Horace Andy And Jah Wobble Harness Gist Of Dub On Joint Effort

August 22, 2024

One can derive any number of assumptions from the words “joint effort” – yet this is what a collaboration between Horace Andy and Jah Wobble should boil down to. Speaking about the latter’s mastery of dub, many tend to forget it’s not a recording technique that he’s famous for, his name suggesting as much, and the subgenre parental culture, reggae, was also the culture the former emerged from, so their pairing on an album titled “Timeless Roots” – which will be issued on September 27th – seems rather logical.

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Peter Daltrey Shines Kaleidoscopic Light Into Noisy Space

August 22, 2024

He’s come a long way from KALEIDOSCOPE and FAIRFIELD PARLOUR to see the likes of AYREON welcome him as an elder statesman, yet that doesn’t mean Peter Daltrey‘s oeuvre became patinated, and though last year’s "The Leopard And The Lamb" shone a light in the gloom of our times, its follow-up “The Rhymer In The Long-Tongued Room” that will be released on November 8th on vinyl and CD, and as a download, will surely be brighter if this platter’s title is anything to go by.

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Interview with Midge Ure

August 21, 2024

Soft-spoken when you speak to him and fierce when he’s facing the audience, Midge Ure may seem to embody contradiction – and such a core of this artist’s personality is also, perhaps, the very root of his creative vim, or élan if you prefer to focus on Ure’s elegance – something that he took to the fore with VISAGE, which he helped form, with ULTRAVOX, which he transformed, and of course, with his solo career. Midge last issued fresh music under his own name a decade prior to our tête-à-tête prefacing his Toronto show, but, as his performance proved in style, the seventy-year-old still feels relevant.

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COOKIN’ MAMA, Featuring Pat Thrall, Reissues Their Sole Album

August 21, 2024

A genuine guitar hero whose 1982 joint effort with Glenn Hughes unexpectedly turned out hugely influential, Pat Trall has many more accolades than that one platter. After all, Pat had played played on Stomu Yamashta’s "Go!...Live From Paris" and co-penned “Snortin’ Whiskey” with, and for, his namesake Travers, and would go to record and tour with ASIA and Meat Loaf. Yet while most of the veteran’s works are available on compact disc, one did not get a digital mastering: the only album by his first group, COOKIN’ MAMA, which finally sees the long-overdue reissue.

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Folk Rock Veterans HOME SERVICE Deliver “A Live Transmission”

August 20, 2024

Always in flux, HOME SERVICE may have come to be as a side project of ALBION BAND, yet they swiftly acquired their own identity – no mean feat on the British folk scene – and retain it despite the presence of not one but three GRYPHON members, guitarist Graeme Taylor, reedman Andy Findon and bassist Rob Levy, in the band’s current line-up. Founded in 1980 and reformed in 2011, the ensemble crafted only one studio album since the comeback, and it’s from 2016’s “A New Ground” that the veterans derive one piece on their forthcoming concert offering, alongside material off the collective’s ’80s platters and cuts which appeared on their previous on-stage documents.

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