Month: September 2008
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Aoi Teshima – “Tales of Earthsea Kashu” Review
The girl lucky enough to sing and then be offered lead actress in a Studio Ghibli film had her dreams come true when straight after…
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Video Vault – Son Lux
Son Lux is this weeks Video Vault with the slightly weird but still quite effecting video for the excellent “Break”. Never before has I seen…
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Live Vault – Kate Bush
Kate Bush is this weeks Live Vault artist with the quintessential live clip of hers: Under The Ivy Originally a b-side, Under the Ivy has…
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Yoshitaka Hirota – Unreleased Song
We’ve just found a new song for us from Yoshitaka Hirota that was released as an exclusive to his fan club back in 2005. The…
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Where art thou Tori’s new CD?!
Retail annoys me. For some reason Tori Amos’ new CD and DVD is considered a “specialist release” and therefore unless you live in London you…
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Tori Amos – Live At Montreux Sneak Peak!
We’ve found two sneak peak clips of the DVD released on Monday in the UK (a week on Monday elsewhere) Live at Montreux 91/92. We…
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Shiina Ringo – Album Boxset Cometh!
Shiina Ringo has been having a very busy 10 year anniversary and now she completes it all with a box set re-release of all her…
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New Kate Bush Book Seriously Delayed
Music critic Ann Powers’ book on Kate Bush’s album The Dreaming has been postponed until mid 2009. The book was due for release next month…
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Live Vault – Omnia
Second perhaps only only to Faun in the medieval folk genre in Germany, Omnia are a fantastically bunch of people, as you’ll hear in “Dil…
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Jo Gabriel – Fools & Orphans Review
Jo Gabriel returns to the stage with her atmospheric haunting style that is so very unique with her third release “Fools and Orphans” and this…
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Whispers of the Plains #1 – Interview with Gary Lucas
Welcome to Whispers of the Plain – our new segment which will hopefully take a weekly interview with our musical talents we like to look…
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Emiliana Torrini – Video Vault
Continuing our Emiliana Torrini week, we have the virtually unseen music video of “Unemployed in Summertime” from her excellent debut album Love In The Time…
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Picture It DVD’s
Hi All, I’ve recently left my lovely old job to go it alone as a self employed peep – the result of which is www.pictureitdvds.co.uk.…
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Emiliana Torrini – Me and Armini Review
Emiliana Torrini reaches her third album which goes some way to bridging the vast gap of styles between the previous two. The lush electronic pop…
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Live Vault – Mandalay
Mandalay are this weeks Live vault guests. Insensible is a superb song taken from their first album. Nicola Hitchcock performs it here after the duo…
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Charlotte Martin – Orphans Video Blog
Charlotte Martin popped up today on a video blog explaining “Orphans”, her new EP which is as we predicted a compilation of more b-sides and…
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Higher Plain Music Introduces Higher Plain Games!
With thanks to a new TV & some new cables the folk (ok all one of me) at Higher Plain Music will now also be…
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Calender Girls (And Boys)
Can you believe it that its only the 3rd of September and already we have 2009 calenders ready and waiting. Golden J-Pop queens Ayumi Hamasaki…
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Charlotte Martin – New EP Coming Soon!
She’s always so busy! Charlotte Martin has just announced on her website that a new EP entitled “Orphans” is in the works. Its a studio…
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Live Vault – Aoi Teshima
Aoi Teshima is this weeks Live Vault artist with a beautiful rendition of “Rainbow” which is the ending theme for “The Witch of the West…
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Video Vault – Wendy Rule
Wendy Rule should change her stage name to Wendy Rune! Her knowledgeable songs that fit right into the Pagan-Folk-with-a-kick genre really hit home. This is…
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Utada confirmed for new album in New Year
Utada has made the press as part of the upcoming 6 months of new releases from her record label UMG. This means its highly likely…