Year: 2010
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My Top Five New Artist Discoveries of 2010
In 2010, I didn’t really come across tons of new artists or bands that had launched in 2010, but I did find a lot of…
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Video Vault – PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey returns with “The Last Living Rose” from the forthcoming album Let England Shake.
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Our Daily Bread – Film Review
Our Daily Bread is one of the most abstract audio/visual films I’ve seen to date and yet it ones of the most relevant of them…
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Game Review – Monopoly Streets (PS3)
The classic boardgame reaches another milestone as the board comes to life as its own city. The Concept Monopoly has long been the property trading…
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Utada Hikaru ~ Single Collection Vol 2 Disc 2 Review
Utada Hikaru’s parting arrow before her rest from the music business comes in the form of Single Collection Vol 2. Whilst I’m sure you all…
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Game Review – Zen Bound 2 (PC)
Time to get wrapped up in a new puzzler with Zen Bound 2 on the PC! Pun me perfect! The Concept In order to obtain…
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Jordan Reyne – “How the Dead Live” Review
Every now and then an artist appears on your radar from nowhere and blows you out of the water – and you don’t mind a…
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Loreena McKennitt – “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” Review
Loreena McKennitt stays forever timeless. Her aural voice and melodic Celtic infused beautiful arrangements are always a joy to listen to. For her latest album”The…
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Live Vault – Tsukiko Amano
Tsukiko Amano may be best known outside of Japan for providing her song “Chou” to the game Project Zero 2 (Fatal Frame). This is a…
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Film Trailer: Microcosmos
Recently reviewed, here’s a more visual look at the insectiod film Microcosmos
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Film Trailer: Baraka
Trailer to the Audio Visual movie phenomena Baraka, released in 1992.
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Microcosmos – Film Review
As HPM will now also have a small section dedicated to Audio/Visual films such as the wonderful qatsi trilogy, Baraka and Chronos, I felt it’s…
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Video Vault – Hector Zazou & Bjork
Having found Hector Zazou’s music far too late in life to appreciate it while he was still with us, this wonderful collaboration with Bjork is…
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“Fantavision” Playthrough
PS2 firework gem “Fantavision” has a full walkthrough now available over at our Higher Plain Games Youtube channel. The games side of this website will…
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Artists Directory Now Live
It’s taken far too long for its own good but now the artist directory is live and ready to go. Every artist that’s been posted…
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New PJ Harvey
I had wondered where it had got to when PJ Harvey performed “Let England Shake” on TV months and months ago, well now we have…
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Introducing … Jordan Reyne
Jordan Reyne has only just came onto my radar but has actually been creating music for many years, having 5 albums already to her name.…
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Whispers of the Plains – Penka Kouneva
Penka Kouneva is a versatile composer whose credits include The Sims 3 and Prince of Persia. She’s a lady you may not immediately recognise but…
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Video Vault – Nirvana
Nirvana’s timeless music never grows old. “Sappy” is a great song and this home made video is a great tribute to the the band.
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Jesper Kyd – “Assassins Creed Brotherhood OST” Review
Main staple composer of the highly respected and much loved Assassins Creed series, Jesper Kyd returns for more dramatic high-jinx in this riviting score. “Master…
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Live Vault – Frou Frou
Guy & Immi’s Frou Frou kind of burst into popularity after the project finished but this is fantastic performance of “Close Up“, the only released…
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Afrirampo – “Afrirampo” Review
Afrirampo are like a firecracker of energy and sound. From the opening shouts of “Uchira Wo Ko Sastemiro”, a fourty second tapping and shouting song…
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Jeans Team – “Totes Kino / Cocktailstander” Review
Jeans Team are rather random. Higher Plain Music do like a bit of random so we like Jeans Team! With their new maxi single released…
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Charlotte Martin New Album
Char Mar has a new album coming. Dancing on Needles is due 1st February 2011 and she’s already annouced a tour to go along with…
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Video Vault – Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru returns with the music video for “Goodbye Happiness” which is going to be her signing off for now single from the upcoming Singles…
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Game Review: Nimbus (PC)
Nimbus is a delightful new PC game available on steam that mixes racing and physics based puzzlers to make for a intuitive and fun racing…
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Whispers of the Plains – Winifred Phillips
Here at HPM, we make no bones about being fans of Winifred Phillips and so it was with great delight that we were able to…
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Live Vault – Jesca Hoop
Get her in a backstage room and ask her to sing a song and Jesca Hoop delivers this fantastic performance of “Murder of Birds“. I…
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Video Vault – Lisa Gerrard & Denez Prigent
One of the few Lisa Gerrard songs I’d yet to come across, this heartwrenching duet with Denez Prigent is taken from the film Black Hawk…
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Winifred Phillips – “Legend of the Guardians OST” Review
Winifred Phillips is no stranger to big theatrical scores with pizzazz and kitchen sink attached but Legend of the Guardians is full on cinematic treats…
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Are you Comfortable Buying MP3 albums?
With the recession and general cost of importing CD’s, I’ve had to curb my spending of VGM in 2010 and have increasingly found myself buying…
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Jesper Kyd to Release Assassins Creed Brotherhood OST
Jesper Kyd returns with Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Soundtrack which is due for release on 16th November. Since the game takes place in the Renaissance period,…
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Live Vault – Youmi Kimura
It’s very hard to find live performances of any other songs from Yumi Kimura other than “Always With Me” but this orchestral version is beautiful…
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Winifred Phillips – Making of “Legend of the Guardians” Video
Winifred Phillips has her fingers in lots of musical pies and this latest one sounds like its going to be a chef’s special! Phillips’ score…
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Whispers of the Plains – Kelly Greene
A while ago we introduced you to rocking Kelly Greene, now we’ve had the chance to talk to her. Here’s what the lovely lady had…
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Huski – Single Details & Web Gig!
Huski’s single “Wartime Widow” will now be released on 29th November with the tracklisting of: 1) Wartime Widow 2) Sleep’s Together 3) Wartime Widow (Enjoyed…
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The Quiet Revolution – New Song
The Quiet Revolution has released a new song called “The Wind and The Sad Girl” which is available on their MySpace page. It’s a lovely…
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Imogen Heap – “Everything Inbetween” DVD Review
It’s been a long time coming, I’d forgot I’d preordered it but when it arrived on my doorstep when I came home from work, it…