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Music therapy (support the BCAT, Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies)
Music therapy (fundraising for the BCAT, Birmingham Centre for Arts Therapies)
Music therapy: a room open to everyone, devoted to music listening on vinyl
Obituary: Chuck Berry
Obituary: Pierre Boulez
Obituary: David Bowie
Obituary: Ornette Coleman
Obituary: Keith Emerson (EL&P)
Obituary: Len Gregory, the Cartridge Man
Obituary: Norman Granz
Obituary: Christopher Hogwood
Obituary: Andy Fraser
Obituary: Wilko Johnson
Obituary: Phil Lesh and Quincy Jones
Obituary: George Martin, Beatles producer
Obituary: John Miles
Obituary: Milt Okun, music producer
Obituary: Lou Ottens, inventor of the Compact Cassette
Obituary: Otis Rush
Obituary: Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records
Obituary: Robbie Shakespeare
Reportage from the CrossRoads Guitar Festival - Part I (June 2004)
Reportage from the CrossRoads Guitar Festival - Part II (June 2004)
Reportage from the CrossRoads Guitar Festival - Part III (June 2004)
OnClassical.com: online source of high quality Classical Music download (studio master files!)
Analogy Records - reel to reel master tapes
Analogy Records - reel to reel master tapes review
New vinyl stores in Naples - Part I
New vinyl stores in Naples - Part II
Angel Air Records a different Music label from the UK
Angel Air Records - February 2010 releases
Angel Air Records - March 2010 releases
Angel Air Records - April 2010 releases
Angel Air Records - May 2010 releases
Angel Air Records - June 2010 releases
Angel Air Records - July 2010 releases
Various labels - August 2010 releases
Various labels - September 2010 releases
Various labels - Winter releases - Hot Stuff for Cold Winter Nights
VV.AA. compilation of rare cigar box guitar music
Coke Studio - traditional and contemporary Pakistani and Indian music
Record Store Day 2014 (April 2014)
Japan relief for earthquake victims (single) (May 2011)
Staff suggested albums for Summer 2018 (July 2018)
Gassy Classical: Concerts and Broadcasts, Yesterday and Today
The Dark Side of the Moon turns 50
Mark Wheeler's choice of best sounding test tracks - Part I
VV.AA. "Rumba Profunda" (American Clavé)
Ali Akbar Khan & Swapan Chaudhuri "Indian Architexture" (Water Lily Acoustics)
Anette Askvik "Liberty" (Bird Records)
Bad Company "Straight shooter" (Audio Fidelity)
Paul Beaudry & Pathways "Americas" (Soundkeeper Recordings)
Ludwig Van Beethoven “The complete piano sonatas” - Stewart Goodyear, pianist (Marquis Music)
Harry Belafonte "Belafonte sings the blues" (Classic Records)
Ray Brown "Soular Energy" (Pure Audiophile)
Bob Dylan "Highway 61 revisited" (Absolutely Analogue)
Bob Dylan "Blood on the tracks" (Absolutely Analogue)
Blue Man Group "Audio" (HDCD)
Blue Man Group "The Complex" (HDCD)
The Blue Nile "Hats" (Linn Records)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Time Out” (Sony/Columbia) (HDCD)
Cash: American IV & The Notting Hillbillies - CDs vs LPs (Sony & Phonogram)
Count Basie "Basie Jam" (Pablo Records)
David Bowie "The rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars" (EMI)
Rossana Casale "Jazz in me" (CGD/Time Warner)
Cosmic American Derelicts “The Twain Shall Meet” (Soundkeeper Recordings)
Elvis Costello "Momofuku" (Lost Highway)
Crosby, Stills & Nash, the debut album (Classic Records)
Crosby, Stills & Nash "Debut album" 24kt Gold reissue (Audio Fidelity)
Crowded House "Recurring dream" (Capitol Records)
Dadawa "Sister Drum" (Sire/Elektra Records)
Dalla "A richer vein"
Damage Control "Raw" (Angel Air Records)
Denon Hi-Fi check CD (Nippon Columbia)
DFA "Work in progress LIVE" (Moojune Records)
Marcel Dupré Organ Recital box set (Mercury Living Presence)
Bob Dylan "Bringing it all back home" (Simply Vinyl)
Ella Fitzgerald sings Ira and George Gershwin - 5+1 180 grams LPs (Verve)
Esbjorn Svensson Trio "Somewhere Else Before" (Sony Music)
Exivious - CD vs 45rpm vinyl comparison (Blood Music)
Federal Charm "The album" (Mystic Records)
Finisterre "Storybook" (Moojune Records)
Forest of Piano: Does Good Music Grow on Trees?
Genesis "Nursery Cryme" (Classic Records)
Genesis "The lamb lies down on Broadway" (Classic Records)
George Gershwin - Complete piano works (Aevea/OnClassical)
Marla Glen "This is Marla Glen" (Vogue Disques)
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny "Beyond the Missouri Sky" (Verve Records)
Hi-Res DVD recordings (Hi-Res Music)
Paul Horn "Inside the Taj Mahal" (Inside Music Inc.)
