With repeated listenings Kind of Blue continues to reveal its depths and complexity..like a good wine! For those of you not yet into jazz, it is lyrical, melodic, peaceful, and elegant; which makes it accessible. Yet this comes subversively within a ground breaking approach to music making. Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans abandoned the […]
The first ‘real’ Planxty album 1973 (the musicians had recorded Prosperous previously with Christy Moore), was at once a heresy to the purists, and an inspiration to the younger generation…Greek Bazoukis!!…no accordions!!… rock band swagger!! (well, almost). They created a unique and fully formed sound of percussive stringed instruments overlaid on the melodic, droning foundation […]
Madness, War, futility of existence… its Singalong Sartre! Rock music’s ‘Kind of Blue’ moment. Following its release on St Patrick’s Day 1973 it went on to spend over 40 weeks in the Top Ten (yet interestingly never No.1) and stayed in the US Album Charts for 741 weeks. The Dark Side has sold over 50 […]