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  • Review – Cosmograf – Live At The 1865 (Official Bootleg)

    Review – Cosmograf – Live At The 1865 (Official Bootleg)

    A small and enthusiastic audience of Cosmograf fans assembled one Sunday night in May ?23 at The 1865, Southampton, UK to witness Robin Armstrong and his live band play a 2 hour show covering songs from the breadth of his music over the last 9 or so albums. There was no original intention for the…

  • Review – Galahad – The Long Goodbye

    Review – Galahad – The Long Goodbye

    Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. – Percy Bysshe Shelley. Music is essential and life would not be complete without it, where words fail, music can always express what we are feeling and Galahad have always had that uncanny knack of resonating with me on a sub conscious level. This long revered…

  • Review – Galahad – The Last Great Adventurer

    Review – Galahad – The Last Great Adventurer

    “A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” Colbie Caillat. A simple caveat to an art form that transforms our daily lives into something utterly different. If you’re like me than music can take you to a much better place, my life would not be what it is…

  • Review – Lee Abraham – Comatose – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Lee Abraham – Comatose – by Kevin Thompson

    So how does one of your favourite guitarists improve on his previous excellent releases How about making it a concept album What if it’s all one track Hmm, let’s see shall we? The haunting beep of a life support machine with mourning guitar introduces us to Numb-Pt 1 . Wait…I thought this was all one…

  • Review – Riversea – The Tide – by Progradar

    Review – Riversea – The Tide – by Progradar

    Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.? – Alphonse de Lamartine What a wonderful quote and it fits perfectly how I feel after listening to the long awaited second album from Riversea, the on/off musical project of my good friends Marc Atkinson and Brendan Eyre. The music and lyrics that…

  • Review – Galahad – Seas of Change – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Galahad – Seas of Change – by Kevin Thompson

    A columnist from an upmarket daily mentioned recently, that this time of year isn’t good for new music. How do these people get employed? Two weeks into the new year and the quality of releases out and arriving are breathtaking, in scope and variation. Anticipation is at fever pitch at the expectation of numerous releases…

  • Review – Cosmograf – When Age Has Done Its Duty (2018 remix) – by Progradar

    Review – Cosmograf – When Age Has Done Its Duty (2018 remix) – by Progradar

    In the sleeve notes for the comprehensive new package that comes with this remix of Cosmograf’s 2011 critically acclaimed release ‘When Age Has Done Its Duty’, Robin Armstrong writes, “I sometimes think about all the people I once knew that are now gone and I very much struggle to come to terms with their collective…

  • Review – Lee Abraham – The Seasons Turn – By Leo Trimming

    Review – Lee Abraham – The Seasons Turn – By Leo Trimming

    The Seasons Turn, the latest impressive album by Lee Abraham, has the theme of the passing of time interweaved through the songs. “There’s never such certainty in life, but that’s the game Just watch the Seasons Turn, never with a sense of shame Watch the Seasons Turn as another year goes by Feel the winter…