Israel 'Iz' Kamakawiwo'ole "Facing Future" (Big Boy Records)
Joe Jackson "Body and Soul" (A & M Records)
Joe Jackson "Body and Soul" (follow-up) (A & M Records)
Harry James & His Big Band - "The King James Version" (Sheffield Lab-3)
KatzenBerger Music - high-resolution downloads (Katzenberger Music)
Keb' Mo' - "Debut album" (Absolutely Analogue)
Keb' Mo' - "Just like you" (Okeh/Epic)
Carole King "Tapestry" (Classic Records)
Erich Kleiber's final concert
KODO - Drummers of Japan - "Best of Kodo" (best of, Vol. I) (Sony Music)
KODO - Drummers of Japan - "Tataku" (best of, Vol II) (Sony Music)
Peter Lang - A retrospective
Led Zeppelin "BBC sessions" (Atlantic Records)
Led Zeppelin "Presence" (Classic Records)
Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca "Mambo Yo Yo" (Putumayo Records)
Jo Lewis "Picture Show" (BPM Records)
Omar Rodriguez Lopez "Is it in the Clouds" & "Blind Worms Pious Swine", re-issues on recycled vinyl (Clouds Hill Records)
Madonna "Like a Prayer"
Gustav Mahler 2nd Symphony, Organ Transcription by David Briggs (Chestnut Records)
Manger Audiophile CD test (Manger)
Manger Audiophile test record LP (Manger)
Max Research liquid music (Max Research)
Michael McDonald "Blue Obsession" (Ramp)
Nada Malanima "Nada Trio" (Olis Music)
Malene Mortensen "Malene", "Date with a dream", "Paradise" (Stunt Records - Universal)
Taj Mahal, V.M. Bhatt, Narendra Ravikiran in "Mumtaz Mahal" (Water Lily Acoustics)
Markus Schwartz and Lakou Brooklyn "Equinox", CD & high resolution music files (Soundkeeper Recordings)
Markus Schwartz and Lakou Brooklyn "Kay Sa", CD & high resolution music files (Soundkeeper Recordings)
Graham Nash "Song for beginners" (Classic Records)
Graham Nash "Song for survivors" (Artemis Records)
Derrin Nauendorf "Live at the Boardwalk" (Swingout Productions)
Derrin Nauendorf "New History" (D. Nauendorf)
Anthea Neads & Andy Prince "Penhayl" + Andy Prince "Band of rain" (RowanLeaf Records)
Willie Nelson "Stardust" (Classic Records)
Nirvana "In utero" (Simply Vinyl)
Nirvana's "Nevermind" is 30 years old
Nordic Giants "A tree as old as me" (Independent)
Ozric Tentacles "Erpland" (Snapper Music remaster)
David Peacock "Grim determination meets the fields of sorrow" (Oddball musicworks)
Rage against the machine "I" (Epic/Sony Music)
Re-recordings (Alanis Morissette, the Verve and Paul Weller) (AA.VV)
The Rolling Stones "Beggars Banquet" (Abkco Records reissue)
Tao Ruspoli "Flamenco" (Mapleshade Records)
Saltanah (Water Lily Acoustics)
Satie - Early and Esoteric Works (Aevea/OnClassical)
Emma Shapplin "Carmine Meo" (Pendragon/EMI Music)
Simon & Garfunkel "Bridge over troubled water" (Classic Records)
Simon & Garfunkel "The complete Columbia collection" (Legacy Recordings)
Siri's Svale Band "Blackbird" (Sonor Records)
Siri's Svale Band "Necessarily so..." (Sonor Records)
State Cows "State Cows" (Avenue of Allies)
State Cows "The second one" (Avenue of Allies)
Steely Dan "Two against Nature" (Giant Records)
Steely Dan "Pretzel logic" (ABC/MCA Records)
String Cheese Incident "Born on the wrong planet" (SCI Fidelity)
Sun dog Days "Levels"
Ten Years After "Rock & roll music to the World" (Audio Fidelity)
Clark Terry Big Bad Band “Live in Holland 1979” (Storyville Records)
Tricky “Vulnerable” (Anti-)
Jason Vitelli "No photographs" (Roomful of Sky records)
Jason Vitelli "Confluence" (Soundkeeper Recordings)
Jason Vitelli "Head above tide" (Soundkeeper Recordings)
Jason Vitelli "1. Ambient Corridors" & Michael Young - Aspect Radio "Old Friend"
Vivaldi's Concertos played by Angel Romero (RCA Victor - Red Seal)
VV.AA: "Call of the valley" (EMI records)
Joe Walsh "The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get" (Audio Fidelity)
Amy Winehouse "Lioness - Hidden Treasures" (Island)
Work of Art "Lift" (Soundkeeper Recordings)
Work of Art "Waves" (Sword in the stone Records)
Work of Art "Winds of change" (Soundkeeper Recordings)
Yucca Flats "Garden of Weeds" (Wildchild/Mapleshade Records)

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