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21st January 202120th January 2021 Track Leave a comment indienewsrock

Karta & Kompass

Urtidsdjur's self-titled debut album, originally released only on vinyl, is now also available on streaming services. To coincide with this milestone the band has released a video of the Karta & Kompass track. As you can see, their unerring navigational skills have brought them to their destination in high spirits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFnilOaU1Q The figure on that…Read more Karta & Kompass

14th January 2021 Track Leave a comment 1980spoprocksoulTrack of the Weekuniversal appeal

Unchain My Heart

Unchain My Heart was written by a guy called Bobby Sharp (about whom I know nothing more). It was recorded by Ray Charles in 1961, by Trini Lopez in 1963 and, of more relevance to this post, by Joe Cocker in 1987. Here's a somewhat muted video of Joe Cocker's version. I recommend you turn…Read more Unchain My Heart

30th December 2020 Track Leave a comment 1970sfolkTrack of the Week

The Priest

Grantchester is a village just outside Cambridge (the UK city famous for its university, not the suburb of Boston, MA). It was the setting for a series of whodunnit short stories, The Grantchester Mysteries, by James Runcie. The books spawned a TV series called simply, Grantchester - the headline picture here is a still showing…Read more The Priest

22nd December 2020 Track Leave a comment 2020sjazzTrack of the Week

Answer Me

This week Spotify offered to tell me what I have missed this year. They had already done all the work for me; there on the home page was a playlist titled Missed Hits. My search for a track-of-the-week would be easy this time - there were bound to be one or two worthy candidates lurking…Read more Answer Me

14th December 2020 Track 1 Comment 2000s2020salternativeelectronicaprogressive rockTrack of the Week

11-11

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the armistice that ended the fighting of the first World War came into effect. Although, technically, the war had been neither won nor lost, effectively, it marked the defeat of the German armed forces. The peace treaty itself took another 6…Read more 11-11

7th December 2020 Track Leave a comment 2020spoetryTrack of the Week

Christmas Eve

It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas. The high street shops are busy (so I'm told), fairy lights are quietly materialising all over our village and this poem appeared on my radar recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZCZIXmC8GE Liz Berry is a poet steeped in the local culture of England's West Midlands. The area where she grew up…Read more Christmas Eve

23rd November 2020 Track 1 Comment 1980s2010sclassicalHubzilla RecommendsmusicalTrack of the Week

The Phantom of the Opera

On the whole Crotchety Man doesn't like musicals. I have seen a handful, either on stage or as a film, but they usually leave me cringing with embarrassment for the writers, the cast and the poor, long suffering audience. There are exceptions: Hair had some good songs and a decent storyline; The Little Shop of…Read more The Phantom of the Opera

16th November 202016th November 2020 Track 1 Comment 2020sTrack of the Weekuniversal appeal

The Trouble With Angels

It's no secret that King Crimson is one of my very favourite bands. They are also the archetypal prog rock band; they practically invented the genre as the swinging sixties dissolved into the sickly seventies. But it would be a lie to label this track from King Crimson's vocalist and second guitarist, as prog rock.…Read more The Trouble With Angels

9th November 2020 Track Leave a comment 1990sjazzmbaqangaTrack of the Weekworld

Stimela

National Railways of Zimbabwe class 15A 4-6-4+4-6-4 'Garratt' steam locomotive no. 410 'Inkolomi' (built by Beyer Peacock in 1950) at Heany Junction, Zimbabwe, with a coal train, 29th July 1992. Never use two words where one will do. That's what they tell aspiring writers. So let's use the South African word for "coal train" -…Read more Stimela

5th November 202020th January 2021 Track Leave a comment 2020sindienewsrock

Vandringssång

We met a Swedish prehistoric beast for the first time in September when this blog featured Trippar Runt Dig, a single released ahead of Urtidsdjur's forthcoming eponymous album. It was just a short exploratory trip then but those guys are on a much longer journey now. Here's the first single taken from the album itself,…Read more Vandringssång

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