Somewhere between chords and notes, every person who wants to start playing guitar seems captivated by its sound and the way this instrument is played. At first, almost every person is clueless and not aware that this kind of process takes a lot of time, patience, and consistency. It may seem very easy and not as challenging, but in reality, learning to play this amazing instrument can sometimes be very demanding.
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As little as Nina Hagen may be associated with spiritual music, her 2009 album “Personal Jesus” provided a deep insight into the German singer’s ability to deliver emotions of different caliber to feelings dredged by her punk roots and admired by her many international followers. And as it turns out, that platter wasn’t a one-off, because March 27th will see the release of “Highway To Heaven” whose title can suggest a couple of rock anthems, which are not on t there, and whose contents find the chanteuse inhabit perennials from the repertoires of Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and other gospel artists as well as country performers like Kitty Wells.
Never being a bunch of slouches – what with five longplays released during their first two years as recording artists –THE BEVIS FROND may have slowed down a bit in recent years, yet the veterans seem to pick up such slack, and will soon follow 2024’s “Focus On Nature” with a double album. Titled “Horrorful Heights” and scheduled to see the light on April 3rd, it features, alongside the ensemble’s mastermind Nick Saloman, the collective’s mainstays Paul Simmons on guitar and Dave Pearce on drums as well as newly recruited bassist Louis Wiggett.
It’s been thirty years since MANSUN formed, and although this British ensemble wrapped up their activities in 2003, the band’s songs are still fondly remembered by a lot of listeners, let alone by Paul Draper who used to front the collective. Surprisingly, the singer-songwriter’s subsequent career yielded not too many records – his discography numbers only a couple studio longplays, 2017’s “Spooky Action” and “Cult Leader Tactics” from 2022, two concert albums, three EPs and quite a few singles – so the project the veteran’s ready to release on February 20th must come as a pleasant offering for his fans.
It’s one of the great injustices: ignoring an excellent artist who might have lost erstwhile popularity yet retained all the brilliance of the talent which made him a hitmaker in the first place. Unfortunately, that’s what happened to Gavin Sutherland of THE SUTHERLAND BROTHERS fame. The veteran doesn’t seem to really mind, however, and a month ago, without much ado, he followed last year’s "A Fragile World" with another album one can also access on the British musician’s Bandcamp.
