This fine Italian band, led by guitar player Dario D’Alessandro, make no secret of their love of all things Canterbury, but within these zeros and ones you will find classical references, and Beatles-inspired classy pop, all living comfortably in the…
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Bobby Previte is a respected drummer and composer, working mostly in modern jazz oriented fields, although that only begins to scratch at the surface of his work. Rhapsody continues his Terminals trilogy on the subject of migration and transit. This…
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Junction J2, Cambridge 30th April 2018 Having been back from the sunny, warm climes of Venice for a week now, Monday 30th April saw yet another grey and bloody cold, but at least thankfully dry day in the middle of…
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The secret love child of a four-way that starred Michael & John Head, Paddy MacAloon, and Andy Partridge, Mothertongue make the kind of classy pop that yours truly has always been a sucker for, way back into the last century,…
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The excellent cheese-rock that is not cheesy in the slightest of French troubadours Camembert returns with a delightfully skewiff trip along the blue lines and down into the holes entitled Negative Toe. Not as immediate as their debut Schnörgl Attahk,…
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Sonar, Swiss masters of multi-rhythm tritone minimalism, continue their career-long quest for a state of grace with Vortex, an album made with American impressionist guitar slinger David Torn, a combination of opposites that compliments one another marvellously on a scintillating…
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Jim Griffin, known to me as an acid-tinged troubadour of some style, also has a spacerock-prog hybrid going under the moniker of Zombie Picnic. Their latest album, Rise Of A New Ideology, has an optimistic sounding title that, like the…
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Just preceding the time that post-punk was leading hitherto musically hidebound yoof into unchartered waters, courtesy of the wildly imaginative Public Image Ltd and all who sailed in its glorious deconstructivist atonal wake, one of the bands that no doubt…
View More Art Zoyd – 44 ½: Live And Unreleased Works
In this update we feature: > Plastic Noose – Enmity > Louis de Mieulle & Matt Garstka – Dual > Toto – 40 Trips Around The Sun > King Buffalo – Repeater > Moop – Moop > Widowmaker – Running…
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Three years ago I reviewed a strange but engaging album entitled The Ranger And The Cleric by Irish guitarist and songsmith Jim Griffin, and it pleases me to tell you that here is the follow up, released in November last…
View More Jim Griffin – To A Far City