After Van der Graaf Generator split up following the release of Pawn Hearts, and while Peter Hammill was off pursuing his solo career, the other three in the band formed an occasional instrumental side project by the name of The…
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When we last left our intrepid instrumental road warriors, Marbin was stranded in the rural Tennessee compound of some seriously Aggressive Hippies. Now the finale of that nail-biting cliffhanger has been scored with the album-closing track Escape From Hippie Mountain.…
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Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire Saturday 8th October 2016 Music can express so much without words and such was the spirit and magic produced on October 8th in the musical shrine that is the Real World Studios it will be…
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Honesty is best. I liked the cover of Magnolia, I didn’t dislike the songs, but the music did not touch the nerve that goes ‘Woo Hoo’! Why not? Shrug! This time however, the spark is there. Okay, it sounds like,…
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From Greece, Verbal Delirium have recently released their latest album, on Bad Elephant Music. The Imprisoned Words Of Fear is actually a re-recording of their first demo, long unavailable so this is a great opportunity to hear the band in…
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At the Summer’s End Festival in 2014, Verbal Delirium proved to be an unexpected treat. During that show their singer and leader, who goes by the name of Jargon (not sure what his Mum thinks of that), delivered a compelling…
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Craig Fortnam’s North Sea Radio Orchestra produce music of elegiac beauty, a sound that is both joyous and reverential, and uplifting to the spirit. It comes as no surprise then to learn that a fair proportion of their intermittent gigs…
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TPA’s own John Wenlock-Smith spoke to Richard Williams of Kansas shortly before the release of their new album, The Prelude Implicit, which appeared on 23rd September, their first album of new material since Somewhere to Elsewhere in 2000. It also…
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Remember Dust in the Wind and Carry on My Wayward Son? The million selling, golden songs of a garage band from Topeka, Kansas. They also penned a song called The Wall three years before Pink Floyd took the concept to…
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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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