Professor And The Madman: Dreamworld. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

A Dreamworld becomes reality when we find something that pricks the bubble of indifference and we see the blood of its creator spill into our hands as inspiration, the ideas, the flow, the passion, and perhaps the madness becomes alive; no longer delivered in forced rainbow overtones, no glorious technicolour, just a statement of intent, of powerful, and fascinating, direction.

Six years after the acclaimed Séance was released, the quartet that make up the renowned Professor And The Madman return with a gloriously weaved recording that not only smacks the uneven layering of indifference till it blurts and tantrum induced meltdown occur, but it also places the trivial and cold irrelevance into the bin of life, grinning with positivity as it does so.

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(378 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Harsh: Feels. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

All you want as a fan of music, no matter the genre is two things…one that the music you grew up loving continues to be relevant, to play a significant part of culture and able to critique society and bind it in equal measure, and that it progresses, that it doesn’t stay routinely stuck in the same tropes and stagnates to the point where it becomes a broken cliché capable of only whispering sweet nothings of nostalgia and memories that fade in time as you come closer to drawing a final wistful breath.

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(420 words, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)

Milady. Parts 3 and 4. Radio Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Selin Hizli, Carl Prekopp, Hattie Morahan, Ian Dunnet Jnr, Simon Scardifield, Jasmine Hyde, Chris Lew Kum Hoi.

You cannot keep a bad girl, a wronged woman, a misunderstood and vengeful female down for long, for the moment you think they are defeated, they rise up more powerful, more commanding than ever, and one of the finest examples of that in literature is of Milady de Winter.

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(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Tom Houston: Komorebi. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Imagine walking through the bleakest, darkest, scariest forest, you are guided by intuition rather than direction, you have no sense of time because all the natural indicators have been swept away by the tight foliage, by the darkness, by the obscurity, and this is a place where even shadows are frightened to emerge; then out of nowhere a sliver of light appears through the trees, a small, almost imperceptible, an aspiration of hope that like a will-o’-the wisp will reveal the way out, that the sunlight through the trees is more than just direction, it is the target.

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(513 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

Brand New Heartache: A New Alchemy. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are all in search of A New Alchemy, that moment in which we can see the great work being moulded into place through transmutation, through the power of fertile philosophy that will change the way people think and act with a sense of the divine and the human soul working in tandem. We are all in search of the resulting groove, but few are willing to see the process from the start, to dig deep into the soil, to be authentic and never once resort to the crooked charms of sleight of hand mysticism that comes with the modern-day wand and the potions of the sly.

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(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Jim Eannelli: You’re Not Here. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 9/10

You’re Not Here…a moment of denied presence, of accusation, of savage, finger pointing denunciation against the truth of existence…that is the authority of a single phrase when pressed with certainty as a complaint wrapped up in the clothes of nostalgia, a sense of worth that takes melody and yearning to a point of grace and consideration. The truth is always somewhere between, that love regrets and denial is a floating musing that acts with patience and sees the heart understand that presence is more than a feeling but a deliberate act of insight.

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(376 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Ian Prowse: No Names. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is a shiver of meaningful cool that comes from listening to an artist to whom you understand observes more than just the casual and the surface noise of life, the ones who are prepared to delve deeper, seek further clarification, open wounds and watch the blood flow, for they are the ones who open the listeners’ minds and cause them to think, to pay attention, to leave a mark on the abused heart that is indelibly stamped.

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(355 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)

Pink Floyd: Live In Venice – The Complete Venice 1989 PBS Broadcast. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

History always seems to be made when the fan and keen lover of music consider deeply a band’s choice of setting for a gig, for a concert that stands out for its geographical position, its more unusual location. Whilst many attend a night with their favourite groups or singers and are content to be sat in the splendour of the ornate and the predictable spaces, there is something to be said for a concert that doesn’t take place in a music hall, or everyday venue; and it is to the imagination of the greats that we learn that perhaps the historical emptiness of Pompeii is cool, but set against the Venice waterfront is exquisite.

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(512 words, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

The Blues Overdrive: Live Slices. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Blues has not just reinvented itself; it has in many respects re-established itself as defining expression of culture.

It doesn’t feel that long ago that the Blues was on its knees, almost terminal, dying with its heart ripped out and its soul kept alive by a dedicated few to whom the fans and admirers must always be grateful to; then the 21st Century appeared, hope seemed to rise from the depths, and now two and half decades on, the genre is stronger than ever, and as their new album arrives, The Blues Overdrive bring a sense of definition to the arena with a sound that is upbeat, materially fascinating, and a beat that captures the imagination fully.

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(325 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Visions Of Albion: In The Past. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In The Past, it’s where we store the emotions and feelings that did us harm, that caused us to understand the nature of pain in ways that we fear will resurface and prove to us that we accept the tenderness of grief and the sting of self-reflection. We should never shy from the doors that lead us to the past, we should fear nothing from those wounds, for they teach us nothing short of the constancy in freedom in expressing beauty for that which hurt us.

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(316 words, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)