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BRITISH pianist Neil Cowley, who released a septet of albums sitting astride the point where jazz begins to shade into modern composition and tronica over a period of ten years from 2006, has been on something of a musical journey. His previous combo, the Neil Cowley Trio, climaxed in the piano and tronica-led excellence of …

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RULE one: Japanese bands do brilliant, brilliant things with guitars: this is just fact. From the mind-blowing chaos of Melt-Banana to the heavy psych stylings of Acid Mothers Temple and Bo Ningen, down through the garage-rawk of Guitar Wolf and the dreamy, trippy-hippy psych of Ghost, new and deeper appreciations of how to wield and …

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THE Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA), now in their eleventh year, is an annual celebration of the best in new leftfield Scottish music. This year’s live ceremony will take place online at 6.30pm on Wednesday, November 18th, in partnership with live streaming platform Twitch. The ceremony will include live performances from Glasgow quintet Walt Disco, who are known …

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AS WE approach the end of this accursed year and begin to summate the best of it – and more than any year as a species, thank the good lord above for the human gift for creative abstraction and catharsis – it’s an absolute dead cert that Bing & Ruth’s wholly immersive drone study Species …

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BLUE NOTE, the jazz imprint absolutely without parallel since 1939, has announced a new series of vinyl-only remasters and reissues to run from December into the middle part of 2021. Sixteen titles, all all-time classics of the jazz world, are up for inclusion so far in the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series – a …

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NOW that’s the kinda Christmas present every proper indiekid needs. Damaged Goods have announced a 2xLP and CD reissue of their classic round-up of Talulah Gosh’s entire recorded output, Was It Just A Dream? – and as if that wasn’t enough to make December already a far more welcoming prospect, they’ve also, in the absolute …

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LOST MAP RECORDS, the beautifully curated imprint run by The Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from the Scottish island Eigg, has a second series of V I S I T ▲ T I O N S ready for you: a subscriber-only, three-part set of special limited-edition releases, written and recorded in rural seclusion in a “bothy” cabin …

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FORMER Genesis axeman Steve Hackett has released a live recording from his 2019 UK tour, entitled Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live at Hammersmith. The album came out last Friday, September 25th. Steve Hackett joined Genesis at the beginning of 1971 and was part of the classic prog-era line-up which also included …

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QUEST ENSEMBLE, the British trio comprised of pianist Filipe Sousa, cellist Tara Franks and violinist Preetha Narayanan, are finally releasing their warmly evocative LP The Other Side on vinyl this Friday, September 18th.  With bottlenecks in vinyl pressing yet another of the many-headed hydra of consequences of the corona virus, the vinyl arrives for purchase …

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YORKSHIRE’S rather excellent shoegazers bdrmm have announced a new EP, The Bedroom Tapes, which they’ll be releasing through the offices of Sonic Cathedral on October 23rd. The EP will consist of seven tracks, and will collate remixes and lockdown sessions as a follow-up to their excellent debut album Bedroom, which was released earlier in the …

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