Richard H. Mak from GTAA, Canada strongly recommend this record! He sent me this wonderful record and asked me to play it loud! There is another record too…WOW!
For most Malaysian, Sheila Majid is much admired Diva and the pride and joy of the country. Her talent and artistry are unquestionably given. You could imagined how excited I was when her top album would be reissued in vinyl record. I called up my records supplier to keep a copy for me. He told me that I was …
Analogue Productions have reissued another ‘must have’ title, Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall-The Complete Concert. I remembered my first exposure to that album in vinyl. It was pure ecstasy. Even my late mother rushed to the listening room and asked for the album. I got her the CD instead for convenience sake. Henceforth, I was collecting that album in all …
Release Date: 5 September 1983 Label: Polydor Catalogue No: 815 277-1 In 1983 I was a first-year college student with a rather huge question for the world; WTF happened to Paul Weller and The Jam? It was a valid question as The Jam was the biggest band in the UK and topped the New Musical Express …
Release date: 19 September 1988 Label: 4AD Catalogue No: CAD 807 In October 1988, about a year after starting my first job in Kuala Lumpur, I went down to Victoria Music Sungai Wang and bought this LP. I noticed the record section was getting smaller as compact disc started to overwhelm the small shop. Whenever there, I usually …
Release Date: February 1982 Label: Polydor Catalogue No: POLS 1057 In 1982 I had to go to Kuantan to take the TOEFL in order to go study in America. For the uninitiated, TOEFL means Test of English as a Foreign Language. It is the lowest means of entry requirement into any tertiary institution stateside. I traveled in …
As promised, we would look at some interesting album cover artworks that were hugely popular back then. If you take the time and browse through the stacks and stacks of old records at the basement of Amcorp Mall on a Sunday morning, you will probably be there until dinner time. I firmly believe that most of the vinyl …
The Blue Nile – A Walk Across The Rooftops Release date: 30 April 1984 Label: Linn Records (UK), A&M (US) Catalogue No: LKH-1, CS 6-5087 I have always wondered about this. I am sure some of you readers out there would have wondered along with me at some point in time. The question I always had in mind …
I received a guest today who brought along with him some vinyl records. He shared to me that he has yet to hear these records at a ‘big’ audio system. I went through them and found among the stack the “Arnold Overtures” (RR-48 Reference Recordings). The guest recommended that I play the track “The Smoke”. Unknowingly I played that …
“Long Play” (Long Yuan Recording LY-03), another gem of recording that I was introduced at my recent trip to Singapore. It’s a simple vocalist kind of album. But the recording captured very well the realism of the performance. You can easily feel the joy of the performers, the venue of the recording and presence of each musical instruments. It’s …