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Rob Cope: Gemini

by Neil Duggan
January 9, 2024

The number two features prominently in the concept behind this album. The album is called Gemini, meaning twins or two. It features two saxophones, it is Rob Cope's second album as leader and combines two existing duos. The first of those duos features the soprano saxophone and bass clarinet of Cope together with the ...

Get The Blessing: Pallett

by Neil Duggan
December 15, 2023

Many artists describe their music as aural paintings. Bristol band Get The Blessing take that idea to the next level with their seventh studio album, Pallett. The album cover features a paint by numbers drawing of a wooden pallet to colour in (the limited-edition vinyl comes complete with wax crayons) and all the tracks are named ...

Repeater

By Spiro

Label: Real World Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: The Sky is a Blue Bowl; The Vapourer; The Darkling Plains; We Will Be Absorbed; Shaft; Yellow Noise; Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow; The White Hart; I Fear You Just as I Fear Ghosts; Burning Bridge.

Nenad Georgievski's Best Releases of 2016

by Nenad Georgievski
December 23, 2016

There is a poem by a Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov titled “When Horses Die" that I came across to by accident. It goes like “When horses die they breathe when grasses die, they wither, when suns die they go out, and when people die they sing songs." For many musicians, the year 2016 was final and ...

Spiro: Repeater

by Nenad Georgievski
December 5, 2016

Repeater is an idiosyncratic vinyl only retrospective by the acclaimed quartet Spiro that collects highlights of the band's four albums that were recorded between 1997 and 2015.The British quartet's unrelenting passion for following its muse has served it well as the group's fearless explorations have yielded an ever-expanding audience and over the years Spiro has crisscrossed ...

Nenad Georgievski's Best of 2015

by Nenad Georgievski
January 5, 2016

2015 was not an easy year. I became a dad for the third time while I was working on a Film festival for music documentaries. The festival itself was an uphill battle, but I managed to get it organized with astounding success. In the meantime I was writing constantly or was listening to music, as if ...

Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow

By Spiro

Label: Real World Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: I Am The Blaze On Every Hill; Blyth High Light; Flying In The Hours Of Darkness; Burning Bridge; And All Through The Winter; He Hid Himself Away; One Train May Hide Another; Will You Go Walk The Woods So Wild; Orrery; The Vapourer; Marineville; Thought Fox Folded In The Arms Of The Earth; The Still Point Of The Turning World; Welcome Joy And Welcome Sorrow.

Spiro: Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow

by Nenad Georgievski
September 6, 2015

Spiro is a strange, indefinable, delightful band of merry musicians which have developed a style so spare, so unaffected, and so melodic that you'd swear you'd heard all the tunes before. Drawing on classical music, folk traditions of Britain, Spiro is unlike anything else on record. Its music may be rooted in the sounds of English ...

Spiro: Making Music that is Dispassionate and Emotional

by Nenad Georgievski
July 31, 2015

The Bristol four piece ensemble Spiro makes music that straddles and bridges a multiplicity of genres. With each consecutive album it redefines what it means to be a strings ensemble. It constantly breaks every boundary imaginable, but above all it's aim is to make gorgeously joyous music. It's music has a strange effect on one's senses. ...