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The Mummers from Brighton in England are an interesting concoction of heavily orchestrated arrangements pitted against the whimsical voice of Raissa Khan-Panni. The musicianship is over the top with theatricality and the vocals add a dimension that takes her music from the mundane to become flights of fancy. The Mummers musicians are: Jote Osahn – [...]

Out of Ireland comes ballad singing group the High Kings; in the tradition of such greats as the Dubliners, the Fureys, and the Clancey brothers, to name but a few, The High Kings has a pedigreed lineup with Finbarr Clancy, Martin Furey, Brian Dunphy and Darren Holden. Each member a fine vocalist and musician in [...]

Heard these guys recently on Channel 31 – at least the singer and guitarist did a couple of live acoustic tracks. Lead vocalist Andy Rosier has a mighty pop voice which tends to gets swamped amid the band’s jangly guitars and drums. Red Season is a Melbourne outfit as previously stated Andy Rosier on lead [...]

Just a little note before I begin, sparrows are not lovely, they are small and drab in appearance and neither do they sing; although they do make a lot of noise. So having said that, I can report with confidence that the band “The Lovely Sparrows” in no way resemble sparrows. Another indie pop outfit [...]

East meets West musical meditation is how multi-musician Prem Joshua describes his style of music. He and his impressive band combines Vedic chants and Sufi poetry in a fusion of jazz, ragas, reggae and much more. The band is Prem Joshua on Sitar, Bamboo Flutes, Soprano Sax, Dilruba and Vocals, Chintan Relenberg on Loops, Keyboards, [...]

A celtic folk band from where? Poland? No stranger than the last weeks offering of a celtic folk band from the Czech Republic, just as unlikely though. This particular band Banshee, and there are a few going by that name in different places around the globe, consists of six musicians from Krakow in Poland. One [...]

Everyday is a little adventure combing the byways and peering into the darkness of the odd gimmel of the Internet, and sometimes you find something that jumps out of the darkness screaming. This was such a day. Poitín was the name of a band here in Australia. I frequented the bar of the Dan O’Connell [...]