2015

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (L) and Maria Alekhina members of the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot pose for photographs at Amnesty International UK headquarters in East London on November 14, 2014, before speaking at a reception with activists who campaigned for their release from prison. AFP PHOTO / ANDREW COWIE        (Photo credit should read ANDREW COWIE/AFP/Getty Images)

8/9/17 – Pussy Riot – Organs – 2016 / I Can’t Breathe – 2015

Pussy Riot must be one of the most well-known bands in the world that don’t actually release records or sell tickets for live shows. But then they aren’t exactly a band, more a political collective, still, they do make music and it helps tremendously in pushing their cause. Of the clips below, the first, Organs, is a visceral modern […]

Steven Wilson - To The Bone - Cover Art - 2017

24/5/17 – Steven Wilson Featuring Ninet Tayeb – Pariah – 2017 / Ancestral – 2015 / Routine – 2015 / Don’t Hate Me – 2016

Steven Wilson releases a new album, To The Bone, on 18th August. Pariah is the first available track, a lighter more accessible sound and a duet with Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb. This isn’t Ninet’s first appearance on a Steven Wilson album. She appears on Routine and Ancestral from Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015). She also appears on […]

Zervas And Pepper

12/4/17 – Zervas And Pepper – Abstract Heart – 2015

Yesterday I posted songs called World Of Pain and We’re Going Wrong, on a lighter note, winding our way through the valleys and the beautiful scenery, relaxing into the bucolic setting, the singing accents and of beautiful voices – we find ourselves in Wales for an unlikely sound echoing through the fields in melodious waves. […]

Trementina Almost Reach The Sun Album Cover 2015

10/12/16 – Trementina – Almost Reach The Sun/ Kisses In Your Eyes Video – 2015

In this series I am investigating Chilean music from the past and present. One of the interesting aspects of this is the awareness of new bands from a country that most know little of. Unheard musical riches easily flounder not just in your country but in every country in the world, struggling against commercialism, fighting for attention, gems […]

The Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane Presents- Foxtrot Sierra's Surfin' Krautlifornia - Album Cover - 2016

7/12/16 – The Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane Presents: Foxtrot Sierra’s Surfin’ Krautlifornia – 2015

Sounding something like a soundtrack to a freaked out experimental sixties movie, including sudden abrupt scene changes, this album is essential to anyone that has fantasized about painting their girlfriend in the colours of the rainbow. Infectious grooves and anachronistic guitar sounds, sound effects, drones and sci-fi warbles, tremolo fuzz and primitive drum machines, glued […]