Dumbo Feather

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Sitting on the steps of the Sydney Opera House at the Crowded House Reunion concert. Our Vietnamese family amongst an a cappella choir of 6000 others singing “Fall at Your Feet,” thinking to myself, There are few moments in my life more Australian th

BBC Music Magazine

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In your January issue, Tom Service shows how Sibelius’s music evokes the wild nature of Finnish weather and landscapes. When listening to his music, particularly the symphonies, I always see a mode of travel: ocean liner crossing the Atlantic, railwa

Prog

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A bandoning a major European tour three years ago due to Covid, Lazuli retreated to their base in southern France, waiting for the world to re-open. During this protracted impasse, Dominique Leonetti wrote 11, a deeply personal collection of songs th

Prog

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prog.reviews@futurenet.com Jean-Michel Jarre achieved global recognition with his 1976 album Oxygène, selling 12 million albums at a time when progressive music was supposedly in retreat. Forty-six years later, he brings us Oxymore, which suggests we

Prog

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prog.reviews@futurenet.com Jean-Michel Jarre achieved global recognition with his 1976 album Oxygène, selling 12 million albums at a time when progressive music was supposedly in retreat. Forty-six years later, he brings us Oxymore, which suggests we

UNCUT

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Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono CANVASBACK/ATLANTIC 7/10 YOKO ONO has long inhabited a particular space between her reputation as a musical figure and her actual work as a songwriter and performer. She’s a visible and influential woman in music who ha

NPR

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During a turbulent year rife with personal and political trauma, the most memorable songs pulled no punches in the pursuit of pop.

Metal Hammer UK

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Amaranthe’s Elize Ryd and Olof Mörck can clearly remember the night they met. It was 2005 during an evening at Gothenburg’s now-defunct Diamond Dogs rock bar. At the time, Elize was an aspiring singer who had sung on a track by local band Falconer, c

Prog

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A recording studio in southern France called L’Abeille Rôde has been a veritable hive of activity over the past few months, where, like the bee that graces the band’s T-shirt slogan ‘Music flies over borders’, Lazuli have been buzzing. Tantalisingly,

Prog

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On the surface, the latest album from Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso is every bit as extravagant, flamboyant and artful as expected. The Italians’ 16th studio release, Orlando: Le Forme Dell’Amore is based on an epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto. First publish

Stereophile

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In an ordinary year, the name of this annual feature, published every February since 1991, is a harmless, even amusing joke. In last year’s opening essay, I evoked a heavily armed intruder perusing your record collection late at night and holding you

BBC Music Magazine

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Write to: The editor, BBC Music Magazine, Eagle House, Bristol, BS1 4ST Email: music@classical-music.com Social media: contact us on Facebook and Twitter LETTER of the MONTH In response to your 15 Unusual Ensemble Names feature (January), my all-time

Guernica Magazine

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The poet on his debut album—a tribute to and collaboration with his late wife, by The Interplanetary Acoustic Team—and the role of music in literary practice. The post Brian Turner: A Music That Suits Our Time on the Planet appeared first on Guernic

UNCUT

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PLUS! THE RHAPSODY WORLD TOUR REVEALED! PAGE 98 EVEN for a band as seasoned as Queen, a new tour presents certain tribulations. For example, as they resume their Rhapsody World Tour – including a 10-date residency at London’s O2 Arena – Brian May, Ro

UNCUT

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Does Spring Hide Its Joy IDEOLOGIC ORGAN 8/10 KALI MALONE isn’t an artist afraid of the monumental. An experimental musician whose work has for several years explored the relationship between sound and its environment, she has composed for choirs, go

UNCUT

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MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES 8/10 YOU can tell a lot about people from the company they keep – and by extension, about their creative expression. Take Rosalind Leyden, for instance, who’s consorted with wayward folkies, mercurial indie-pop types and experiment

What Hi-Fi?

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Although spatial audio for movies and TV is still an Apple device exclusive, the firm’s Apple Music proposition is definitely not limited to its AirPods or Beats headphones. Apple Music’s Dolby Atmos-powered spatial audio tech for music works with an

Stereophile

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This month’s music feature, by Mike Mettler, is an interview with John Doe, best known as cofounder, in 1977, of the legendary punk band X. During X’s long recording career, Doe’s urgent voice has offset the starkly contrasting voice of co–lead vocal

New Zealand Listener

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This year, Hayley Williams of the US rock band Paramore released her debut album, Petals for Armor. However, 10 of the 15 songs had already been released as two EPs. And all five on the second had been singles. In the world of streaming, the definiti

New Zealand Listener

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by Adrianne Lenker This unusual, engrossing album was recorded in a backwoods studio, and that ambience complements these stark songs. On the opener, Real House, Lenker – of New York’s experimental alt-folk outfit Big Thief – weaves a six-minute rem

Guitarist

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Hankering for new songs that blend Americana and soul? Well, this might be the album of the year for you, then, as The Bros Landreth are back with 10 songs rich in atmosphere, taste and craftsmanship. For the uninitiated, the band is led by singer/gu

UNCUT

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Love In Exile VERVE 8/10 WHEN Arooj Aftab scooped a pair of nominations at the 2022 Grammys, walking home with a gong for Best Global Music Performance, it felt not so much like a shock victory as recognition that was long overdue. Born in Saudi Arab

Prog

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The great and good of progressive music give us a glimpse into their prog worlds. As told to Grant Moon Where’s home? Sunny Swindon. Your earliest prog memory? Hearing 10cc’s I’m Mandy Fly Me on the radio, around 1976. I was 10 years old. It was the

Total Guitar

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One of the greatest gifts an artist can give their audience is a world to get lost in for a while. It can offer pure escape, or a different perspective, just so long as this painting, book, movie, song, whatever, takes you some place else to see the

JazzTimes

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First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings Blue Note Taken from a previously unissued live recording caught at Tokyo’s Hibiya Public Hall in 1961, during the Jazz Messengers’ first-ever tour of Japan, First Flight to Tokyo chronicles a fresh per

NPR

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This month's playlist includes a single off Anna Burch's forthcoming debut album, a cover of a Willie Dixon song and a powerful spoken-word track about homelessness.

The Independent

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After a four-year wait, many of us are disappointed. Last week, pop princess Lorde, who first rose to prominence aged 16 with her debut album Pure Heroine, finally released her much-anticipated third record, Solar Power, and it’s a stark tonal depart

TIME

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1. Frank Ocean, Blonde Frank Ocean has become pop music’s leading ascetic, a less-is-more devotee who’d rather let his melodies do all the talking. Released after four years of increasingly interminable when-will-it-drop hype, Blonde finds Ocean lea

UNCUT

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THE first public taste of FOREVER-ANDEVERNOMORE could hardly have transpired in more extraordinary circumstances. As Brian Eno sang menacingly of “rock and fire” and “gas and dust” amid an ominously swelling storm of distorted synths, smoke lingered

Choice Magazine

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Soothing, relaxing and stress reducing, these CDs from GAP MuSic and it’s sister label Tantajo Records are a great addition to any music collection. Checkout the GAP website: (www.gapmusic.co.uk) for more wonderful music for relaxation and wellbeing.