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Acoustic (magazine)
''Acoustic Magazine'' is a British glossy monthly publication that deals only in acoustic music. History and profile ''Acoustic'' was cofounded by Hugo Montgomery-Swan, Mark Tucker and Steve Harvey in 2004. Harvey edited the first twenty issues of the magazine, which is part of Blaze Publishing Ltd.. Originally bi-monthly, it is now a monthly publication and carries reviews, features, lessons, vintage guitar advice and all manner of items to do with this genre. Columnists include Pierre Bensusan, Maartin Allcock, Doyle Dykes, Chris Gibbons, Kevin Harding, Simon Mayor, Gordon Giltrap, and Julie Ellison. References External links

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Pierre Bensusan
Pierre Bensusan (born 30 October 1957) is a French-Algerian acoustic guitarist. As Sephardic Jews, his family came from Spain, Spanish Morocco, and French Algeria. His music has been characterized as Celtic music, Celtic, folk music, folk, world music, New-age music, New-age, and chamber jazz. He has published three books of music and tablature. He plays in DADGAD tuning. Biography Bensusan was born in 1957 in Oran, French Algeria. Born in the middle of the Algerian War of Independence, he moved to Paris with his family as a child. He studied piano and classical music at the age of seven. Four years later, he began to teach himself guitar after his father had bought him a steel string acoustic guitar and a classmate taught him "a few chords". At seventeen, he signed a contract for his debut album, ''Près de Paris'', which won the Grand Prix du Disque at the Montreux Festival. His influences include Big Bill Broonzy, Larry Carlton, Martin Carthy, Ry Cooder, Joan Baez, Reverend ...
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Maartin Allcock
Maartin Allcock (born Martin Allcock; 5 January 1957 – 16 September 2018) was an English multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer. Biography Born in Middleton, Greater Manchester, Middleton, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England, Allcock studied music at Huddersfield and Leeds. He began playing professionally in January 1976, playing in dance bands and folk clubs. His first tour was in 1977 with Mike Harding as one of the Brown Ale Cowboys. He went to Brittany in 1978, for a temporary stay, but ended up remaining longer than intended, and learned to cook while there. On returning to Manchester he studied and qualified to become a chef, working in the Shetland Islands in 1980. In 1981 he joined the Bully Wee Band, a Celtic music, Celtic folk group, which led to an 11-year stint as lead guitarist with British folk rock band Fairport Convention from October 1985 to December 1996, and concurrently four years as Keyboard instrument, keyboardist with rock band J ...
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Music Magazines Published In The United Kingdom
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect of all human societies, a cultural universal. While scholars agree that music is defined by a few specific elements, there is no consensus on their precise definitions. The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation, and musical performance, though the topic itself extends into academic disciplines, criticism, philosophy, and psychology. Music may be performed or improvised using a vast range of instruments, including the human voice. In some musical contexts, a performance or composition may be to some extent improvised. For instance, in Hindustani classical music, the performer plays spontaneously while following a partially defined structure and using characteristic motifs. In modal jazz t ...
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Monthly Magazines Published In The United Kingdom
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2004 Establishments In The United Kingdom
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other h ...
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Simon Mayor
Simon Mayor (born 1953) is an English mandolinist, fiddle player, guitarist, composer and humorist. He is noted for a series of instrumental albums featuring the mandolin, live performances with his partner Hilary James and his groups The Mandolinquents and Slim Panatella & the Mellow Virginians, and (with Hilary James) for writing and performing for children. He has produced a series of instructional books and DVDs for the mandolin, and is also a regular columnist for ''Acoustic'' magazine, along with Martin Taylor, Doyle Dykes, Gordon Giltrap, Maartin Allcock and Julie Ellison. Career Mayor cites fiddler and mandolinist Dave Swarbrick as a teenage musical influence, after being taught to sing in tonic sol-fa by his father when very young. With his solo debut ''The Mandolin Album'' in 1990 he embarked on a series of recordings with the stated aim of giving the mandolin a uniquely British voice. The CD was made Recording of the Week on BBC Radio 2. His mix of original and ...
