Keyboardist and composer Hans Lundin is the sole constant through the history of the legendary Swedish band Kaipa, which he co-founded in 1973. With the band having just released their fourteenth album, the mesmerising Urskog, TPA’s Jez Rowden talks to…
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St. David’s Hall, Cardiff Wednesday, 27th April 2022 Let’s get something out of the way at the outset: Nick Mason has to be the luckiest man in rock. I’ve been a huge Pink Floyd fan for years, they were the…
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Urskog, Kaipa’s fourteenth studio album, follows a journey through the changing seasons of the Swedish landscape, taking us from winter cold into spring with The Frozen Dead of the Night, through the heady days of summer to the leaves falling…
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Thekla, Bristol Wednesday, 23rd March 2022 What would a perfect gig look like? Well, for a start the band would need to be on their ‘A’ game. The crowd has to be fully in tune with what the band are…
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The Picton, Porthcawl Saturday, 12th March 2022 Anyone who has seen Franck Carducci and his band play live – in any incarnation – will understand the thrilling sense of exuberance and enthusiasm that they bring to their performances. It’s a…
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Town Hall, Birmingham 21st February 2022 by Roger Trenwith 21st February 2022 was a significant date, as it was the first date of Van der Graaf Generator’s much Covid-delayed tour, and also my first venture out to a gig for…
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Featured artists: Various Artists (VA) | Luo | Joseph Rabjohns | Sugar Horse | Voronoi | Milton Man Gogh ||: Celebrating the Art As Cartharsis label’s 10th anniversary TPA’s Nick Hudson looks at six of their recent releases: • Various…
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Peder Balke was a 19th Century Norwegian painter, an alumni of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, known for dramatic representations of the landscape of his homeland. From humble beginnings, he travelled widely, through Norway and abroad. In 1846…
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The name Vast Conduit may at first sight appear somewhat ungainly, but it is appropriate for the fortuitous circumstances in which this new band, built around Enchant keyboardist Bill Jenkins, came into being. Nominally based in California, the sextet are…
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I wasn’t previously familiar with Sky Cries Mary, a psychedelic outfit from Seattle, but they’ve been going for over 30 years (with a short hiatus in the early 2000s) and this is their thirteenth album, and fourth for Trail Records.…
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