Archive for November, 2009

This beautiful release may be Richard Anthony Jay‘s debut album but he is not some fresh, precocious new talent that’s popped up out of nowhere. Richard has been working in the music industry for 20 of his 37 years. He’s worked as a studio engineer in London, arranged pop songs for a variety of artists, [...]


After 20 years in the music industry, working mostly behind the scenes, Richard Anthony Jay recently decided to step forward into the spotlight with his wonderful debut album of warm and stirring neo-classical music, This Is What I Live For. Here, Richard reflects on his ups and downs in the business and what inspired him [...]


Here comes part two of my original writeup for 20 EPs of 2009. To those with minimal math skills and a keen eye to detail I must apologize for a little white lie. There was so much great music this year, that the second part of this article expanded to eleven reviews. I couldn’t leave [...]


As the year draws to a close, and I start thinking about the upcoming Best of 2009 list, I realize that I haven’t properly covered some 12″ singles, EPs and mini albums. These tend to fall off my reviewing queue, mostly because in some cases it’s difficult to do a proper writeup for only a [...]