New Poetry Reading Mp3 for Free Download

Dear all;

My writing performance group recently did a poetry reading - be it a very short reading at a place called Leigh Library on 14th April 2007.

For your interest or maybe not, here is the link for the reading:

http://www.archive.org/details/24hourartyleigh

It is a FREE download

Regards

Andy N

music for one album review for 'mobile disco roadshow'

Regular readers of my webzine
'Setting Sun' (http://www.geocities.com/aen1mpo)
will know I have a very varied in taste in music
varying from metal to bossanova jazz to folk, switching
from Astrud Gilberto to Nine Inch Nails last night alone
without batting a eyelid sometimes.

Reviewing albums is often a different game altogether
however where instead of often just listening to albums,
I will pay more attention to the structure and listen to the
background ambience as much as the music itself.

A good case in point is Sherry aka Music for One's
incredibally limited new album 'Mobile Disco Roadshow'
which fuses a haunting mixture of experimental rock
and country instrumental music which is played
according to the sleeve notes by ' Sherry, a
couple of guitars, a bunch of effects pedals,
the odd screwdriver and sometimes the audience'

The mention of the word screwdriver in the previous
pargraph gives a good hint to how noisy some of these
tracks can be for example 'Beyonce' which is as
noisy and freeform a track I have heard in the
past few years, but this is counter balanced by
'The Sea Swallowed Me' which is a haunting example
of Post Rock and made me shiver for a good five to
ten minutes after I finished listening to it.

Comparisons are difficult in particular when listening
to the album as a whole, but some of the track such as
a ' a short winter' are excellent mood pieces which when
I closed my eyes took me back to a bad winter in Manchester
back in the late 1970's when I was growing up and 'Flies covered
my lips' brings to thought the last sounds you may hear just befroe
you die or a moment when you may feel pretty uncomfortable
with something like when a fly jumps all over you.

Sherry's music I guess goes much more than just mood
and memories. It's music that taps away at the root of your
conscious mind and if you give it enough time, it will
reap huge rewards. After all, anybody who calls their
album 'Mobile Disco Roadshow' deserves a pay on the
back for the title if nothing else.

Excellent.

Please go to http://www.musicforone.com/ for more details
and if the album is sold out - nag her to get it reissued (It's worth it!)

Caroline Martin - Broken EP Review

I first heard off Bristol born Caroline Martin through a session
she did with the late John Peel's Radion Show and was haunted
by his whispered, fragile beauty she shone with on her songs
to such a degree it took me a few years but eventually through
Caroline herself I tracked down her debut EP 'YOUNG TENDER
RABBIT MEAT' EP and was instantly a fan.

I met Caroline in person a few years later and live, her quiet,
powerful Cat Power meets Nina Nastasia songs made even
more sense which shone through on her second ep - 'MONN'
which shown to me a very Leonard Cohen lyrical influence in
places before being left speechless by her 16 track debut album
'I HAD A HUNDRED MORE REASONS TO STAY BY THE FIRE'
which had some of the most errie story telling you would ever
hear in music.

A few years passed and now Caroline has re-surfaced with a 7 track
EP 'Broken' (which actually is a 8 track EP as it includes as a hidden
track a ace Piano Version of 'My Daddy's Shotgun' from 'I HAD A
HUNDRED....' ) which I note from the notes that came with the
album this is a collection of demo songs that I decided not to take
any further, they are thoughts and feelings and they do their job
as they are... There's some distortion, a few gliches and mistakes
... this is a release I have long wanted to make'

I certainly agree there is certainly the odd glitche in the recording,
but the more you listen to this release the more these mistakes
add to the charm on even cover versions like 'How much I lied'
(which I think orginally was a Gram Parsons song) which she really
makes the song her own and on her own compositions such
as 'Before I die' and 'Last Fight' which are tracks that really sent
a shiver down my back the first time I heard but then on a second
listen meant something else altogether.

Recommended

For previews of some of the tracks please go to Caroline's
page on myspace.com

http://www.myspace.com/carolinemartinsmalldog

Hot Roddy - One Liners Album Review

Hot Roddy is one of the names Chris Cook remains music

under, the other being Same Actor.

I have known Chris for a few years and have ceased to be surprised

how different his stuff can vary constantly from the other.

His previous album under the name of Same Actor called Sharp

Edges which was released on the Bip Hop label was a brilliant mixture

of live sitar and other mostly live acoustic instrumentation remodelled

through his laptop so it sounds like something completely different with

beauitful affect.

This new album is a good deal harsher and somewhat more menacing

throughout with tracks like the opening 'Half Life Paritial Suicide'

starting off with some great live instrumentation before it starts

changing into something very different altogether, which leaves

you sat there by the end of the track shocked as he has shown

more ideas in that track than some bands /acts manage in a full career.

The second track 'Crust Mantle Hell' is even more intense, certainly

reminding correctly as another review I read while thinking about this

album as part early Aphex Twin, part Gabba certainly in the first half

of the track before then morphing off into a muscial territory which

is pretty well hard to put into any kind of genre and on tracks like

the third track 'Know your Deficiencies' and on the finale track 'Desolation'

demand repeated listens to let the track and indeed the full of the album

develop in his head.

This is certainly not a album for fans of pop music, rather people who

like their music to challenge and in some cases downright scare them

into a sense they do not know what is going to happen next from one

minute to the next.

Recommended.

To read further on Chris - please visit him on his website

(http://www.hotroddy.com/)

He has several (mostly unreleased tracks) for download on his

myspace.com page (http://www.myspace.com/sameactor) and

you can hear snips of a few tracks on this album on this website (http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=32025)

New Setting Sun Interviews

Dear all;

Two more new interviews on my webzine 'Setting Sun' - http://www.geocities.com/aen1mpo

First up, is a artist called 'Beth McKinney' who is from Austin, Texas

Copying from my own notes which lead as a introduction to the interview I noted ' I first got into Beth’s excellent Ambient / Experimental textures and sounds capes after one of my regular treks around Myspace.com in search of some good and interesting
New music which kind of reminded of ‘Stars of the Lid’
Certainly with acts she has named herself in her interview
Such influences such as ‘Takagi Masakatsu and Stephan Mathieu’,

Second up, is 'West Midlands based (UK) Kinora Viewer' who I noted in the interview came across as ' ‘of Early P.J. Harvey, Labradford, Young Marble Giants, Stereolab, A.C. Marias, Cowboy Junkies, Magazine, Yo La Tengo, Thee Moths, Bowery Electric.’ While managing to sound totally original. '

Both acts are certainly worth checking out and both acts's interviews can be read in the interviews section of my webzine 'Setting Sun' - http://www.geocities.com/aen1mpo

Cheers

AEN