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La Hora Del Blues reviews Doug MacLeod
Barcelona Radio Show “La Hora del Blues” reviews Doug MacLeod There’s A Time “ A magnificent musician with a lot of swing, great charisma and much experience to perform semi-acoustic blues with taste and elegant nuances, always from a personal, original and clever point of view. … On this new album Doug shows all his talent and energy, singing and playing acoustic guitars, dobros, and also some six and twelve string National ones. Doug is…
End of Summer Sale 2013!
It’s time for the annual End of Summer Sale! Order Two or More Items and receive 20% Off! The More You Order The More You Save! FREE SHIPPING by Media Mail in the U.S. (Priority Mail and International Orders will be charged for shipping)Sale ends Monday, September 23rd at NOON PST Get Two Superb New Orchestral Releases On Sale Before They’re In Stores! BIZET Symphony in C; Jeux d’Enfants; Variations chromatiques San Francisco Ballet Orchestra…
Blues Blast covers Doug MacLeod at Winthrop R&B Festival
Blues Blast Magazine has a great review of the Winthrop (Washington) Rhythm & Blues Festival, and includes quite the praise for RR artist Doug MacLeod: “Each morning opened with songwriter, story teller, and Delta inspired bluesman Doug MacLeod. If you have never had the opportunity to listen to Doug talk and play, then you should find him and listen. Aside from being quite funny, he is also inspiring with his down-home philosophies embedded in his…
October Releases available for Pre-Order
Two October Releases Now Available for Pre-Order on ReferenceRecordings.com! BIZET Symphony in C; Jeux d’Enfants; Variations chromatiques San Francisco Ballet Orchestra Martin West, conductor Reference Recordings is proud to present these works of Georges Bizet, beautifully performed by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, conducted by Martin West. The recording was made at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California by Grammy-winning engineer Keith O. Johnson. Pre-Order Today! Charles Denler’s Portraits of Colorado An American Symphony No.…
Audiophilia With a Rave Pre-Release Review for Bizet
Anthony Kershaw has a new review for our upcoming Bizet release from the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra: “The recording, sourced at Skywalker Studios, is much like the SF Ballet’s previous CD release. As such, it’s yet another gem from Keith Johnson and his team. No matter where the recording is sourced, Johnson manages to snag the Reference ‘house’ sound. Meaning, incredibly defined bass, beautiful separation of instruments (listen to the flute and violin unison in…
Audiophile Audition With A Four-Star Bizet Pre-Release Review
Audiophile Audition has a new four-star review of upcoming San Francisco Ballet Orchestra release Bizet: “These three works of Bizet are all well-performed, and two of them are completely unique. … The Variations chromatiques here receives its CD premiere. It was inspired by Beethoven’s 32 Variations in c, and is a dramatic set of 14 variations for piano, with the theme mostly unaltered thru all of them. It is considered the composer’s most significant piano…
Coming Soon!
Get a glimpse of what’s coming in September: Bizet: Symphony in C; Jeux d’Enfants; Variations Chromatiques San Francisco Ballet Orchestra conducted by Martin West RR-131 Charles Denler: Portraits of Colorado, An American Symphony No. 1; Six Variations for violin and piano Colorado Symphony and Chorus; Scott o’Neil, conductor; Duane Wolfe, Chorus Director; FR-706 And another tease for October…
Joel Fan on NW Focus Live Tonight!
Tune in to King FM’s “NW Focus Live” (Streaming online available at www.king.org) tonight at 8pm Pacific to hear Joel Fan perform Leon Kirchner’s Little Suite, Syrian composer Dia Succari, Brahms, and Liszt! In celebration of Joel Fan returning as a guest performer with the Northwest Sinfonietta this season, King FM’s &lquo;NW Focus” hosts Joel fan in a LIVE performance August 16th at 8pm. Find Joel Fan’s first two Reference Recordings releases at RR.com!
RR at the California Audio Show
A look at the panel of illustrious recording and mastering engineers at the California Audio Show last weekend: Panelists included RR’s own Sean Martin and Keith Johnson along with Jack Kenny, Jeffrey Norman, John Nowland, Michael Romanowski, Paul Stubblebine and Jon Reichbach. Topic: Recording & Mastering — The Making of a Great Hi-Rez Recording
Inaugural Blues Music Magazine reviews There’s A Time
Art Tipaldi has a fantastic review of Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time in the inaugural issue of Blues Music Magazine: “Doug MacLeod continues to breathe fresh ideas into his music. MacLeod’s warm, almost conversational, vocals coupled with his pinpoint finger picking have been the center of his art for decades. … Decades ago, Doug MacLeod learned that a bluesman reaches people and makes them feel something that helps them get through our world easier. Every…
MusicNews Nashville Loves Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time
Music News Nashville critic, Janet Goodman, has a great new review of Doug MacLeod’s There’s A Time CD: “…acoustic bluesman Doug MacLeod always has a colorful story to tell. On his latest album ‘There’s A Time’ – his debut on the Reference Recordings label – the bottleneck-and-finger-style wiz guitarist brings to life thirteen original songs, singing in wails and whispers, punctuating lines with loosey-goosey slides on his National resonator guitars … Not only does he…
The Higher Note Pegs Doug MacLeod There’s A Time as a ‘Gem’
The On a Higher Note blog by Philip O’Hanlon has a a fun review and feature for Doug MacLeod’s new There’s A Time LP: “I play records at a lot of Shows and Dealer’s Music Events across the country & have never witnessed the reaction that this LP garnered. As it’s a 45 RPM LP; the sides are only twelve minutes long, so I let the whole side play each time I spun this record.…
Traveling Sonata and Viviana Guzman featured in Costal Connections Magazine
Pacifica Tribune monthly publication, Coastal Connections, has a wonderful profile of Viviana Guzmán and her Traveling Sonatas recording in their August 2013 edition: “…this breathtaking CD features the pristine musical voices of Viviana Guzmán on flute and Jérémy Jouve on guitar. From the very first piece, Gabriel Fauré’s ‘Pavane, Op. 50,’ Guzmán and Jouve weave their instruments through and within each other — breeze to waterfall, sway to jangle. And all throughout their recording, the…
BluesNews Loves Doug MacLeod’s Story-Telling
German magazine bluesnews says of Doug MacLeod and There’s A Time, “A storyteller par excellence” — “He reduces the blues to the core… This storyteller par excellence manages to captivate again within narrowly defined limits… As with the best live performances of MacLeod, you hang on every word, every whisper, every note played. Absolutely Fabulous.” — Vincent Abbate, bluesnews Read the full review in the original German on bluesnews.de! Order There’s A Time in the…
The Flutist Quarterly Tabs Traveling Sonata as Inspirational
The National Flute Association‘s Summer 2013 edition of The Flutist Quarterly has a wonderful feature on RR release Traveling Sonata featuring flutist Viviana Guzmán and guitarist Jerémy Jouve. While critic Tess Miller was impressed throughout the recording, particularly with the diverse stylings of Viviana Guzman, it was the adventurousness of the repertoire that stood out: “While the well-known tracks are very pleasing, I found the newer works for flute and guitar especially exciting. Perhaps today’s…