Category Archives: Music

Goldray, Rising. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

If you are not ready at any moment to take on the psychedelic then the stiff upper lip of the continued Victorian hangover is arguably always going to be one that dominates your life; the misuse of such genres, whether it is the realms of Jazz, the volume of energy in Punk in all its glory or the spectacle, the sheer wonder, of the Progressive, to not appreciate the art that goes into them is to possibly surrender any form of anti establishment, any anarchy, any freedom to rebel outside centuries old conviction. It is a surrender that just does not fit in a modern sense with any feeling of self identity.

Goldray, Rising. Album Review. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Steve Hackett, The Night Siren. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To be consistent, to be so imaginatively fertile in the use of art across several decades and still sound as if the music you are creating is one that has been inspired by a Muse who knows a thing or two the subtle complexity of being Progressive, then either the world has been kind to you or you just happen to be the person who listens to ones who weep at dusk, who sing songs of fantasy and freedom in the depths of midnight’s favourite illusion or the sense of peace offered by The Night Siren.

Steve Hackett, The Night Siren. Album Review. full post

(429 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

Jack Spann, Beautiful Man From Mars. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

2016 will always be remembered for many things, some more bizarre than others, some moments which looked upon will always cause a shudder of pain to come rolling down the spine and others which leave only the memory of regret, anguish and a tear rolling down the cheek. It is in the loss of someone as artistically astute and obviously creatively beautiful as David Bowie that the year will arguably turn upon, that is will have deep resonance for years to come and yet out of that beauty steps forward Jack Spann and the album Beautiful Man From Mars.

Jack Spann, Beautiful Man From Mars. Album Review. full post

(413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Heath Common, Tales Of A Young Life In Halifax + Notting Hill Gate. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There can be very few experiences that can top listening to a story-teller in full flow, save for the spectacle of nature working with wondrous intent, very few moments capture the imagination as well as someone who has lived, who has truly nothing to fear from boredom, because that single entity has no room to exist in a world where everything that can be felt is there beyond the front door.

Heath Common, Tales Of A Young Life In Halifax + Notting Hill Gate. Album Review. full post

(536 words, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)

Various Artists, Spiritual Music From The Hebrides, Live At An Lanntair, Isle of Lewis. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It could be argued that we don’t look for the mystery anymore, that we are not content with allowing the enigma of a feeling to grow inside of us and revelling in how it makes us look at the world, how it makes us connect with places, people, Time; instead we sanitise it, we take the pleasure and allow it to be broken and the magic to dissipate in the air, the spirit allowed to drift onto the next island of curiosity.

Various Artists, Spiritual Music From The Hebrides, Live At An Lanntair, Isle of Lewis. Album Review. full post

(480 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Samantha Fish, Chills & Fever. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You have choices in life, you can take the road of responsibility and look after your heart and soul or you can give in temptation and rock the guts out of life, you can stand in the corner, a hint of vague wallflower about your persona, or should the feeling be right, be just, you can party on in the knowledge that the Universe has created such great music for you to be entranced by. If you stay in the shadows you won’t get Chills & Fever but if you come in to the light and embrace the work of Samantha Fish then that fever, those chills, will be glorious.

Samantha Fish, Chills & Fever. Album Review. full post

(437 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)

Roxanne de Bastion, Heart Of Stone. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Hearing a new song from Roxanne de Bastion is like holding hands with an old friend, there is so much warmth in that moment, so much energy to share between the art and the soul that it connects and fuses, the organs melding into one and finally let go as the love is embraced and jointly nodded at in appreciation of what brings to the other. To not get a tingle down the spine, to not enjoy the sensation is surely to suggest that you have a Heart of Stone.

Roxanne de Bastion, Heart Of Stone. Single Review. full post

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

Fabia, This House. E.P. Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

This House, not one that is in the ownership of the artist, but one that perhaps is more comfortable to be within, to reside with the words and lyrical abandon, the soft soulful tearing apart of everything you know and all that could have been. In This House all is possible because it is a place where there are secrets to be spilled, images to wrestle with and the sweet song of beauty to impart. It is not any old house, it is Fabia’s house and it is one that she makes all welcome to visit.

Fabia, This House. E.P. Review. full post

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

Imaginary Creatures, The Blood Of Angels. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

You may have a guardian angel watching over you, one that makes sure you don’t do anything reckless or stupid or just plain idiotic, you may have one that even manages to make sure you succeed in all that you endeavour to pursue; how many of these Imaginary Creatures though will go all the way, how many of us would see The Blood of Angels?

Imaginary Creatures, The Blood Of Angels. Album Review. full post

(370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Tashaki Miyaki, The Dream. Album Review.

 

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To sleep perhaps to dream, the wish of all those who seek sanctuary within the arms of Morpheus, the landscape of the weird and the wonderful, the sway of the song in our head that can move mountains or cause enraged foaming oceans to become still and tranquil; to dream is what separates us from ourselves and if 74is good it can set up the day in the land of living to one where the oceans remain still from start to finish.

Tashaki Miyaki, The Dream. Album Review. full post

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