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Review – Mayfire – Cloudscapes & Silhouettes – by Rob Fisher
Some albums have an uncanny ability to quickly etch themselves on your soul, delivering an adrenaline-fuelled rush of tingling elation which makes you truly glad to be alive. Alive is certainly how you will feel by the time you reach the end of Cloudscapes and Silhouettes, heart-rate elevated, blood coursing through your veins, wide-eyed with…
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Review – Everything But The Girl – Fuse – by Dr. Rob Fisher
Do you sing to heal the broken hearted? wonders Tracey Thorn with a tone of whimsical curiosity, Or do you sing to get the party started? Emerging from the darkness, approaching the microphone, she confesses I like the mic, and I like the dark, I like the mood, and it lights a spark. (Karaoke, Track…
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Review – Brother ape – Karma – by Rob Fisher
Brother ape happily portray their scintillating seventh studio album ‘Karma’ as being the result of their current point of evolution . It’s an astute comment which casts a revealing light on the ways in which the band have been developing across the four years since the release of the pulsating ‘Force Majeure’ in 2014. ‘Karma’…
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Beatrix Players – Magnified Tour – Hoxton Hall , London, 12th May 2017 – by Rob Fisher
You would never know it was there. The automatic sliding doors give no hint of the majestic secret hidden within. Originally built in 1863, Hoxton Hall is a wonderful example of a good old fashioned saloon-style music hall, the modest central stage fronting a spacious ground floor, with impressive cast iron columns supporting two levels…
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Beatrix Players Play Hoxton Hall on 11th May 2017
Through their enchantingly dark and evocative melodies, expansive arrangements and empowered orchestral sound Beatrix Players tell stories of real life and fantasy. Citing influences as diverse as Michael Nyman and Regina Spektor and drawing comparisons to the likes of Kate Bush and Einaudi Ludovico, this London-based, all female trio combine elements of Folk, Jazz, Progressive…
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Review – Beatrix Players – Magnified – by Rob Fisher
There are few delicious pleasures in life as wonderfully satisfying than being so completely absorbed and utterly enthralled by the music to which you are listening that all sense of time, space and place are temporarily forgotten. ‘Magnified’ is exactly that kind of delightful surprise, effortlessly exerting a mesmerising and seductive captivation which renders this…
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Review – Steve Hackett – The Night Siren – by Rob Fisher
The bewitching call of the Sirens is reported to have been irresistible. Mesmerised by the enchanting beauty of their songs, sailors were lured to their inevitable destruction on the rocks surrounding Scylla and Charybdis. Only two people are recorded as having escaped the compelling singing of these beautiful hybrid creatures: Odysseus returning home from the…
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Progradar Best of 2016 – Rob Fisher’s Top Ten
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Review – Damian Wilson – Built For Fighting – by Rob Fisher
I can’t help feeling there is something of an unfortunate disconnect between the expectations encouraged by the forceful and uncompromising visual imagery portrayed by the cover artwork and the reality of the music you find yourself hearing in light of those expectations. Whether this is something to do with a perception of Wilson’s image or…
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Review – Blind Ego – Liquid – By Rob Fisher
I first came across Blind Ego courtesy of having originally discovered the delights of ‘World Through My Eyes (2005)’ by German based band RPWL. In the process of discovering more about them it emerged that lead guitarist Kalle Wallner was also running a solo project by the name of Blind Ego who, by pure coincidence,…