Reviewing your parents' music collection
"Great, another clichéd Western interpretation of the Chinese music tradition!" I think to myself as I draw the record for this week's review: Vangelis' 1979 album China. "Now I'll have to sit through 40 minutes of pentatonic scales, gongs, bamboo flutes and strings." And yes, that is part of what China offers. But there is… Continue reading A cosmopolitan endeavour ahead of its time – Vangelis’ journey to “China”
Sometimes, you can grasp the entire essence of an album by just listening to one song. Sometimes, there is this that one track that outshines any other on the record. Sometimes, this one song already says it all. And how convenient, when the song in question wears the same title as the album. Al Stewart's… Continue reading Why have an entire album when one song is enough? Al Stewart already says it all with ‘Year of the Cat’
The Dad Anthology 