Michael Awosoga-Samuel
Michael Awosoga-Samuel is a former Readings bookseller
Review — 26 Jun 2016
Case/Lang/Veirs by Neko Case, k.d. lang & Laura Veirs
I greeted this album with such excitement; here three musicians that I have admired for some time have made a record together. The story goes that k.d. lang called both…
Review — 26 Jun 2016
Three-Martini Lunch by Suzanne Rindell
I must admit that I was very excited to read a story about publishing in New York City in the late 1950s, and especially one voiced by three very different…
Review — 25 Apr 2016
Seven Sonnets And A Song by Paul Kelly
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the great wordsmith is honoured by one of Australia’s great songwriters, Paul Kelly, with this collaboration. In Seven Sonnets & A Song…
Review — 22 Apr 2014
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
Jonas Jonasson’s first book, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, was published to critical and commercial success in 2009, and his new book adopts a…
Review — 24 Nov 2013
Disconnected In New York City by Los Lobos
Los Lobos celebrate 40 years together with this live album, Disconnected, recorded at the City Winery in New York City in December 2012. I am only just beginning to…
Review — 3 Nov 2013
Reflektor by Arcade Fire
At the time of their first album release, Funeral, there was a huge critical hype around Arcade Fire being the next ‘big thing’. Though at that time, in the mid-noughties…
Blog post — 25 Jul 2013
An Album That Changed My Life: Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits
I was 15 and growing up in London at a time in the early 80s when your attire was a direct indication of the music you were listening to. I…
Review — 7 Apr 2013
Om Suite Ohm by Harry Manx
Slide guitarist and musical innovator Harry Manx is something of a globetrotting musical explorer. Stints in Japan and India, where he learnt the 20-string Mohan Veena under the tutelage of…
Review — 7 Apr 2013
Machines of Love and Grace by Martha Tilston
British folk singer Martha Tilston first came to my attention with the release of 2007’s Of Milkmaids & Architects, about the same time that I began listening to The…
Review — 7 Apr 2013
Lonesome Dreams by Lord Huron
Musician and artist Ben Schneider first conceived of Lord Huron as a solo project after his move to LA (the name is taken from Lake Huron in Michigan, where Ben…