Pyrolysis was born in 2012, when Laurens Krah and Stan Eimers, decided to begin a metal band, together with Sven Schipper, their guitar player at that time. The band’s name still stems from this time of electrical guitars, drum kit and keyboard. “Pyrolysis” is a chemical reaction where warmth and energy are created through decomposition. […]
The Andrews Sisters
Today we are really travelling back in time. Looking through YouTube you will find that many modern groups will cover songs orginally made famous by the Andrews Sisters, so today we shall clebrate the originals. The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie woogie eras. The group consisted […]
Joe Brown
A trip back to the 1960’s today to showcase the music of Joe Brown. As a rock and roll singer and guitarist, he has performed for more than six decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and has been a UK recording star since the early 1960s. He has made […]
Under Milk Wood
Under Milk Wood is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage. An omniscient narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of the fictional small Welsh fishing village, Llareggub. The fictional name Llareggub was derived by […]
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” is a song by Irish band U2 It is the second track from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree and was released as the album’s second single in May 1987. The song was a hit, becoming the band’s second consecutive number-one single on the US Billboard while […]
Rainbow
Rainbow are a South Korean girl group formed in 2009 by DSP Media. The group is composed of seven members: Woori, Seungah, Jaekyung, Noeul, Yoonhye, Jisook and Hyunyoung. During late October and early November 2009, DSP Media released daily teasers in the form of pictures of Rainbow, and then a music video for “Gossip Girl” […]
Mas que Nada
“Mas, que Nada!” is a song written and originally performed in 1963 by Jorge Ben on his debut album Samba Esquema Novo, which became Sergio Mendes signature song in his 1966 cover version. It was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the fifth greatest Brazilian song. It was inducted to the Latin […]
Vok
Today our wandering take us to the far north and the music of Iceland. Icelandic electronic act Vök was formed in January 2013 by singer Margrét Rán and saxophone player Andri Már Enoksson. After two years of working together they felt it was time to introduce themselves to the public ear – as VOK. The […]
Tulia
Today we find ourselves in Easter Europe. Tulia is a Polish folk music group. The band was formed in 2017, in Szcezcin, Poland. Tulia began as a vocal quartet. The four singers are Joanna Sinkiewicz, Dominika Siepka, Patrycja Nowicka and Tulia Biczak, whose name was chosen as the name of the band. They received major […]
Calan
I know that one our European travels we have often sampled the music of Scotland and Ireland but less frequently the sounds of Wales, so today we are going to correct this imbalance. Calan are a five-piece revivalist traditional Welsh band formed by their manager Huw Williams in early 2006 when its members were only […]