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Lyle Workman – Uncommon Measures

Hold the end of year Best of 2021! Damn, too late… Although released in February 2021, it was purely happenstance that I discovered Uncommon Measures during the recent festive period. So… there I am beavering away on something TPA related,…

Mannheimer Schlagwerk – The Numbers Are Dancing: New Works for Mallet Quartet

The Mannheimer Schlagwerk is a percussion collective which is celebrating its 25th anniversary. It was the brainchild of Dennis Kuhn, who created it to play a one-off event, but it has somehow endured ever since. The group is known for…

A Different Aspect #74

Featured artists: Various Artists (VA) | Badieh | Various Artists (VA) | David Hush & Hamed Sadeghi | Gabriel Akhmad Marin ||: In this ADA update we feature albums released by the Australia based Worlds Within Worlds record label. •…

Dante – November Red

Around 18:00 on Tuesday 4th January 2022, the German band Dante posted on Facebook to mark the ninth anniversary of the death of co-founder, Markus Berger. As Markus Maichel points out in that post, probably all who have followed the…

A Different Aspect #73

Featured artists: Regal Worm | Jah Wobble | Aquaserge | Stephan Thelen ||: A round-up of some corkers from 2021 that I should have reviewed at the time, but didn’t, and for whatever spurious reason did not make it into…

Baber / Wileman – Baber / Wileman

This is an intriguing collaboration between Sanguine Hum’s Matt Baber and Richard Wileman, the mastermind behind Karda Estra who has in recent years started to release music under his own name. The pair met in 2011 and first worked together…

Robby Steinhardt – Not in Kansas Anymore

We know him mainly as the violinist, singer and frontman of the legendary American progressive rock band Kansas, with whom he recorded ten studio albums, good for gold, platinum and double platinum status. And now there is a solo album,…

Lucid Planet – Lucid Planet II [vinyl release]

Lucid Planet are a 100% independent self-funded band from Australia. As they have stated, this allows “an unparalleled level of freedom and creativity with our music and direction”, and Wow, have they got that right. This album was released in…

Violet Cold – Empire of Love

Music fans can be an incredibly snobby lot, who can marginalise and denigrate great swathes of music with the rigidity and narrowness of their opinions. One such argument I’ve often encountered, and that has always riled me, is that “real”…

Airbag – A Day In The Studio / Unplugged in Oslo

An unexpected side effect of the worldwide pandemic on music has been the mushrooming culture of ‘stripped back’ albums or straight performance recordings by bands bereft of opportunities to perform live in a significant manner, for obvious reasons. Similarly, gathering…