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Bamboo Stilts – Beneath The Bark (Eilean Records, 2015)

Chris — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:37:39 +0000

Despite the pairing of Orla Wren and Leigh Toro on their first collaborative effort, Bamboo Stilts lives up to its namesake by leaving us rather high and dry on the emotional impact front. Whilst on some of my earlier listens I thought the new record Beneath The Bark was quite an interesting electroacoustic affair, subsequent explorations have […]

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Leigh Toro – L’Esprit De L’Escalier (Eilean Recordings, 2014)

Chris — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:59:35 +0000

As more or less every other review of this record has raised the point of mentioning that the phrase in its title, “L’esprit de l’escalier” refers to a French expression describing the sensation of thinking of the perfect comeback after the argument has passed, I felt I would be derelict in my duty to not […]

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