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Month: October 2017

29th October 2017 Track 1 Comment folkorchestralprogressive rockTrack of the Week

Starless

For those who are unfamiliar with the British folk music scene The Unthanks are a five-piece folk group led by sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank. The band was formed in 2004 as an all female group called Rachel Unthank and the Winterset. After lineup changes that brought Adrian McNally into the band as pianist, arranger, producer…Read more Starless

22nd October 2017 Track 5 Comments alternativeclassicalTrack of the Weekworld

Purinjiti

Today Crotchety Man is venturing off the beaten tracks, out into the trackless wastes of the Australian desert. He is the dark-skinned messenger carrying news of a recent performance of an atmospheric piece by the British composer David Warin Solomons. The message is both verbal and symbolic. As he walks barefoot over the sun-baked earth…Read more Purinjiti

15th October 201717th October 2017 Track 2 Comments fusionjazzsoft rockTrack of the Week

Corner Painter

Q: What's small, female, Australian and brilliant? A: Tal Wilkenfeld. No, it's not a joke. It's what I asked Mrs. Crotchety the other day after reading a blog post by CirdecSongs. The article was a personal appreciation of Jeff Beck and it just happened to mention Beck's bass player on his Live At Ronnie Scott's…Read more Corner Painter

14th October 201714th October 2017 Album 2 Comments Album of the Monthambientorchestral beats

Feathers

As promised in the previous post, here is my review of Feathers, the 2014 album by Poppy Ackroyd. It will be brief, not because the music is dull but because no dictionary in Crotchety Man's extensive library has adequate words for the soothing, susurrating sounds that emanate from the hi-fi when it is commanded to…Read more Feathers

8th October 2017 Track 3 Comments classicalcrossoverjazzorchestral beatsTrack of the Week

Bolek i Lolek

Nearly a year ago now Crotchety Man got very excited about a band/project called Hidden Orchestra. Regular readers will remember my review of the album Archipelago in which I introduced the term "orchestral beats" to describe the music of Joe Acheson and his collaborators. Since then there has been one other post in these pages…Read more Bolek i Lolek

1st October 20171st October 2017 Track 2 Comments boogierockTrack of the Week

Raise High …

I have a hard time finding a genre for Black Peaches, a band formed in 2014 by Rob Smoughton, the drummer with Hot Chip and Scritti Politti. On the band's Facebook page they describe their music as Southern Boogie, Country-Soul, Disco-Rock and Jazz. That's a combination the Crotchety Mind just can't grok. To make things…Read more Raise High …

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