Music always has the ability to affect emotions, but although those moments are quite far between surprises happen. I first heard Weend’ô (pronounced ‘Window’, it’s Japanese) at the Summer’s End festival in Chepstow last year, and as seems to be…
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Never judge a band by their name, as on the surface Professor Caffeine & the Insecurities is something I would have expected to discover through fellow TPA co-conspirator Roger Trenwith. Alas this rather spiky edged ensemble have stuck marshmallows on…
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I have been a fan of Jonathan Wilson ever since hearing his first album Gentle Spirit, released back in August 2011, and timed perfectly during a very difficult period for me – it’s an album that helped me get through…
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In the 2012 foreword notes of Henry Scott-Irvine’s amazing book Procol Harum: The Ghosts Of A Whiter Shade Of Pale, film maker Martin Scorsese describes the band in this way; “Procol Harum’s music drew from so many deep wells –…
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Released in late summer last year, the Ghost EP was the briefest of calling cards to mark the start of Richard Wileman’s musical career outside the Karda Estra brand, within which he has worked for the last 20 years. This…
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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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Kino’s Picture was my favourite album of 2005. In fact, I would easily say, without looking, that it was one of my favourite albums of the first decade of the 2000s. Despite wanting to hear a follow up… none came,…
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By the early 1970s Curved Air had achieved success with the release of their first three studio albums (Air Conditioning, Second Album, and Phantasmagoria). This was further supported by touring with artists such as Black Sabbath, B.B. King, Deep Purple,…
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It is now 48 years since the formation of Curved Air, their debut album, Air Conditioning, being originally released on the Warner Brothers label in November 1970. This year Esoteric Recordings have put together a great 2-CD reissue Taking their…
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When I spotted this album for review I must confess that it was seeing Tony Levin’s name that intrigued me, however this thought does a disservice to the other very talented musicians on this release, a project that belongs to…
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