July 2020
NEW AUDIO RELEASE: Jerusalem – ‘Escalator’ (SINGSONG114)
2009’s ‘Escalator’ was a re-emergence album of sorts for this British hard rock act, founded in 1969 with a self-titled debut on the legendary Deram label. Fast forward almost four decades and original vocalist, Lynden Williams and guitarist, Bob Cooke decided to record a new album after Sony Music (Japan) reissued Jerusalem’s self-titled debut in its popular Rock Legend Series.
June 2020
REVIEW: Radio 68 & Keys And Chords: The Yardbirds – ‘Making Tracks’ (SINGSONG108)
Big thanks for the reviews out there of for THE YARDBIRDS - 'MAKING TRACKS'.
NEWS: The Maida Vale Landlady: the Story of Lady June…
Martin Wakeling remembers 'Lady' June Campbell-Cramer, Kevin Ayers, Eno, Pip Pyle and the Canterbury-infused 'Linguistic Leprosy'.
NEW AUDIO RELEASE: Lady June – ‘Linguistic Leprosy’ (SINGSONG113)
Marking the welcome return of a unique and whimsical 1974 album debut for Kevin Ayers' London apartment's landlady, this is Lady's June's 'Linguistic Leprosy'.
May 2020
NEWS: REMEMBERING MIKE TAYLOR … The Syd Barrett of Jazz
On the reissue of Neil Ardley’s 1973-recorded compendium of compositions by Mike Taylor, we look back with Dave Gelly at the only too brief life of one modern British jazz’s most original, if elusive masters …
NEW AUDIO RELEASE: Neil Ardley – ‘Mike Taylor Remembered’ (SINGSONG106)
The 'Syd Barrett of jazz,' British composer, pianist, songwriter, Mike Taylor died tragically young, leaving just two albums, as well as co-writes with Ginger Baker for Cream’s Wheels Of Fire album, to his name. Taken from Neil Ardley’s master tapes, this is their critically-acclaimed tribute to a master of his art by friends and colleagues, themselves representing a cross-section of the cream of modern British jazz talent of the day.