‘Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?’ The velvet curtains are swept aside. Aspirations of grandeur may not be intended in Hadrian’s subject matter, despite his confessed admiration for Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, but his music isn’t unadulterated. As a sound engineer, he values the power of simplicity, and while his...

‘The challenge is making the song your own’ asserts Greg Keltner. To me, Greg is remarkable due to the fact he appears so distinct; he is a contradiction of conceived values. A romantic in Paris, a forlorn cowboy, or a homosexual singing a very traditionally conservative music style. Folk music limits the boundaries, ergo allowing...

  With what can be perceived as a homage to a similar video of The Tallest Man On Earth, we strolled to the illustrious Denmark Street. On a Saturday afternoon, the streets bustled with folk exchanging carefree parlance within the numerous cafes lining the streets. Ironically, an understated acoustic guitar shop is what stood out...

We had a rendezvous or two. A swig in a bar that had an incredibly large x-ray of some human lungs mounted on the wall and a vis a vis gig, exclusively for me. Charlie Tango are two guys that live in Lyon, but that’s where the similarity ends. Under the pseudonyms ‘Charlie’ and ‘Piergeek’,...