Prince 2010 (NPG Records Promo 2010)
Back in 2007 Prince stunned the music world by snubbing record shops and the conventional channels for releasing music by giving his album Planet Earth, an exclusive UK only release (at that point in time) as a free CD in the Mail on Sunday. This album was eventually given a [...]

Laurie Anderson-Homeland (Nonsuch records5240055-2) deluxe CD with DVD 2010
It’s hard to believe but it is nearly 10 years since Laurie Anderson’s last studio album, Life on a String (nonesuch lc00286) and unlike that album and the preceding one Strange Angels (WB 9 25900-2) this new work has more in common with her earlier material than [...]

In part one of this musical journey Music Reviewer Chris Bennett started us on a musical journey to explore the history and surprising links between bands, albums, songs and musicians. With part two the journey continues…….
Track 6
Apart from David Bowie’s appearance on the Steeleye Span album, there was another connection in that it was produced [...]

INTERCONNECTS….
The first in a series of articles in which Adventures in High Fidelity Audio writer Chris Bennett takes us on a musical journey to explore the history and surprising links between bands, albums, songs and musicians.

We’re going to take you on a musical journey, stopping off at various points along the way at [...]

The Boo Radleys – Giant Steps. 1993, Creation Records
The history of rock music is littered with truly great double albums that could have been absolutely astounding single albums. Maybe the band got a little too self indulgent, or they all wanted the album to feature some of their own songs, whatever the reason, some people [...]

Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band ‘Pour l’Amour des Chiens’ 2007, Storming Music CRP2601
In order to discuss this latest offering from the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band, it is necessary by way of introduction to give a little history of the group.
Formed in the early sixties, The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band (affectionately known simply as ‘The Bonzos’) were [...]

“A sensual and exhilarating album from a unique treasure.”
Sarah Bee 2010-05-14
As Kevin Rowland knows, pulling off a whiplash change of musical direction can backfire on you. It can make you look like a sales-chasing dilettante, or worse. But Kelis, an RnB artist for more than 10 years, has made a dance album with such confidence [...]

The brothers’ remix work remains the real Tiefschwarz legacy.
Chris Power 2010-06-01
Having already made a certain impression as deep house producers at the turn of the millennium, Tiefschwarz reinvented themselves as leading lights of the electro-house scene that peaked around 2004. It was a canny move by the brothers from Stuttgart, but since releasing their Eat Books [...]

Katie Melua-The House  CD Dramatico DramCD0061
Well the question I had in my mind, when I heard that William Orbit was involved in the new album from Katie Melua was “could he do for her, what he did for Madonna ?” We shall see……….
The album William both produced, helped compose and played on for Madonna was [...]

The Duckworth Lewis Method -The Duckworth Lewis Method 2009 DCR Dlm002.
The Duckworth Lewis Method is apparently a fairly important element to the sport of Cricket and I quote from Wikipedia….” In the sport of cricket, the Duckworth–Lewis method (D/L method) is a mathematical way to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a one-day cricket or Twenty20 cricket [...]