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    Album Of The Week Album Of The Week - 25/07/2026 - Track 3 Staying with Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, today's selection from the Hans Zimmer collection is A Watchful Guardian, taken from The Dark Knight. There is a brooding moodiness running through this 6 minute track, with stealty, rhythmic strings and blasts of brass with percussive moments.  This is the type of cloying, intense pieces that Hans Zimmer composes with great impact and feeling.   Album Of The Week - 25/07/2026 - Track 2 My second selection from The Definitive Collection by Hans Zimmer is the track Imagine The Fire, taken the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy. These type of films are not usually my thing but I loved this series of films and the accompanying scores. This particular piece is a style that Zimmer is known for, big percussive, moody compostions that beautifully capture the tense and dramatic scenes perfectly, this track featuring on The Dark Knight Rises. Album Of The Week - 25...
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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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