For your listening pleasure!
So Mr Andy Tillison is definitely back in the aether! His legendary radio show Dance On A Volcano has been revived on the no 1 radio station Progzilla Radio! The first show is to be found as podcast right here!! Enjoy, folks!!
Inmateria (2015): “The Flame on the Sea” and “The Problem of Evil” @inmateria_
Argentine-Chilean vocalist Solange Sosa is here to remind you that you can buy your own copy of Inmateria‘s excellent 2015 album here or here, or else listen to it in its entirety via online streaming.
Inmateria (2015):
“La llama en el Mar” (“The Flame On The Sea”)
1. Preludio (Instrumental) [01:54]
2. Lejos De Aquí [05:19]
3. Anormal [04:48]
4. La Inocencia (Instrumental) [02:48]
5. Fuera De Lugar [04:07]
6. En La Oscuridad [07:16]
7. La Búsqueda (Instrumental) [01:56]
8. Un Paso Atrás [03:57]
9. Flotar [07:01]
10. Epílogo (Instrumental) [02:58]
11. El Problema Del Mal [10:34]
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New World Man: Dave Kerzner
New World Deluxe by Dave Kerzner
By Alan Dawes. Rating 10/10
Kerzner’s debut solo album, NEW WORLD (deluxe).
The standard version of New World was released last December, even though it was released so last in the year it had enough impact to finish in the top 10 albums for 2014 in Prog magazine readers poll.
The deluxe version of this incredible album has just been released and I truly believe it should top the readers poll this year. It would be an amazing achievement as it faces tough competition from Steven Wilson, Steve Hackett and David Gilmour.
For those of you unfamiliar with Mr Kerzner and this project, here is a brief history lesson.
Dave Kerzner first came to peoples notice as a member of Thud and then Giraffe which were both projects by the late, great Kevin Gilbert. After Kevin’s untimely death, Dave continued to write songs but…
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Throwing Copper: 20 Years Later
I suppose when Live first emerged on the rock scene, they were categorized as Christian grunge? Of course, I’m not exactly sure if they were Christian or not.
Pain lies on the riverside
And Pain will never say goodbye
Pain Lies on the Riverside
So put you feet in the water
Put your head in the water
Put your soul in the water
And join me for a swim tonightI have forever, always tried
To stay clean and constantly baptized
I am aware that the river’s banks are dry
And to wait for a flood
Is to wait for life
I assume these are somewhat confessional, evangelical lyrics. But, maybe the members of Live were just taking a point of view? Certainly, the language on their albums is R-rated and, at times, rather sophomoric: “She’s a bitch, but I don’t care–everybody deserves some change”. So, who knows? Not that Christians can’t belt out a foul words from time to time. . . .
And, yet, whatever religious or anti-religious or possibly just tacky side the band possessed, they could also craft gorgeous and meaningful rock songs.
One of my favorite rock albums of the 1990s was Live’s THROWING COPPER (1995). It’s hard to believe the album is 20 years old, as the music and the production have nicely stood the test of time. Putting THROWING COPPER on the stereo does not evoke nostalgia but freshness. Really, these songs sound as crisp today as they did two decades ago. Not that it’s perfect. Indeed, the lyrics (just referenced) to “Waitress,” for example, are downright embarrassing and a bit painful. The same is true with “Shit Towne.”
Yet, take the opening track to the “Dam at Otter Creek.” Simply astounding, driving, no compromise rock. While not lyrically complex, they do very effectively offer a drama of one time and one place a time and place that, through this song, has now become eternal. A death and a burial. Simple, yet universal.
“I Alone,” track three, offers a penetration look at tyranny and control, perhaps from religious manipulation. The anger in the song is palpable, as it should be.
Track five, “Lightning Crashes,” deals with the glories and horrors of birth and death. Angels appear, but it’s unclear if they’re agents of mercy or agents of death.
Track seven, “All Over You,” is simply an east coast version of a Pearl Jam-style tune. Very effective.
Track nine, “T.B.D.” has a great bass line, very U2ish. And, here, the lyrics are, again, evocative of ecstasy and frustration.
After their 1997 album, SECRET SAMADHI, I lost track of the band.
Solemnity of St. Joseph the Worker
Every year on March 19th, my mother’s side of the family, the Volga (Russian) Germans, recited their prayer/vow to God.
O God, whose attribute it is to be always merciful and to spare, protect us through the intercession of St. Joseph from crop failures. In order to make ourselves, at least to a certain extent, worthy of this grace, we solemnly vow to keep the feast of St. Joseph as a holy day of obligation for all time and to spend some hours of that day in public prayer.
In May, they celebrated Spring for three days. Elaborately dressed, they formed long processions and marched throughout the fields asking for God’s blessing to protect them from nature’s wrath. They prayed for “the powers that be to preserve the growing crop, destroy grasshoppers, worms and bugs and finally to mature the grain, allow a bountiful harvest and furnish a high-priced market.”
Happy Feast Day, Volga Germans! And, as an aside, my middle name comes from the great saint.
The Sparking of Memory: a review of the new album by The Tangent
The Tangent, A SPARK IN THE AETHER (Insideout Music, 2015).
Tracks: A Spark in the Aether; Codpieces and Capes; Clearing the Attic; Aftereugene; The Celluloid Road; A Spark in the Aether (Part 2)
The Tangent: Andy Tillison; Luke Machen; Theo Travis; Jonas Reingold; and Morgan Agren.
So let’s get the caveats out of the way first shall we?
I’m not a musician, I can’t play a note unless its accidental, and a time signature is some bloke’s name written on a watch face … but I do love music and have tried my best to keep in touch with my love throughout my life.
But I lost touch with many things when I moved away from England. Although I had one of those embarrassing ’Oh, how are you doing these days?’ conversations with a magazine stand after a fleeting visit back to the home country. That shuffled, toe-gazing mumbling was…
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