BILL DIREEN - "Seasons" BookWilliam Direen Seasons Poetry Book (South Indies, 2022) "The poetry diary Seasons by William Direen spans a year on a strath an hours drive from Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand. It is written with a poets eye for landscape and a musicians ear for the sound events of the region as it endures drought, flood, extreme frosts and snow bound winters. It is in three parts and runs from autumn to autumn. It blends observations of the local rural community with

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Beggar's Banquet

It’s the elusive emotional conductor in the spinal cord of sound - a foundational component of that mysterious feeling of connection we as listeners are seeking every time we put the needle on the record or press play on a song

Brooding pads and icy percussion engage in a sonic dance

he began perfecting his craft

then does unconventionalism become part of a post conventionalist-conventionista

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"Hydroplane reinstate their formidable 1997 debut of sublime guitar atmospherics

no matter which way the winds blow

Beyond the repetitive beats dance music takes from krautrock