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Cosmiclawnmower wrote: Hi Steve i'd be very interested in your views/ review of this lp: Someone Somewhere | ACANTHE | Replica Records (bandcamp.com) Ive just recieved my copy of this 'first time on vinyl' version of this bands output 1973-1977 and i just cant get over how good and contemporary it sounds considering when they recorded the material!! All the usual 'French prog' comparisons are trawled out but in my view it's not only incredibly eclectic but contemporary sounding. Cheers

lazland wrote: Cosmiclawnmower wrote: Hi Steve i'd be very interested in your views/ review of this lp: Someone Somewhere | ACANTHE | Replica Records (bandcamp.com) Ive just recieved my copy of this 'first time on vinyl' version of this bands output 1973-1977 and i just cant get over how good and contemporary it sounds considering when they recorded the material!! All the usual 'French prog' comparisons are trawled out but in my view it's not only incredibly eclectic but contemporary sounding. Cheers Hi John. I have this on for a second listen this evening. I agree with you that this is extremely fresh sounding, and I really like this. The album was released on CD in 2009, and Raffaella actually added the band to PA not long after. The CD is the same as the "first time on vinyl" you have now, in that Frédéric Leoz reconstructed the songs from tapes made in the period referred to. There is some great stuff on here, so I will be doing a review and adding it to my archival section of the website - we have our Ale Festival this weekend at the local, so it might be a couple of weeks until it is on, but I will post here when it is.

The first of this week's album reviews is a stunning release by bass master Jonas Hellborg, featuring the delicious talents of Ginger Baker and Bernie Worrell. The Concert of Europe is an album releasing tapes which had lain hidden for a number of years.

Cheers, Steve!

Very nice review on the new Paul Simon, Steve. I consider myself a seeker but still have no firm answers. Like you, I'm captivated by the religious history and theology of all faiths. I have the Seven Psalms on pre-order. Now, if it can just get here a little faster, as one never knows when they might suddenly pop off. Lol. Cheers.

Edited by SteveG - June 06 2023 at 12:13

As you will gather from the exchange of posts between Steve G & I above, tonight's update includes a review of Paul Simon's wonderful, and wonderfully unexpected, new work, Seven Pslams. Drink in the genius.

Edited by lazland - June 06 2023 at 13:02

^ If I want Rio I'll go the Brazil not Chile!

I am intrigued to see your coverage of a RIO (Rock in Opposition for those not in the know) band and will rock on over to your site without opposition.

Maybe one day I'll have the hops to make my own site. That would be the dream, especially if it involves drinking lots of ales at different pubs -- I do consider myself to be something of a beer connoisseur and have given contemptuous looks to many a Budweiser drinker. When I was a young adult (even younger than today) I was a bartender, but the selections of beers here have become so much better, or Bitters, since.

I had a little website at one time (20 and more years ago), rather like a lesser version of the Onion (a very small cocktail onion sized website). It was partially to promote my petition to bring to Parliament the motion to build a giant pyramid of dung (made of human waste baked into bricks) on Parliament Hill as a monument to monumental waste, and to promote other types of waste management. And I just liked the idea of a giant crap outside Parliament. It was a project of an environmental movement (more of a brown one than a green one) I had started called the Bowel Movement. Unfortunately, that movement never became more than me, and no one signed the petition (got some funny comments out of it, at least). I figured all who joined could contribute to the pyramid (maybe even have their name on their own brick).   Sorry, I am waxing nostalgic. Such sweet memories despite the lack of success. I would have needed to push that movement harder to get any results.

"Budweiser ought to be against the law. To call it piss water would be to gravely insult said piss." I love that line.

Yeah, and actually, my main thing was to limit plastic waste in various ways (had an idea for standardised recyclable and reusable packaging, and my wife is an engineer -- she keeps me in the green and out of the brown), but I thought having a funnier side-angle that is also serious issue would get people interested. People just couldn't see the bigger picture for the crap, so to speak, and I get way too easily discouraged. Oh well, I'm more a man of ideas (too often ridiculous) and less a man of action (need more fiber in my diet).

Been reading that Duran Duran review, I mean the RIO band, and very good write-up. Listened to some of Asceta, sounded like very classic RIO.

Edited by Logan - June 08 2023 at 15:46