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...
It's long been my conviction that writing about music is one of the most widespread follies of modern times.
Each month, hundreds of thousands of words about music are written by people wearing converse trainers. What does it mean? Why bother descri...
An iconic anti war novel with some weird time travel bits ensconced within it. Sometimes, especially in the first half, I found the novel tedious in some parts but it soon opens up. The author alludes openly to war and philosophy even from the aliens...
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...
Released just four months after Today! in July 1965, The Beach Boys' ninth album was at first deemed by some to be a regression. Its predecessor had, on its second side, revealed the now studio-locked, pot-guzzling Brian Wilson's knack for melancholy...
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 ...