The second tablet from The Holy Family was cast down unto Earth some time hence, but it is only now I emerge from the ritual with even the most tenuous grasp on what I have witnessed, both with mine eyes…
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Author: Roger Trenwith
A founding member of TPA, Roger is TPA's HR man and all-round attack dog. When not straining at the leash, he has been known to scribble a bit.
Roger keeps his own blog called "Astounded by Sound"
PoiL Ueda / Lost Crowns
The Lexington, London Wednesday, 23rd August 2023 A rather fabulous day was commenced with an amble up Hampstead Heath on what for this soggy summer was a rare hot one, cooled at the end of our stroll by a couple…
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Unorthodox Paradox Festival 2023
Wormelow, Herefordshire 4th – 6th August 2023 Roger: How often do any of us buy a ticket to a three day festival in the middle of nowhere, where 90% of the acts listed are a complete unknown? Not many I…
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Miriodor – Elements
Firstly, an apology to the band. This review has sat half-finished, or half-started depending on your point of view, for about 4 months now. My muse is an elusive creature these days, I’m afraid. Call it what you will; chamber…
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Billie Bottle’s Temple of Shibboleth – Billie Bottle’s Temple of Shibboleth
Billie Bottle has a story to tell, in which a grieving process for her granny was assisted by caring for a wise old lady in deepest Devon, applying a routine guided by the days of the week, where the metaphysical…
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Emmett Elvin – Being of Sound Mind
Most bands and artists have emerged from the pandemic with a Lockdown Album safely stored in their discography, and this is the estimable Emmett Elvin’s contribution to that off-kilter section of the filing cabinet of musical life. I mentioned in…
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The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta
When this Latino alien-jazz-prog band burst onto the scene with their debut album De-Loused In The Comatorium back in 2003, synapses at the more receptive end of the alt-rock universe went “Ping!” and “KApow!!” and “ZZZZAAAPppp!” in a manner unseen…
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Bent Sæther – Motorpsycho
With the recent release of their Ancient Astronauts album, TPA’s Roger Trenwith spoke to Motorpsycho‘s Bent Sæther about the album, the band’s way of doing things after evolving for so many years and future plans… This summer, the land has…
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Faust – Punkt.
I have an affinity for outsider music, as those three of you who irregularly read my nonsense must know by now. No one counterculture embodies that ethos better than the German underground music scene of the mid-’60s onwards, that became…
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Magma / The Utopia Strong
The Garage, Highbury, London Friday 17th and Saturday 18th June 2022 Roger Trenwith … and now, over to Philomena for the weather… Only in the UK – or more specifically in the southern half of the UK – could you…
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