| Organic |
|
• The retro feeling starts with the ‘stereo’ label on the CD cover and ‘Back In The Slot’ confirms that impression. John-paul Gard is a master of 60s Hammond organ chops but he’s also well able to slip into more jazzy territory. Thus ‘Carys’ sees John Davies’s guitar and Dominic Norcross’s saxophone cherish a blues-waltz while the Hammond bubbles along underneath. It’s a tightly packed sound that drummer Nigel Williams wisely avoids crowding, saving himself for harder driving tunes like ‘H As In Heavy’ and ‘Big Easy’. Davies has written most tracks and they cover the 60s groove spectrum well, if a little over-respectfully. Playing live, however, I’d suspect that they really let their hair down. (Tony Benjamin)
Copyright Tony Benjamin 2011
|
THE BIG GIG
-
Gary Numan
Mike White muses on the missing link between Kraftwerk and NIN. The same year as ‘Alien’, three years before ‘Blade Runner’, awkward, acne-ridden 21-year-old Gary Webb wrote a song called ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’. It sounded…23.04.2012 READ MORE -
Philharmonia/Ashkenazy
You have to feel sorry for any young pianist braving a Chopin concerto under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy. Poacher turned gamekeeper, Ashkenazy’s glittering career as a pianist was kick-started by success at the Warsaw Chopin…23.05.2012 READ MORE


The Right Thing (Self-released)




















































































































































































































