Acapela Studio, Pentyrch Friday, 16th March 2018 Acapela Studio‘s rural setting in the village of Pentyrch’s 19th Century Capel Horeb, which is about as far out of Cardiff as you can be whilst still being, nominally at least, in Cardiff,…
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There’s a saying that ‘everyone has a book inside them’ – this debut album by John Holden may similarly suggest that perhaps we may all have an album inside us. After years of ‘normal life’ John Holden just decided he…
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Jim Griffin, known to me as an acid-tinged troubadour of some style, also has a spacerock-prog hybrid going under the moniker of Zombie Picnic. Their latest album, Rise Of A New Ideology, has an optimistic sounding title that, like the…
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Solo, collectively or within a band format, Liverpool composer and multi-instrumentalist Neil Campbell has released sixteen albums in as many years. For my part I have been fortunate enough to hear most, review more than half, and happily report that…
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The third musical probe of 2018 into the twisted compositional mind of Elk Minister’s Great Aunt Coleslaw continues with Pisces. As part of a 26 part cycle, alternating musical and spoken word albums, to be released through the year at…
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Ungdomskulen are a band from Bergen in Norway who have been around for a number of years, having been formed in 2003 by three friends eager to write and record songs without musical restrictions. Their debut album Cry Baby was…
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Just preceding the time that post-punk was leading hitherto musically hidebound yoof into unchartered waters, courtesy of the wildly imaginative Public Image Ltd and all who sailed in its glorious deconstructivist atonal wake, one of the bands that no doubt…
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Heavy Horses was the first Tull album I bought after seeing their live broadcast from Madison Square Gardens in 1978. Second in the so-called ‘folk-rock trilogy’, it’s darker than Songs From The Wood but not as dark as Stormwatch, in…
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In this update we feature: > Plastic Noose – Enmity > Louis de Mieulle & Matt Garstka – Dual > Toto – 40 Trips Around The Sun > King Buffalo – Repeater > Moop – Moop > Widowmaker – Running…
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The band Tautologic, who hail from Chicago, have released their second album, some seventeen years after their debut, West is North, East is South. The band came together in 1997 when Ethan Sellers and Pat Buzby left college, they both…
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