Without wishing to cover old ground and to answer the question “who is Rhys Marsh”, I’d recommend reading my reviews of the beautifully realised Heartbreak In ((Stereo)) album by Mollmaskin, and also Rhys’s prior solo album, Sentiment. I really was…
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With a talent for producing catchy melodies, Dean Pascarella, from Long Island, New York, is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and he has a penchant for unusual instruments. Despite having a background in guitar, Dean uses the Chapman Stick as the foundation…
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British musician Simon Godfrey is responsible for a lot of things. But there simply isn’t enough evidence. He also does quite a lot of music. He lives in Philadelphia, in the United States. When resident in the UK he was…
View More Simon Godfrey – Black Bag Archive (Volume 1)
The outlook for today is heavy with patches of melodic subtlety sweeping across your Auditory Cortex. Heavy guitars across the frontal gyrus of the cerebellum will sometimes clear to leave feelings of layered heaviness. It will be heavier further into…
View More Arcade Messiah – II
Glasgow-based Kapil is a singer songwriter. He writes and performs everything himself. Kapil’s songs are described in one of his press releases as “avant-garde” and “progressive alternative rock”. I heard abrupt changes in inventive soundscapes underpinned by a well-defined but…
View More Kapil Seshasayee – Crimes [EP]
This is a compilation of 32 tracks assembled by Post Tangent. Let’s get this out of the way: It is a charity compilation in aid of Syrian refugees, so this has to be as objective a review as humanly possible.…
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Kings Place, London 14th August 2015 [No photos of the band in action, by request of both band and venue, so many thanks to Tony “Quick Draw” Colvill for his on-the-hoof sketch, and thanks to BBT for signing it! Band…
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As anyone who has read my other reviews knows, I’m not one for genre labelling. The songs are described in the properties of the MP3 files I used for the review as “General Jazz”. What an innocuous, and probably inaccurate…
View More Michael Bernier & Ritchie DeCarlo – Bernier-DeCarlo
We are all travelling through time and space but there’s not enough time and some sort of void in space. By the time you have read this we will have gone a lot further on our journey and you will…
View More Emmett Elvin – Emmettronica 1998 – 2013
Tiger Moth Tales is a solo project from multi-instrumentalist Peter Jones. Many of you will already be familiar with the 2014, Tiger Moth Tales debut album, Cocoon, a charming and often whimsical album. Take a look at the review by…
View More Tiger Moth Tales – Story Tellers, Part One