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Kevin Harding
Kevin Harding (born 19 March 1957) is an English retired footballer who played in the Football League for Brentford as a defender. Playing career Brentford Harding was one of the first players recruited when the Brentford youth team was relaunched in 1972. He captained the youth team during the 1972–73 season and made a London Challenge Cup appearance for the reserve team against Tottenham Hotspur while still aged 15. Harding made three league appearances during the Bees' 1974–75 Fourth Division campaign. Harding was released at the end of the season. Hayes Harding joined Isthmian League The Isthmian League () is a regional men's football league covering Greater London, East and South East England, featuring mostly semi-professional clubs. Founded in 1905 by amateur clubs in the London area, the league now consists of 82 tea ... First Division club Hayes during the 1975 off-season and made 34 appearances during the 1975–76 season. Career statistics ...
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Acoustic Music
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the advent of electric instruments, such as the electric guitar, electric violin, electric organ and synthesizer. Acoustic string instrumentations had long been a subset of popular music, particularly in folk. It stood in contrast to various other types of music in various eras, including big band music in the pre-rock era, and electric music in the rock era. Music reviewer Craig Conley suggests, "When music is labeled acoustic, unplugged, or unwired, the assumption seems to be that other types of music are ''cluttered'' by technology and overproduction and therefore aren't as ''pure''." Types of acoustic instruments Acoustic instruments can be split into six groups: string instruments, wind instruments, percussion, other instruments, ensemble i ...
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Paul Brett
Paul Brett (born 20 June 1947 in Fulham, London) is an English classic rock guitarist. He played lead guitar with Strawbs (although he was never actually a member), The Overlanders, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, The Velvet Opera, Tintern Abbey, Fire, Roy Harper, Al Stewart, Lonnie Donegan. He switched to twelve-string guitar in the 1970s. His first twelve-string guitar suite, ''Earth Birth'', was released on his own label, Phoenix Future, and was produced by artist Ralph Steadman of ''Fear and Loathing'' fame. Critical acclaim led to Brett being signed on a four-album deal with RCA Records. His K-tel ''Romantic Guitar'' album went gold in the UK, but Brett stopped recording soon afterwards. He started recording again in 2000, with long-time friend and fellow twelve-string guitarist, John Joyce. Brett wrote for music magazines ''Melody Maker'', '' Sound International'' and ''International Musician'' and continued working in the music industry in ...
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Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is dominated by a maritime climate with narrow temperature differences between seasons. The 60% smaller island of Ireland is to the west—these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named substantial rocks, form the British Isles archipelago. Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a landbridge now known as Doggerland, Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a population of about , making it the world's third-most-populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The term "Great Britain" is often used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales, including their component adjoining islands. Great Britain and Northern Ireland now constitute the ...
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Blaze Publishing Ltd
Blaze may refer to: People * Blaze (given name), a list of people with the name * Blaze (surname), a list of people with the name * Blaze Bayley, stage name of English singer and former Wolfsbane and Iron Maiden vocalist Bayley Alexander Cooke (born 1963) * Blaze Foley, stage name of American country singer and songwriter Michael David Fuller (1949–1989) * Blaze Starr, stage name of American stripper and burlesque artist Fannie Belle Fleming (1932–2015) * Johnny Blaze, a stage name, along with Method Man, of American rapper, songwriter, record producer and actor Clifford Smith, Jr.(born 1971) * Blaze Ya Dead Homie, also known simply as Blaze, American rapper Chris Rouleau (born 1976) * Bobby Blaze, a ring name of American professional wrestler Robert Smedley (born 1963) * Johnny Blaze, a ring name, along with John Morrison, of American professional wrestler John Randall Hennigan (born 1979) Arts and entertainment Fictional entities * Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze), the secon ...
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