Sleeve Notes: If you have any doubts whatsoever that Hollywood has produced a lot of extremely beautiful music, the artistry of Ronnie Aldrich will convince you and more than that, will captivate you. Here is a real musician one who … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Georges Bizet died on June 3rd 1875, exactly three months after the first performance of his opera “Carmen”. He was thirty-eight. That this gifted man’s life should have ended so soon is one of music’s greatest tragedies, especially … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Imagine that you are in Hawaii a long time ago, a time when there was no tourist trade as such but native (Polynesian) Hawaiians leading a life comprised primarily of agriculture, fishing, and feasts to celebrate the gods … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Two years ago, the first album by Garry Blake “Sounds Like Swingin’” burst spectacularly upon a scene where new recording ideas are scarce. It was hailed by the critics as “Fresh and sparkling” One said : “If Garry … Continued
Sleeve notes: CHANNEL20SOUND Channel 20 Sound, a new process which realises in superbly lifelike stereo all the potential splendour of each instrument, was specially developed in the Tokyo studios of E.M.I.’s associates, Toshiba Musical Industries. Recordings are made in a … Continued
“Here is your complete home discotheque on one long playing record.“Jo Ment was the show-biz name of Jochen Ment, a German musician who followed in the wake of the popular Bert Kaempfert and James Last albums of the sixties. This album … Continued
Sleeve Notes: When Laurens Hammond introduced his first organ, he certainly did not foresee that this instrument would mean a revolution in the world of music. Now, over thirty years later, THE HAMMOND ORGAN has a unique reputation as being … Continued
Paul Mauriat was a hugely successful easy listener purveyor on a par with those other giants of the easy listening genre Bert Kaempfert, James Last and Herb Alpert. His canvas was popular hits of the time and on many of … Continued
Frenetic Latin-esque sounds in the style of Juan Garcia Esquivel (known usually as just “Esquivel”, see this excellent page for more about him). This album whose title translates approximately as Downtime in Latin America is quite rare and we’re mighty … Continued
“According to Greek tradition, may your drinking glasses be good and plentiful and may you expertly throw them one by one on the floor, so that they shatter into one hundred tiny sparkling particles, to the happy laughter of a … Continued