"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Khatia Buniatishvili Recital at The Verbier Festival July 24, 2012- RSM – Espace 2 This week it’s a Concert Recital from the much-talked about and discussed Kathia Buniatishvili, recorded live from the stage by Radio Suisse Romande’s Espace 2 at…
Suicide tonight – a rare concert recorded at CBGB’s on April 7, 1979. Together with Martin Rev, Alan Vega established Suicide as one of the seminal projects of the Punk era. As a visual artist, Vega was well known in…
Can were one of those bands no one thought would be as influential in 1974 as they became. They had taken the cause of Progressive Rock and ratcheted it up a few notches and introduced Electronic music in a way…
– Sonny Rollins Trio – live in Aix-en-Provence – March 11, 1959 – Radio France International – Something special and historic this weekend. The legendary Sonny Rollins in one of his last appearances in 1959 before his self-imposed withdrawal from…
Dutch psych-meister Jacco Gardner tonight, in a concert recorded during the 2013 London Calling Festival, held at The Paradiso in Amsterdam and faithfully recorded by VPRO in Hilversum. A little bio sampler via Tim Sendra at AllMusic: Dutch-born psychedelic explorer…
– Izia – SFR Studio Concert – March 19, 2012 – Over to Paris this week for a concert by the deceptively dramatic and dynamic Izia and her band, recorded live at SFR Studios in Paris on March 19, 2012.…
– CBS Radio – Invitation To Music – Igor Stravinsky Conducts the CBS Symphony and Choir – Dec. 16, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something slightly out of the ordinary this weekend.Igor Stravinsky appeared frequently on the CBS…
Described in the European press as “one of Americas best kept secrets”, Smashing Orange were a band from Wilmington Delaware, who landed in the UK and became part of the wave of Shoegaze bands of the early 1990s. Sadly, the…
– Iron Butterly – in concert at The Galaxy Club, North Hollywood – 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Okay – this one comes with a caveat: The sound is so-so. Well . . it’s stereo and there’s some…
– Johnny Guitar Watson – In Session at NDR – 1977 – It occurred to me I haven’t been giving much space over to the cause of Funk lately – no good reason. Getting overloaded with festivals and gearing up…