Reading time: 2 minutesUplifting, soothing, and fundamentally Scandinavian are some immediate thoughts upon listening to Valkea’s recent brassy, rocky, ballad-like record ‘Vedenjakaja’. Landscapes of their native land of
Reading time: 3 minutesOur little break attending a music conference and writing it up is over, so we move rapidly back into a quick fire session of short,
Reading time: 24 minutesThe inaugural Beyond the Music (BtM) conference and festival was held in Manchester, UK between 11th and 14th October; a successor (eventually) to the In
Reading time: 5 minutesForget Free Fiona, Free Nelson Mandela and even Free Willy. The time has come to Free Marte Eberson. Except that, like a magician, she’s unshackled
Reading time: 4 minutesI mentioned earlier this week that I’d be attending this conference, and possibly a few of the shows (there are now over 200 artists and
Reading time: < 1 minuteNMC is taking a few days off on account of a major music festival taking place here in Manchester. But we’ll be back soon with
Reading time: 4 minutesTwo new songs are here in our hastily cobbled together Potpourri section to reflect the mountain of releases presently; this time one each from Denmark
