Category Archives: Music

Woody Guthrie: Woody At Home, Vol 1 & 2. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whilst history is often made far from home, it is the surroundings, comfortable or otherwise, of home that ideas often occur; and when those philosophies and beliefs stir, when they are captured in the rawness of time’s preserve where love is supposed to be at its most finite and pure, then it is within the graces of those with the fortune to hear the results to proclaim how worthy they are to be remembered, how legends are framed best when they in amongst that which they fight for.

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(458 words, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

Kristen Ford: Pinto. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

One of the most politically informed songwriters of her generation, Kristen Ford, returns with a new album firmly established in poetic rage and an anger of how the world, especially her own native country, has begun turning its back on hard earned, and fundamental rights.

Pinto is more than just emotional, it is a fierce, guttural response to the loss of respect to a community of people to whom she represents with pride; but it also has the balance within the heart to soften, accept and inspire a different outlook for the fans and for herself.

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(368 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Thought Chamber: Myst Of Lyriad. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Through the mists we grope our way forward, the senses dulled by the beginnings of fog, from the cold chill that seeps into our bones, through dense skin, past veins and the running of life affirming blood, into that which holds us upright, the bones, the skeleton, and whilst the mists of life surround us daily, they offer us one vital thing to which the bones cannot fathom, it offers the imagination to focus, the brain’s release valve to conjure up images of what may live in the mist, whether it is salvation, or murky creatures from the depths.

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(402 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Darrel Treece-Birch’s Atlantea: Life. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Life is so complex that to see it wasted is feel the burden of pity, and yet for some it is packed to the brim, consistently evolving, never finding, nor needing the excuse that Time is short, that life has nothing valuable for them to notice or take part in.

Time and life can be amazing in union, and for those who regale in the affirmation of the pair’s ability to bring harmony to the souls of those they attempting to enrich, so they are rewarded with a moment to which others are oblivious of, and it is in such consideration that Darrel Treece-Birch’s Atlantea has found a sense of perfection and quality in the sophomore recording from the musicians, the resounding chorus that is Life.

Darrel Treece-Birch’s Atlantea: Life. Album Review. full post

(394 words, 1 image, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Beckon The Wyrd: Rise. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Step beyond the relative calm of Somerset and Dorset and you enter a world of arguably England’s most beautiful and alluring coastlines, and its heritage of myths and legends; Devon and Cornwall, two separate counties divided by a common river but which holds magic deep within its twin souls; and as north Devon’s own myths play in the mind, the customs and folklore of the area are forged in heat, and cast with spells that present Beckon The Wyrd into the conscious of the far flung music lover and give Rise to a drama infused group whose determination and fantastic sound depth and grace to be admired.

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(384 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

It’s Karma It’s Cool: 21st Century Meds. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

In times to come when social anthropologists write their conclusions of 21st century behaviour there will surely be reams, a sheer scape of text that will reveal that we have been living in a kind of survival mode aided by whatever gets us through the day, that there is no forward planning, just an escape route that gets us from the crib to the retirement home without damaging us too much in the process; driven by a world on the edge, ransacked by governments who dictate new laws to drag us down…it’s no wonder those anthropologists will surmise that we have become beaten and scared into trying anything that lets us feel nothing but numb.

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(432 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola: How To Raise The Wind. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Energy is, for some, an illusion of consequence; the artist believing they have found a purpose, the fan absorbing the quantity with relish…but both forgetting that the truth lays in quality, and there the energy can fail, be lacklustre, unfailing in its approach, but not delivering in style.  True energy, the kind that can shift the universe, which can alter the perception of the listener is one of faith, and in How To Raise The Wind by Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola, that faith is rewarded with competition and a sense of wonderful musical purity.

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(388 words, 1 image, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Roger Waters: This Is Not A Drill – Live From Prague. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

A statement of intent is delivered by the musician even before the first note is played, and as the listener is thrust into the government’s obscene acts of apathy of the age, as the warning sound that counters the misleading valour of indifference, to feel the venom and sheer anger from a man already past an age where they might be thought of as content in their dotage, Roger Waters uses his strength, his will, to inform that, to paraphrase and tone down, if you like Pink Floyd’s music but don’t like Roger’s politics, then…leave. 

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(496 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)

Blush: Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Whilst it is most certainly well within the genre of pop, there is something decidedly Gothic within the heartbeat of the experience; upbeat and all smiles, but deep down there is a marvellous sense of hypnotic, erratic heartbreak that sums up the Singaporean indiepop band, Blush, and their new album Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever.

Blush: Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever. Album Review. full post

(365 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Devon Allman: The Blues Summit. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To live up to the family name in a certain profession is perhaps one of the hardest tasks that any person can undertake; when it comes to the arts it is a near certainty that the individual following in the enormous footsteps will be judged with a degree of unfairness that is almost intolerable, absolutely unfair, and without purpose.

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