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This month we review: Tim Garland and Geoffrey Keezer, Aleph Aguiar, Melissa Aldana, Pat Metheny

This month we review: John Coltrane/Ravi Shankar, Alanis Morissette, Tina Turner, and UFO

Leave it to Tim de Paravicini to come up with something so deliciously twisted that no tube crazy can resist it. The new EAR Yoshino V20 integrated amplifier, despite costing a not-unreasonable-by-today’s-standards £2495, looks like nothing else and sports a quantity of tubes rivalled by few. Hell, the only items I can think of off-hand with similar numerical appeal – more tubes than any sane person would deem necessary – are high-enders like the GRAAF GM200 OTL with its 16 output tubes per channel, and the recent Silvaweld design with 48 per monoblock.

Steve Harris on the UK-based, classical music-focused streaming and download platform that aims to give its artists a fair share of the pot – while still looking out for lovers of Compact Disc