Tag: Cherry Red Records
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983
Greg Fenton reviews Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983 – Cherry Red Records Coined by Paul Morley the term New Pop is not one I cherish sounding a little too contrived, too smooth to taste. Although, as with all these things labels stick with a certain accuracy. Words aside I love a lot…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Roots Rock Rebels – When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982
Greg Fenton reviews Roots Rock Rebels – When Punk Met Reggae 1975-1982 – Cherry Red Records Another brilliantly realised compilation from the team at Cherry Red readily captures that sense of creative excitement, as if anything could happen – and it did – in the highly charged atmospheres surrounding the late seventies to the early…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Echoes Of Spain – From Segovia and Sabicas to Miles Davis and John Coltrane – él Records
Greg Fenton reviews Echoes Of Spain I love this rich series of albums that Cherry Red and friends do so well. In part because of the wealth of music I get introduced to through the experience, especially when it comes to vintage music I’m not always familiar with. But also because it lets my mind…
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The Spinners – No Price On Happiness: The Thom Bell Studio Recordings – SoulMusic Records
The Spinners, I’ll Be Around is one of my favourite songs. That cool combination of hazy melancholy, coupled with its breezy grooves, talk up lost summer nights like an intimate conversation of times past. Specifically 1972. Which is what brings me to this collection from SoulMusic Records in the first place. Their sound produced throughout…
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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…