Category Archives: Music

Jim Pearson: Death To Mortality. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Occasionally as a music listener you are transported to a place that is more than technically proficient, offers a finer sense of belief, and gives you a reason to smile in the darkness, one that insists there is a greater bounty to be found when we understand that being a casualty is a transience state of being, that we must be prepared to be vocal in our opposition to leaving the room silently, that in our defiant gestures we be certain to scream out Death To Mortality with all the fire of life we have ever displayed and forced out with that which is human.

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(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Frasier (2023). Series One. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salgueiro, Anders Keith, Jimmy Dunn, Kevin Daniels, Renee Pezzotta, Parvesh Cheena, Cheyenne Perez, Owen Lloyd, Amy L. Workman, John Bucy, Bebe Neuwirth, Peri Gilpin.

There are few actors that can so embody a character that they are capable of being that beloved person for more than one generation of television or film lovers; just a picture of them will place the viewer’s mind as one whose figure is nothing but the persona that they closely associate with, and nothing else they have done will frame the expression of laughter or dramatic role more.

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(518 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Decommissioned Forests: Chemistry. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Even those who decided early in school that the science lab was not for them will always appreciate that Chemistry is a human emotion worth savouring as well as a means to solving complex problems that plague humanity on a daily basis. Chemistry is what gives us meaning, the connection between worlds, of understanding, and admiring what makes the mind, the soul, and the heart such an unstoppable force when it fuses all the beliefs and dreams, they are capable of unleashing on the universe.

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(380 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Steely Dan: Gaucho. Album Reissue (2023) Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

As the albums are re-released for the modern era, with a greater sense of occasion and fierce debate attached to them, it is to be delighted to witness the return of Steely Dan to the conscious of the older listener and be appreciated by a younger crowd who weren’t aware of just how ahead of their time they were.

Steely Dan: Gaucho. Album Reissue (2023) Review. full post

(442 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Kate Rusby: Light Years. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The complexity of Christmas is such that it can cause inner conflict and turmoil to those who see the endless commercialism as an assault on their ability to not be downed in the saccharine and the overblown. To many the best part of the year is reserved not for the hype, but the beauty of the human experience of simple pleasures.

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

Peter Gabriel: i/o. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It could be speculated that to take two decades to release a new original album might see the artist in question expect to undergo a series of tough and rigorous demands and interrogations on the journey, on the distance, and how the new release might see them remain prevalent to a new generation of music listeners; especially in a period of time in which the extreme nature of art is as disposable as honour and understanding.

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

John R. Chatterton. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Such words have to be delivered with solemnity and with hand on heart, a declaration of involvement from the soul must be admitted, and yet upon hearing the genius that is John R. Chatterton you cannot help but feel the sense of occasion that arises, whether in the live, or in the fantastically produced self-titled recording welded together out of intent and presence…it is a clear message for those attending a gig that this album captures and frames the outstanding guitar playing of a musician to whom the world in its entirety should listen to.

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(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Yes: The Yes Album. Vinyl And C.D. Reissue Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The cynical will openly insist that any remix or even reissue is taken with perhaps more than eye on the pension coffers and lifestyles of the older statesmen and women of music, or worse…to line the pockets of the label owners who still revel n the success of those they once treated as cash cows.

Yes: The Yes Album. Vinyl And C.D. Reissue Review. full post

(416 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Rob Clarke: Blues Beats And Brel. Maxi Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Alliteration can be seen in some hands as a clumsy side effect of pretention, but in the hands of a true lover of human expression, observation, and sound, it is a heartbeat that cannot, must not, be ignored, for it is the prelude of the beauty of articulation that brings power to the performance and meaning to the soul.

The alliterative title of Rob Clarke’s three strong song maxi release, Blues Beats and Brel is one that sets the tone with a special resonance for the listener, and the tracks themselves are achingly cool and feel the surrounds with a generous and unrepentant heart.

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(299 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

John Wetton: An Extraordinary Life. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Time is not always our friend, that much is certain when we not only look at the way we have lived our lives, but that which is encapsulated in the mercurial and those with aura’s as big as their souls. Time does not grant us immortality, nor is it gentle enough to dare offer all An Extraordinary Life; we just make of it what will, our mistakes a guide, our inspirations the hopeful pleasure we take in their company.

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(447 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)