Tite: Easy Label: Stolen Body All the way from Montreal Quebec, ex-one man band the now band-bedecked Paul Jacobs wrote, performed, recorded and mixed this album. Anyone how has seen his…
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Title: Emotional Detox Label: Bureau B The fourth album from the Berlin-based combo, Camera. The band released one LP as a duo, one as a trio but this one is a…
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Title: Science Fiction Label: Mikrokosmos Bailey was the lead singer with the 80s pop combo, the Thompson Twins yet this is Bailey’s debut solo album. The first since the Thompson Twins’…
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Title: Free Spirit Label: Quarto Valley Records This is a 3LP set, presented in a double fold-out gatefold sleeve, captures Paul Rodgers in a live setting, the Royal Albert Hall in…
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Titles: Magnetic Web/Numbers/Beyond the End…Eternity/Zero Gravity Label: Wah Wah Dedicated, hard core Rolling Stones fans will know Nik Pascal as the guy who played percussion on the 1973 Stones LP, Goats…
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Title: Phantasmagoria Label: Esoteric An expanded two disc edition of the original Phantasmagoria album. Originally released in 1972, the album was the first to feature the line-up of Sonja Kristina (vocals,…
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Title: Paradox Label: Reprise Most musicians tend to become increasingly safer in terms of their art and more conservative with age. It’s to do with increasing money and power plus a…
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Title: Singles Label: BMG Formed in Derry in 1974, The Undertones consisted of the O’Neill brothers – John and Damian on guitars, Michael Bradley on bass, Billy Doherty on drums and…
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Title: Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy Live Label: BMG This set features two live shows. On the CD is a show from 25 November 2015, featuring the ELP album, Tarkus alongside Mars,…
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Title: Best Of Label: Angel Air Scotland-spawned Stone the Crows had everything going from them but luck. They were talented, well known and respected but never received the success they deserved.…
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Title: Inside Hi-Fi Label: Pure Pleasure I’m sure that the sleeve art alone will provide a fascinating few moments for some of my readers, even before the inside of the grooves…
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Title: Tunes from the Missing Channel/One Way System Label: On U-Sound Based on Adrian Sherwood’s reggae/dub label, this group was formed by label occupant, drummer Style Scott and Sherwood. They created…
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Title: Chris To The Mill Label: Demon Better known perhaps as a member of the band, Squeeze and that band’s principle lyricist, Difford has now presented all three of his solo…
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Title: Heavy Horses Label: Chrysalis Not only is this year the 50th anniversary of the band but also the 40th anniversary of the album Heavy Horses. Presented as a 3CD/2DVD book-type…
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Title: Invisible Threads Label: ECM There’s a sense of John Surman exploring the world music space on this CD (his first since 2012’s Saltash Bells) with folky overtones. His journey, via…
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Title: “Rock Around The Pile” Label: Bear Family Emerging form a stint with the Glenn Miller orchestra during the 40s, Anthony became a bandleader and actor during the following decade in…
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Title: Watchin’ TV/You Can’t Get Off Label: Floating World The band itself has a bit of a convoluted history and most of it surrounds the constant presence in the band of…
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He should have been a big star, says Paul Rigby, but Jack Scott’s music career perfectly followed the ups and downs of the pop music business of the time. Jack Scott…
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Title: Bullitt OST Label: Speakers Corner I beg your indulgence on this particular review because I want to illuminate the disc around a brief interview I did some time ago now…
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Presenting the magnificent George Harrison 16LP box set, Paul Rigby undertakes a detailed sound test and talks to the mastering engineers behind it, Lurssen Mastering’s Gavin Lurssen and Reuben Cohen George…
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Title: Krauter der Provinz Label: Bureau B A krautrock-style group or artist’s ‘collective’ (now, tell me, what’s more krautrock than your common or garden ‘collective’, eh? A classic musical collection if…
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Title: Firm but Fair Label: Stolen Body This band has been about a bit. Names such as Phantom Limb, This is The Kit, Zun Zun Egui and Port Erin spring to…
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Title: Night Leaf Label: Stolen Body Album number two from BoyToy with a quite brilliant pictorial chart on the rear of my promo CD, at least (I hope it’s on the…
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Title: Muck Label: Stolen Body So let’s see here, within The Evil Usses we’ve got Leon Boydon on bass with Dan Truen on drums. The intriguing mixture of tenor sax with…
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Title: Volume 2 Label: Jasmine It’s interesting isn’t it that the entire rock’n’roll genre found film so important. There seemed to be plenty of feature films out and about during the…
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Title: Love is Strange Label: Jasmine This is a 2CD package cramming 56 tracks within from Sylvia Robinson (nee Vanderpool) and Mickey ‘McHouston’ Baker (an unruly child, ex-pool hustler and rock…
