For the love of music
Although the release rate of Second Language’s subscription-led enterprise has slowed a little in pace during 2012 - perhaps partly to give larger-scale releases like Piano Magic’s Life Hasn’t Finished With Me Yet a little more room to reach out beyond core label aficionados - there is certainly no drop in the care and attention that goes … [Read more...]
With 2009’s Ovations (the last official Piano Magic album if we exclude 2010’s self-revisiting limited edition Home Recordings) Glen Johnson and co. had arguably taken Piano Magic's most electric guitar-driven phase to a logical end. Hence, in the spirit of the band’s cyclical ritual for reinvention - that has expanded and sustained Piano … [Read more...]
Newly-released on self-proclaimed ‘boutique’ label, Second Language, is a second multi-artist compilation (following on from the Music And Migration collection released earlier this year), entitled Vertical Integration. Currently en route to existing 2L subscribers and available direct from the label (with limited quantities likely to become … [Read more...]
With Glen Johnson increasingly and rewardingly immersed in his new solo career through this year’s sublime Details Not Recorded album and the cherishable cassette-only Institutionalized EP, his electronically-slanted Textile Ranch experimentations and his must-read Anything But Silence blog, it’s perhaps no surprise that he’s taken so long to … [Read more...]
No introductory thematic connection-making spiel this time around, just some notes on three semi-obscure oddments that might otherwise slip through the net, fall through the cracks, go under the radar, get lost in the crowd, slip overboard, become needles in haystacks... yadda yadda yadda. Glen Johnson - … [Read more...]
The need for a constructive and creative break from the strictures of a bill-paying 'day-job' has spawned the beginnings of innumerable bands. But what if your band has become the 'day-job'? Well, then maybe you require an old-fashioned side-project to let steam off outside the confines of democratic compromise or to tackle something your … [Read more...]