UK singer Sharron Kraus is one I’ve tended to associate with traditional English folk and ballad form, and her imaginative
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You Set The Scene
From OSR Tapes, we have a CD by Marlon Cherry (OSR73) which reissues two of his records – the 12-inch
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Japanese musician and singer Chihiro Butterfly has prepared her own personal response to the earthquake that struck eastern Japan in
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Motherland (NO LABEL) is a fine cassette of songs by the singer-songwriter duo Hanging Freud from Sao Paolo in Brazil.
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Jessica Sligter Fear and the Framing NORWAY HUBRO CD2516 (2012) With Fear and the Framing, Jessica Sligter has crafted an
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Ten songs of a rather lugubrious hue from the Italian singer-songwriter who calls himself Rella The Woodcutter. Previous albums have
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The Tree in the Quadtych From Sheffield here’s Cameron Deas, another guitar-playing acoustic Englishman worthy to hold his head alongside
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Pilesar Please Me Radio Friendly (PUBLIC EYESORE PE112) is an energetic set of crazy songs delivered roughly in the lo-fi,
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Richard and Linda Thompson, ‘When I Get to the Border’ (1974) From I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
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Todd Rundgren, ‘Sometimes I don’t know what to feel’ (1973) From A Wizard, A True Star, UK CASTLE COMMUNICATIONS CLACD
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