Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Some names are just too important for Time to let go. We might not have heard the designations or titles for an age, maybe not at all, after all we cannot be expected to know to everyone and what they have contributed to the betterment of humanity in their lifetime.
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To capture the zeitgeist in times of warning and anguish is arguably a consideration of perfect observation and the draw of the artist’s vigilance, and one that must always be thought as beautiful as well as a study of the human condition.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We have got so used to the system that feeds off us, that we can no longer feel the pain of our mutual trauma, only the fear remains to guide and goad us on our collective ways. We have been caught singing for our daily bread by the proxy of mantra and found ourselves becoming addicted to the suffering we dearly need to dispense with if we are to return to a place of natural humanity.
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What was once fresh and novel to the ears can, in time, find itself to become languid and uninspiring. This is not always the fault of the artist, but instead how our senses manipulate the emotional response to anything that may appear to have lost the reason in which to surprise or even perhaps garner the thrill of the profoundly exciting.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It feels so long since we had the chance to see our surroundings that is reflected by the April Moon, that the clarity of the sky and horizon which comes before the heat haze of summer’s yearning takes over, is long overdue and deserving of acknowledgement and praise.
It is too early spring where the thoughts of renewal become clearer, more pronounced, the yearning for beauty after months of darkness and the bitter cold of human truth, is to where the artist’s mind must turn and for The Shadow Captain, it is the unveiling of his statuesque new album, April Moon.
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Adversity is the window of opportunity, even if at the time it does not feel as though it is possible because the glass is darkened and the catch is on, all you must remember is that you can break the glass, smash it as though you would your own fears, and then take the world on in the open air and with your own artistic weapon of choice.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Our paths once crossed and stories were exchanged, regardless of where we met, we followed the same discourse as set down by Chaucer and countless travellers before him who could weave a tale that made sense of the lives we inhabit and the structure of the world that gives us life.
Those paths, for now, seem blocked, a gate of silence has been put up in front of us and an injunction placed on our face-to-face spoken word; and yet the conversation can still flow, the meaning of our lives can still be performed, and as with all things, if they end up as a monologue, then at least the anecdote survives, the story lives on.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Push the boundaries enough and what you find underneath is a true calling, a mystery unravelled and the pursuit of elegance; all of which combine to bring together the founding stones of serenity and insight, of the harbouring and unleashing of secrets.
In a world that has had to find another avenue of existing other than the rush and manic expression that has dogged humanity since the lurch to praising profit rather than the artistic achievement of the collective and the individual, it is telling that the dichotomy that is evident in Folk, both the outright anger and the calmness of expression, makes itself perfectly clear in the new album by James Patterson and John Dipper, the sensational Unearthing.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Despite crows being associated with the idea of protection, it is difficult for the wary to see them as anything as the harbinger of sorrow and ill omens, they, and their feathered cousins, are in the background of every graveyard scene, their voices sung not in admiration or compliment, but in forewarning, the portent of the sinister times and possible death.
Perhaps though, rather than steering clear of the song of crow, we instead should honour them by paying closer attention to the sound rather than what our perceived intentions are, for the music that such bird make should insist to us that we live In Praise Of Crows rather than demonising them.
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We have much to discuss in the aftermath of all that has shaken the world and our souls in the last year. In truth it is a conversation we somehow have been avoiding for decades, allowing it to bubble under the surface, put to one side in the race for a share of the capitalist pot, and all the while the planet has suffered through our greed and lack of inspiring leadership, our ability to destroy rather than build with nature.