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Electric Hurdy Gurdy
Check out Guilhem Desq, lead hurdy gurdy player in Arcane Alchemists:
Transmutation sounds like a Bond theme:
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and other tales
Electro swing is perhaps a bit misnamed - it’s a combination of 20s or 30s-style trad jazz (rather than the slightly later and smoother swing) with more modern instruments and styles including hip hop and electronic dance music. The UK’s 2015 Eurovision entry, "Still In Love With You" by Electro Velvet was an example, though a kind of ( Read more... ) -
An Epic War Is Fight!
For anyone hanging on tenterhooks as to what's on the second disk of Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards, it is...
...Space 1992: Apocalypse Suite For Orchestra & Choir, featuring the Cowdenbeath Symphony Orchestra. It's an orchestral version of the album, with the tracks renamed after a quote from each (including track 9 of course, An Epic War ( Read more... ) -
Kali 47 (Savant)
Interesting music video. Musically hard to characterise; to me it sounds like a blend of computer game, 70s TV theme, sound effects, electronica, and dubstep (you can see how the album it's from is categorised by genre on Wikipedia). The video's steampunk western and both music and video tell a short story - a bit gorily in the visuals, but very ( Read more... ) -
The Tippy-Top of Chap Hop
Chap hop is a blend of hip-hop music with a chap æsthetic; that is, a dandyish steampunk or early twentieth century style. It’s decidedly uncool - and was even before Michael Gove expressed a fondness for it - and furthermore, a fair proportion of it is not especially good.
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At the @Florrie Coffee House session
On Friday, I left work a bit early to attend the final date on Florrie’s lightning acoustic tour for Coffee House Sessions, which I mentioned when I discovered it a couple of weeks ago. I’m not a great gig-goer - in fact the sum total of my previous gig attendance is seeing Runrig in 1989 and Big Country round about 1990. On the other hand, if you’ ( Read more... ) -
Florrie
As the final date on her acoustic UK University Coffee House Sessions Tour, Florrie is playing the Rector’s Café at St Andrews University on Friday 17th at 5:30pm. You don't have to be a student, and entry is free.
Playing live, yesterday. The studio version of the same song.
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Do the Dance Apocalyptic!
Well, I already knew I was an extremist, as Nick Clegg was kind enough to inform me of it a couple of years ago.
What I hadn’t realised was that I’m practically one of the horsemen of the Apocalypse. According to George Robertson - sorry, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen - Scottish independence would be “cataclysmic in geo-political terms”. Gosh, ( Read more... )
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