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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Rejoice, for there is new music from Half Past Four in the world! Not so smartly on the heels of their two previous albums, Rabbit In The Vestibule (2008) and Good Things (2013), we have a new EP in the…
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From Chile, Homínido produced a fine album in 2014’s Estirpe Lítica, now they are back with their new release, Alados, which you can read the review of HERE. TPA’s Jez Rowden spoke to drummer, percussionist and writer Rodrigo González Mera…
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Homínido produced one of my favourite releases of 2014 with their debut, Estirpe Lítica and they now return with Alados (‘Wings’), an album that considers the birds of their native Chile and how their personalities can be related to human…
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[With photos by Alexander Kuznetcov] One of the most gorgeous releases of 2016 so far, Lighthouse by iamthemorning has seen the Russian duo of Gleb Kolyadin and Marjana Semkina build on the success of their previous releases and deliver a…
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The Exchange, Bristol 17th August 2016 It’s a gig night so off I go for a symphonic evening of songs about Hobbits and unicorns. But wait! Huge generalisations aside, playing the genre game can be a one-way ticket to a…
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If you, like me, often find yourself perusing European forestry statistics then I’m sure that you’d have noted that Denmark is not as big in wood as it is in bacon, lagging far behind its Germanic and Nordic neighbours in…
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Another new band to me, Macroscream, hailing from Rome, feature a core sextet who cover a lot of instrumental ground already, to which is added a cast of seemingly dozens contributing vocals, brass and woodwind, padding out the sound and…
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Lansdown Hall, Stroud, Gloucestershire 16th July 2016 It takes a person of determination, enthusiasm and drive to set up their own festival. To keep it going for five years also requires resilience to repeatedly overcome the unforeseen and continue to…
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In the olden days it was pretty much an imperative that a band had to be in the same place to record an album. Things are different in the Internet Age and for Fractal Mirror this is their third album…
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