August 2015 – Page 2

Big Big Train

Kings Place, London 14th August 2015 [No photos of the band in action, by request of both band and venue, so many thanks to Tony “Quick Draw” Colvill for his on-the-hoof sketch, and thanks to BBT for signing it! Band…

Trey Gunn – The Waters, They Are Rising

“The Water and the sky drew near each other. All of Mankind drowned and turned to fishes.” – Aztec Tale With the above words featuring in the artwork, the scene is set for the latest release from Touch guitar legend…

Encircled – The Gun Has Replaced The Handshake

Encircled have been together as a 3-piece for around 18 months and Scott Evans related the following to me about how the band got together:- “I had been writing but casually for a few years but decided to get serious…

Umphrey’s McGee – The London Session

Umphrey’s McGee emerged from the U.S. jam band scene in the late ’90s and have since recorded a string of studio albums and a myriad live, skirting the edges of progressive rock with musical influences from the usual Prog suspects…

The David Rhodes Band – The David Rhodes Band

Dig underneath the highly unassuming and somehow typically British reserve of the name “The David Rhodes Band” and you will find three musicians with highly impressive CVs. Guitarist David Rhodes is most well known for his long association with Peter…

Michael Bernier & Ritchie DeCarlo – Bernier-DeCarlo

As anyone who has read my other reviews knows, I’m not one for genre labelling. The songs are described in the properties of the MP3 files I used for the review as “General Jazz”. What an innocuous, and probably inaccurate…

Breznev Fun Club – il misantropo felice

After a five year gap, composer, arranger and all-round musical polymath Rocco Lomonaco, Milan-based but southern Italian by origin, releases his second album as Breznev Fun Club, il misantropo felice (“the happy misanthrope”). The new album continues with the chamber…

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Month: August 2015