I stand up and I sit down. I stand up again… The puzzled look the cat is throwing at me from the heights confirms that Reflections, by Silent Opera, is accepted by her…
Monthly Archives:
March 2014
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So, in all honesty going into reviewing this album, I admit I was unaware of the Italian band Neverdream until this year although they were founded in 2003. I was alerted…
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There’s an endless list of bands I wish to see in my life, but a few are so special, and have had such an impact on my life, that they are…
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Midnight Moodswings are a band that released with ‘The Surrogate Piano’ a collection of cinematic songs where the minimalism of Philip Glass blends with the soundtracks of Angelo Badalamenti, the cozy…
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Thrash Attack ‘High On Radiation’ is the debut full-length album by promising young thrash metal act Reactory. Influences include the two major schools of raw thrash metal : the german one…
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“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” – Frederic Chopin…
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I like to think that Australian music is different, baked by a bigger sun. I cannot say I know much about Australian metal bands, but the few I have heard are…
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“If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it” that is an idiom that is very true in all walks of life, quit tinkering around with something that was inherently right in the…
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I always wonder how certain areas become hotbeds for music, how certain towns and cities just seem to be prime breeding areas for bands and musical movements. The two that come…
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“Expectant waiting: the feeling of looking forward, usually excitedly or eagerly, to something that is going to happen” that is the dictionary definition of anticipation and, ever since I was a small…