Last heard the talented multi-instrumentalist and singer Nick Pynn in 2011, with his six-track EP talktapes, a delightful showcase for
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T.R.A.S.E. (Tape Recorder And Synthesiser Ensemble): early 1980s UK teenage outsider synth-pop (yes, really!)
T.R.A.S.E. (Tape Recorder And Synthesiser Ensemble), self-titled, UK, B-Music / Finders Keepers, CD BMS050 / FKR067 (2013) Here’s a recording
Continue readingBrazen Glory from Yorkshire
An excellent item is Knurr & Spell: Being Psychedelic Sounds From Yorkshire (SMOKERS GIFTS #14 / MEMOIRS OF AN AESTHETE
Continue readingCalm Down Grandad
We last took note of the fine English combo Hamilton Yarns in February 2011. We received Calm Down Grandad (HARK!
Continue readingThe Haunted Drawing Room
The name of pianist John Tilbury should be familiar to anyone who has ever dipped a toe or two into
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Great package from Darren Wyngarde aka Filthy Turd…no-nonsense English noisemaker of prolific proportions…active and social he be, engaging with noise
Continue readingThe Rector lived in Hampshire
Very eccentric and unusual record here by Socrates That Practiçes Music, one which we’ve had leaning its way in the
Continue readingJazz is the new WWF
Arrived 20 December 2011, another envelope from the Helsinki jazz label TUM that impressed us quite favourably in January. Juhani
Continue readingThe Wounded Kings: In the Chapel of the Black Hand
The Wounded Kings, In the Chapel of the Black Hand, Sweden, I Hate Records, IHRCD096 (2011) Since I reviewed this
Continue readingThen I saw the Congo, creeping through the black
As part of my musings today I consider a photograph I took on Friday of a Lego Giraffe in Berlin.
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