AKKU Quintet seem to be part of a modern Swiss tradition of cyclical minimalist music, where the beginning is the end is the beginning. Or if you will, the departure of one theme transposes the arrival of another. Led by…
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EartH, Hackney, London Monday, 27th May 2019 After an afternoon spent within the highly interesting confines of London Docklands Museum for the Lost Rivers of London exhibition, we arrive at the faded glamour of EartH (Evolutionary arts Hackney, in case…
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St. Pancras Old Church, London Wednesday, 22nd May 2019 St. Pancras Old Church sits in an island of arboreal consecrated ground, sitting there as if a visitor from another time, surrounded as it is by the hubbub of modern living.…
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“A punk album being reviewed on TPA?”, I hear your incredulous question, but read on and all will hopefully become clear… “By early 1976 as a teenager, although I was a fan of the usual prog giants, … and a…
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As luck would have it, just before I was told about the review download of the 50th anniversary reissue of the first album to bear the name Van der Graaf Generator becoming available, I had commenced on a trip through…
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London based trio Teeth Of The Sea would be an ideal band to soundtrack the forthcoming apocalypse, what with their nightmarish yet strangely groovy missives, last evidenced on 2015’s essential Highly Deadly Black Tarantula, a howl of techno-rage at the…
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Clapham Library, Lambeth, London Saturday, 13th April 2019 “A man who pleaded guilty, who offered no defence Who claimed his own conception was a capital offence.” For a man as in tune with the vast lexicon of the English language…
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Under The Bridge, Fulham, London Friday, 5th April 2019 Wandering through Portobello Road market, with its many branches of “I Saw You Coming” was illuminating, especially in the titfer department. This tourist trap morphs into the more genuine environs of…
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This is the sort of upbeat, preppy music that I have to be in the right mood for these days, and right now as our stupid little rock whizzes round the plug hole in ever decreasing circles in a vortex…
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“Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny”, was one of the many inimitable one-liners from rock music’s very own Groucho Marx, Frank Zappa. I probably shouldn’t be writing this, as it’s “like dancing about architecture” apparently. Frank’s caustic description of…
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