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They don’t come much more rich and musically exotic as Tommy Emmanuel and Martin Taylor, two men whose work ethic and contribution to music is outstanding and what better way to enhance their reputation to in effect stratospheric proportions than by working together on the outstanding album The Colonel and The Governor.
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There can be no doubting the staying power of Richard Thompson, if anything the man who cut his musical teeth with the likes of Fairport Convention has become more prolific as the years have gone by and compared to those that that once stood alongside him, Richard Thompson remains as likeable and musically pleasing as he ever did, something he has proved once more in his latest release Electric.
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David Georgiou, the man behind the keys of Kingbathmat takes a peek from behind the curtains and like any musical maestro likes what he sees but knows that he can take it on another stage further and his release under the guise of The Sandpaper Eyebrows, the album Clockwork Utopia, takes the 21st century neo Metal-Progressive Rock to the next level.
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Remember this date, February 2013. If you purchase, borrow, lend or acquire Robert Vincent’s debut album Life In Easy Steps, it will be one of the most accessible, life affirming pieces of music that you are ever likely to hear, certainly this year and perhaps for the rest of the decade.
Such music is of course subjective, it always boils down to how the musician presents their image and thoughts onto you, others will agree and most will probably argue till they are blue in the face. If an album can reach into even the stoniest and hard hearted of souls and make them even quiver slightly, whether through excitement or pained and real memories then the album and the artist has done their job.
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After two stunning E.P.’s it was only a matter of time before Heaven’s Basement released a debut album that matched the ferocity and desire that their presence on the rock scene demanded. That time has come and the obliterating and karmic ear assaulting result is the fantastic Filthy Empire.
Despite publicised line-up changes the transition between E.P. releases and this new album, it seems to have been an easy one and certainly the lead vocals appear to be in good hands in Aaron Buchanan as he rages, thunders and fumes against lots of humanity’s wrongs and ills.
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It will be an album that divides opinion and there will be those that try their damndest to compare it some of the most iconic albums of Adam Ant’s career. Highly unfair bearing in mind that Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter is the first new studio album by the British charming prince of 1980s pop for 13 years. Why would you want to try and go back to a period which you dominated and in which the scene has moved on, not exactly for the better either? Hard to be a star again, sparkling incessantly against some of the dull and tarnished pop acts of this generation.
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Like the great British post Punk band Goldblade, there are some bands that typify their genre, the big brash sound and verbal generosity that makes them just sound a cut above so many of their peers and those following in their wake. Bad Religion might not appeal to everyone, but they are truly one of the greats, live and in the studio.
Bad Religion’s latest offering, the sublime True North, follows on their rich tradition of wrapping great stories up in the heat and bitter furnace of punk’s anti authority and like Goldblade they succeed in getting you to question just what is being force fed down the throat.
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Following up from the 2010 album All’s Well That Ends Well, Steve Lukather once more comes up with guitar gold in his latest release Transition.
Transition is perhaps an apt title for the album for the former Toto man. It is by far his most biographical release and as each track flows over the listener thoughts and nestles into the conscious, the songs hit home hard that this is a man, a musician, who is looking back at his life and taking issue with the past fall outs and people and who acknowledges that he is bigger and better than any argument.
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Terms & Conditions Apply may sound as foreboding as it is ominous but in the hands of cult hard rock band U.F.O.’s songwriter and rhythm guitarist Paul Raymond it is a statement of musical intent that shows just how influential and talented this talismanic Hertfordshire man is.
Paul Raymond may be better known for his work U.F.O. and the Michael Schenker Group but Terms & Conditions Apply by the Paul Raymond Project is an album of quality and distinction with some incredible small surprises mixed into the venture. Always endeavouring to make sure that the sound he creates is uppermost in the thoughts of the multitude who have listened to his work, whether in the early days with Savoy Brown or in his beloved U.F.O. band.
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David Garside seems to have always ploughed his own furrow when it comes to making and performing music, however he certainly follows in the footsteps of some of the great and musically innovative musicians that have hailed from the realms of Birmingham. In his latest album, the appealing and beguiling End Of The Pier, the emotion and haunting nature of David’s love of his favourite music and determination to stretch his and the audience’s attention have made for a sound that grabs the listener.