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Discussing Vinyl Trends With What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi? recently asked shop owner Phil some questions about the rising popularity of vinyl with younger shoppers. All signs suggest vinyl is reaching ever-younger audiences. Go into any record shop and the sea of fresh-faced customers rummaging through crates makes this fact obvious. But what are they buying? Are they flocking to new releases from pop artists like the seemingly unstoppable Taylor Swift, or are they after something a little older? Sister Ray owner, Phil Barton, cites the resurgence of genres like hardcore and shoegazing as key factors helping drive vinyl sales, but added that Taylor Swift is the biggest...
Blue Note Bonanza
Our Blue Note racks are currently looking extremely tasty as we have recently put out a collection of mainly ‘60s pressings from some absolute giants of jazz music including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Grachan Moncur III, Bobby Hutcherson and many more. Here Leo gives his rundown of three of his absolute favourites from the bunch. Herbie Hancock - “Empyrean Isles” (1964) When it comes to jazz Herbie has truly done it all. He got his big break in Miles Davis’ “Second Great Quintet” in the early ‘60s and has been at the coalface of reinventing jazz music ever...
Sister Ray x Evening Standard
We're honoured to have received a glowing write-up in Ped Millichamp's article on the best online record shops in the UK: "Sister Ray has been selling music from the heart of Soho for 30 years with the friendliest and most enthusiastic staff.Named after the Velvet Underground track, Sister Ray has survived the twists and turns of the music industry and consumer trends – striding on through the years when the internet signed most other physical retail and record stores’s death certificate.Through sheer determination and commitment to the vinyl format – and by becoming a major force behind ‘Record Store Day’ and the...
Leo's Favourite Soundtracks
For full disclosure I’m semi-famous at Sister Ray for not actually liking films very much so it’s somewhat ironic that I have felt inspired by the release of Late Night Tales’ “At The Movies" compilation (available here) to make a rundown of my 5 favourite film soundtracks (in no particular order). Vangelis - "Blade Runner" Probably the film that made me sit up and take notice of soundtrack composition. Can you imagine the sweeping cyberpunk landscapes of Ridley Scott’s future Los Angeles without the looming, doomy synths of Vangelis underpinning it all? Rugged industrial beats, a swooning love theme and...
Sister Ray's Mercury Prize Picks: Leo
Come on Mercury Prize you’re fooling no one. Dangle the carrot of a freaky jazz album then snatch it away and beat us with the Wolf Alice stick. I jest. Long-time fan of Pharoah Sanders and big fan of early Floating Points so was excited to hear this collaboration. My enduring memory of Sanders is me relaxing to one of his more…adventurous…records when my wife came up from work to make a sandwich. She looked at me with pure bemusement and said “is THIS what you listen to when I’m not here?!?”. While the pairing don’t quite go into the...
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