Hailing from Hedmark, Norway, 8-piece band Meer play a mixed genre of music. Playing House is their fourth album, I have now listened in a variety of places – car, studio, headphones and through the iPhone – and I have…
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Much water has passed under many bridges since Leo Trimming’s review of Multi Story’s previous album, Crimson Stone, in 2016. Much has changed, but for the main part that means in the personnel. Multi Story is now a core of…
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With The Emerald Dawn‘s new album, To Touch the Sky, due for release towards the end of this month (pre-orders start on 5th March from their Bandcamp page), TPA’s Tony Colvill speaks to the band about the album, recording during…
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Lockdown is a journey, to each of us their own, where we go, what we do, some constructive, but sadly for others a destructive journey as all that they believed important is dashed on the rocks. But not Richard Barbieri,…
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A six-disc repackaging of the Drastic Plastic album from 1978, discs 1 to 4 available for review, so only the 5.1 mix and video content missing. Nostalgia aside, I have enjoyed my revisit to Bill Nelson’s Be Bop Deluxe beyond…
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With guitarist and singer Stewart Clark‘s new album, Let’s Go There recently released, TPA’s Tony Colvill asks the question, ‘Who is Stewart Clark?’ Stewart Clark: I often wonder myself! Been making music since I was 15, I’m 62 now! Been…
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We’ve all bought albums for the cover, only to find that the cover is great but the contents are not. Fortunately, that is not the case with Stewart Clark’s Let’s Go There. It’s a 36-minute gem, every track fits into…
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Two rapid releases from the house/apartment/flat/domicile of Malcolm Galloway and his collective. Feeling Great consists of four tracks from Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, three new lockdown pieces, and one older and, by their own admission, a rough recording of…
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Thirteen winters, a long time out in the cold. So what do you get from the Frost* beast, and the imagination of founder Jem Godfrey, along with John Mitchell, Craig Blundell, Nathan King, Dec Burke and several more? A rather…
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Some stories are important to be told; some hideaway, some never see the light of day and history is written by the victors. We miss albums that both delight and provide interesting revelations. Black Swallow is one, telling the tale…
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