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    Album Of The Week                                                                   Album Of The Week - 26/09/2026 - Track 4 The penultimate selection from IBM 1401, A User’s Manual is the piece, Part 4/ IBM 729 II Magnetic Tape Unit. This is the final part of the actual User Manual suite and like yesterday’s track is a beautiful orchestral piece laced with the machine recording that form the basis of this project.   Album Of The Week - 26/09/2026 - Track 3 My third selection from IBM 1401, A User’s Manual is Part 3, IBM 1402 Card Read-Punch. It is almost criminal that such a stunning piece of music is named after a computer component. Given that the whole suite is based around recordings made by Johannsson’s father of the computer machinery, who was an IBM engineer, this 10-minute piece of music w...
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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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