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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 13/06/2026 - Track 5 My final selection from Illusions is the closing track on the album, Soulseeker. This piece concludes the album in sweeping, cinematic fashion with layers of lush vocals and dramatic orchestration. Album Of The Week - 13/06/2026 - Track 4 My penultimate selection from Illusions is the title track from the album. Thomas Bergersen throws everything into the mix for this 8 minute epic, soaring strings, dramatic vocals, percussions and anthemic rhythms. Album Of The Week - 13/06/2026 - Track 3 My third selection from Illusions is the track Gift Of Life. This is one of my favourite pieces on the album and in my opinion leans heavily on the score to The Da Vinci Code by Hans Zimmer, with its quiet, pensive opening building to a beautifully sweeping finale. Album Of The Week - 13/06/2026 - Track 2 My second selection from Illusions is the track Rada, a Slovonic female name that represents happiness. What really captured m...
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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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