Review 音 Review December 16, 2014 by Diego Olivas Leonard Rosenman: Barry Lyndon Soundtrack (1975) Kubrick and friends – 1975 Now here’s something a bit out of step with the times. We all know Stanley Kubrick correct?… December 16, 2014
Review 音 Review December 15, 2014 by Diego Olivas Steeleye Span: Demon Lover (1975) Steeleye Span – 1975 Just after slagging them off yesterday. Here I am championing them again. A few months before releasing “All… December 15, 2014
Review Review December 14, 2014 by Diego Olivas Brian Eno: Discreet Music (1975) Pour down like silver. What an apropos name for whatever the hell was going on in classic English folk and folk-rock music… December 14, 2014
Review 音 Review December 12, 2014 by Diego Olivas Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn (1975) Mike Oldfield – 1974 “The end of the first side of Ommadawn is the sound of me exploding from my mother’s vagina.”… December 12, 2014
Review 音 Review December 11, 2014 by Diego Olivas Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge (1974) Mike Oldfield The exploration and deconstruction of English folk music seemed to be the path needed to be taken by new neo-folk… December 11, 2014
Review 音 Review December 10, 2014 by Diego Olivas Gryphon: Checkmate (1974) Gryphon – 1974 The further we head down this neo-folk decade the more strained the strands holding it to the base become.… December 10, 2014
Review 音 Review December 9, 2014 by Diego Olivas Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974) Richard and Linda Thompson There’s something about the year 1974 that will trigger a sea change in the English musical landscape. A… December 9, 2014
Review Review December 8, 2014 by Diego Olivas Shirley Collins: Adieu to Old England (1974) What a weird time its must have been for England in 1974. It was during this year that the IRA started to… December 8, 2014
Review 音 Review December 7, 2014 by Diego Olivas Bert Jansch: Fresh As A Sweet Sunday Morning (1974) Bert Jansch – 1974 Sometimes you need a bit o’ change to right a trajectory. By 1974, many of the great English… December 7, 2014
Review 音 Review December 6, 2014 by Diego Olivas Alan Stivell: Brezhoneg Raok (1973) Alan Stivell and bombard. Finishing off what he hinted at in his previous album, yesterday’s A L’Olympia, Alan decided to commit to… December 6, 2014
Review 音 Review December 5, 2014 by Diego Olivas Alan Stivell: Tri Martolod (1972) Alan Stivell – 1972 When we last left off Alan Stivell he was breathing new life into a genre threatened to be… December 5, 2014
Review 音 Review December 4, 2014 by Diego Olivas Clannad: Siúbhán Ní Dhuibhir (1973) Clannad In this brief sojourn to Ireland, for some neo-folk goodies, lets not forget a true behemoth of Celtic music: Clannad. Now… December 4, 2014