Album: Wire Tapper 19

The Wire magazine’s biannual smorgasbord of contemporary sounds comes free with the April edition of the magazine. As ever, it’s an eclectic 20 track romp through all things avant garde, experimental and esoteric. I don’t know if it’s just me, but are these things getting mellower with the passing years? The quality control department certainly [...]

Song Of The Day: LES PAUL & MARY FORD – How High The Moon (1953)

I mentioned this yesterday, and here it is in all its multi-tracked glory. Not much more needs to be said. Les Paul gives a fairly concise description of the process, talking to the late great Alistair Cooke on a CBS TV programme called Omnibus broadcast on October 25th 1953.