– Les Big Byrd – Live At Pustervik, Gothenburg – September 22, 2015 – Sveriges Radio P3 – Although I’m not entirely sure about the name, I am sure that Les Big Byrd are a major new ingredient in the ever-pulsating and continuously developing landscape of New-Psych the past
– Luis Fernando Perez recital – Chambord Festival – July 27, 2011 – RFI France Musique – A classic recital this week. From the Chambord Festival in France in 2011, a recital by renowned Spanish pianist Luis Fernando Pérez, recorded by Radio France Musique on July 27, 2011. A wonderfully
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Eastman School Symphony – Howard Hanson – May 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Back over to some mid-century Americana this weekend. Weldon Hart is a name you don’t hear very much anymore. Since his
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Pharoah Sanders Quartet – Live at Les Pommiers, Coutances, May 15, 2015 – RFI-France Musique. I play a lot of older material, particularly Jazz on this site, but I don’t spend a lot of time seeing
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Barbara Pentland – String Quartet Nr. 1 – Montreal String Quartet – CBC Radio Performance – 1955. CBC Transcription service. Although she is virtually unknown in the U.S. and less well-known in her native Canada since
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Billy Faier and Leon Bibb – Live on The Les Claypool Show – Feb. 7, 1959 – KRHM-FM – Los Angeles – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While AM Radio had comfortable domination over most homes in America, FM Radio was relegated
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Pete Seeger – In Concert At The Hollywood Bowl – No on Proposition 14 Rally – September 23, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the sad news earlier this evening of the passing of Pete Seeger, one of the true
Click on the link here for Audio Player – KRHM-Los Angeles – House Of Sight and Sound – Live From Number One Sheridan Square – December 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One of those rare live broadcasts from the Audiophile days of FM and the halcyon days of Folk
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Mumford and Sons at Glastonbury 2013 If someone had told me back in 2007, when I first ran across Mumford and Sons via their Myspace page, that they would be the closing act for the Glastonbury Festival in 2013, I would have
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Of Monsters and Men – Lowlands 2012 Session The past few years have seen a very interesting shift in Pop music. A lot of bands are getting away from heavy production, opting instead for stripped-down instrumentation, traditional (in the Folk sense) instruments,
