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Charles Mingus: Blues & Roots | Downunderman - Today 12:34 am

This is the first SACD release in the Atlantic 75th anniversary series with a Catalogue number of CAPA 001 SA. They have started on a high note here with an excellent album ...

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 ...

Mahler: Symphonies 1-9 - Maazel | Longjohns and Wifebeaters - Today 11:39 am

I guess also whether it would even be financially viable, first as a development and then a production project. Look at us here, a niche in a niche in a diminutive market ...

John Prine: John Prine | Downunderman - November 28, 2023

A lovely album, though he hadn't quite settled into his own voice here and the influence of Dylan is a bit prominent at times. His album from 1991 'The Missing Years' remains ...

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 ...

Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven | Downunderman - Today 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 ...

The White Stripes: Elephant | Downunderman - November 26, 2023

Now you can listen to this album as the artist originally recorded it - on an eight-track reel-to-reel in the UK. The mixing also being analogue. Something of a rescue ...

Dr. John: In the Right Place | Downunderman - Today 01:03 am

I was very happy to see that this title had made it into the Atlantic 75th anniversary series. It made me think about my university days in the mid 70's and one of the share ...

Final Fantasy XIV: Forge Ahead - OST