Frank Zappa only recruited the best players into his band, as there were exacting standards expected of any musician who passed through the Zappa band ranks. One of those was guitarist Mike Keneally, who having since had a long and…
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According to Google Maps, it takes 12 hours 28 minutes to drive the 859.2 miles from Austin, Texas, home to the splendid Southern Gothic skewed Americana rock of Lord Buffalo, to Nashville, Tennessee. This gives an average speed of over…
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Writing reviews of albums that hardly anyone will listen to is becoming an increasingly pointless task, as I ponder its usefulness while far more pressing matters take up one’s time. I suppose if it serves as a diversion from the…
View More Toby Driver & Nick Hudson – Black Feather Under Your Tongue
Sometimes, an album inspires me to write in a fashion that mirrors its artistic endeavour, and avant guitar wrangler Stian Westerhus’s last album, Amputation, was one such. Words such as “fraught”, “twitching”, “maelstrom” and “melancholic” abound, and that’s just the…
View More Stian Westerhus – Redundance
This album was released in June 2019 (November 2018 in Norway), and usually I would consider it way past the sell-by date for a review… but this is such a HUGE album I just had to wax lyrical about it!…
View More Møster! – States Of Minds
They really should be Welsh, but it turns out that Dai Kaht were born in the Finnish city of Kajaani in 2013. Kajaani is, roughly, bang in the middle of Finland, a mystical land of many lakes, and largely unknown…
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Here at TPA we have a decent, but not quite incestuous relationship with Bad Elephant Music, who send us their releases, a good proportion of which we have reviewed over the years. A fine label who promote independent music in…
View More Matt Stevens – The Stratford Tapes
An album that forms an interesting stitch in Rock’s Rich Tapestry™ is the sole album recorded by Brian Davison and the group he assembled after being cast aside by Keith Emerson as the latter strove to find musical egos as…
View More Brian Davison’s Every Which Way – Every Which Way (Remastered 50th Anniversary Edition)
JOYFULTALK is Nova Scotian musician, composer, and visual artist Jay Crocker, here augmented by string arranger Jesse Zubot. With JOYFULTALK’s third album A Separation of Being they have fused elements of ambient music, world music, found sounds using homemade instruments,…
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In this update we feature: • Le Grand Sbam – Vaisseau Monde • Doctor Nerve – LOUD • Cosmo Sheldrake – Galápagos (Original Soundrtrack) • WorldService Project – Serve • Robin Saville – Build A Diorama • Crömëlin/Du Bose/Kedrub/with Colin…
View More A Different Aspect #35