I can still remember that voyage of discovery, when as a young teenager, I started to unearth the world of music. Excitedly travelling each Saturday morning to the, then plentiful record shops to buy one album, but which one was…
View More Antoine Fafard – Proto Mundi | Doomsday VaultCategory: Album Reviews
Thumpermonkey – Electricity EP
From the Deepest, Darkest Depths of Olde London Town, the first release of new material from the 16-limbed beast of depravity that is Thumpermonkey emerges blinking into the light. Has it really been 5 years since Sleep Furiously? It has.…
View More Thumpermonkey – Electricity EPGodsticks – Faced With Rage
Godsticks return with their fourth album, Faced With Rage. Formed in Cardiff during 2008, after a debut EP they released their first album, Spiral Vendetta, in 2010. I have followed Godsticks since their tentative and rather nervous set at the…
View More Godsticks – Faced With RageDialeto – Bartók in Rock
Ask any of the more experimentally inclined progressive rock bands which classical composers influence their work, and it is a fair bet to say that along with Stravinsky and Ligeti, Hungarian composer Bela Bartók will get a mention. Here we…
View More Dialeto – Bartók in RockHimmellegeme – Myth of Earth
From the dark and rainy west coast of Norway something stirs, the long winter nights appear to give rise to youthful creativity and the current crop of bands regularly deliver the goods. Out of this creative Norwegian maelstrom come Himmellegeme…
View More Himmellegeme – Myth of EarthA Different Aspect #9 – October 2017
In this update we feature:- Kuhn Fu – Kuhnspiracy Anni Elif – Edith Lion Shepherd – Heat David McWilliams – Lord Of Offaly John Steven Morgan – Solo Piano Works The Residents – The Ghost Of Hope As the dampness…
View More A Different Aspect #9 – October 2017Lifesigns – Cardington
Cardington is the second studio album from John Young’s Lifesigns after their debut in 2013 and the subsequent Under The Bridge live set in 2015. The album was largely funded via a pledge music campaign that met its target in…
View More Lifesigns – CardingtonJohn Hackett Band – We Are Not Alone
Multi-instrumentalist and session player John Hackett just happens to be the younger brother of Steve, with whom he has contributed some very fine flute work in the past, remember Kim? We Are Not Alone is the first album by this…
View More John Hackett Band – We Are Not AloneStefano Giannotti & Salvo Lazzara – La Vostra Ansia Di Orizzonte
Having developed a liking for the music of Italian composer Stefano Giannotti, and having reviewed his band OTEME’s L’Agguato, L’Abbandono, Il Mutamento some eighteen months ago, it was a nice surprise to receive a copy of his latest collaboration in…
View More Stefano Giannotti & Salvo Lazzara – La Vostra Ansia Di OrizzonteMystery – Second Home
I was lucky enough to see Mystery at The Borderline in London in September 2014. The tour was in support of their fifth studio album The World is a Game; Benoît David had left in March, to be replaced by…
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