When a modest and decent person leaves this life it is always with sadness, there may be joy in the memory of what they have left behind, the art perhaps they have created living on, collecting new fans, making new friends each subsequent nudge and praise in the right direction, but it doesn’t stop the hurt, the loss of having had something so beautiful, wholesome and uniquely fascinating that their spirit seems to have somehow find a way to inhabit your thinking, then you know that they were special, that you may be able to revisit their roots, but you will miss out on their future, all that could have been.
Category Archives: Music
The Slow Readers Club, The Joy Of The Return. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The news of a return can fill you with much needed hope, it can bring relief, gleaming positivity, and no matter what the situation, the right person or idea appearing on the horizon can be seen as a sign that life will begin again.
John Jenkins, Jackson’s Farm. Single Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The songs we sing to ourselves when we find ourselves contemplating life, its boundless mystery, its significant wonder, and the times when we feel that the melancholic joy threatens to engulf us, those are the moments in which we look upon at whatever time they appear as the guiding lights, the soliloquys from the comfort of the idyll of the front porch.
It is from the front porch that John Jenkins has seen the orange light that swings as the breeze hits the Wirral coast, that catches the waves upon the River Mersey as sends the flurry and the strength into the sound of every artist that lives either side of the great unitor.
Soul Asylum, Hurry Up And Wait. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You can take all the time you want as you allow the thoughts of life to guide you in the direction you believe you should be taking, however, sometimes you have to grasp the initiative and the incentive and really learn patience, to master the ideal situation presented to you and pass the lesson on, to Hurry Up And Wait is not a double standard, it is an essential way of living.
Only Child, Wintersong: Live With String Quartet. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Time is precious, the performer even more so, and as we find ourselves in strange times, as we place ourselves in the hands of effort and finality, so we must seize the opportunity to find the one who keeps our sanity intact, our heart enthralled and the mind actively pursuing the kind of words that make us think, make us understand that compassion is not just an emotion to be savoured but one that an artist must install into each person they meet to make sure that the world improves, that the love of the Wintersong that enhances the warmth of the season, continues marching on through the rest of the year.
Robby Krieger, The Ritual Begins At Sundown. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
It can be quite understandable that for many there was no afterlife for The Doors after the tragic passing of Jim Morrison, many will have drifted away, the millions will have just hung on the short but ultimately significant list of studio albums and the final hurrah of arguably one of the most important groups to have come out of 1960s America, the brutal, the dominating and utterly beguiling L.A. Woman.
Basia Bulat, Are You In Love? Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
What lays for us at the end is always up for debate, the gentle caress as we are returned to the Universe or the bang of unrequited expectation that went unfulfilled, and the question of how we were seen at the end comes racing into view, not if we were loved, but were we in love when the cold finish came.
Rebecca Hill, The Airing. E.P. Review.
Liverpool sound and Vision Rating * * * *
For some it is a symbol of classical rejoice, the meeting between the heavenly and the spiritually minded and the earthly bonds that we strain to be free of, and perhaps it was the classical scholar and proto Humanist, Petrarch, who observed it best when he wrote, “…And tears are heard within the harp I touch“
Kerri Watt, Kissing Fools. Single Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision rating * * * *
History has its fair share of Kissing Fools, whether through their actions causing the downfall of families and empires, or in the personal, the very human act of lips that caress one who is not worth of the attention, of allowing your mind to be controlled by a very basic urge, it all can end, for the majority of times, in disappointment, in reckless sorrow or in leaders losing their heads.
Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion, Chameleon. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
A musician who can change their outlook and shade is to be admired, they might stay within the genre, they might find the relief of crossing borders, but it is to the sound they create which sets them apart, the slight vocal inflection change, the meaning behind their songs given a greater depth and urgency, it is to this, as with all art, that the ability to be a social Chameleon, to be stand out by blending in with everything, to seek out new colours in which place their talents against and see what matches.