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    Album Of The Week                                                                   Album Of The Week - 24/10/2026 -  Track 3 My third selection from Maleficent (Soundtrack) is The Christening. Another of the 5 minute plus pieces that moves from the dramatic to whimsical and back again while featuring the choral motif that runs through the soundtrack. A pivot piece to accompany a key scene in the film. Album Of The Week - 24/10/2026 -  Track 2 The second selection from Maleficent (Soundtrack) is Battle of the Moors. This is one of the longer tracks on the album, an album the broods and builds giving full musical expression to the drama of the scene, a scene of conflict between the rival kingdoms. Album Of The Week - 24/10/2026 Maleficent (Soundtrack) – James Newton Howard     For the third 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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