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BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET

Forty years since the untimely death of JIMI HENDRIX. Kris Needs charts the traumatic final months and investigates the mythical fourth studio album FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970: It’s all over the evening news that Jimi Hendrix has died at the age of 27. ‘JIMI HENDRIX DEATH RIDDLE’ bellow next morning’s tabloids, declaring: ‘Police were last night probing the mystery …

The GONG REMAINS THE SAME

Jack Barron celebrates the 40-year celestial trip of ‘Europe’s Grateful Dead’….. Gong are a phenomenon, quite literally in a world of their own. Together with Soft Machine, they pioneered ambient, chill out and free-jazz freak outs. And to understand where they’re coming from, we need to look at founder Daevid Allen’s musical and artistic history. Allen was born in …

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KARMA COMUS

RICHARD MORTON JACK salutes the ultracollectable freak folk pioneers who have found a new generation of fans braying for a maverick strain of traditionalism The roots of Comus lie in the commuter town of Bromley, Kent, where 17-year-old guitarists Roger Wootton and Glenn Goring enrolled at Ravensbourne College Of Art in 1967. Inspired by Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, they began to …

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Reviews from the current issue

Here is a selection from over 200 reviews from this month's Record Collector, the magazine that has the world's largest coverage of reissues

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Oi! A Nova Musica Brasileira!

Rio degenerates Forty-odd years on from Tropicália and Brazil’s singular talent for indiscriminately assimilating musical styles and cultural influences in order to reconfigure them with an idiosyncratic bent has led to its music boasting a mind-boggling array of sub-genres. By the early 90s, the country whose musical identity found definition through political …

ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 380

THE DOORS - When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors

A ramshackle and rudderless hagiography Oliver Stone’s early 90s biopic of The Doors was a frustrating mish-mash of manipulated fact and cod psychology fiction that arguably enraged more fans than it pleased. Part of the problem may have been that the director was too big a fan himself, prone to describing Jim Morrison as a “god” in interviews. A more …

DVD REVIEW From Issue 380

Listening To Van Morrison by Greil Marcus

A subjective study of a handful of songs It’s tempting to draw parallels between this latest offering from the much-respected Marcus and elements of Morrison’s own music, in that both set out on specific journeys but have an occasionally infuriating tendency to wander off at tangents. Case in point is the author’s chapter on Astral Weeks, which touches on the …

BOOK REVIEW From Issue 380

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE SUGARCANES - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (2nd July, 2010)

View: middle This must be Costello’s most understated tour. Little promotion and no interviews led, disappointingly, to a half-full Hall. Fortunately, this did not detract from The Sugarcanes’ set, which covered the Costello chronology, old songs sitting alongside unreleased tracks from the next Sugarcanes album. All were met with enthusiastic applause, and …

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