Nadia Reid - Enter Now BrightnessEnter Now Brightness feels different for Nadia. It is an album, she says, of departure and questioning, that has reminded her how songwriting can be the most useful thing to do with pain and joy and thoughts and feelings and anger. That through music we can find great change. Im so much better off now that it exists, she says. Now feels like a new time. On this record, Reid moves ever further from her earlier folk inclinations, establishing a sound

When Andy and I parted ways in the late 1980's I decided to add both drums and percussion as well as overdubs from guest musicians many of which are included on this album

you have never heard this group before

In 'The Ladies of Too Slow To Disco' it's time to redress the balance

His signature question to guests was delivered deadpan: “What is the meaning of life

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'Stars Wars' brings together the unfamiliar but similarly adventurous bedfellows of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

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traversing America and bonding with one another in the process

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and Holly Thomas (drums) make music together