Café OTO, Dalston, London Monday 26th September 2016 The Rhythm of Biz… Arriving at this intimate venue down a side street in Dalston, one is immediately taken by the contrast with last year’s venue, where Magma blew the dust off…
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Author: Roger Trenwith
A founding member of TPA, Roger is TPA's HR man and all-round attack dog. When not straining at the leash, he has been known to scribble a bit.
Roger keeps his own blog called "Astounded by Sound"
Emmett Elvin – Assault on the Tyranny of Reason
Many weeks ago on Mr Elvin’s Facebook page he was delivering cut up missives as status updates, such as “Tryptamine vandals in shattered clogs haunt the Derricks now. Here-a-dog, there-a-dog, their vaunted sunpower flees. The ghost of Polycarp, slackjawed, brings…
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Sam Healy – Sand
Sam Healy, when not ordering Venusian loaves from the alien in the bakery round the corner from his Edinburgh garret, is one third of that fine post-everything band North Atlantic Oscillation, and also a modern solo artiste of some merit,…
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Sand – A Sleeper, Just Awake
If you are aware of Scottish post-everything band North Atlantic Oscillation, then you will know all about Sam Healy, a man who has hit on a rich seam of inspiration in recent times, with major contributions to three NAO albums…
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Janel Leppin – Songs for Voice and Mellotron [EP] / Mellow Diamond
Back in 2012 I reviewed an intriguing album on Cuneiform Records by husband and wife duo Janel & Anthony entitled Where Is Home, a collection of uniquely constructed songs that brought to my attention a highly individual pair of songwriters.…
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King Crimson
Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury Monday 5th September 2016 The second of only two dates in their home country on the latest outing for King Crimson (Mk8.1) sees the band that forced what became known as progressive rock, pink of face and…
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Rez Abbasi & Junction – Behind The Vibration
An expansive and expressive guitar player, Rez Abbasi is of Pakistani-American descent, and like his family roots his music is not bound to one place, taking influence as it does from his ancestral home in the East and melding that…
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Jack Dupon – Empty Full Circulation
“Jack Dupon” is a fictional character who travels back and forth through time in order to make the world a better place, and when visiting our timeframe assumes the persona of guitarist Gregory Pozzoli’s French avant rock band who take…
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Beledo – Dreamland Mechanism
Born in Uruguay, but for over twenty years now a resident of New York, the otherwise singularly named guitarist Bele Beledo here makes his recording debut for Moonjune Records, surrounding himself with a stellar cast of sidemen, garnered through years…
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Three Man Army – A Third Of A Lifetime
A Third Of A Lifetime by Three Man Army was one of the first LPs I bought, around 44 years ago (gulp!) from a cut-out bin in a dodgy independent supermarket, run by a local chancer and located at the…
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