Top Albums Third Six Volume One Noisette Peel Sessions (1969-1971) Top Songs Save Yourself Moon In June Facelift Hope for Happiness We Did It Again Joy of a Toy Slightly All the Time Hope for Happiness (Reprise) Hibou, Anemone and Bear

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Brewed in Belgium (All About Jazz) While calling them a pick-up band would be unfairly dismissive, the members of Belgium's The Wrong Object sure do get around. Since 2007, in addition to its own Stories from the Shed (Moonjune, 2008), TWO has collaborated with British trombonist Annie Whitehead and trumpeter Harry Beckett on Platform One (Jazzprint, 2007), and Elton Dean on The Unbelievable Truth (Moonjune, 2007)?one of the ... Philip Glass: Glass Box - A Nonesuch Retrospective (All About Jazz) Recent studies have proven that music is one of the few disciplines to utilize the entire brain?the left "analytical" side and the right "creative" side. Venice goes retro (Mail and Guardian) When architects are asked to imagine futuristic buildings, they tend to come up with colourful sci-fi blobs, big swirling objects and intense videos set to monotonous electronic music. Off the beaten tracks: Obscure rock'n'roll (Independent) BLUES: SUGAR PIE DESANTO Of all the great artists to record for Chicago's legendary Chess Records, perhaps the most unfairly overlooked is Sugar Pie DeSanto. She stood no more than 5ft tall ? but as she shouted in one of her better-known songs, "if you know how to use what you got, it don't matter about your size". Music Review: Kevin Ayers - What More Can I Say (Blogcritics.org) A missing gem unearthed 34 years on. What more can I say? Like many others, I discovered Kevin Ayers through his first solo album Joy Of A Toy. It was 1969 when it came out and Kevin had just left the pioneering Soft Machine of whom he had been a founding member and leading creative light. When he left and went to, at first, Ibiza he started to write the songs for a solo album. The endearing ...

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