Roger Trenwith

O.R.k. – Soul of an Octopus

Two years after their first album, Inflamed Rides, this rather thrilling gathering of enquiring musical like-minds return with Soul Of An Octopus, their first for the always interesting Rare Noise label, and it seems that no little development of their…

Thinking Plague – Hoping Against Hope

It has been over four years since the relentlessly foreboding Decline and Fall, and Colorado state’s favourite avant rock collective, the marvellously uncompromising Thinking Plague, are back, this time dredging optimism from the depths of black despair at the perverse…

La Bocca della Verità – Avenoth

I have had this album a while, and it was only thanks to a Facebook friend raving about it that I remembered it, and it was a darn good thing I did, I can tell you. Formed in Rome in…

Shamblemaths – Shamblemaths

Further proof to my contention that everyone in Scandinavia is in, or has been in a band is offered by the glorious duo Shamblemaths, who hail almost inevitably from Trondheim in Norway. Simen Å. Ellingsen on guitars, saxophones and vocals…

Blonde On Blonde – Rebirth / Reflections On A Life

Blonde On Blonde – Rebirth Blonde On Blonde, despite sounding like they lived on the corner of Haight-Asbury actually hailed from the far less glamorous surroundings of Newport, South Wales. Like many bands of the turn of the ’60s into…

Anakdota – Overloading

Anakdota are a young band from Israel who take influence from modern electric jazz mixed with an ear for melody and complex rhythmic structure that in places ventures down a route once trodden by Gentle Giant, especially in parts of…

Wingfield Reuter Stavi Sirkis – The Stone House

That these four musicians got together and recorded this nigh on hour-long excursion into stellar improvisation with no rehearsal beforehand is frankly astonishing. Then again, given the calibre of the musicians involved it is almost to be expected. Three of…

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Author: Roger Trenwith