Monthly Archives: December 2017

SULTANS OF STRING – Christmas Caravan

December 22, 2017

Fontana North / Red 2017 Taking their eclecticism to new heights, merry gentlemen from Toronto deliver Yuletide letters from around the world – and get away with it. The method of melange has long been this band’s modus operandi, but … Continue reading →

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PROCOL HARUM To Release A Grandiose Box Set

December 21, 2017

“Still There’ll Be More”: there can be no better title for a massive – 5 CDs and 3 DVDs – box set that Esoteric Recordings are to issue on March 23rd to mark, a bit belatedly (the work on it … Continue reading →

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JENNIFER SARAN – Soulful Christmas

December 19, 2017

Tarpan 2017 Another box of Yuletide presents from American songstress who asked us to and . Apparently 2015’s was so auspicious a debut for Ms Saran that, two years down the line, she’s returning to the same place. The homecoming theme … Continue reading →

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Interview with Ian McDonald

December 18, 2017

To be an original – and very prominent in creative terms – member of two highly influential and perennially popular bands, quite different in their style, it takes some bravado… Only that’s not the word one would associate with Ian … Continue reading →

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HONEY WEST – Bad Old World

December 18, 2017

Readout 2017 Couple a dramatic actor with a pedigree-unburdened rocker, and there’s no stopping the world for you to get off, because the quicker it spins the friskier it gets. Once in a while, musicians come in pairs of two … Continue reading →

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