March 2017 – Page 3

All Them Witches – Sleeping Through The War

Occasionally we need bands that slap us out of our complacency, that reset our expectations, that demonstrate that individuality is still an attainable trait. All Them Witches accomplish this effortlessly. Their sound is an organic melting pot that spans genres…

Shamblemaths – Shamblemaths

Further proof to my contention that everyone in Scandinavia is in, or has been in a band is offered by the glorious duo Shamblemaths, who hail almost inevitably from Trondheim in Norway. Simen Å. Ellingsen on guitars, saxophones and vocals…

ARW, photo coutesy of Matthew North Music

Anderson Rabin Wakeman (ARW)

Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff 12th March 2017 We all need some Beauty in our lives right now. In a world in which it appears that what divides us is valued more than what unites us, and leaders have risen to power…

Drifting Sun – On The Rebound (2016 Remix)

The Charade opens with almost a Travis-like melody – prog Travis? The instruments are better defined and clearer, the balance between vocal and instrumental favouring the musical passages, and, if anything, it sounds more French on this 2016 remix of…

Kepler Ten – Delta-V

The shimmering, hazy silhouette of the sun’s dawning rays, cresting the horizon in joyful anticipation of all the possibilities of a new day sends cascading ripples of ultraviolet sound to wash the earth. The rich, dominating chords of an imposing…

Elbow

Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth 9th March, 2017 Ain’t music a strange thing. You can be in a room with 2,000 people and a song starts to play and suddenly you are in a completely different world with your heart broken… again,…

Blonde On Blonde – Rebirth / Reflections On A Life

Blonde On Blonde – Rebirth Blonde On Blonde, despite sounding like they lived on the corner of Haight-Asbury actually hailed from the far less glamorous surroundings of Newport, South Wales. Like many bands of the turn of the ’60s into…

Mike and the Mechanics – Let Me Fly Tour

New Theatre, Oxford Sunday, 6th March 2017 The New Theatre in Oxford is an impressive statement of the sophistication and glamour of the Art Deco period. The expansive stage is framed by an ornate, towering archway which allows perfect visibility…

Anakdota – Overloading

Anakdota are a young band from Israel who take influence from modern electric jazz mixed with an ear for melody and complex rhythmic structure that in places ventures down a route once trodden by Gentle Giant, especially in parts of…

Moving Structures – Awake

Released in the middle of 2016, Awake, the debut album from Los Angeles-based Moving Structures, is a concept album that begins with a burial at sea and ends with an ascension to a higher plane. Whoa! From the website:- “The…

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Month: March 2017