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"From out of the dark"

From Out Of The Dark

From out of the dark is a collection of 6 songs finished during the infamous Covid lockdown of 2020, drawing musical influences from many different genres and based on different themes close to my heart.

Some with a narrative, others about how I felt a particular junction in life, playing music, writing and recording songs has been a great outlet for me and helped me deal with and express myself in a productive fashion.

With no single genre over the six songs I decided to put them out as From out of the dark, to show how something good can come from the darkness. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed making them.

I appreciate so much all the friends and family who have helped critique these tracks ready for public consumption. Thanks also to my younger sister, Hannah, for providing her vocal talents and lyric writing on two of the songs.

Please listen below and follow me on all of my social networks using the links above.

Matt x

#VictoryDisc by #AndrewCartmel mini spoiler free book review

Victory Disc (The Vinyl Detective #3)Victory Disc by Andrew Cartmel

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Jazz music! Rare records! Cats! Neo-Nazi thugs! Andrew Cartmel is back with another brilliant entry in the Vinyl Detective novels.

This time the Vinyl Detective is recruited to obtain rare shellac 78 records from a WW2 big band group known as the Flare Path Orchestra. In hunting them down, our protagonist uncovers not only some uniquely arranged big band compositions, but also that the war still continues for some people, and secrets become uncovered left, right and centre. Whilst this leads to the solving an long retired murder case of course things aren't quite that straight forward, and Nevada and hubby get into many scrapes, break-ins, are shot at and even buried alive...

The same crew show up this time, including beloved Tinkler, Clean Head and of course, Turk and Fanny with an interesting cast of WW2 airman and ex musicians/band members, all with interesting traits and stories to tell or uncover.

There's such a good mix of action, tension, levity and excitement as we've come to expect from Cartmel's polished writing style. Different enough from the first 2 books to be intriguing but similar enough to still give you what you crave. An excellent read for fans of the series.



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