Advantages: Great sound, sturdy, easy to use Disadvantages: Only runs off mains power
Before I got my iPod and sounddock, I was one of those who refuses to subscribe to the technological revolution. Prefering hi-fi and compact disc to the digital music phenomenon. However, within a week (once I'd worked out how to use it), I was hooked on my iPod and once I got the sound-dock, there was no turning back. I think it's fairly safe to say that the era of compact disc players and tape decks is over... The only reason I still have a normal cd player in my house is to listen to the radio, and those few albums that I just haven't got around to putting on my iPod yet.
The Bose sound-dock is a piece of mastery in the area of audio technology. Beautiful, sleek and streamlined; it's large frontal speaker provides both volume and sound quality. The music I play on the sound-dock sounds almost incomparably better than CDs ...
Advantages: A breath of fresh air Disadvantages: subscription only
OK, so no freebies, prize draws or fashion spreads, and you won't find it in the newsagents, but if want a sound discussion of the ethical and environmental issues of parenthood this is the magazine you need. I know I found that motherhood continues to make me think and rethink some of the major values and issues, things I thought I'd sorted my views on years ago, and it's so refreshing to have a subscription that regularly challenges and revitalises my thinking on so many things.
'Natural Parent' magazine is published bi-monthly by Diamond Magazine Distribution, who also produce 'What Doctor's Don't Tell You' (www.wddty.co.uk). A two year subscription is £24.95. It takes an essentially holistic approach to parenthood, with the emphases on alternative/preventative health, environmental sustainability, freedom and creativitly ...
Cazz 18.04.2001
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Advantages: A wonderful symphony Disadvantages: None
I must admit that I am a fan of ambient music. By this I mean music that employs the ambient sounds of nature, melding and mixing them with newly-composed pieces of music. This type of music has been around for many, many years. An early example which you might have heard is the Nightingale recorded by the BBC in 1920 when it sang along to the cello playing of Beatrice Harrison. It really is a delightful piece, still re-broadcast every-so-often by the BBC to this day.
The CD Uninhabited, Ambient Sounds of Nature might not be in the same class as that tiny little Nightingale, but it is a really suburb CD. The tracks are Tempestuous, Turblent, Rolling booms, Passionate, Uninhabited (the title track) and Random Flashes. The performance is by Levantis.
Each piece uses modern music combined with naturalsounds (the voices of humans ...
