The Residents – more a concept than a band, at least in the early days, when their carefully constructed mythology based around an obscurantist cult of anonymity was enough to arouse the curiosity of many a passing left-field inclined listener.…
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It is not possible to be aware of everything going down in the wonderful world of niche music, even if you are part of (or incarcerated in, come to think of it!) a fine institution like TPA, where our metaphorical…
View More Cesarians – Rachel Frieda
Do you get the feeling you’ve been overtaken by events beyond your control, this past year? Spare a thought for Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter, and Tony Levin, plus special guest Gary Husband, aka Stick Men. In mid-2019, MoonJune Records head…
View More Stick Men featuring Gary Husband – Owari
I read somewhere recently that this ’ere universe that we all inhabit shouldn’t actually exist, as the apparently proven theory that each particle of matter co-exists with a corresponding particle of anti matter, is kyboshed by the posit that the…
View More League Of Morons – Krautchip Replica
In this update we feature: • Once & Future Band – Deleted Scenes • Ray Russell – Fluid Architecture • Custard Flux – Oxygen • Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere – θ5 • Causa Sui – Szabodelico • Stephan Thelen…
View More A Different Aspect #52
For many years, the one and only Edgar Broughton Band album I owned was Sing Brother Sing. Like a lot of first albums by bands bought in the dim distant days of one’s youth, it retains top spot in the…
View More Edgar Broughton Band – Speak Down The Wires: The Recordings 1975 to 1982
You know me, I tend towards feisty rackets that like to start arguments with their own shadows, but like everyone, I do like to step back from the fray now and again. One of my go to musicians for that…
View More J. Peter Schwalm & Arve Henriksen – Neuzeit
Anthony Pirog is a guitar playing graduate of the famed Berklee College of Music who already has a varied career behind him, and is someone who is not confined to one particular style or sound. This much is firstly evident…
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In this update we feature: • Jumble Hole Clough – I can name the un-named boy • Kairon; IRSE! – Polysomn • Terje Rypdal – Conspiracy • Anna von Hausswolff – All Thoughts Fly • Moses Boyd – Dark Matter…
View More A Different Aspect #46
“I’m expecting nothing but something out of this world”, is one of the first lines of Expecting A Message, the opening track on Kevin Godley’s new-but-old solo album Muscle Memory. This is a fair premise, given the intriguing way this…
View More Kevin Godley – Muscle Memory