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Tape Op Staff Favorites 2024

by Geoff Stanfield

Larry Crane 1. David Gilmour - Luck and StrangeThe fifth solo album by Pink Floyd's guitarist/vocalist is an incredibly strong release full of beautiful, haunting songs and – of course – great guitar solos. Co-produced by David...

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Sea of Bees in a Shed?

by John Baccigaluppi

  Larry and I recently spent a few weeks in the UK doing some interviews for the mag that you'll be seeing soon. Over the weekend I left Larry in London to play some gigs in Oxford and Cornwall with my friends in Sea of Bees. One of the...

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Larry Klein:Beyond Music

by Geoff Stanfield

by John Baccigaluppi We recently did an interview with producer Larry Klein that will run in an issue of Tape Op in 2020, but here's an excerpt about a recently-released project he worked on called Beyond Music.  A couple of years ago, these...

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I Hate Those Ads Where Plug-Ins Look Like Physical Gear

by Larry Crane

You know those ads? Yeah, some Photoshop jockey took the GUI of a plug-in and made it look like a piece of outboard gear, a synth or something. Drives me nuts. For years I couldn't figure out if one plug-in, I think it was Trilogy, was "real" or...

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Eno, Generative Music and Bloom for iPhone

by Larry Crane

I just bought the crazy app for my iPhone by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers called Bloom. It creates, or allows you to create, ambient type music on your iPhone or iPod touch. It's well thought out and a blast to mess with. It's nice to see people...

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I'm Sorry, I wish I could hear your new album

by Larry Crane

I received several CDs recently, notably the Monsters of Folk (Jim James, M. Ward, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis) and Porcupine Tree's The Incident, that I really wanted to listen to but was unable to hear. Why? Because these promo discs were...

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Les Amazones d'Afrique's new album, Musow Danse

by Geoff Stanfield

Musow Danse by Les Amazones d'Afrique is out now and was produced by Garrett Jacknife Lee. Read his interview from Tape Op #149. This pan-country, multilingual supergroup of amazing African women is powerful and so important. Their previous two...

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy Releases The Purple Bird

by Geoff Stanfield

Will Oldham, aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy, has just released his 27th album, The Purple Bird. Fans will find the album sits in a familiar country/Americana groove, but The Purple Bird seems to have a touch more fit, finish, and...

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Analog Investment in the Age of Pono

by Allen Farmelo

I'm about to write something that at first will seem like another gray-beard waxing nostalgic for a by-gone analog era. But, stick with me, because I think the tables are turning to where going analog might be as forward-thinking as it gets. Let's...