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Jazz never really went away; it perhaps got selective about who would enjoy it, a little choosy on who would really sit down and listen to the idea and perhaps its brief dalliance with Prog overtones during the whole Brand X era was too much for many to get into but it certainly never went away.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
In a world that seems to become more corrupt, more fraudulent in the way in the way that as people, as citizens of a global community, we are treated, spied upon, taken to task for having the temerity in poking our heads above the ramparts and questioning the right to anybody knowing everything about lives, it seems the more somebody dares pose their doubt, the more tighter the grip becomes. Told who we must hate, despise, loathe, keep an eye on for, be like the two worst and vile extremes of human surveillance that the 20th century forced upon a Europe that slept walked almost into death, too few people speak up to point out what is wrong with the world.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The end of one decade and the start of another in your life always brings about the chance to reflective with what you have achieved and where you see your life going. It is only right that as you grow, your 20s and your 50s are wildly different and perhaps more contemplative, more attuned to a world that at points feels as though is crumbling down right around you and the urge to set it right for the those following on behind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
There are few genres of music that polarise opinion more than Rock/Opera. Music lovers usually refer to the album Bat Out of Hell when they want to show how good it can be when the right combination of perfect voice and right songwriter/producer are beside them, for arguably the immense, silky voice of Meat Loaf has never been better when he had the deftness of music skill in Jim Steinman plugging away beside him, nor perhaps when that double act was complimented by the addition of the terrific Ellen Foley as female vocalist on some of the tracks.
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There are many acts that record with a certain style, a strut, the swagger of belief and self-confidence and they are of course right too, it is what makes them sound so bold, inviting and immensely enjoyable when playing their music. Perhaps none fit this assuredness, the reliability of self-imposed perfection than Savoy Brown and the man who formed the group Kim Symonds. Coming on the back of the 2011 acclaimed album Voodoo Moon, Kim Simmonds invites the fans on a tour of the soaring Blues and marriage between inventive lyrics and the constant that resides within reinvention in the new album Goin’ To The Delta.
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A life through a cold mechanical lens; caught on the bright lights of an intrusive camera with no contract to sign or even a say in how your image is used and for what purpose. Footballers, media representatives, even some that make the notes and songs we hum along to when the mood invariably takes us have an image to protect, but for the ordinary person, the individual on the street casually walking along minding their own business, a million trained eyes are watching, scrutinising and wondering if you are going to commit an act of behaviour so shocking that it might just be on a television programme for mass entertainment at some point.
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Cambridge in the annals of music is not always noted for its association with the heavier side of Rock. The city which stands beside Oxford as the powerhouses and symbols of the English University system is more at home with being the birthplace of Progressive Rock giants Pink Floyd and of the late Syd Barrett, pop icons such as Olivia Newton John and the formation of Katrina and The Waves also feature heavily in the thoughts of those trying to work out how musically the city’s heritage is interwoven with the rest of the country.
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Just 18 months after releasing her debut album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos stamped her authority on her music direction by releasing the superb Under The Pink. Gone were the days Y Kant Tori Read forever, this was 100 per cent what the talented musician was all about, trailblazing, confessional, confrontational but with that alluring feminine smile paving the way before slamming the piano with full heart and lyrics that were designed to make you thing as well as enjoy. The musical personification of poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton but with even bigger welcoming attitude and an allure that got beneath the skin of the subject she wrote about.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Following on from the acclaimed album The Whirlwind, the four members of Transatlantic, Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt and Pete Trewavas, have once again got together to produce something that is so compelling, so like the Progressive Rock of old and yet new, exciting and in the case of two of the longer tracks, daring musical storytelling.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Far beyond the shores of Norway and passed the Nordic Noir world of crime drama of Sweden is a land that very few people in Britain will ever probably ever set eyes upon, let alone take the chance to delve discretely into the world of its music. Finland’s output whether pop, folk or even its incredible rock/metal scene, it seems there is always a thousand fold of alleged hopefuls who would rather batter a much loved song in the hope of fulfilling a thirty second dream to meet a judge who will cast scorn on their ability than take in the hard work of another nation’s music.