Commissioned to write the signature work for the 2018 Vossajazz – Norway’s long-running and well respected annual jazzfest, held in the eponymous city – Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen took the opportunity to expand her established trio format to a six-piece, encompassing…
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I first came across Charlie Barnes as the enthusiastic fresh-faced guy behind the merch desk at a few Amplifier gigs I attended years ago. Since then Charlie has gone on his own path and is now a multi-instrumentalist touring with…
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Louisville, Kentucky is probably not the first place you would think of as a hotbed of prog rock, and to be fair, you would be completely justified. However, this place is called home by one Mike Sary and his veteran…
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This may well be my album of the year. Figures was released back in May, so I have given it a while before scribbling about it, to let its gorgeous and beguiling wonkiness thoroughly infuse itself into my weary cranium.…
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Perhaps with one panel of the fold-out CD digipak leering at us with a picture of Johnson, Putin, Jong-un, and Trump, one in each of the quartered panel, and given the album title, it’s just as well this journey through…
View More Das Rad – Adios Al Futuro
Back in the days when people were shorter and did what they oughta, and before the advent of the instantly available music fix soon to be supplied by the dubious delights of the interwebs, the only way to buy obscure…
View More Anekdoten – Official Bootleg: Live in Japan 1997
Dr. Timothy Charles Smith (3rd July 1961 – 22nd July 2020) Roger Trenwith: I feel something of an imposter writing this, as I never got to see Cardiacs, and I never knew Tim Smith, but such is the impact his…
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In this update we feature: • Echo Rain – Western Skies [EP] • Kaprekar’s Constant – Meanwhile… [EP] • Vivienne Mort – Aocbia (Досвід) • Raoul Björkenheim – Solar Winds • Nick Marsh – Waltzing Bones • Sophie Tassignon –…
View More A Different Aspect #40
Stellar pianist Gary Husband was on tour as a guest player with Stick Men (Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, and Markus Reuter) in Japan, when, due to the sudden lockdown as a result of Covid-19, the tour was abruptly cancelled. Temporarily…
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“The songs were all from very different backgrounds, but because they were played in pubs, it got called ‘pub rock’ by the music press. It wasn’t a specific music, other than that there were no lengthy, tedious solos. It was…
View More Surrender To The Rhythm: The London Pub Rock Scene of the Seventies