Monthly Archives: June 2012

Eiliff – Eiliff (1971): Fuse into a little jazz fusion

Formed in the late 60’s by Rainer Brüninghaus, Houschäng Nejadepour, Detlev Landmann, Herbert J. Kalveram and Bill Brown, EILIFF were a German instrumental band who turned fusion on its head with a pair of studio albums featuring classy Canterbury-style jamming with bass, guitar and keyboards plus some ethnic instruments thrown in (mostly the sitar). Two […]

Exciting Newsletter announcement #1 – Booker Prize short listed author Stephen Kelman chats with Lisa Thatcher

I told you the newsletter would be good! Exciting announcement #1 is: Acclaimed author Stephen Kelman  – currently hard at work on his second book – has agreed to take a little time out to have a brief chat with me about the pleasures and pressures of being a first time author short listed for […]