Yonatan Gat - Iberian PassageIt should come as no surprise that after years of touring with his band Monotonix, once hailed by SPIN as the ? most exciting live rock band in rock 'n' roll", that Yonatan Gat would carry that same intensity in his own act. It can only be described as ? world punk?.

He made his name as a drummer with John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra

and it set the tone for films like THE 39 STEPS and THE LADY VANISHES

The single - King Truman's 'Like a Gun' - was in fact a pseudonym for Paul Weller and his Style Council cohorts

Petrus Olavi of Skänninge

Perdomo plays all the instruments and Paul Whitehead provides the cover painting

Franky's debut album has arrived and ushers in a new artist whose talent greatly exceeds all expectations

Fernando Lopes-Graca and Amilcar Vasques-Dias are linked in their musical reflections on Portuguese identity

United Records was the first successful black-owned record company

gossamer guitar work and Cian's astronomic drumming

Vivona's managed to concoct a modern-day Teutonic masterpiece

Rare and previously unseen photographs of the band's Drury Lane concert the day before (23 Dec 1981) from the Safari Records archive also illustrate the CD booklet

or "Wordsmith" and published poet