Novelty Island - How Are You Coping With This Century? Format:CD Piano & Friends

Piano & Friends

knowing my admiration for Cage and my numerous concerts with his music

Turn Me 'Round (1975) - when a kinky serial cheater's games go a bit too far

Jazz-informed arrangements form the basis of an album you'd call "experimental string band" by any measure

" originally released in 1979 by the Nashville-based Koala Records label

Novelty Island - How Are You Coping With This Century? Format:CD Piano & Friends2021 debut album from Liverpool's Novelty Island is a highly enjoyable trip through sunny, quasi psychedelic songcraft across tracks with titles like "Cowboy On A Bicycle" and "Blackcurrant Sky," songs with insistent alt pop credentials such as Graham Coxon indebted "Michael Afternoon" and the free flow of the one day recordings such as album opener, "This Bird," the album is entirely 'other', yet cloaked in a warm blanket of familiarity. Criss