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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 25/07/2026 - Track 6 My final selection from this week's album is a track that ranks as one of my favourite pieces of orchestral music. Taken from the stunning Hans Zimmer score to The Da Vinci Code, Chevalier de Sangreal is a beautiful, sweeping track that is a central theme to the film. The track is one that build from a quiet, rhythmic strings open into a majestic piece laced with epic grandeur. The perfect track to conclude my trawl through this excellent compilation. Album Of The Week - 25/07/2026 - Track 5 My next selection from the Hans Zimmer Definitive Collection is 160 BPM. For some reason this is the only selection from the Angels & Demons soundtrack, the follow up film to the controversial Da Vinci Code. Angels & Demons is both a film and soundtrack I love, with 160 BPM being the percussive, rhythmic opening to the album, a complex piece with some captivating choral passages. Album Of The Week - 25/07/2026 - Track 4...
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   Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive Album Of The Week - 03/01/2026 Dark Fields - Show of Hands We kick off 2026 with a band that have made a massive impact on my music listening, the Devon based folk duo, Show of Hands, who comprise of singer/songwriter/musician Steve Knightley and the multi-instrumentalist and folk legend Phil Beer, formerly of the Albion Band. This week’s album, Dark Fields, is the fourth of my 32 Show of Hands albums to be selected as my album of week and its an album that has a special memory, as I bought it at a gig we attended at the Exeter Phoenix soon after Julie & I started following them. Dark Fields, released in 1997, is actually the bands 6 th  album although the first 3 were cassette only and are now long out of print. Therefore, Dark Fields is the third main release album and continued the success and acclaim Show of Hands had garnered from their previous 2 albums. In 1996, Show of Hands surprisingly booked the Royal Albert Hall and even...
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