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Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven | Downunderman - Yesterday 01:15 am

Great review Mark and I'm 100% with you on the provenance disclosure issue. It continues to baffle me why they think being open about the source material is a negative. To my ...

Knaggs: Two Streams - Simpson | Marcus DiBenedetto - November 29, 2023

Divine Mercy is the theme of this Cantata. Youthful composer Daniel Knaggs (b. 1983) wrote the music based partly on the spiritually inspired writings of Maria Faustina ...

Mahler: Symphonies 1-9 - Maazel | Contrapunctus - November 20, 2023

I should have known better, that old PCM recordings from early digital days not really can be improved regardless whatever magical treatment or remastering they might have ...

Miles Davis: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 | Longjohns and Wifebeaters - October 28, 2023

Agreed, Steven; I can't detach myself from this set, either. It's all remarkably bewitching as far as the sound quality goes, and the playing – well, seductive in the same ...

Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy | Downunderman - Today 07:45 pm

Transferred from the old site: Review by analogue August 7, 2014 (21 of 23 found this review helpful) Performance: Sonics: 1973/ 8 tracks/ 41 minutes I'm sure Steely Dan ...

Mahler: Symphonies 1-9 - Maazel | Contrapunctus - November 24, 2023

I have to correct my previous comment a little, I was probably a little too hasty. Also, I had only compared a single track. Now a few days have passed and I've listened to a ...

Van Morrison: Moondance | Kveld-Úlfr - November 30, 2023

What's more to this than the already existing Van Morrison: Moondance then ?

Bill Evans et al: The Blues and the Abstract Truth | Tony Reif - November 9, 2023

The artist of this record is not "Bill Evans et al" or a collective, it has always been Oliver Nelson, and it's unhelpful that those searching under his name will not find ...

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