In this update we feature: • Le Grand Sbam – Vaisseau Monde • Doctor Nerve – LOUD • Cosmo Sheldrake – Galápagos (Original Soundrtrack) • WorldService Project – Serve • Robin Saville – Build A Diorama • Crömëlin/Du Bose/Kedrub/with Colin…
View More A Different Aspect #35Month: March 2020
EXTC
The Vic, Swindon Monday, 9th March 2020 I’d been looking forward to this. It all started for me with a Facebook Messenger message from an extremely excited Ken Wynne, swearing me to secrecy about a new band led by Terry…
View More EXTCCheer-Accident – Chicago XX
It was way back in the early 2000s that I first heard about Cheer-Accident (deliciously and legendarily named after retail get well card descriptor labels, for cards for those recovering from a mishap, I understand), and they had already been…
View More Cheer-Accident – Chicago XXThe New Death Cult – The New Death Cult
Sometimes it takes a small nudge to make the effort to listen to something. The New Death Cult had been sitting in my “to listen to” pile for months, but I kept putting them off. There was something about the…
View More The New Death Cult – The New Death CultLuke Haines & Peter Buck – Beat Poetry For Survivalists
You all know who Peter Buck is, but maybe Luke Haines is one of those names you’ve heard but can’t quite pin down? He was the guitarist and frontman for reluctant Britpop outliers The Auteurs, who were a lot better…
View More Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Beat Poetry For SurvivalistsLazuli
The Drill Hall, Chepstow 14th March 2020 Music flies over borders. Or at least it should; as Lazuli lead singer Dominique Leonetti quips, the band’s previous trips to the UK have been afflicted by such obstacles as snow, demonstrations, Brexit,…
View More LazuliFós – Rinne Mé Iarraidh EP
Folk music has always been evolving, but there seems to me to have been an increasing trend in recent years to not so much create contemporary rearrangements as to completely reframe traditional sounds into a modern framework. One of my…
View More Fós – Rinne Mé Iarraidh EPTime Shift Accident – Chronosthesia
Time Shift Accident; what does that band name say to you? Perhaps it suggests a seventies-obsessed sci-fi band with a Hawkwind fixation bent on recording a concept album about Einstein’s theory of relativity and the potential for time travel mis-haps?…
View More Time Shift Accident – ChronosthesiaMobius – Kala
When confronted with an album by a French band, which appears to have a distinctly Indian theme, I was intrigued before I had even begun listening. It all made sense after a little internet investigation (that is, I found the…
View More Mobius – KalaKoburg – Position of Power
Sponsored posts on Facebook. Always there, rarely given attention. I admit to ignoring most anything unsolicited in my feed, but over the last few days, as an experiment to see just how well Facebook is helping target these posts to…
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