Camden Jazz Café, London 30th April 2014 A warm late spring day in the capital greeted the intrepid gig goers as we alighted at Euston station. A Tube strike was also waiting for us but it had little effect on…
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Author: Roger Trenwith
A founding member of TPA, Roger is TPA's HR man and all-round attack dog. When not straining at the leash, he has been known to scribble a bit.
Roger keeps his own blog called "Astounded by Sound"
Minibus Pimps – Cloud To Ground
Seemingly positioning himself furthest from the Led Zeppelin spotlight back in the day, John Paul Jones is proof of the old adage “watch out for the quiet ones”. In those confused daze John Paul Jones was always the most musically…
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Xavi Reija – Resolution
Previously a quintet featuring keyboards and sax, now a trio, Xavi Reija’s band does things a drums/bass/guitar line up should not be able to, creating splendidly intuitive avant jazz rock suites that do not suffer the loss of those aforementioned…
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Spoke of Shadows – Spoke of Shadows
You can’t make an album based around the Warr guitar without it sounding like the last incarnation of King Crimson, can you? Well, not necessarily, as this fine release proves. Spoke of Shadows is Herd of Instinct Warr guitarist Mike…
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Splashgirl – Field Day Rituals
Languishing in my pile of “to do” CDs since the turn of the year Field Day Rituals, the fourth album by Norwegian trio Splashgirl, released in February last year is a little outside my usual remit of left field and…
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Messenger – Illusory Blues
Messenger are a multi-national troupe who came together in London in 2012. Led by guitarists and vocalists Khaled Lowe and Barnaby Maddick, they hooked up with producer Jaime Gomez Arellano, who has worked with Ulver amongst many others, and shut…
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Sonar – Static Motion
Swiss minimalists Sonar were formed after guitarists Stephen Thelen and Bernhard Wagner had attended Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft classes. The pair recruited drummer Manuel Pasquinelli and bassist Christian Kuntner and Sonar was born. Inspired by the Crimson line-ups of 1972…
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Gayle Ellett – Djam Karet
We are delighted to publish this interview with Gayle Ellett, co-founder of Californian prog legends Djam Karet, who this year celebrate their 30th anniversary with the release of the cunningly titled Regenerator 3017, reviewed recently by yours truly on these…
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Djam Karet – Regenerator 3017
I was only half joking when I introduced this album in a recent edition of “Something For The Weekend”, a blog which seeks to point the inquisitive towards the new releases we scribblers consider worth a spin, with the phrase…
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Présent – Triskaïdékaphobie & Le Poison Qui Rend Fou
These two deluxe reissues by American label Cuneiform – Triskaïdékaphobie and Le Poison Qui Rend Fou – shine a light on one of the original Rock In Opposition bands, the Belgian collective Présent. In 1979 having left Univers Zéro after…
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