Tag: Cherry Red Records
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Burt Bacharach: Dream Big – The First Decade Of Songs – Él Records
Lost in a different world. Found in this one. Burt Bacharach doesn’t deserve a description just respect and lavish praise for all he has conceived and delivered to the world of song, melody and meaning alongside his lyricist partner Hal David.
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Martin Denny – Deep Exotica: Music From Martin Denny’s Lush Lounge – Righteous
Once upon a time Martin Denny’s music was a rare, sought-after commodity. Losing none of its glittering appeal all these years later pays testament to what is essentially an endless holiday of excess come true.
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Musik Music Musique 3.0 – 1982 Synthpop On The Air – Cherry Red Records
Travelling through the expressway of electronic motion a question might spring to mind. Centred around songs verses sounds, which are the most significant here? It’s maybe that the uniquely 1980’s song structures hanging lose over the fast propulsion of drum machines, desperate to cling to a tradition of accessible, tuneful melody like rock n roll…
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Music For New Romantics – Cherry Red Records
I learnt more about the spirit of The Blitz and the people who inhibited that world from Kevin Hegge’s brilliant film, Tramps: The Death Of Punk, New Romantics, The Art Of Survival than I did from almost any other source. Tracing the lineage between early 1970’s Glam and its disparate offshoots, charting a course through…
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Erik Satie – Old Sequins And Ancient Breastplates Historical Recordings 1926-1961 – él Records
Diving into the ocean of Erik Satie’s musical world is like diving for pearls. A rapturous, immersive experience capturing the essence of the senses as they rush by. His music was always remarkable and remains so. Explosively quiet as much as it is exhilarating this incredible collection works spans decades. At times reflective, at others…
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Pierre Boulez – Composer Conductor Enigma – Él Records
Where does one note begin and another end. Think about Pierre Boulez when he greets you with Sonatine for Flute and Piano, Op. 1 (1946; revised 1949) as danger dances in the air mere moments after the end of the Second World War. Why should music remain the same. The safety of nostalgia never seemed…
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Money In My Pocket – The Joe Gibbs Singles Collection 1972-1973 – Doctor Bird
I meant to review this before its release, must have been distracted by unseasonal sunshine here in the UK. It’s a real pleasure to listen to this collection of Jamaican sounds spanning 1972-1973 produced by the legendary Joe Gibbs well before his masterpiece Chapter Three. Still containing that cutting skank from Ska the brew of…
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The Trammps: Burn Baby Burn – Disco Inferno – The Trammps Albums 1975-1980 – Robinsongs
If you’re going to do a boxset then do it right, make it big. Totalling eight discs charting their album releases over the course of 1975 to 1980 this pays testament to the enduring legacy of the band in the national consciousness. While the final album Stepping Out succumbs to the schmaltz and musical clique…
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Notes From The Underground: Radical Music Of The 20th Century – él Records
Where to begin. Like forever calling this collection of exemplarily works celebrates all that was worthwhile of the twentieth century, denoting times, evoking memory, lives lived and lost. Spanning four discs of undeniable pleasure living in the moment is cast aside as history is rewound spelling out the story of humanities rites of passage tuning…