Category Archives: Music

Montao: What In The World. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Collaboration across genres can be seen as more than acceptance, it is a quality of endeavour that pushes not only boundaries but the mind as well, it makes the soul grow in ways that can only be expressed as nurturing, understanding, and creatively beautiful.

What In The World is apt phrase when we first hear the way that a relationship between two different styles can not only work, it can be enlightening, and that is exactly what the merging of music finds as the exciting track by Montao fills the air and we understand the fruit of endeavour and the brilliance of association.

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(276 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

Darrel Treece-Birch’s Atlantea: Choices. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Are we the parts that we chose to cultivate, the interests we refused to let go; or are we the result of determination that was passed down by the branches of our family tree that never had the chance or the choice to be realised in the past, and which only now are being asserted in our possible futures?

Choices they are not ours to make, despite the illusion of options and preference, in truth the determination of variety has been long selected before we arrived at the moment of truth, and it is moment few of us our willing to acknowledge, let alone discuss in conversation or admire in the world of art.

Darrel Treece-Birch’s Atlantea: Choices. Album Review. full post

(444 words, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

Billy Joel: The Album Collection – Volume 2. Vinyl Boxset Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

It feels as though maybe Time had stopped for a while, the clocks refusing to move forward in fear of losing a precious commodity, not wanting to reveal the final performances of arguably one of music’s most important figures of the latter half of the 20th Century, and yet after two long years in which the world has found its way to damage itself, what holds dear is that art has the power to heal if people are willing to spend time in its company and do more than pay lip service to its message and its potency.

Billy Joel: The Album Collection – Volume 2. Vinyl Boxset Review. full post

(506 words, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)

Richard Hawley: Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The world could be said to be too constricted by the narrowness in which we look for human artistic longevity. It is perhaps our own fault, for we have become enamoured with the world of the quick fix, the instant image, the need to swipe quickly if the image does not immediately grab our attention or find us simpering in the presence of what we consider momentary beauty.

We need to relearn the art of patience, to meld the now and the then together so we can see how the lines were created between the two moments of appreciation.

Richard Hawley: Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley. Album Review. full post

(470 words, estimated 1:53 mins reading time)

Dire Straits: Live 1978-1992. Album Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Undoubtedly Dire Straits should be thought of one of the most dynamic and talented groups to have graced the studio and the arenas of the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, a sound caught in the whirlwind of zeitgeist, an image that had listeners obsessed with the way the guitar evoked such a feeling of drama and fierce complex emotions, how it tied with the lyrical poetic form of anguish, of nostalgia, and the combination of what was bordering on Progressive with the length of songs that were unveiled in each studio album, or the form they took in expanding a narrative.

Dire Straits: Live 1978-1992. Album Box Set Review. full post

(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

Nordic Viola: Elsewhere, Elsewhen. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

However much we hold onto the beauty of the southern aspect of Europe as being a dream of existence within our souls, the sense of sultry evenings and flowing wines, of warmth keeping our blood alive, we must acknowledge, that the north of the continent has its own history which runs in our D.N.A. The sagas might not be as well versed amongst the population as those that scintillated and remained from Rome or Greece, but they persist, they have meaning and we must accept that ancient civilizations and their ability to enthral through art is just as important as that which the likes of Ovid or Aristophanes excelled.

Nordic Viola: Elsewhere, Elsewhen. Album Review. full post

(377 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Black Grape: Orange Head. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Life’s beige acceptance has meant that we are now outraged by people who a decade ago would have been left by the wayside as non-entities, as the fools they have shown themselves to be, and we are the ones to whom have paid the price for the simpering maladjustment of grandeur we have afforded them.

Black Grape: Orange Head. Album Review. full post

(403 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Afton Wolfe: The Harvest. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

How we use language is a guide to how we see humanity, the more it is flourished, how it insists upon growth and diversity, the way it is structured with words that adaptable, malleable, full of strong conscious words that make a person weep with exultation and dream of peace, then the chances are that the language used is one of a truth that has been truly embraced.

Afton Wolfe: The Harvest. Album Review. full post

(392 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Kalandra: Bardaginn. Single Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

You don’t have to understand the words spoken to acknowledge their meaning. You don’t have to recognise the language to absorb the proposal, or the aim of the dialogue and conversation intended; all that is required is to tell the difference between the struggle and the light in someone’s heart for you to feel the empathy in your soul for their song.

We live in a time of mass confrontation, all sides flexing muscles that have been hidden through diplomacy and friendship, suddenly raw and exposed and dripping with sentiments that threaten the safety of all caught in the crossfire of the oncoming storm and battle.

Kalandra: Bardaginn. Single Review. full post

(325 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

Kirsty MacColl: See That Girl. Box Set Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

To wander with interest through the life of an artist’s complete work is a privilege of time, but it can also be one filled with the melancholic sadness as the listener is reminded constantly of what might have been, how they might have been able to See That Girl or young lad who grew to be one of the most encompassing artists of the listener’s life pass on far before their time.

Kirsty MacColl: See That Girl. Box Set Review. full post

(466 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)