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29th November 2021 Album 1 Comment 2020sambientjazzorchestral beatspost-rockworld

Monument

The al-Shaheed Monument, Baghdad Credit goes to my Spotify-curated Release Radar playlist for this week's topic. Item 28 in the list was a track by Portico Quartet called On the Light. It comes from Monument, the second album released this year by the band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Eos6c-MPA Live at the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, Camden, London. 3 February…Read more Monument

5th October 2021 Band/Artist Leave a comment 2010s2020sambientjazzprogressive rockworld

Burnt Belief

The witch will burn for her beliefs People believe all sorts of strange things. Everyone used to believe in witches - some still do. Unfounded rumours have always spread like wildfire. And, of course, fire was often the preferred way to rid the world of that evil wizardry. But fire never seems to expunge belief.…Read more Burnt Belief

25th August 2021 Track 1 Comment 2010sclassicalHubzilla RecommendsjazzTrack of the Weekworld

Distractions

I have been rather distracted over the last couple of days. When the schedule called for blogging I was reading about quantum theory or wrestling with crosswords. But today I'm determined to be productive. Of course, I'm short of time now, so what better way to salve the conscience than to offer two of the…Read more Distractions

13th June 202113th June 2021 Track Leave a comment 2020sBandcampjazzTrack of the Weekworld

Straight Path

Save every tree as if it's the last Let's go travelling today. We'll take the Straight Path all the way to Lahore in Pakistan. There we will meet a band called Jaubi that amalgamates Indian classical music with western jazz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0K_h1K0T2s This track sounds very much like something by Alice Coltrane. The scales and the…Read more Straight Path

5th April 20216th April 2021 Track Leave a comment 2010sacousticfolkHubzilla RecommendsTrack of the Weekworld

Te Acheres

I believe the title of this track-of-the-week, Te Acheres, is in the Ethiopian Amharic language1. Unfortunately, I have not been able to work out what it means. The Web does have the lyrics of the song and Google Translate will give a literal translation of them - but it refuses to decipher the title. And…Read more Te Acheres

30th November 2020 Playlist Leave a comment Afrobeatalternativejazzpoppost-rockprogressive rockuniversal appealworld

Order! Order!

Looking through my recent 'likes' I see several pieces worthy of a mention in these pages. So it's time for another playlist, methinks. But how do you choose the order of the tunes? Are there any rules? Or does it just come down to personal preference? And what happens if you get them horribly out…Read more Order! Order!

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

14th September 2020 Track 1 Comment 1990salternativeart rockHubzilla RecommendsTrack of the Weekworld

Song of the Stars

The dead can be many things. They can be buried or incinerated; they can be forgotten or revered. They can star in zombie films. They can even be grateful. But there's very little that the dead can do. And yet, according to one Australian duo, the dead can dance. Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard formed…Read more Song of the Stars

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

12th May 202012th May 2020 Album Leave a comment 1990sclassicalprogressive rockworld

An Outcast of the Islands

Or, Finding Colin This week Burning Shed is inviting pre-orders for an album called Still. This new release appears to be by a fish called Colin (Bass) and a pen called Daniel (Biro). Crotchety Man recognised the pen as a writer of ambient aural pieces but the fish was hidden in the aquatic weeds of…Read more An Outcast of the Islands

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