Good things come in 3’s. On Friday 19th August, we held a classical music night highlighting some contemporary composers from Eastern Europe. Both composers whilst having composed the pieces post WWII were drawing upon their rich and difficult heritage from the region to explore themes of loss and journey to better...
After much anticipation, we had a full-house attendance on this memorable evening with many people present who had never previously attended a Nirvana Sound event. For over 50 years, Sugano and now his son Fumihiko have been building phono cartridges. Their legacy has been built around the unique sound quality of...
Yes it finally happened. We had a wonderful night exploring music and anecdotes from Russell about life at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London over many decades. If you couldn’t be there in person then hearing about it from a regular made for entertaining interludes between the music selections. We enjoyed...
Label: Thrill Jockey – THRILL 050 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1998 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Post Rock Tortoise’s mostly instrumental music defies categorisation. The band incorporates styles of Krautrock, dub, minimalism, electronica, and various jazz styles, rather than the standard rock and roll and punk. This sets them apart from most indie rock bands today. TNT, the band’s...
Label: Frasco – FS-7007 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1976 Genre: Jazz, Rock Style: Experimental, Avantgarde, Psychedelic Rock, Free Jazz Yosuke Yamashita is generally known for his piano playing and free jazz trio. This record takes him in a vastly different direction. The best way for me to describe what is going on here is, this music is like a soundtrack to...
Label: Contemporary Records – S7610 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Black Labels Country: US Released: 1963 Genre: Jazz Style: Modal, Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop Opening with a plucked bass line from Mark Proctor in the right channel builds the anticipation of the second bass following the line only an octave deeper played by Gary Peacock in the left channel. Congo Call has its...
Label: Rune Grammofon – RLP3205 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Norway Released: 24 May 2019 Genre: Jazz Style: Free Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz Sweden’s Mats Gustafsson and crew are back with this splendid release from last year. This is a more melodic affair with the vocals of Mariam Wallentin and Sofia Jernberg up front and clear. They really shine on...
Label: Vertigo – 6499 693 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: France Released: 1973 Genre: Rock Style: Folk Rock, Prog Rock Vangelis’ third album is a sensitive, deep concept album, that is a masterpiece in its own right. The opening cut is the 3 minutes rock song, but after that the album takes a turn to some progressive world sounds. "Earth" is said to...
Label: Buddah Records – BDS-7 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1968 Genre: Jazz Style: Avant-garde Jazz Hungarian jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo mixes some Gypsy themes into this avant-jazz classic. Experimental sounds, multi layered music with the surprising use of a French horn section on Firedance. The original FOC album is a true psychedelic 1968 masterpiece in itself. Originally released...
Label: Fania Records – FAN-5007, Fania Records – SLP-00448 Format: Vinyl, LP, Gatefold Country: Japan Released: 1975 Genre: Jazz, Latin Style: Latin Jazz, Salsa, Descarga This is my favourite Latin jazz record. Side 2 is where the magic happens, where it borrows from Santana, electric Miles and even prog elements of Pink Floyd. Originally realised in 1973 USA.
