Tag Archives: Nils Frahm

The Best of 2011

I still know its a bit naff but I am still going to do it – here, in strictly alphabetical order, are my albums of 2011 (followed by my favourite gigs his year) I will instantly regret not including a … Continue reading

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Nils Frahm – Reading Minster

It was as cold as charity inside the admittedly rather lovely interior of Reading Minster and the pews are scarcely made for a long sit. So well done me for being super early and nabbing not only a seat up … Continue reading

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Felt – Nils Frahm

Although it is only fourteen months since I first heard him  play his extraordinary music at the St Bonaventure’s in Bristol alongside Shearwater, it feels like I have known the music of Nils Frahm for a long, long time. The … Continue reading

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Dear and Unfamiliar – Birds of Passage and Leonardo Rosado

A year or so ago I became aware of Birds of Passage aka Alicia Merz, perveyor of dreamy and ethereal music from New Zealand. Her rather lovely album Without the World was re-released on Denovali Records (home of, amongst others, … Continue reading

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A Winged Victory for the Sullen

  We live in difficult, and in some ways terrible, times : wars, a shattered economy, social unrest; turn on the wretched TV and its there all the time. Some will rail and rage against it all and in the … Continue reading

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A Summer – Good Weather for an Airstrike

. Just before the summer holiday kicked in I became the proud owner of A Summer by Good Weather for an Airstrike and it duly accompanied me to the sunshine. A Summer can be downloaded for a paltry £3 from the associated Sonic Reverie … Continue reading

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