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i didn't want to buy it...
...but i did anyway. i've been flirting with the idea of one of these for a long while. not played it lapsteel style yet (i need a nut raiser) but even so it sounds very sweet. i'm not sure if i'll...
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first review in for the Sonnamble album. i'm not sure i entirely understand all of it, but it seems broadly positive....
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Jazz at the Grosvenor
some recordings from Jazz at the Grosvenor, SW9. This has been my Monday night ritual for the last couple of months and has given me terrible blisters which i seem to have conquered at long last. yes,...
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An Indian Music Infographic
utterly beautiful. and it tells you stuff. (see the hi res version here via the always wondrous WFMU)
View ArticleFourth Page at the Vortex
Fourth Page are on a wee mini-tour next week as a duo of Paul May and Carolyn Hume, joined for one date by Charlie Beresford and finally appearing as a quartet at the Vortex on Sat 29th October. Get...
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Sonnamble
A couple more rather positive reviews in for Blindlight...BBCFuture Sequencethe band are just back from the Another Festival in Vienna, where we were joined by Paul May on percussion (yes, him again)...
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Sonnamble on the radio
RTE lyric fm have been showing us some love, bless 'em. Bernard Clarke showcases two tracks from Blindlight on the excellent Nova.http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/1489151.htmland there's also an airing...
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Fourth Page on the radio
Fiona Talkington (not pictured) will be airing a track from Blind Horizons on Radio 3's ever-excellent Late Junction this week. Our recent gig at the Vortex was also recorded by the BBC, though where,...
View ArticleNovember
Shots taken during a walk along Cuckmere Haven and The Seven Sisters (not in Tottenham). Music by me. Thanks to Josie for transport, catering, moral support and executive prduction.
View Articlethree gigs
1. Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings - Brighton DomeTwo and a half hours of acoustic music from two guitars, voices and the occasional bit of banjo and thighslapping would not normally be high on my list...
View Article2011
...an interesting year, and the last half has brought a lot of change for me personally. I'm about to take redundancy (what a beautiful word) and will probably spend the next year trying to make stuff...
View ArticleObscurities
Obscure Records was set up in 1975 by Brian Eno. Effectively it was a subdivision of Island and later Polydor Records. It lasted three years and put out ten records, one of which was by Eno. Nine of...
View ArticleBass/Metals
Another podcast this time of stuff made primarily by the double bass, accompanied on occasion by percussion, metals, tape and prepared piano. Includes Dumitrescu's Cogito, which is as dark as...
View ArticleOramix
A few weeks back I came across The Science Museum's Oramix competition - the challenge was to create a new piece out of samples of Daphne Oram's work. Having nothing better to do I ended up...
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