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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

26th October 2020 Track Leave a comment 1970sambientelectronica

Silver Pendulum

So, I was thinking about time shifts: from British Summer Time to Greenwich Meantime, or the paradoxes of space-time rifts in Science Fiction stories. And I wondered if I could find some music on that theme. It's not as easy as you might imagine but, eventually, the naïve search algorithm chanced upon a title that…Read more Silver Pendulum

28th June 2020 Track Leave a comment 2020selectronicaprogressive rockpsychedelic rockTrack of the Weekworld

Humboldt Currant

  I know of two things named after Alexander von Humboldt: a penguin and an ocean current. The current flows northwards along the coast of Chile and Peru bringing cooler waters from the southern oceans up to the tropics where it provides a plentiful supply of nutrients for the marine life there. The penguin is…Read more Humboldt Currant

10th November 2019 Album Leave a comment 2010sAlbum of the Monthalternativecosmic drossdanceelectronica

Attention Earth!

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Yes, folks, the aliens have landed. And they have brought their extra-terrestrial music to save us from ourselves. Billions of years ago Zpor was forced to leave his home planet of Agricular before it was consumed by its dying sun. He visited Xylanthia in the Sirius star system where…Read more Attention Earth!

21st July 2019 Playlist 4 Comments 2000s2010sambientelectronicafilmPlaylist

Magnificent Desolation

50 years ago yesterday man first landed on the moon. It was about 9:20 pm by the clock in the Crotchety Family's apartment when Mission Control confirmed that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had landed safely on the lunar surface. We had already been watching live TV pictures for two or three hours and it…Read more Magnificent Desolation

14th April 2019 Album, Track Leave a comment 2010sambientelectronicapost-rockTrack of the Week

End VII

Can the ends ever justify the means? Take lying, for example. Are little white lies sometimes the morally correct thing to do or is it always wrong to be untruthful? Should you tell a seriously injured woman that her new-born baby was killed in the car crash that put her broken body in a hospital…Read more End VII

10th March 2019 Track Leave a comment 2000sambientdream-popelectronicafree downloadTrack of the Week

Mexicola

Spring has arrived in Crotchety Village. The snowdrops have come and gone, the daffodils are blooming, catkins are on the trees ... and when I got up this morning it was snowing. Yes, Spring is a season of contrasts in the UK. After last month's record high temperatures Winter has returned with a vengeance, foisting…Read more Mexicola

9th September 2018 Track Leave a comment 2010sclassicalelectronicaorchestral beatsTrack of the Weekworld

Landscapes

No other band sounds like Hidden Orchestra. Or so I believed. But perhaps the Crotchety Research Elves just hadn't mapped that part of the musical landscape thoroughly enough yet. Recruiting the Global Network of Discovery and Spotify as guides, Crotchety Man embarked on a journey of exploration. Those regions were not thought to be dangerous but…Read more Landscapes

1st July 2018 Track 2 Comments 2010salternativeambientelectronicafolkTrack of the Week

Let the Cards Fall

Fate is fickle, they say. On another day her pointing finger may have selected the indie pop of A Trick of the Light by The Villagers or the classical/folk guitar work of Impossible Air by Nathan Salsburg. But, today, she has guided Crotchety Man to a new single release by The Breath called Let the…Read more Let the Cards Fall

28th January 20182nd February 2020 Album Leave a comment 2010sAlbum of the Monthambientelectronicafolk rockmetalpost-rockprogressive rock

Burning Shed Free EP

Back in March 2017, in my Album of the Month post on Moroccan Roll by Brand X, I opined that the latest incarnation of the band had fully rekindled the energy and enthusiasm of their early albums. As evidence I cited a live version of Malaga Virgen recorded on their reunion tour just a few…Read more Burning Shed Free EP

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