Edina Monsoon cries: “Lights! Models! Guest list! Just do your best, darling!” and they launch into I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing. The album then trawls through the hits, Domino Dancing early on, and Rent, Suburbia and King’s Cross […]

    jerobear

    July 10, 2021
    Dance, Live, Rock n roll
    Discovery (Live in Rio 1994), Pet Shop Boys
  • Hafliði Hallgrímsson: Offerto

    Hafliði Hallgrímsson is regarded as Iceland’s pre-eminent composer, as well as a highly accomplished cellist. You prog rockers might have heard him, too: in 1970, he played the (uncredited) cello solo on Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd. This new album follows a request in 2005 from violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved, who asked Hallgrímsson to […]

    jerobear

    July 9, 2021
    Classical, Violin
    Congleton Chronicle, Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Jem Condliffe, Metier, MSV 28616., Offerto, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Review Corner
  • Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band: Expansions

    The Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band is a German funk music ensemble (founded by members of the Mighty Mocambos says Wikipedia). Bandleader Björn Wagner lived in Trinidad and Tobago for a time, where he studied steel drums and had one custom made. He then came up with the idea of covering famous tunes with a […]

    jerobear

    July 8, 2021
    Soul/funk
    Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band, Björn Wagner, Congleton Chronicle, Expansions, Jem Condliffe, My Jamaican Dub
  • Kilian Kemmer Trio: Und Zarathustra Tanzte

    The album is inspired by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Dr Kemmer has a PhD in philosophy), with Thus Spake Zarathustra a philosophical novel penned by Herr Nietzsche, containing ideas about the Übermensch, the death of God, the will to power, and eternal recurrence. Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra, was an ancient Iranian prophet who founded what […]

    jerobear

    July 7, 2021
    Jazz
    Congleton Chronicle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kilian Kemmer Trio, Review Corner, Und Zarathustra Tanzte
  • Benedetto Boccuzzi: À Claude

    The Claude in question is Mr Debussy but if you’re expecting an album of Clair de Lune delicacy you’d be mistaken, as Boccuzzi’s album takes off from where Debussy leads, moving from the dreamy to the avante garde, the idea being to show the link between Debussy and composers old and new, including Boccuzzi himself. […]

    jerobear

    July 6, 2021
    Classical, Piano
    À Claude, Benedetto Boccuzzi, Claude Debussy, Congleton Chronicle, George Crumb, Jem Condliffe, Messiaen
  • Zeynep Ucbasaran: 1847, Liszt in Istanbul

    This lively and more-ish album of piano music consists of a selection of works from the 1847 Istanbul recitals of Franz Liszt.Lizst had arrived to entertain and was given a seven-octave piano by craftsman Sébastien Pierre Erard to play on while he was in what was then Constantinople. He played at the Royal Palace, the […]

    jerobear

    July 6, 2021
    Classical, Piano
    1847, Congleton Chronicle, dda 25213., Divine Art, Liszt in Istanbul, Review Corner, Zeynep Ucbasaran
  • The Mono LPs: Shuffle/Play

    This is a really good album ad we’d have said you should buy it even before we realised it referenced one of our favourite films, Being There. (A 1979 satire, based on a novel by Jerzy Kosinski and starring Peter Sellers as Chance the gardener, a simple man who knows only about gardening and the […]

    jerobear

    July 5, 2021
    Indie, Pop rock, Rock
    Arctic Monkeys, Cello, Coral, Liverpool, Shuffle/Play, The Mono LPs
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