More Flowers Of India |
With recordings made at least a decade before Psychedelia, More Flowers of India showcases the beautiful, dreamlike art of Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan and attests to the extraordinary influence of...
Posted by el records on Sun, 25 May 2008 06:18:00 PST |
Juan Garcia Esquivel |
The King of Space-Age Pop, the genius of Mexican composer-arranger Juan Garcia Esquivel lay in his audacious instrumentation; his blending together of exotic sounds from other cultures and experimenta...
Posted by el records on Sun, 25 May 2008 06:17:00 PST |
Missa Luba |
Hailed by Stanley Kubrick as absolutely one of the great films of all time, Lindsay Anderson s stylish, surrealistic, uncompromising and confrontational film IF... encapsulated the revolutionary atmos...
Posted by el records on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:59:00 PST |
David Axelrod |
In the Sixties and Seventies, David Axelrod was one of America’s most respected producers, arrangers and composers. Credited in some quarters with inventing a whole new genre of music usually at...
Posted by el records on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:58:00 PST |
Os Afro-Sambas / A Vontade |
Vinicius de Moraes was the principal lyricist of Bossa Nova, (Girl from Ipanema, Chega de Saudade and Insensatez are amongst the famous international hit songs he wrote with Tom Jobim), and Os Afro-Sa...
Posted by el records on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:56:00 PST |
Touch of Evil |
"Touch of Evil" is a masterpiece of 20th century cinema: Director Orson Welles’ final Hollywood film and regarded as the last great film noir.Stars Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich...
Posted by el records on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST |
Mike Alway on BBC Radio 6 |
You can listen to Mike Alway talking to Stuart Maconie on yesterday's Freak Zone show here http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/freakzone/ you can also download the show as a Podcast.
Posted by el records on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:26:00 PST |
Socrate (Symphonic Drama) / Mass For The Poor Messe Des Pauvres / Piano Pieces by Francis Poule |
These recordings of Erik Satie's symphonic drama 'Socrate' (1916) and the beautiful 'Mass for the Poor' are both very rare. They have been out of print for five decades and here are restored and relea...
Posted by el records on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:19:00 PST |
The Changing Of The Guard ~The Sixties London Pop Explosion |
The Changing of the Guard is a unique music and dialogue sound collage of Swinging London in 1968; a time of exciting developments in all the artistic fields and a time when England set cultural stand...
Posted by el records on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:18:00 PST |
Psychedelic Music of India |
Both regarded as absolute masters in their homeland Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Ustad Vilayat Khan, exact contemporaries and sarod and sitar players respectively are in India spoken of with the same reve...
Posted by el records on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:53:00 PST |
