Ben Pelchat is always doing something new. When he first started in music, it was not a skin-deep desire to emulate the latest or greatest craze. Pelchat is about the music and the pursuit of creating sound that connects on a deep and lasting level. I know, it sounds alien by today’s standards, since that…
Clifford Slapper reflects on Tim Arnold’s new album ‘You Are For Me’ Even for aficionados of Tim Arnold’s seventeen previous albums, all excellent in diverse ways, this latest offering will still be a revelation. With an assurance and sophistication which surpasses his previous work, he has managed to frame a style which is genuinely new…
Poet and author Ange Chan reflects on Tim Arnold’s new album ‘You Are For Me’ Tim Arnold is a musician of many years standing and I was lucky enough to listen to his latest musical offering, You Are For Me, his eighteenth album, produced by Tim and Ben Pelchat at Kensington Sound, Toronto. Reading the…
Riccardo Cavrioli reflects on Tim Arnold’s new album ‘You Are For Me’. Tim Arnold perfectly describes his new album himself, when, in the album’s liner notes, he signs off at the end of a list of acknowledgements and thanks with the words: “I needed to make this album“. Arnold has never written to please potential clients,…
Wednesday 25th October Kathy’s fundraiser has reach £2500! Her story was covered in a Canadian newspaper and rather sweetly, the journalist mentioned that ‘even a Brit has written a song for her’. I found this quite lovely as I never think of myself as a Brit. I’ve broken into The Brits a few times, but…
Wednesday 18th October It’s three days since I was at the Isle of Wight. I’ve been trying to get in touch with Dwayne about the drone footage but I think he must have been very busy as there was no answer. I’ll leave it to fate. If I’m meant to have the drone footage, he…
Sunday 8th October. Weird day today. After Michael and Katie lost their home a few weeks ago in a fire, the same thing has now happened to my friend Kathy and her mum Neva. In fact all the apartments in their block have burnt down, related to an attack on one of the Syrian families…