Daggermen - Dagger In My MindThe Daggermen all went to Rede Secondary School in Medway, Kent. It was a school for those that failed their 11 plus, or who passed it but decided to go there anyway (as Jon pretends). Being in some of the same classes we became friends and found we liked the same music; The Who, The Small Faces, The Kinks, The Beatles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. We started going to Carnaby Street, wearing Beatle boots and generally being a bit Moddy. Dave's

performing the composer's Three Pieces and Three Chorales 'pour grand orgue' on an instrument perfectly suited to the repertoire

particularly as an interpreter of the Classical-era repertoire

Carly continues to be a loyal advocate of Country music's legacy and future

and guitar and drums by Lucas Huang

When Brandon Welchez from CROCODILES (Fat Possum Records) moved from the sunny

this is a welcome opportunity to revisit in depth the career of one of the great bands of the proto-Britpop era of the late 1980s and early 1990s

who would sing and record both original songs and traditional Croatian folk songs on a cassette dictation machine-she still has some of the tapes they made together

"Trading Bullets" is slower but not less catchy

O Magnum Mysterium

tribute to a classic and much missed '70s super-group

and they are joined by several of the most renowned musicians of our time

Enrique Granados and Manuel de Falla - who of course also composed symphonic music - served this genre with numerous treasures that excellently combine folkloristic melodies and compositional sophistication