Love love Terry Pratchett, and I will HAVE TO 5 star some other TP books to be able to sleep, but a few things knock this one down.
Firstly, not my favourite story. If I was going for a Discworld ‘side story’, also possibly aimed at a younger audienc...
There's no stopping the music machine that is Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendosa. Having started 2010 on a high with the soundtrack to My Name is Khan, the trio hit the rights notes once again with Karthik Calling Karthik. Fresh and fu...
New Zealand's Flight of the Conchords are seriously funny – Grammy nominated and single-handedly (can a duo be single handed?) keeping the Christmas stocking filler market afloat, they've been well and truly welcomed to the collective bosom of the co...
Doll Creature is Max Eastley and David Toop's first recording since 1994's Buried Dreams and only their third since 1975's New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments. Both are criminally long out of print. Buried Dreams in particular was a brilliantly ...
Trombonist Nils Wogram is pretty much unknown over here but has made a name for himself on the Eurojazz circuit, and this double CD is a fine showcase of his talent as both a player and composer.
CD one is given over to Wogram's sextet, an all brass ...
Revealing a finely attuned sense of proportion and balance, the six pieces which make up the album never fall short of their initial promise.
There's also several surprisingly dramatic moments such as on the eight minute Telescope, in which cascadin...