Archive for Fresh From Reference Recordings – Page 5
Nancy Hall of the Curios – No Fighting
We came across this video of Nancy Hall of the Curios performing “No Fighting” as a part of the Neil Young “Living With War” project. We are so happy to have added hers and all of The Curios’ talents to our new FRESH! From Reference Recordings line of releases! We hope you enjoy the video and have purchased or will be purchasing The Curios album “Pillow Book” as well as our second FRESH! release, “The…
Things to do this Weekend
If you don’t have any plans this weekend, and you can make it out to the Rocky Mountain Audiofest, it’s a must attend event! Here’s the RR schedule: RR CDs, SACDs, & HRx’s will be demoed all around the event and will be for sale at the May Audio booth in the Evergreen Salon. “Prof” Keith O. Johnson’s lecture on “‘Computer sound’ and the crafting of high resolution recordings” will take place in the Aspen…
New Release from FRESH! From RR! – The Human Holiday
New Release – The Human HolidayFRESH! From Reference Recordings! The Human HolidayPerformed by Sleight of Mind The revelations in this comedy may change your life! Featured Artists: Written and Performed by: Christopher HastingsDirected by: John WilsonOriginal Music Composed and Performed by: Dave BrownThe Human Holiday song arranged and sung by: Annie StockingBackup vocals by: Polly HornRecorded and Engineered by: Ted Hlavac (pronounced LAVIK)Sonic Effects and Processing by: Keith O. JohnsonProduced by: J.Tamblyn Henderson and Marcia…
Performer Magazine Review of The Curios
Today we wanted to share some of a recent review of The Curios‘ album “Pillow Book” from Performer Magazine. We will excerpt some great parts from the interview and review and encourage you to read the “spotlight” in its entirety on Performermag.com. From Performer Magazine:The Curious Case of The Curios’ Pillow BookBy: Rose Fellom-Morris Nancy Hall says she spent many a day chasing the “demo fairy” into the studio while recording The Curios’ latest record,…
New Release from FRESH! From RR – The Human Holiday
We are pleased to announce our second release on FRESH! from RR, a division of our 34-year old independent classical and jazz record label, Reference Recordings! The Human HolidayPerformed by Sleight of MindFR-702To be released October 12, 2010 The revelations in this comedy may change your life! This amazingly quirky radio play in the British style was a smash success on public radio in the 1980s. Mind-bending sonic effects and processing by RR’s own Prof.…
Check out The Curios and PIllow Book on RerverbNation
The Curios and their album Pillow Book are on Reverbnation, which means you can preview some of the album, see where they are playing, and watch videos from one spot! We’ve also put this into our Facebook page, but in case you still haven’t seen it, here it is! Listen to four tracks from Pillow Book: Watch Videos (These are also on our YouTube Channel in The Curios playlist): Click to purchase Pillow Book from…
The Curios – Pillow Book Reviews
Check out these customer reviews from The Curios release “Pillow Book” on FRESH! From Reference Recordings: The Great American Songbook5 Stars from Frank S. Reisinger Upon listening to the Curios latest offering You may sense a certain familiarity with the songs. The first cut, “Beautiful” offers a hint as to the accessability of The Curios compositions. Nancy Hall, the primary writer, brushes clear vocals across her musical canvas allowing her influences to bleed through, painting…
Fun Curios Picture!
Just wanted to share this wonderful picture of The Curios performing! Let us know what you think of Pillow Book!
New Release Day! – Pillow Book and Pied Piper
Two New Releases Pied PiperMike Garson/Jim WalkerRR-121 HDCD Crystalline-pure recording of soothing, meditative jazz! Jim Walker, flute and Mike Garson, piano perform 12 original Mike Garson compositions. Jim Walker is a dynamic jazz soloist, legendary orchestral and studio musician, and an inspiration to countless students worldwide. Mike Garson is best known as long-time music director for David Bowie and is perhaps the most versatile pianist working today. PIED PIPER is a new high resolution HDCD…
Have We Mentioned We’re Excited for Next Week?
Have we mentioned we’re excited for next week (Tuesday to be specific)? Well, if you haven’t caught on yet — we are! So today, because we’re too excited to write anything, we’re just giving you videos!Mike Garson and the Mike Garson Quartet performs his piece “Admiration” The Curios playing “Pickle” which is on Pillow Book!
Digipaks
As we stated yesterday, both of our new upcoming albums will be released in eco-friendly Digipaks! What are Digipaks? Well, today we’re going to tell you! Digipak is a patent style of CD or DVD packaging. It comes in a gate fold (or tri-fold) paperboard binding, rather than in oil-based plastic. Most Digipaks are made of Recycled paper and packaging, but again, the biggest benefit is that they use less plastic. And a big note…
The Curios – The people
fAs we get closer (6 days) to the first release for Fresh! From Reference Recordings, we wanted to tell you a little more about the people in the band! The following is from www.thecurios.com and features each member telling you about him or herself. Nancy Hall: “I started playing drums in the elementary school band in grade four. We played a politically incorrect little number called ‘Big Chief Pow Wow’ which made my grandmother cry…
One Week Away!!!
We are ONE WEEK from releasing two major albums! Both are so exciting in their own right that it is hard to choose which to talk about first! Also exciting is that these albums have something for our eco-conscious fans. Both of these albums will be in eco-friendly Digipaks, so you’ll have a little different look on your RR shelf! Did we mention that in ONE WEEK (9/14) we will be releasing the first album…
Nancy Hall of The Curios on Blogtalk Radio
Here’s something to introduce you to Nancy Hall as a songwriter and person. Oh, and you get to hear quite a few tracks from The Curios. This is a wonderful interview that includes The Curios music and enjoyable conversation. The show is quite long (2 hours), but Nancy is the first person featured on this particular episode, so you can start listening to her and The Curios music right from the start! Listen to internet…
The Curios – Videos Galore
We have added The Curios to our YouTube Channel and wanted to share the playlist with you here on the blog! Just click play, or click the arrows to move to different videos in the playlist!