The mighty matriarchal Norway spruce, we’ll call her Inger, shimmering in the never ending twilight of the endless mid-summer day, looks on in regal fashion over the fjord it has guarded for many centuries, along with its many hundred strong…
View More Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Ding Dong. You’re Dead.Author: Roger Trenwith
A Different Aspect #57
In this update we feature: • Azolia – Not About Heroes • MFTJ – My Mom’s Getting A Horse • Mangabros. – Shivacrowblack • Moop – Ostara • Magnet Animals – Fake Dudes • Three-Layer Cake – Stove Top •…
View More A Different Aspect #57Dennis Rea – Giant Steppes
It is a fair bet that most of you have never heard of Dennis Rea, a much travelled guitarist, multiple band member and composer, and a long term resident of Seattle. Dennis and I go back some time now, as…
View More Dennis Rea – Giant SteppesT2 – It’ll All Work Out In Boomland
Released on 31st July 1970, It’ll All Work Out In Boomland by T2 is one of the staples for those of us who collect, or collected LPs from the classic era of “underground” music. Back when this album was released…
View More T2 – It’ll All Work Out In BoomlandElephant9 – Arrival Of The New Elders
Norwegian jazz-rock fusion behemoth Elephant9’s previous release was the twin-headed live monster Psychedelic Backfire I & II back in 2019, two righteous slabs of visceral creative crackle that left scorch marks on your carpet. The passing of the Plague Year…
View More Elephant9 – Arrival Of The New EldersUnquiet Music Ltd – In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times)
The enigmatic JP Rossi is the man behind Unquiet Music Ltd, which is “both a concept and a company”, formed in 2019 to promote the questing experimentalism of its founder. In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times) is…
View More Unquiet Music Ltd – In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times)Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part 2)
Renowned music documentary makers Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder return with the fifth instalment of their “Progressive music saga”, and the second trawl through that fascinating European experience, loosely collected within the borders of what was West Germany under…
View More Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part 2)Black Country, New Road – For The First Time
It’s not often us old farts at TPA find our increasingly blurred-at-the-edges Venn circle intersecting with the up-and-coming hip about town sounds, but here is a rare occasion. The enigmatically named Black Country, New Road are being raved about in…
View More Black Country, New Road – For The First TimeThe Residents – Freak Show: pREServed Edition
The Residents – more a concept than a band, at least in the early days, when their carefully constructed mythology based around an obscurantist cult of anonymity was enough to arouse the curiosity of many a passing left-field inclined listener.…
View More The Residents – Freak Show: pREServed EditionCesarians – Rachel Frieda
It is not possible to be aware of everything going down in the wonderful world of niche music, even if you are part of (or incarcerated in, come to think of it!) a fine institution like TPA, where our metaphorical…
View More Cesarians – Rachel Frieda