Live In New Jersey 1971.

The year 1940 was a dramatic one for Latvia. The country was overtaken by the Soviets, then the Nazis, then the Soviets again. The Fifth Symphony of Jānis Ivanovs (1906 83), written after the brutal winter of 1944 45, contains music that might be thought to reflect this cultural and political confusion, but he was reticent in the extreme, saying only ‘This contains everything that had accumulated over those years’.

Recorded 19 April 1971 in Royce Hall, Los Angeles, and mastered at Abbey Road Studios from the original Decca analogue tapes, this is a classic recording of Zubin Mehta directing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra through Gustav Holst's influential 1914 work, The Planets.

Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series). Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Atlantic Records!. If I Could Only Remember My Name —David Crosby's debut solo album!. 180-gram 45 RPM double LP. Mastered directly from the original master tape by Bernie Grundman. Pressed at Quality Record Pressings. Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jackets with film lamination by Stoughton Printing.

Original pressings of this private press biker rock GRAIL have sold for as much as $2000! Only 13 very lucky people have this record in their collection and nearly 300 have it in their wantlist on Discogs. Tough luck for most, considering only 200 copies were pressed back in 1971! "Thank you for being what you really are"… key words from this impossibly rare 1971 private pressing LP.
BETTY lays down who they really are straight upon "Handful" like a breathing snapshot in time. The performances and mix sound like they were done on the fly, which in the private pressing tradition means the artists are captured unfiltered with diamond-in-the-rough vitality. Their influences are seamlessly integrated into a personality filled biker rock roadhouse attack with discreet echoes of Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, the Doors, even throwing an early '60s UK beat rock curveball at one point. They are pro at communicating but not slick enough to compromise their own reality by aping their influences. The musical elements here will be familiar but the band's audacious attitude fire this baby up with undiluted excitement. The music feels like real life captured out in the wild rather than created in the studio.

The Joni Mitchell Record That Forever Changed the Music and Cultural Landscapes: Blue Is Widely Considered One of the 10 Greatest Albums of All Time. 1971 Landmark Plays with Reference-Grade Detail, Intimacy, and Directness on Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD.

At the time this album was recorded, Jefferson Airplane had expanded from a rock group into something of a San Francisco collective of musicians and launched its own record label, Grunt, necessitating a flow of product. As a result, there was a flurry of releases by the Airplane itself and several offshoots, with each of these records featuring several members of the loose aggregation informally dubbed PERRO (the Planet Earth Rock 'N' Roll Orchestra). Papa John Creach, violinist for the Airplane and its spin-off group, Hot Tuna, was the leader on this set, which featured members of the Airplane (Grace Slick, for example, duets with Creach on the lead-off track, "The Janitor Drives a Cadillac"), Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the Grateful Dead. The result sounds like the Airplane records of the period, with a bit more of Creach's electric violin soaring over the proceedings.

There is no doubting the importance of Gil Scott-Heron’s “Pieces Of A Man” LP.
It was a landmark album with its bold, poetic lyrical content allied to progressive and melodic music, and it saw producer Bob Thiele help Gil and his musical partner Brian Jackson paint the picture they needed to get their message across. Thiele put Gil and Brian together with Ron Carter, Hubert Laws and Bernard Purdie, giving them the musical heft they wanted.

Tripple Album with the Isle Of Wight festival from 1970 and the second Atlanta Pop Festival also from 1970 which was held in Byron, Georgia - not in Atlanta again. So many great Stars and great songs on 3 records. Fantastic!

Swami Satchidananda was the founder of Integral Yoga International.

I think that this album will probably be listened to for a long time to come.

VMP Rock release for January 2024.

A high-end, limited edition 180g black vinyl release in a gatefold sleeve featuring original artwork and including all lyrics! To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of their debut album, and to meet fans' repeated requests, prog rock icons Gentle Giant are releasing their first four albums as special vinyl editions. Their second album, Acquiring The Taste, was originally released in the summer of 1971, and was produced by Tony Visconti, like their debut album. The tracks on the album are less blues and soul inspired, and more experimental and varied; in the words of the band, more 'unique, adventurous and fascinating'.

Analogue Productions presents another classic title on Hybrid Stereo SACD - Jethro Tull's multi-platinum-selling smash Aqualung. Originally released in March 1971, the album has sold in excess of 7 million copies worldwide, achieving Top Ten chart status in both the U.K. and U.S.. Aqualung's success signaled a turning point in the band's career, making Jethro Tull a major radio and touring act.Recorded at Island Records' studio in London, it was their first album with John Evan as a full-time member, their first with new bassist Jeffrey Hammond, and last album featuring Clive Bunker on drums. Aqualung is regarded, despite the band's disagreement, as a concept album featuring a central theme of 'the distinction between religion and God.' Something of a departure from the band's previous work, the album features more acoustic material than previous releases; and-inspired by photographs of homeless people on the Thames Embankment taken by singer Ian Anderson's wife Jennie-contains a number of recurring themes, addressing religion along with Anderson's own personal experiences.Jethro Tull's multi-platinum-selling smash on Hybrid Stereo SACD!Remastered by Chris Bellman from the original master tapes.

Elmore James presents his 1971 album All Them Blues, a 20-track collection of originals and standards. Audio Fidelity presents this legacy recording in stunning modern clarity with its remastering and digital transfer process.