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…
Enjoy The Music reviews Kansas City Symphony Elgar Vaughan Williams Recording
Our latest Kansas City Symphony recording reviewed by EnjoytheMusic.com’s Joe Milicia “…the Enigma Variations, completing the program, is something else. In a field with many formidable entries, not least the various renditions of Sir Adrian Boult and Sir John Barbirolli, not to mention Pierre Monteux with the LSO, Stern offers a striking performance, its many memorable details enriched by the sound engineering. … these Enigma Variations are well worth hearing, especially as realized by RR’s…
Dallas Wind Symphony Banner Saga Recording Sessions
Here’s a look at yesterday’s “The Banner Saga” recording sessions with the Dallas Wind Symphony: Watch live video from awintory on TwitchTV Find out more about “The Banner Saga” in yesterday’s post.
Stream the Dallas Wind Symphony Recording Seession!
Austin Wintory The Reference Recording team is in Dallas for another exciting Dallas Wind Symphony CD! Dallas Wind Symphony Records Composer Austin Wintory’s THE BANNER SAGA! Soundtrack Watch the Recording Session LIVE today (7/30) at 4:30pm (Central)! The Banner Saga: Factions Factions is the free multiplayer release of The Banner Saga, a role-playing, turn-based strategy game putting you in control of a clan of battle-hardened viking warriors. From the composer Austin Wintory: It takes place…
Vote For Doug!
Vote for Doug MacLeod for THREE Blues Blast Music Awards! A Message Direct from Doug: I’m pleased and proud to let you know (if you don’t know already) that I’ve been nominated for three Blues Blast Music Awards. Doug MacLeod – There’s A Time – Traditional Blues Album “Black Nights” – Doug MacLeod – Song Of The Year Doug MacLeod – Male Blues Artist Voting has begun and it’s free. Here’s the link where you…
Analog Planet Reviews There’s A Time LP
Michael Fremer of Analog Planet reviews the new Doug MacLeod LP, There’s A Time: “Recording engineer Keith O. Johnson, best known for the spacious, wide sound stages and thunderous dynamics found on References classical music recordings, shows here that he can capture the enormous Skywalker space without losing the players in a watery reverb grave … Johnson is well known for capturing an orchestra’s lower registers. Here he perfectly gets the string pluck and body of…
Federico Mompou — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Federico Mompou Apart from gracing the Segovian guitar repertoire with the splendid Suite Compostelana, Federico Mompou dedicated a piece from one of his two-part works (n. 13) to the guitar and also arranged the guitar version (without a date) of the Canción y Danza n. 10, originally composed for piano. The underlying melody…
Padre Donostia — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Padre Donostia A much more robust piece is the composition of José Antonio de San Sebastián, the secular name of the Cappuchine monk known across the musical world as Padre Donostia. His piece which is entitled (in the Basque dialect), Errimina (Nostalgia), attempts to evoke the delirium of an exile who, alone in…
Vicente Arregui — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Vicente Arregui The composer Vicente Arregui was a native of Madrid with origins in Navarre. He turned his attention to the guitar in the final years of his life, especially 1924-25. He wrote five pieces in which we can clearly hear reflected aspects of late Spanish Romanticism, in particular salon music which made…
Baltimore Blues Society Reviews There’s A Time
The Baltimore Blues Society’s Dennis Rozanski has a new review for Doug MacLeod and There’s A Time in the latest “Blues Rag”: “Recorded live in the studio, what you hear in lustrous 24-bith HDCD sound is an undoctored document of what really went down between them and a modest push from perfectly tempered bass and drums. Around the weave of crisp, jingling notes and slide slurs, MacLeod curls his lazy back-porch drawl with such natural…