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UK Modern Prog Ensemble Sanguine Hum Release Eagerly Awaited New Studio Album "The Weight Of The World"

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
April 30, 2013

London, UK: Esoteric Antenna is pleased to announce the release of the eagerly awaited new studio album by modern progressive rock ensemble Sanguine Hum. 'The Weight of the World' sees Oxford, UK’s Sanguine Hum expand their musical horizons on all fronts with a seven- track collection of diverse compositions - technically challenging and exciting yet always melodic and direct. Songs such as “From the Ground Up”, “Cognoscenti” and “System for Solution” pursue the Porcupine Tree meets Radiohead approach of their ...
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Peter Hum - A Boy's Journey (2010)

Source: Something Else!
February 5, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Peter Hum is, in a few ways, like me. We're a couple of middle-aged guys who both love jazz, love to write about jazz and critique jazz records, and post our reviews on the internet. I've been an admirer of Hum's jazz blog of the online version of the Ottawa Citizen for several years, now. He not only reviews jazz records, but manages to come up with interesting topics about jazz: one of my favorites was ...
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Peter Hum - A Boy's Journey (Self-Released, 2010)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
January 25, 2011

Keyboardist and composer Peter Hum leads a dual life as both a journalist and blogger and a jazz musician. His new album has a deep narrative sense, like a prose writer linking together a set of interconnected short stories. He is joined on this album by Kenji Omae on tenor saxophone, Nathan Cepelinski on alto and soprano saxophones, Alec Walkington on bass and Ted Warren on drums. All of the compositions are by the leader beginning with “Take the High ...
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What is That Weird Hum During World Cup Games?

Source: All About Jazz
June 12, 2010

Is there something wrong with your television set, or has a swarm of angry bees invaded the World Cup pitch?

Neither the strange noise you're hearing during today's World Cup games (and for the rest of the tournament, presumably) is the sound of thousands of vuvuzelas. But what, pray tell, is a vuvuzela? A vuvuzela is a long plastic horn popular with South African soccer fans, who blow them en masse during games. Played by producing a raspberry sound with ...
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