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Episode 53 - Summer Special

New music from Engineers, album teasers from The Pineapple Thief and new signing (all the way from St Petersburg) iamthemorning (who feature Gavin Harrison from Porcupine Tree on drums) 

PLUS...deluxe re-issue of ‘Schoolyard Ghosts’ from No-Man, details of Henry Fool & Nosound playing in London for Macmillan Cancer Support, AND how to vote for Kscope artists in the Progressive Music Awards (go to awards.progmagazine.com to register)

It can only be - the Kscope Podcast Summer Special!

Episode 52 - Anathema Special

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS with Lee, Vincent & Daniel of Anathema, an EXCLUSIVE LIVE RECORDING of The Lost Song pt 2 from Anathema’s Distant Satellites album launch party, and an EXCLUSIVE Engineers album montage!

Plus three tracks from the new Anathema album, and Steven Wilson's take on a Prince classic...

Episode 51 - New Anathema 45! And Katatonia backstage!

Welcome to the Kscope Podcast, Billy Reeves here. Herein; a track from the new Anathema album (their new 45, in fact). We’ll hear briefly from Danny Cavanagh – full interview in June’s podcast.

 

You’ll hear exclusive interviews with the guitarists of Katatonia recorded immediately after their Union Chapel show in London, Bruce Soord (who’s recently playing guitar with Katatonia on tour) tells us about the new LP from his band The Pineapple Thief, and Anders Nyström from Katatonia tells us why the band stripped down their material and what’s happening next…

 

PLUS Exclusive news of a forthcoming Katatonia DVD, Tim Bowness/Henry Fool shows, and music from Hogarth & Barbieri, Se Delan, Anathema, Steven Wilson & Katatonia.

Go to www.KscopeMusic.com for all the gen!

Episode 50 - Justin Greaves of Se Delan

Hello! It’s Kscope Podcast NUMBER 50! Thanks for your support.

In this episode we concentrate on Se Delan, the duo comprising of Justin Greaves from Crippled Black Phoenix and Belinda Kordic of Killing Mood. Justin explains the origins of the band’s name, the musical similarities between rural Lincolnshire and urban Sweden, and tells us which 80s pop stars inspired him to take up the drums in the first place..

Se Delan’s album ‘The Fall’ is out NOW.

Look out for the Ian Anderson special shortly..

Episode 49 - Thomas from Gazpacho on 'Demon'

Gazpacho are BACK. Their new album Demon is out now: a four song cycle based on “the mad ramblings left behind by an unknown tenant in an apartment in Prague”. So, the first of many questions asked by your host Billy Reeves to Thomas Andersen was “..what?” and the second was “how did you turn that into an album?” Hear their conversation herein, as well as excerpts from the album.

AND you’ll hear a couple of classics from The Pineapple Thief & Anathema, a reminder of Katatonia’s Dethroned and Uncrowned tour PLUS details of a special concert in London featuring Gazpacho, new signings Se Delan (who we shall hear from in the next podcast in mid-April) and a special acoustic set from Bruce and Jon of The Pineapple Thief

Episide 48: VERSION!

Kscope goes under the covers: Kscope artists’ ultra-rare takes on The Pretty Things, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Alanis Morissette, The Cure – and one from a 1934 lightweight Hollywood musical….

Featuring Steven Wilson, Anathema, No-Man, Engineers, Ulver, Blackfield, The Pineapple Thief, new signing Se Delan and North Atlantic Oscillation

Episode 47 -2014

HELLO! Welcome to the newest Kscope podcast and the first of 2014, featuring a few announcements, sneak previews of what’s coming up; a new signing, new music, new touring and future news..

Featuring music from:
Steven Wilson – ‘The Day Before You Came’ (from Cover Version)
Gazpacho -  ‘Winter is Never’ (from Tick Tock)
Gazpacho -  ‘The Wizard of Altai Mountain’ (from Demon)
Gazpacho -  ‘Death Room’ (from Demon)
Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri – ‘Arc Light’ (from Arc Light)
Se Delan – ‘Chasing Changes’ (from The Fall)
Se Delan – ‘Beneath the Sea’ (from The Fall)
Katatonia – ‘Lethean’ (from Dethroned & Uncrowned)
Blackfield – ‘The Only Fool is Me’ (from IV)
Ulver – ‘Son of Man’ (from Messe I.X – VI.X)
No Man – ‘Beautiful Songs You Should Know’ (from Schoolyard Ghosts)

For more info on these release and tours, check out our lovely new Kscope website at: www.kscopemusic.com

Episode 46 - The best of the interviews 2013

As we head into 2014, and a new and exciting year for Kscope, here’s Billy Reeves’ favourite interviews of 2013, featuring an exclusive, brand new catch-up with Jonas Renske of Katatonia at the recent Wisdom of Crowds show at London’s Jazz Café.

There’s music and chat from Steven Wilson, Aviv Geffen & Blackfield, Sel of Amplifier, Steve Hogarth from Marillion/Hogarth & Barbieri, Bruce Soord, Daniel Cavanagh of Anathema and Kristoffer Rygg talking about Ulver’s collaboration with the Tromsø Chamber Orchestra.

Also, listen herein for the new tour dates of Ulver & Blackfield. Katatonia are going to be gigging widely soon too in May next year.

There’ll be a new podcast early in 2014 to get you up to date. Much is afoot…

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Episode 45 - Sam from SAND

In this podcast we’ll hear from Sam Healy of NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION, as we talk about (and hear tracks from) his new project SAND. Sam tells us what motivated him to do a whole album alone.

PLUS! A track from the shortly-to-be-released EP from MOTHLITE – the brainchild of Daniel O’Sullivan from ULVER, AND a piece from the sumptuous re-issue of ‘Lightdark’ by NOSOUND.

www.kscopemusic.com/nosound

www.kscopemusic.com/sand

www.kscopemusic.com/mothlite

Episode 44 - Kristoffer from Ulver

Welcome to the Kscope Podcast.

Ulver have a new album out, it’s called ‘Messe I.X-VI.X’ . Played with the Tromsø Chamber Orchestra, commissioned for the Tromsø Kulturhus in cooperation with the Arctic Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra. You’ll hear from Kristoffer Rygg from the band to tell us a little more, and about Ulver’s plans for the immediate future.

PLUS! A track from SAND, the new project from Sam Healy of North Atlantic Oscillation, and details of forthcoming releases from Mothlite, The Pineapple Thief,  Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree and Nosound.

AND, a reminder that Bruce Soord and Jonas Renkse are taking Wisdom Of Crowds on tour!

 

TRACKS:

Ulver  - Glamour Box

Ulver  - Shri Schnider

Ulver  - Son Of Man

SAND - Clay