Tomo Katsurada and Jonny Nash spent 2025 touring. Accompanying one another on acoustic and electric guitar. At the end of the year, over a 3-day period, the pair hit the studio to record what they’d learned and experienced. The resulting album, “At The Emerald Pool”, consequently has the feel of a diary. The 10 tracks flowing between polished pieces and looser, more Lo-Fi songs. Something like “Scent Of Limestone”, for example, is constructed from carefully crafted echoed, acoustic chiming and…

After going through the 10-volume Trio Records ECM Special series, we continue our journey through ECM rarities with another Japan exclusive, a DJ-use-only sampler from 1983. Released in anticipation of a series of Pat Metheny Group concerts held from October 3rd to 10th in Tokyo, Osaka, Shizuoka, and Niigata, it sketches a private map of expectation in melodies already searching for the venues that would receive them. The compilation begins, appropriately, with “Farmer’s Trust” from Travels,…

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Based on the previous post on 5 albums in reply to Martin, I thought I’d create my own similaru post worm called 8 track. Picking 8 tracks. That’s it. That’s the album. Feel free to share yours. Hundred Mile High City - Ocean Colour Scene October Swimmer - JJ72 Death Letter - The White Stripes Paranoid Android - Radiohead Aceface - King Adora Dance Me to the End of Love (Bonus) - The Civil Wars The Bay of Fundy - The Unthanks Avalanche - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds You can listen along on Apple…

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Waan van de leegteOut 6th June on Terratur Possessions Similar to the recent Selenite Scrolls in its ability to insert itself into a very crowded style and still find room for a USP. This debut album slots in somewhere between early Enslaved and Ulver with a less explicitly folkist orientation. The albums washes over the listener in understated yet richly realised currents. Holistic in the sense that no individual moment, riff, or measure is particularly remarkable in isolation, but each…

It’s his first score. When he started on it, he barely knew what a “cue” was, let alone what composing for a film really entailed. He didn’t have a ton of time to prove himself before the momentum took hold, but he did so to great effect. Obsession composer Rock Burwell has turned in an enthralling but carefully tempered complement to all of the artfully unhinged and delightfully nuanced on-screen performances of this major cultural touchstone. If we think of box-office money as a decent…

Victoria Square This and more in today's update to Northern Folk Archive here -https://northernfolkarchive.pagecord.com/rainy-day-in-bolton-12-january-2017

mssv - See You ThroughSome bands go on tour. Other bands really go on tour. mssv falls in the latter category. In 2025, their 69-date trip was crammed into about that many days, as the trio traveled tirelessly from state to state, from continent to continent. But maybe that kind of work ethic is to be expected when you’ve got the legendary Mike Watt in the ranks. Somehow, in between all that jamming econo, mssv (which also features ace guitarist Mike Bagetta and veteran drummer Stephen Hodges)…

Inspired by Martin, here are "five albums that shaped me", not to be confused with "my five favourite albums ever", IYSWIM. That said, without question, Disintegration is my favourite album of all time. The Cure - Disintegration Madonna - First Album Prince - Purple Rain The Whitlams - Love This City The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you. OK Computer by Radiohead Rid of Me by PJ Harvey Goo by Sonic Youth Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

Welcome to the June 2026 playlist! We’ve got a bunch of songs on here that I enjoyed last month, and I think you’ll enjoy them too. Check them out below! Emperor X and Vesuvian have three songs on this playlist. Spacemoth and Bellows have two. Here is where you can listen to the playlist on various streaming services: Spotify (missing two songs), Tidal (missing one). Be sure to check out previous playlist posts if you’ve enjoyed this one, or visit the site directory. If you’d like to support…

"Old Man" by Neil Young Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song would you dedicate to your younger self? - Old Man by Neil Young To me, this is a song about continuity. We are who we are, regardless of age. Sure, there have been plenty of changes, but the core remains the same - the need for love, and home and self worth. It's just pure poetry. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

Adrobski IDWTC Pulling together elements of electronic production, with heavy synths and fractured distortion, with traces of alternative rock, Adrobski creates a kind of beautiful noise on IDWTC. The individual pieces glisten, like an explosion of broken glass in slow motion, whilst garage rock elements act like gravity and keep the overall sound grounded. Feedback swirls, bit crushed vocals squeak under the weight of compression, and drums rattle. A beauty emerges from the surprisingly…

APOTEK – Just you and I First up on another night full of tidy UKG-adjacent stuff is this lovely warm bit from Brussels-based Italian producer Elisa Di Riccio, aka APOTEK. It’s been a demanding few months for me — mostly, work has been a bear, but also because raising two young children is such a constant challenge. In a way, the common thread is how hard management is. The role of the middle manager probably gets even less societal respect than the role of parent, but both really deserve a few…

Kazuya Nagaya is a Japanese musician and author who’s been releasing music since the end of the last millennium. Employing electronics, bells, gongs and singing bowls, his music could be described as “ambient”. Drawing on the Buddhism and traditional arts of his homeland, and striving for the same goals of spiritual simplicity and purity. Self-releasing his early productions, Nagaya’s later albums were picked up by labels based in Barcelona and Geneva, while Berlin’s !K7 licensed the 2020…

