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    Album Of The Week                                                                   Album Of The Week - 17/10/2026 - Track 2 My second selection from Imaginaerum: The Score is the track Orphanage Airline. The song is based around the song, Storytime, and see's our lead character revert back into childhood memories and dreams. This is a dramatic that builds with heavy percussion and sweeping orchestral and choral passages. Album Of The Week - 17/10/2026 Imaginaerum: The Score – Nightwish   This week stay loosely in the realms of soundtrack and cinematic interpretations, this time with the adapted score to the Imaginaerum project by Finnish symphonic metal band, Nightwish. In 2011, Nightwish released the concept album, Imaginaerum, a multi-layered, epic album telling the story of an elderly man’s dying mind ...
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Album Of The Week 2026 - Archive

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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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