Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We are more than just players upon the stage, we also have the responsibility of selling the tickets to this mad show we call life, we are the agents taking the cash in the small wooden booth, we are the ushers, the refreshment sellers, and we are the audience; the hats we wear, the songs we must sing, we are the response to the belief that All The World Is A Stage.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
What is Footwork but the belief that every soul can dance.
The urge to see your feet moving in time to a rhythm is universal, and even those who profess to dislike the frivolity of dancing, still enjoy the toes tapping as they accompany the mind in appreciating what they are hearing, what they are experiencing being played out before them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The subtly of Sheila K. Cameron’s performance hides a voice that the listener cannot help but look to when the surroundings call for enlightenment and passion, for when the regaling of beauty and atmosphere are in tandem, the reveal is all the more sweeter for having been in its company.
Life, like music, requires constant renewal as well as novel application of thought; you cannot live on new songs alone, the structure of the enjoyment requires a previous background upon which to work, to appreciate how far you and the performer have come, but also the same songs being presented in the same way time after time becomes dull, routine, and will eventually lose their appeal unless they are renewed, have fresh breath blown into them.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Nowhere in England perhaps encompasses the feeling of open beauty, of revealed fables and secret language as that of the West Country. Its accent, the sometimes-insular belief and its welcoming arms can keep the confidential close to its heart whilst allowing the rest of England to view its soul with astonishment and grudging respect.
There is nothing vague or ill-defined about the life and heartbeat of the West Country, its music, its art, its belief, and the measured darkness, is blunt in its delivery, even with the voice that carries kindness and trustworthy approach, and it is because of the darkling, the ambiguous that becomes more entrenched the further you investigate its inner shores.
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In celebration and commemoration, that is how the marking of time is meant to show how much we care about an event, or indeed the human spirit that may have created or been instrumental in its happening.
Surrounding herself with the appreciation and insight of the American sage of Woody Guthrie on what would have been his 110th birthday, Monica Taylor, The Cimarron Songbird brings her own stories of ‘dirt roads, home, fence posts and trains’ to the fore in the haunting and yet fulsome new album, Trains, Rivers & Trails.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The sense of reveal that is to be found when a person is presented with a picture of the past that has been taken in black and white, and that in which the hues and shades have been colourised are obviously jaw dropping. The spectacle of the monochromatic and its mood of silence, of era’s framed by coal dust and darkness, given life, given purpose in memory is startling, and yet both serve the photograph voyeur with meaning and with passion.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To be called prolific is normally reserved by those who are unsure on how to best describe the mountain of extraordinary work put in by an artist, the writer, the musician who keeps the style intact across volumes of their own imagination, their own fierce stamp on the world, for to be called prolific is both a sense of admiration, and a side swipe, what would be a finer and more desirable term is high volume creativity, or in the case of Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, inexhaustible excellence.
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Even in solitude we must endeavour to believe in contribution, for the lonely pursuit requires a meeting of minds somewhere along the path, whether from the sibling looking on in awe and wonder, or that person whose heart you have touched with just a simple anecdote elongated to create a tale so incredible that they live to hear it retold again; solitude may be the big bang of creation, but it means nothing unless someone is on the same Flight Paths as you.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If you wish to talk about events think of them in terms of centuries, if you believe in examining or showing the spirit of humanity it is best to show them in terms of a decade.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
We learn about different cultures, history, and geography is different ways, some from behind a desk cramming their brains with knowledge from books, periodicals and appropriate university-backed journals; others find that the simple act of following any sports team is enough to acquire the knowledge of a city, a town, and its people. Yet it is arguably only through travelling, of actually putting your soul into the world that we can honestly say we have seen the nooks and crannies, we have walked upon roads that now dead civilisations have trodden upon, we have breathed the same air as heroes and villains alike that have inhabited high office and low life bars alike…it is the place of the Low Mirada, where self-incrimination is more of a persuasive admittance that we have places and locations always on our minds.