For the final volume of the ECM Special series, released in 1980, we are given not merely a selection of standout Pat Metheny tracks, but a small atlas of an artist still discovering that a guitar could become a horizon-making instrument. The set begins with “April Joy,” taken from the Pat Metheny Group’s 1978 debut, where Lyle Mays sits at the piano with a mind attuned to hidden geometries, while Mark Egan and Dan Gottlieb give the music its bright musculature. Even now, the performance seems…

I’ve had the melody to Ian McConnell’s “Bangladesh” floating in my head for weeks, so I decided to pull out my old Game Boy and record a chiptune version of the song: You can download my chiptune versions (including a version closer to the original BPM) on Bandwagon. Huge thanks to Tanner4105 for mastering these. And here’s Ian’s original version: The post Bangladesh (chiptune cover) appeared first on Doc Pop's Weblog.

Another short day, another long night. We see Marcello trying to do some actual writing in an open-air cafe, then getting attracted by an actual person’s story. He’s a little flirtatious with the teenage waitress but he mainly just seems interested in her as a cross-section of the Italian people. He also has a horrible […]

Some of these are arguably not love songs. We can argue that if you like. In no particular order, a non-exhaustive list. It's a bit of a mix and my taste in music is extremely variable. I like what I like and I often like a soppy love song. ♫ The Whole of the Moon, The Waterboys. A song about thinking that person is just the greatest thing. I spoke about wings You just flew ♫ Chain Reaction, Diana Ross. Is actually amazingly filthy. But I'm a sucker right from the first lines: You took a…

Example of good ol’ swinging guitar pickin’ spearheads the Amsterdam scene, while grabbing international attention with A Sinner Kissed An Angel by the Linus Eppinger / Sam Braysher Quartet. Something was in the air. Sparks, to be sure! It was Saturday, June 27 at indie haunt De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam. The Linus Eppinger / Sam Braysher Quartet totally burned Strouse/Adams’s Put On A Happy Face to the ground. The engine of super-swinging drum veteran Eric Ineke and beat-munching class act on…

New Order’s ‘Technique’ | A Quick Look at the Band’s Seminal 1989 Record

Coming up with a decent setlist for a live performance is quite the juggling act, you need to get an audience warmed up as soon as you can, but you don’t want to go too hard when you start, otherwise there’s no lift. You need to create a kind of narrative arc, in the words of scriptwriters, to draw them in, excite them a little, getting them nodding along and applauding, then within a few songs have them dancing and take them to a big climactic finale, with, hopefully, a final burst in an…

On 5 July 1975 American tennis player Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles’ championship. Ashe beat defending champion Jimmy Connors three sets to one on Centre Court. Ashe would use his profile protesting against apartheid in South Africa and US treatment of refugees arriving in the country from Haiti. He died in February 1993 after contracting Aids from tainted blood. On 5 July 2012 The Shard, standing at 1,016ft, the tallest building in the European Union was…

Greetings from la Fortuna, Costa Rica! According to Spotify (see here), the sexy song “Koko” by the 27-year-old Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Omar Courtz is one of the most downloaded tunes in the Central American nation this week.

Let me get the three piece and a biscuit @gracespelman the songs aren’t ranked except for #1 which is ABSOLUTELY MY FAVORITE #musicdiscovery #musicrecommendations #playlist ♬ original sound - grace 🎧 | music discovery @nationofartisans How did Kaymet, a WWII-era sheet metal workshop on the Old Kent Road making chassis for radar, reinvent itself as the world's leading manufacturer of fine drinks trays and trolleys? To find out, I visited the factory and interviewed Mark Brearley, the proprietor…

1-01 The Harry South Orchestra– The Sweeney (Main Theme)1-02 Rose Royce– Car Wash1-03 Tom Scott– Gotcha1-04 Marvin Gaye– Trouble Man (Main Theme)1-05 Henry Mancini– The Return Of The Pink Panther1-06 Isaac Hayes– Theme From Shaft1-07 Morton Stevens– Hawaii 5-0 (Main Theme)1-08 J.J. Johnson– Willie Chase1-09 The Four Tops – Are You Man Enough1-10 Al Green– Let's Stay Together1-11 Earth, Wind & Fire– Sweet Sweetback's Theme1-12 Charles Earland– The Snake1-13 Curtis Mayfield– Superfly1-14 Ron…

Daylight Music is a wonderful concept: lunchtime concerts concentrated into a two-hour time slot in churches. It started in the Union Chapel in Islington, where I played and where I met Robert Rotifer and Ian Button, actually. They were part of the late Judy Dyble's band, who were playing that day.It's now moved to Leytonstone, not far from the tube station. Going yesterday was a no-brainer because not only was Clémentine March playing, but Terry Edwards was playing between the main acts.They…

Market Street Jazz I Market Street Jazz II Market Street Jazz III Market Street Jazz IV What a treat to listen to a really good live jazz band.