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,…
View More JOYFULTALK – A Separation of Being
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
You all know who Peter Buck is, but maybe Luke Haines is one of those names you’ve heard but can’t quite pin down? He was the guitarist and frontman for reluctant Britpop outliers The Auteurs, who were a lot better…
View More Luke Haines & Peter Buck – Beat Poetry For Survivalists
In this update we feature: • Bird Problems – Beyond the Nest • Daïda – La Passion Du Cri, Pt 1 • Feather – Convalesence • Nova Charisma – Exposition II • OZO – Saturn • VASA – Heroics Everyday…
View More A Different Aspect #34
Markus Reuter is perhaps best known as one third of Stick Men, whose sprawling and mighty live document, PANAMERICA was reviewed in this very boutique not long ago. However, there is much more to this musical polymath’s muse than the…
View More Markus Reuter feat. Fabio Trentini & Asaf Sirkis – Truce
This album is the first by the post-Froese band where no new music was provided by Edgar, even as sketches for new material, as was the case with 2017’s Quantum Gate, the previous and rather good studio album. Released to…
View More Tangerine Dream – Recurring Dreams
“Make a wish, ride a bike, you can do anything you like”, says the third optimistic line from opening track Just Bloody Lovely. It carries an extra poignancy, given its writer’s precarious condition. One half of Churn Milk Joan is…
View More Churn Milk Joan – I’m nearly 60 miles high
In this update we feature: • Seven That Spells – The Trilogy Live at Roadburn • Casimir Liberski – Cosmic Liberty • Petbrick – I • Jeffrey Brooks with Bang On A Can All-Stars & Contemporaneous – The Passion •…
View More A Different Aspect #33