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A Photo Journey Across Africa With Ostinato Records
30th April, 2019‘For the last three years, Ostinato Records has been reissuing lost classics of African music. Their journeys take them across the continent, tracking down the original artists via a network of tips and personal connections. Here, label founder Vik Sohonie brings us along for the journey, traveling to cassette shops and recording studios in search of rare gems.’
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A Brief History of Vox: The Sound of the British Invasion
09th January, 2019‘In the mid-1960s, young groups like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Yardbirds led the British Invasion, in which blues-rich rock ’n’ roll became the dominant mode of expression. While each group had its own idiosyncratic slant on the music, they all shared a powerful weapon: amplification courtesy of Vox.’
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NPR: How the beatles made the white album
05th December, 2018Fifty years ago, just before the holidays in 1968, The Beatles put out not just a new album, but a double album, something relatively unheard of at the time. The album art was a stark, white, glossy cover with raised, slanted lettering that simply said, “The Beatles.” That self-titled album, with its 30 songs that span genres from American country music to avant-garde tape collage, has come to be known as “The White Album.”
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The Impossibly Cool Album Covers of Blue Note Records: Meet the Creative Team Behind These Iconic Designs
05th December, 2018The album covers of Blue Note Records included designs for John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Lou Donaldson.
The link includes an embedded youtube video from Vox Earworm on ‘The Greatest Album Covers of Jazz’.
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Neil and Liam Finn on KCRW
03rd September, 2018“They’ve been playing music together for many, many years, but father/son duo Neil and Liam Finn waited until the time was right to record a proper album together. We air a live session with the New Zealand favorites, hosted by Chris Douridas, on the release date for Lightsleeper.”
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