Posts tagged DVD

Ludovico Einaudi – The Royal Albert Hall Concert

Recorded earlier this year ’s The Royal Albert Hall Concert is a 2CD and set that lets you see and hear Ludocico Einaudi at his best and a reminder to book up now for the November UK tour!

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Aufgang – Aufgang

I’ve just discovered my new favourite experimental classical ambient band, its baby!

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Bonobo – Black Sands

Simon Green (aka ) is another artist on his fourth album and everybody has said that it is his most accomplished album to date; the magnificent Black Sands is proof indeed that it is.

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X-Ray Spex – Live @ The Roundhouse, London 2008

I’ve been having the “What is ?” conversion quite a bit lately and then this week, we get CD/ set of Poly Styrene and the X-Ray Spex live concert from last year – Is this Jazz?

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Womad – Gran Canaria

Fancy some autumnal sunshine and great free music then you should be here at ’s Gran Canaria !

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Fat Freddy’s Drop – Dr Boondigga & The Big BW

Recorded in Lyall Bay, Wellington and recently showcased live at , the best , , , band in the world present their latest album… and its a grower.

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Comfusoes – from Angola to Brasil with Producer Mauricio Pacheco

Mauricio Pacheco’s passion for Angolan music has flowered into a wonderful album of reinterpretations of classic Angolan tunes by the cutting edge of ’s underground scene

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Bossacucanova – Ao Vivo: Celebrating 50 years of Bossa Nova

Tapping into retro cool and jazzy modernity, pays tribute to with a CD and celebrating the genre’s 50th anniversary

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Bonobo – Live At Koko (DVD) / Between The Lines (Remix)

If you’re going to see ’s DJ set in tonight, watch out for members of the band that played at to be in the audience as Audio is the place to be and to celebrate two new releases, the live and a special 10″ remix that are both due out on Monday.

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V/A – 15 by 15 (Celebrating 15 Years of The Big Chill)

The has grown from the friends listening to a seminal Global Gathering album to the initial get together of a mere 700 in 1994 to 30,000 in Eastnor Castle Deer Park last year; so to celebrate 15 years here’s a selected by some Big Chill big movers.

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Etalon – Common EP

Etalon’s new 12″ is certainly unique but still manages to retain the common touch; suggest we investigate further as this is the latest release on Caravan Recordings.

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V/A – Fluid Ounce Presents…

Wow! This is a bit of a monster release as Fluid Ounce Presents… is a with 90 (yes that’s ninety) tracks on it. That’s 7 hours of totally “NEW” music on one disc; now that’s what I call music!

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Gunter Hampel Group – Music From Europe

Sixties sleeve notes that proclaim, “Open your consciousness, open your inner gates” smack of the “over-used clich?©s” Gunter et al were looking to avoid; such scribbling seems laughable now but the music is as still speaks volumes over 40 years on.

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Terry Callier – Welcome Home

is as home on the stage as anywhere else so this live recording at the Cafe seems as comfortable as popping round to his gaff for a cup of tea, Welcome Home.

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Estradasphere

Shockingly and embarrassingly, I have only recently discovered Estradasphere though they have been going for over 18 years. Not only that, there is a whole of musical projects which its members are involved in which I had never heard of.

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