Category Archives: Music

Rob Clarke: Opiope. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A restoration of faith in music, if it should ever be required, that a person through the medium of sound can add thought, an idea, place inquisitiveness into the mind of the listener and have them desperate for more; this is the achievement all artists, of sound and the visual, of the silent passion and the direct meaning, all strive for; but seldom does it have a truth hidden in the meaning of which the one intended to receive can at first hearing decipher.

Rob Clarke: Opiope. Album Review. full post

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

Midge Ure: A Man Of Two Worlds. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To be able to place your soul in more than one sense of existence, to offer your mind and heart to more than one avenue of belief and thinking is more than extraordinary, it is a truth of being human, of understanding that the yin and the yang are in balance, opposite but operating with satisfaction with stability, insight, and a fearless poise of mental agility; this is the outcome of being A Man Of Two Worlds, of being a person who lives with the glory of symmetry rather than a domination of a one way pattern of life.

Midge Ure: A Man Of Two Worlds. Album Review. full post

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

Peter Gabriel: Live At Womad 1982. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Greatness is not defined by just how you show yourself to the world when it is watching, it is what you produce for others when the sun shines, and how you continue to offer support and allyship when storm clouds gather. It is easy to stand on a stage and bow when the applause reaches its crescendo, to take the plaudits and be seen as grand, a master of the craft, and yet so many artists disappear into the shadows when a difficulty arises, when a calling is ignored by many.

Peter Gabriel: Live At Womad 1982. Album Review. full post

(399 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Tori Amos: In Times Of Dragons. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In Times Of Dragons we either fight and stand tall, or we bow to the seemingly inevitable and allow ourselves to be burnt, such is the way that life reveals itself to us, we are either cowards and hide, hoping the piercing eyes skim over us, hoping we are not worthy of its wrath, or we strike a blow with our truth, knowing the creature, the machine, the person behind the fear, will kill us for our courage anyway.

Tori Amos: In Times Of Dragons. Album Review. full post

(423 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Pink Floyd: Live From Los Angeles Sports Arena. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

For those that found they could not find a way to listen to the abundance of bootleg recordings on offer during their youth, the sudden influx of band endorsed releases of some of the more dedicated listeners would have salivated over is a testament to the power of time and persuasion; Time that eventually all hard line stances must soften, and the persuasion…well that can come from many quarters but notably from the understanding that music requires an audience, and what does an audience have, legitimacy.

Pink Floyd: Live From Los Angeles Sports Arena. Album Review. full post

(583 words, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)

Troy Mercy: Let The Night Begin. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Let The Night Begin in earnest, shake loose the dust that has collected and starting to crust over from days of intolerable boredom and frustrating stillness, for in the night, during the dark hours we can feel the earthly magic, the connection between long distance sound and the resonance of spirit, denied, crushed by suit, collar, and tie, and the ledger of the permanently stressed.

Troy Mercy: Let The Night Begin. Album Review. full post

(359 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Doris Brendel: Searching For Snails. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There are musicians and stars who become iconic, not through some sense of extravagance on stage, some outspoken theory they proudly proclaim to the masses and has each person wrapped up in the light’s glow and which carries the bombastic tones and arrogance ill befitting artistic endeavour, but with a sense of guile, of persuasion, the stardom of the interaction framed by stimulating works and ideas…its like comparing gossip to meaningful conversation, and a truth worth exploring and motivating.

Doris Brendel: Searching For Snails. Album Review. full post

(333 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Jim Eannelli: Don’t Bring Me Down. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

A sentence does not need to be lengthy to make impact, it does not require a grand gesture to be memorable, it just needs to be spoken with clarity, and with the softness of a person who understands that the strength of the words is underlined with the force of a heart refusing to be broken, who sees joy as sacrosanct, almost holy.

Jim Eannelli: Don’t Bring Me Down. Single Review. full post

(275 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

Marc Broussard: Chance Worth Taking. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

There is seeing an certain opportunity, and then there is the effect that a Chance Worth Taking has on the mind, one seems calculated, often designed, gouged with determination out of stone and placed in the pantheon of marbled thought that seems to be congratulated out of simplicity by an awaiting audience, nodding sagely as if completely enthralled and patiently abiding; and yet there seems to be a kind of earthly magic, a spell cast with love and heart rather than conspicuous premeditation…and it is to this that the effect on those on the receiving end of this chance should focus their adoration upon, for it more human, more complex, and a darn sight more beautiful.

Marc Broussard: Chance Worth Taking. Album Review. full post

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

Joe Jackson: Hope And Fury. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Joe Jackson is one of those incredible musicians and lyric writers that make the sound of the autobiographical so human, so very obviously in love with what it means to bare the soul through the dedication to the observation of each word and how it works with emotion, memory, and the pleasure of the listener’s attention…it is the poet within the art, the eyewitness to history’s personal unfolding, and all within the boundaries of Hope And Fury, beyond the limitations set by other’s unmeasured mind.

Joe Jackson: Hope And Fury. Album Review. full post

(345 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)