by Kev Rowland | Mar 20, 2022 | Reviews
There is something about a big band in the hands of a really good arranger which makes jazz swing with its own vitality and life. This is what my dad used to play in the car when I was young, on his trusty 8=track, and is the only popular music I ever heard him play....
by Kev Rowland | Mar 20, 2022 | Reviews
Back in 1991 I attended the Fairport Convention Winter Tour when they played Guildford, and that night the support act was Jay Turner. I had never heard of him prior to that, but his material deeply resonated with me, especially the song “My Grandfather’s Eyes” and at...
by Kev Rowland | Feb 27, 2022 | Reviews
Rewind Fields is the experimental pop recording project of Auckland singer-songwriter Callum Lee, who discovered some previously unfinished and abandoned songs on an old laptop and revisited them to make an album. When one understands where the songs originated from,...
by Kev Rowland | Feb 27, 2022 | Reviews
{Iveta & Simone} are back with their latest single, following on from Obsessed which I reviewed back in October. This starts with some gentle piano chords, with a delicate 80’s synth over the top, and then we get some riffing distorted guitars and bass, one of the...
by Kev Rowland | Feb 27, 2022 | Reviews
According to their Bandcamp page, Human Susan is an alien trying to assimilate herself into the world, navigating the absurdity and mundanity of human embodiment. A crunchy and sparkly cosmic soup. More accurately, one could instead say that this Dunedin-based quintet...
