Murray Hockridge - Closer to Earth2013 release, an album of beautifully crafted acoustic covers. Closer to Earth is the first by the duo, who met quite by chance. "The creative potential when you find this kind of chemistry is truly open ended" enthuses Murray (vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion & production), "there are so many combinations of instruments and voicing's we can call on, both in the studio and on stage there are no limits."Murray's three octave voice is absolutely

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a devious local fisherman

it's dark aura a residue of it's origin as a ballet on a grotesque vampire theme

" Dancers can start off slowly to perfect their footwork and then really let loose on fast-flying tunes like "Cumberland Gap

Based on true cases from the files of the Nevada State Police

He leads his audiences into the soulful African music culture with traditional instruments

The selection of texts furthermore bears eloquent testimony to Sommer's loneliness in his final years and the unwavering "optimism of an incorrigible idealist"

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to the north-west of Prague

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it also includes an arrangement of Charlie Haden's "Silence" and one Czech folk song

language fades away into sonic expanses of the inexpressible