Listen and you’ll see: Geeta Dayal on Neu!
Neu! were one of the great bands of the 20th century, a sonic break with what came before. The German group was best known as a duo; drummer Klaus Dinger,… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 13 Dec 2012
Categories: Listen and you'll see, Music
Tags: Brian Eno, Geeta Dayal, Hallo Gallo, Kraftwerk, krautrock, Negativland, Neu! Conny Plank
Watch the LSO recording Romeo & Juliet, live at the Barbican
Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet is availble to Society of Sound members this month. LSO Live Producer, James Mallinson, talks about the performance and explains why they no longer include applause… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 12 Dec 2012
Categories: Music
Tags: Barbican, high-quality classical music downloads, live recording, LSO, LSO Live, Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet
Bowers & Wilkins at Wilton’s Music Hall, London 2012
The Pilgrimage Project was a unique four-room performance installation at Wilton’s Music Hall, one of the London’s oldest music halls. The project utilised a series of Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 10 Dec 2012
Categories: Events, Music, Sound Lab
Tags: Matthew Lloyd, sound installations, The Pilgrammage Project, Wiltons Music Hall, Zeppelin Air speakers
Dame Evelyn Glennie joins Society of Sound
Dame Evelyn Glennie and guitarist / composer Jon Hemmersam have created and recorded an entirely improvised album, Sound Spirits, at Real World Studios for Society of Sound. Hemmersam describes first… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 10 Dec 2012
Categories: Music
Tags: Dame Evelyn Glennie, high quality recordings, improvisional recording, Jon Hemmersam, Real World Studios
Listen and you’ll see: Emma Warren on Arthur Russell
Arthur Russell had a recording habit that drove his engineers mad. He liked to record over old tapes, allowing something of what had gone before to seep through into the… Read more
Posted on: Thursday, 6 Dec 2012
Categories: Listen and you'll see, Music
Tags: Arthur Russell, Calling out of Context, Emma Warren, Larry Levan, Philip Glass, That's Us / Wild Combination
Listen and you’ll see: Robin Turner on Underworld
On first listen, Rez sounds like it’s not going to work at all. A spiralling riff – chirruping like digital bird song, a synthetic dawn chorus – attempts to soar… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 28 Nov 2012
Categories: Listen and you'll see, Music
Tags: JBO, Rez, Underworld
Twenty tracks that inspired Andy Partridge and Peter Blegvad’s Gonwards.
Andy Partridge and Peter Blegvad list the tracks that influenced the making of ‘Gonwards’ Andy’s tracks: 1 ‘American Haikus’ Jack Kerouac, from Blues and Haikus Stuart Rowe (project engineer and… Read more
Posted on: Monday, 26 Nov 2012
Categories: Music, Top 10 playlists
Tags: Andy Partridge, Gonwards, Peter Blegvad, Slap Happy, top 10 playlist, XTC
Mojo Beatles Uncovered event at Abbey Road Studios
Joe Strummer once sang ‘Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust’, he was right, now we have hardcore, deep-rooted Beatlemania. At an event staged by Mojo magazine in Abbey Road Studios… Read more
Posted on: Friday, 23 Nov 2012
Categories: Live music, Music, Speakers
Tags: Abbey Road, Colin Murray, Ian McNabb, John Harris, Mojo magazine, Robyn Hitchcock, The Beatles, Tom Robinson
Bowers & Wilkins, Rough Trade East and Mute Records event
To celebrate our partnership, Bowers & Wilkins and Rough Trade are inviting you to join them on 6th December for a special evening of music from iconic British label Mute… Read more
Posted on: Wednesday, 21 Nov 2012
Categories: Events and shows, Live music, News
Tags: Can, Daniel Miller, Liars, Maps, Mute Records, Polly Scattergood, Rough Trade East, Yeasayers
Classic Recordings: Scott Walker – Scott 4
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