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The image of the cherub performing a dynamic harp solo to the masses is not one that readily springs to mind, it is an image best preserved for the music room in the back passages of the Vatican, the one where you might hope the Pontiff and his staff take on the world’s finest musicians and sing glory to their name.
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Whilst you may never be the same person from heartbeat to heartbeat, the measure of your life is one of a continuous journey tempered by the knowledge that beliefs, opinions and thoughts change, that a person can grow in the light or shrink back into the dusk, what never goes into hiding is the soul of the artist in us all.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The toughest of all challenges comes when we lose those to whom our faith and love is all we require to live, when the right words of patience and honesty are missing because the heartbeat that guided us has become still, a quiet and motionless drumbeat that has come to a halt. In that challenge we dig deep, we find a way to perhaps resurrect or frame a memory from out of this air, we dig deep, we bind ourselves to the recollections of what their advice to us truly meant and by doing so we find the Revelation of spirit inside of us, the spirit that makes us overcome.
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Glory comes in many forms, quite often it appears breathlessly in the unexpected, in the moments that the listener or observer might seem at first to mistake for candid reveal, the emergence of the heroic is not always heralded by the sound of golden trumpets, the muse does not always kiss the artist upon first urging, and yet still the glory comes. It requires no fame, no sense of legend or flashing of bulbs or the headlines proclaiming of how the bold spend their free time, all that is needed is the appreciation that it was done, the respect and perhaps the prominence of the position taken in bring something new to the attention of those around them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When you are invited to a moment, a time in which the company of friends and those you love are going to be gathered around with smiles forever painted upon their faces, in which you already have the feeling that the moment is going to be one of joy, significance, a curiosity of attraction and passion, and then it suddenly becomes one of the most spontaneous, revealing, soul impacting and wonderful consequences down the line experiences; it makes you wonder about all the Time To Burn you once enjoyed and knowing that it all changes here.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You have to admire someone to whom the thought of resting on laurels is an anathema, the work hard, play harder, sing and perform music with a sense of the absolute in their minds and hearts, to those that play this body assaulting and life inducing diversion from the world, appreciation and respect is given as well as being earned.
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It is always a splendid thing when you find an artist willing to break their own audience’s preconceptions and go down a route that the crowd might not understand why they have left, even briefly, what they know and understand, behind.
For some this divergence is a step outside of their fandom in which the feeling of being uncomfortable is a brazen light shone in the face, the senses hurt and the misery of rejection can be like a slap in the face, and yet if they delve deeper than the initial thought of refusing to believe, what they might find is a different kind of acceptance, one that still shines that exclusive light, but one that does it with subtly in what is considered a Dark Day Afternoon.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There is an aura of inevitability that surrounds Kino, a sense of beauty that entwines itself around the mixture of the possible popular hit with the assuredness that goes hand in hand with the playground of the Progressive Rock culture; hardly surprising when you stop and think of pedigree involved in the Kino project, but one that still finds a way to stagger the mind and tickle the senses into a lullaby like submission.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
In a storm, any port will do, or so they will have you believe, a storm after all passes, it can be violent, it can be soul disturbing, but it is also Earth at its most beautiful, most tempting, to stand in amongst the rage, to find the sparks of illumination that carry lightning and thunder and to which we hope will be a sign, a portent of the mood to come. Any port in a storm, but perhaps it is more exciting to think of harnessing the energy that comes from using Parachutes In Hurricanes, from being swept along inside the ride of a wind that can throw you as high as you wish and still find the force to make you wish for more.
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Preservation is a noble pursuit, regardless of whether it is in art or in the fabric of society, the buildings that define a city’s heritage, London’s Westminster Palace, The Tower of London, Birmingham’s Town Hall, Liverpool’s St. George’s Hall, all should be preserved, be seen as equal to the Mona Lisa, the great works of Shakespeare, Dryden, Dickinson and Bronte, preservation for the future. However, preservation must not get in the way of revolution, of change, of building a better world or moving forward with ideas; the world doesn’t have to burn completely, but it should smoulder from time to time.