A rare opportunity to catch two rather good guitarists sharing the stage happens on September 1 at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, CA. Naïm Amor and Kid Congo Powers bring along punk-rock quartet Hot Patooties.
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HCTF review of Stories (Naïm Amor)
Johnny Marr has shared It's Time, the third single from his forthcoming new album The Age Of Everything. He urges himself (and the listener) to take a stand. Without that winning is an illusion: "Time is now to claim my victory Me and myself caught in a new world // I seen what I seen and I don't believe // Feel like going it alone so recklessly // I'll ascend on to somewhere // Trying to claim victory"
On the new album by his electronic ambient project Hunter Complex Dutch musician Lars Meijer combines New Age textures with the melodicism of Vangelis and the subdued production values of bands like Tangerine Dream. Call of the Wild and Void is a very relaxing excursion, with a prominent role for the piano, on top of the soft-spoken electronics.
With the exception of the solo piece Back To The World he invited guest musicians to add adding dabs of colour to his gently undulating sonic tapestries. Among them are Lucy Valentin (guitar), Ruben Braeken (guitar), Kat Epple (flute) and Aquiles Navarro (trumpet), all of them players with a signature tone that never gets in the way of Meijer's vision, but acts an extra layer giving the track a glow that can't come out of keyboard. It is an album that taps listeners gently on the shoulder, inviting them to step into a dream world where beauty and art reign in unison.
Dez Dare filmed himself in his home studio for the video for Insolvent Soldiers, a track from his These Days Are Wild & Blind album: "Darren Smallman keeps it a bit closer to home and more personal on (...) the latest album by his one-man trash punk band Dez Dare. That doesn't mean that he is no longer shouting at the heavens (and for good reason), but a bit of introspection has found its way into his music - some of it is even played on acoustic instruments."
HCTF review of These Days Are Wild & Blind
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for guitarist Chris Spedding (Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Elton John, John Cale, Jack Bruce, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, and Robert Gordon) to make ends meet during a cancer treatment that will keep off the road for nine months. Cale's daughter Eden is helping him out to raise awareness of his plight. Spedding is her uncle. His wife is the sister of Cale's ex Risé Irushalmi.
In recent months, Chris was diagnosed with large B-cell high-grade, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He begins intensive chemotherapy on August 20th, initiating a challenging 9-month treatment process.
