music

Ana Silvera at The Roundhouse, Reviewed

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Whilst I am here tonight to indulge in and feed my addiction to beauty, I am not expecting to find a beekeeping ally. But I do.

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Tunng, the experimental folk band – Interviewed

How would you most like to change the world?
Compulsory bouncy castles for all households..

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Forgotten Treasurable Pleasurables

So, of course, this column is about the albums not the groups who made the albums. If you want to know about the groups then there’s the internet. I don’t remember the great events of 1986 very well, the cursory gestures of world wide organisations or the embracing of existential prudence by a superpower but what I do remember was hearing music.

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Polar Bear Ain’t No Jazz Standard

There’s trad jazz, acid jazz, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, free jazz. There are even those that call themselves punk jazz. But despite this plethora of genres, Polar Bear, who played at the Firestation at the closing of last month are still pretty much indefinable. They are jazz-something but what is another question. Taking their influences [...]

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Monica Ward keeps Bez and Domino Bones from toppling

“Stand up Windsor!” shouted Bez as he began ranting like a pill-popping preacher. At the same time Ward was using that instrument of hers to great effect, splicing together the songs in a chaotic rollercoaster ride of an arrangement.

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Forgotten Treasurable Pleasurables

Music. There’s a lot of it about isn’t there? On the telly, on the radio, on the internet, in our heads, memories and hearts. Some of it is big and ugly and some of it’s small and beautifully formed; some of it loud and pompous, some of it quiet and reserved. Some of it prevails but, sadly, most of it is forgotten. So come on, let’s all sit down, stop watching that pointless rubbish over there and hear it for the treasurable pleasurables.

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Goodbye Nine, Hello Ten.

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Sound-hound Duncan Gordon looks back at the bands that made 2009 and forward to 2010 to see what will be blowing your ears clean off your head in the months to come.

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In A Fine Frenzy – an interview with Alison Sudol

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One Cell In The Sea is a rare album, instantly familiar yet fresh and distinctive. It’s not a grower, Alison’s voice is immediately capitivating and the quality of songwriting shines from the first track to the last.

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