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Harold Darke

Harold Darke was perhaps better known in his life time as an organist than composer. Not really that he was a smaller amount in the last mentioned undertaking: Darke was thought to be one of the biggest organists of his period, and therefore appeared frequently in concert, frequently performing his …

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Al Brooker

Al Brooker’s 1st break right into the music industry came when he and 3 friends created Gwei-Lo, an experimental rock and roll group within the vein of Tortoise and Godspeed You Dark Emperor!. After rehearsing and carrying out around the Cambridge, Britain area, the music group entered the studio room …

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Advertising

Though they weren’t around for long, Advertising managed one brilliantly eccentric album, 1978’s Jingles. The punk-era Cambridge pop music group produced in 1976 around Tot Taylor and Simon Boswell, both of whom strummed and sang. Taylor acquired appeared previously in A PARTICULAR Moment as well as the Blue Kittens, a …

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The Soft Boys

The Soft Children have ended up being perhaps one of the most influential bands in shaping contemporary alternative music, though few are completely acquainted with the quirky band’s legacy. Produced in Cambridge, Britain in 1976 over the heels from the punk trend, the Soft Children eschewed the three-chord nihilism of …

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