Category: The Vinyl Voice
Album review: Nightwish – Imaginaerum
The Six Wives of Tuomas Holopainen: The Movie: The Musical: On Ice
Album review: Maâlem Mahmoud Guinéa – Colours of the Night
Colours of the Night is a peek into the original Gnawa music, played in the traditional manner, using traditional material, to achieve, however it might…
Album review: Yevgeny Svetlanov/USSR Symphony Orchestra – Tamara, etc.
This is a historically interesting record with some good (if not truly great) examples of the golden age of Russian classical music, but ASD 3066…
Album review: Fanga/Maâlem Abdallah Guinéa – Fangnawa Experience
Fangnawa Experience is not quite erudite but not quite pop either, and can just as easily be listened to and appreciated from both perspectives. It…
Album review: Dream Theater – Awake
The nuance of earlier Dream Theater had been blasted out by the time they recorded Awake; the mid-’90s were when metal was well on its…
Album review: Lagartijeando – El Gran Poder
Last month we examined Klaus Schulze and Pete Namlook’s icy The Dark Side of the Moog, Vol. 6, a work of monumental scale and forbidding…
Album review: Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook – The Dark Side of the Moog Vol. 6
It’s certainly hard to imagine something like The Dark Side of the Moog, a truly enormous eleven-album series of multipart electronic space epics with titles…
Album review: Pat Metheny – Secret Story
A popular scientific hypothesis about dreams is that they are essentially the brain’s housekeeping, the various memories, fragments, and bizarre happenings drawn from all the…
Album review: Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
“Is Black Sabbath without Ozzy Osbourne really Black Sabbath?” is a rather subjective question, but one thing for certain is that it is different. If…