Glenn Kimpton

Cups, the latest offering from Sally Anne Morgan, is a stunner…the music challenges and wonderfully brings to mind the magic and intricacies of nature and rural life. This is a highly creative, rich and detailed piece of work.

Poor Boy on the Wire is as balanced and diverse a set of songs as you would expect from C Joynes, one of our more experimental and musically itinerant guitarists. Beautifully played and delicately handled, it is an album for the discerning listener.

While Coyote Canyon is unmistakably a Rick Deitrick album that will seamlessly slip into his catalogue, there are also intriguing moods and techniques at play that give it its own identity. In short, Coyote Canyon is an altogether intriguing and rather lovely album.

With sympathetic arrangements moving alongside each other fluidly throughout and Steve Gunn’s voice to the fore, ‘Other You’ is his most elegant sounding solo record yet.

Marisa Anderson & William Tyler deliver a diverse and shifting set of songs, using repetition, space, peace and alarm. Lost Futures is a finely composed and beautifully performed album from these two highly creative players.

Cameron Knowler’s first full-length solo album features fourteen unhurried yet concise vignettes that are quietly adventurous and unusual. It’s an assured album with Cameron’s playing giving the music a certain charm and undeniable power.

Adrian Freedman’s “Kindred Souls” is steeped in musical diversity and cultures…like nothing I have heard before. It is an immensely rich and engaging listening experience. One to savour and enjoy multiple times and the delivery of such powerful and therapeutic music is beautifully timed.

On Some Heavy Hand, Cath and Phil Tyler’s subtly intricate performances, as on all their releases, enrich the material even further. This compilation of obscurities is a beautifully weighted insight into a splendid catalogue of music.

Mind Maintenance is less about its individual tracks as it is about being a continual, looping listening experience. There is something wholly magnetising about this rare music and its insistently repetitive nature that is hard to switch from. Enchanting, exciting, beautifully performed music.

There is so much more to be found throughout Axacan, but the overall result is a sprawling, painstakingly created record by a progressive artist that will take many listens to fully digest. Axacan is Daniel Bachman’s most accomplished work yet.

Earth Bow is diverse, immersive & sometimes intense & powerful, what shines through is Sarah Jane’s unshakable belief in and love for our planet – the lifeblood of all of her music. It should be heard by everyone.

It seems Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola cannot put a foot wrong and The Smoky Smirr o Rain is a stunning addition to an already impressive catalogue of music. Written and played with skill, flair and feeling, this album is vital and quite wonderful.