Alan Reed’s enthralling second album takes a little while for the uncomfortably menacing significance of its title to make itself felt and understood. Fiercely passionate and enticingly absorbing, the experience it delivers is brutally uncompromising. Much like the iron fist in the velvet glove, the mental image it deliberately conjures evokes a seductively alluring, almost … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2017
Phil Collins: Not Dead Yet
Time and public perception have been neither kind nor entirely fair to Phil Collins. A hugely impressive song-writer, musician, performer and (to a lesser extent) actor, his prolific success in the mid 90’s made him an almost perpetual presence on TV, radio and even in the cinema. The phenomenal rise of Genesis, a remarkable career as a solo artist, seemingly endless … [Read more...]
Beatrix Players – Magnified
There are few delicious pleasures in life as wonderfully satisfying than being so completely absorbed and utterly enthralled by the music to which you are listening that all sense of time, space and place are temporarily forgotten. Magnified is exactly that kind of delightful surprise, effortlessly exerting a mesmerising and seductive captivation which renders this beautiful … [Read more...]