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On Trash Generator, the Sacramento trio Tera Melos builds on its prodigious mix of post-hardcore and prog, reining-in the chops in service of catchy, harmonically rich songs.

Without doubt the most important qawwal is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party – "Party" is a generic term for a qawwali ensemble but is also used in Sikhism and to describe some classical music ensembles, for example, shehnai maestro Bismillah Khan & Party. Dubbed Shahen-Shah-e-Qawwali (the Brightest Star in Qawwali), he was born on October 13, 1948, in Lyallpur in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. He made his first recording in 1973 in Pakistan and a number of early EMI (Pakistan) albums jointly billed him with his uncle Mubarak Ali Khan.

Steve Nelson's stunning debut is definitely one for those who fondly remember that EM style known as "Brit Synthrock" as purveyed by the likes of Mark Shreeve et al. The difference being that in this case someone has had the good sense to get it released, that someone being Ash Prema, under whose Champagne Lake label this saw the light of day. The music of Transcieve has been likened to both Mark Shreeve & T.Bass UK although I was also reminded of the German label Shamall, as Transceive, for the most part avoid the rock influences that pervade the UK artists' works & instead goes for a more measured, less direct, sometimes slightly symphonic approach.