LATEST ADDITIONS

This month we review: Stephen Stills, Van Morrison, Various Artists, Garret T. Willie

This month we review and test releases from: Mathias Eick, Neil Cowley Trio, Third Angle New Music/P. Glass, Geir Sundstøl, Kramies.

The maturing design of amplifiers in the late 1970s created a problem for the marketing departments of large hi-fi manufacturers. Selling hi-fi was a technology-led process with new features and improved performance being the hooks upon which new sales were hung. But with solid-state circuitry, low-noise integrated circuits and complementary output stages already in place, the basic problems of amplification had been solved – so what was to be next?.

As streaming platforms battle an influx of music generated by Artificial Intelligence, Steve Harris talks to composer/bandleader Asha Parkinson about why she’s taken her debut album off Spotify

As streaming platforms battle an influx of music generated by Artificial Intelligence, Steve Harris talks to composer/bandleader Asha Parkinson about why she’s taken her debut album off Spotify