Romain Pilon What's in The Way is The Way

DeeExpus began life as the solo project of songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Andy Ditchfield. He had been working on the project for several years without releasing any commercially available material until 2007 when he was reunited with vocalist Tony Wright. The pair began working in earnest on a debt album, and the following year their debut album Half way home was released. Recording of the album was facilitated by the fact that by this time Ditchfield had his won studio up and running. In the words of the band's own publicity "their sound is as eclectic as their influences, drawn from years of listening to such groups and artists as Joe Jackson, Iron Maiden, It Bites, Crash Test Dummies, Rush…

Hyperion have come up trumps again with another delightful disc of out-of-the-way music. The brainchild of Graham Johnson, it is subtitled "150 Years of English Women Composers", with notes by Sophie Fuller, author of a book due out next year entitled The Pandora Guide to Women Composers. In the course of the programme the performers uncover a host of imaginative, impassioned and/or joyful songs that have lain for too long literally unsung, and revived others that were hugely popular until very recent times. Let me say at once that they couldn't have more perceptive or loving or enthusiastic interpreters than Johnson and Johnson, who excel even their own high standards of singing and playing.