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November 2023 Playlist
My relationship with Phil Collins and his music is a contradictory one. His voice and his sound are part of the pop fabric of my earliest music memories, I would have been nine years old when my memory of him gurning in the video of ‘You Can’t Hurry Love’ was sewn and as a fan… Read more
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2nd October 2023
Quantic featuring Andreya Triana – Run Quantic is the creative and performance identity of musician and producer Will Holland who has an incredible back catalogue with his unique melting pot of Latin, Disco, Soul, Jazz and Electro hybrid sounds which are invariably a delight to the audio senses. He first caught my attention over ten… Read more
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October 2023 Playlist
I went to a Record Fair this past month with a couple of friends both of whom are approximately twenty years younger than me. Other than the obvious cultural difference of trying to convince them that they are not called “vinyl’s,” it did occur to me that the major change in their visiting a fair… Read more
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25th September 2023
Aja Monet – The Devil You Know It matters little whether you regard Aja’s lyrical vocalising as a rap or poetry recital set to music, her words are what count and you cannot help but be entranced by the conviction in this delivery. Her music has a close association with Jazz and this track in… Read more
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18th September 2023
Blur – St Charles Square Much of Damon Albarn’s writing of late has tended towards the melancholic, maybe with good reason if there is turbulence in his personal life. Certainly it has been evident in his solo music and even the most recent Gorillaz album had more mournfulness than earlier work. On top of that… Read more
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11th September 2023
Hania Rani – Dancing With Ghosts Hania Rani is a Polish pianist who, in the 20twenties, has carved a natural patina on her instrument and presented a sound that is wholly her own. It is a glacial sound, a floating cloud of ambience, tension and release which seems to make most sense to me in… Read more
