Reading time: 5 minutes It isn’t as if there are no music reviews to write – there are dozens! – but I thought I’d take a break and do
Reading time: 3 minutes Before we get into this can I make a few observations? If any artist, band or ensemble is doing their own publicity rather than using
Reading time: 2 minutes So, the ‘Bird’ has flown at last, 10 years after it first made an appearance, fashioned from the pen of a 13-year old; the “little
Reading time: 3 minutes It surprises me how many musicians in the business contact me directly. In this case it is a Swedish record label, Ninetone, from Sundsvall, up
Reading time: 3 minutes Part two of NMC’s Christmas countdown. First up is The Northern Belle from Norway, with ‘Silver Bows & Bells’, which, as is often the case,
Reading time: 2 minutes We don’t often do covers unless there’s a very good reason and this one caught my attention. But not straight away I might add. It
Reading time: 2 minutes I’ve often held that some of the best experimental electronic music emerges out of Finland and here is young Orvokki (Oittila) with her debut album,
