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The second album review of the week is the new IO Earth album, Sanctuary, and it is a pretty personal take on what is a very good album. Videos included to give you a flavour. As ever, get yourself over to www.lazland.org and click on the relevant button.

Logan wrote: ^ I very much enjoyed reading your review of Quiet Euphoria, which is an album that I enjoyed. One thing I really like is that your layout, colour scheme, font.. is so easy to read on my phone. I do have reading glasses now but am not comfortable using them, and I am on the webz on my phone quite often, so having an easy for me to read site is important. I guess for me a tagline for your site could be, "Minimize your eye strain. Get down to www.lazland.org".

This evening's update is a review of a book, something I have neglected in recent weeks what with the plethora of albums presented for your delectation & delight. The book is Witchfinders, A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy, and is a belter of a history.

lazland wrote: Tonight, I have posted my first review of the week, and it is of a very special album indeed, Still by Glen Brielle which is the vehicle of Hugh Carter, founding member of Scottish pioneers Abel Ganz. Frankly, if you listen to no other album in 2023, this has to be the one. Video of the Week is a rendition of 21st Century Citizen by Ana Patan, this hot on the heels of my recent review of her new CD. As ever, simply take yourselves off to www.lazland.org and click on the relevant buttons. Incidentally, you can now follow the latest updates on Facebook - this link should take you to my page (I hope!), but, if not, there is a working link on the website. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093378131277

Wow! For a blabbermouth such as I to be left almost speechless, after reading your review and listening to the beautiful music of Hugh Carter, that should indeed be an indicator of greatness. This is emotionally cathartic stuff on so many levels. Thanks for bringing this fine album to the masses, Steve, as well as Mr. Carter's personal story of perseverance and hope. You've done many a good service.

Edited by SteveG - June 13 2023 at 06:07

Hey, Steve. Thanks for this. I absolutely agree re Paul Simon and what a wonderful thing for a bunch of Wigan folksters to find a new fan in USA via a (mainly) prog rock music website.

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

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.

^ 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.

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