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Jan 30, 20242 min read
KEVIN KASTNING/ SOHEIL PEYGHAMBARI – THE SECOND REALM (2024) (Greydisc)
An international enterprise involving: Kevin Kastning on 36-string double contraguitar (which he invented), 24-string double...
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Jan 30, 20242 min read
NEWS OF RECORD FAIRS IN SCOTLAND (February, 2024)
I got a message from the fair organiser Andrew Naylor thanking customers for turning up in (yet more) adverse weather conditions for the...
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Jan 15, 20241 min read
FJALL – FROM THE ROUGH HILL (Discus) (2023)
Turn the lights low (or off) and play this intriguing album late at night and a quite unique atmosphere is created. The twin drumming of...
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Jan 15, 20241 min read
THE BOY AND THE HERON (2023/24)
I couldn’t miss the chance of a new Miyazaki film; the famed writer and director is now in his eighties and keeps coming out of...
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Jan 15, 20241 min read
TIM HUNTER - EBOROCKEM (2023)
One-man musician and historian Tim Hunter’s latest concept album concerns four significant figures in the history of York: firstly,...
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Jan 15, 20243 min read
REMEMBER LONG LIVE VINYL MAGAZINE?
A lavishly produced and erudite magazine (Anthem Publishing) LONG LIVE VINYL announced in August, 2020 that “after more than 40 print...
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Dec 28, 20234 min read
DIMENSIONS-IN-SOUND-AND-SPACE ARCHIVE 2023
To search our website please click on the month at the left-hand side OR the general categories along the top: Doctor Who/ Film & TV/...
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Dec 28, 20231 min read
NEWS FROM HIRO KAWAHARA (HERETIC)
Visitors to this site may recall my review of a compilation of Hiro Kawahara AKA Heretic’s works on Cuneiform Records. Hiro has contacted...
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Dec 12, 20232 min read
DOCTOR WHO – WILD BLUE YONDER (2023): regeneration or degradation?
The second of three planned anniversary specials starring the Fourteenth Doctor sees the show get back to some basics, but there’s still...
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Dec 2, 20231 min read
KRAAN – ZOUP (2023) and PORTA WESTFALICA (1975/2023)
Quite by chance I came upon a new Kraan record released on 24th November; I had no idea they were still around, but HELMUT HATTLER...
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Dec 2, 20233 min read
THE WORST OF DOCTOR WHO – WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
Now that the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who has come and gone, fans are looking to the specials which are due to broadcast over the...
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Dec 2, 20231 min read
DOCTOR WHO “THE STAR BEAST” – 26th November, 2023: AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
I couldn’t disagree more with one newspaper that drooled over this latest mishmash that Doctor Who has sadly become. An alien spaceship...
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Nov 21, 20232 min read
SPOTIFY’S RELEASE RADAR TOP 10
Although, as those who know me know, I prefer physical product, especially vinyl, which is getting rather expensive these days! However,...
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Nov 15, 20233 min read
THE BEATLES 1962-1966; 1967-1970 3 x LP/ 2 x CD – 2023 (EMI/ Apple)
The last reissue of “The Beatles 1962-1966” was in 2014, if memory serves, and a new copy can still be bought on Amazon for around £40....
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Nov 13, 20232 min read
SENDELICA – MAN, MYTH AND MAGIC (2023) (Fruits de Mer Records)
It all started a few years ago (2020 or 2021 if memory serves) with “And Man Created God”, the first in an intended quartet of concept...
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Nov 13, 20233 min read
THE RESONANCE ASSOCIATION/ DECOMISSIONED FORESTS – CHOOSE EUPHORIA and CHEMISTRY (2023)
A double delight from The Resonance Association and Daniel Vincent’s project with electronic musician Howard Gardner and vocalist Max...
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Nov 13, 20231 min read
ARNAUD QUEVEDO & FRIENDS – 2ND LIFE (2023)
Arnaud Quevedo is the multi-instrumentalist and music teacher (guitar, bass, keys, drums and sax) behind this ambitious project, with...
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Nov 6, 20231 min read
GONG- UNENDING ASCENDING (2023) (K Scope)
It’s here at last! Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth’s creation during exile in France in 1967, heir apparent Kavus Torabi (CARDIACS,...
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Nov 6, 20231 min read
NEW BOOK ON EDDIE VAN HALEN ("TONECHASER" by STEVEN ROSEN)
Music journalist and Guitar World magazine correspondent STEVEN ROSEN's book about his long friendship with EDDIE VAN HALEN has been...
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Nov 6, 20230 min read
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