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Album Review by Mark Bayross Those of you who thought that A-Ha had been forever consigned to the hell of eighties pop nostalgia would do well to note that since their ground-breaking hit TAKE ON ME (and even more ground-breaking video), the band have gone on to sell 36 million records worldwide and have Album Review by Mark Bayross A’s third album really should see them claw their way out of die-hard-fan-only obscurity and into the Big Time. Certainly, with the rapturous reception given to lead single NOTHING (and deservedly so), A are starting to see all that hard work pay off. Produced by Al Clay (Feeder, Therapy?, DVD Review by Nigel A Messenger It’s really been A’s year with their album HI-FI SERIOUS going Silver, so why not re-release it but with a DVD – hence the DVD SERIOUS. The DVD includes live footage of NOTHING, STARBUCKS and GOING DOWN shot at the Reading Festival plus I LOVE LAKE TAHOE at Single Review by Nigel A. Messenger SAVE ME is from the soundtrack of the movie Magnolia from director / producer / writer Paul Thomas Anderson (BOOGIE NIGHTS). SAVE ME is also written and produced by Aimee Mann and she also plays acoustic guitar and bass as well as providing the vocals. Clearly multi-talented Aimee Album Review by EDF A release from Great Wind Records based in Tennessee, USA, James Shouse has assembled an exciting group of musicians, who sound as if they enjoyed recording this, to produce a lively album. AIN’T NO PART O’ NOTHIN’ is apparently a phrase that has been quoted upon hearing non-traditional bluegrass music. Single Review by Mark Bayross Hot on the heels of their “Month Of Mondays” residency at the Camden Underworld and a tour of the rest of the UK, everyone’s favourite Brixton-based preachermen are back to peddle more groove-laden swamp-blues in the form of latest single MANSION ON THE HILL. Taken from their 2000 album Album Review by Mark Bayross Airlock were formed in 1999 when Scottish singer Esra Tasasiz hooked up with a Belgian trio of soundtrack programmers called Renauld Charlier, Pierre Mussche and Ernst Meinwrath, collectively known as Musicom. The resulting FACE DOWN EP was an ultra-smooth collage of chilled beats and soulful vocals, but it is EP Review by Mark Bayross Brussels-based Airlock have served up this EP as a tantalising taster for their forthcoming album, DRYSTAR and, on the strength of this, the long-player should be worth investigation. Scottish-born singer Esra Tasasiz supplies the vocal warmth, while the Belgian trio of Renauld Charlier, Pierre Mussche and Ernst Meinwrath envelop (ORIGINAL MOVIE SOUNDTRACK) Album Review by Nigel A. Messenger Back in 1998, when Air’s debut album MOON SAFARI came out, French music was considered very de rigueur. Daft Punk had introduced the pop world to the charms of quirky gallic techno, but it was Air’s MOON SAFARI, with its mixture of sci-fi melodies, vocoder Concert Review by Neil Ryan The Camden Underworld – Monday 12 March 2001 ‘A Month of Mondays’ is an ambitious residency undertaken by Brixton’s Alabama 3 at the Camden Underworld whereby they will play live on four consecutive Mondays, and on each occasion they will adopt a different guise in order to perform their |
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