Peach ‘Audiopeach’ (Epic/Mute, 1997)

The track titles alone sound like long-lost episodes of early 1970s ‘Doctor Who’.

In Ananda Shankar’s relatively short lifetime, the Indian sitar player was never afraid to push boundaries.

Back in the olden days, many music journalists had a nice sideline penning biogs, frothy one-pagers extolling the virtues of a major label’s next big thing. The money was more than you’d earn writing a cover feature, so understandably competition was fierce.

When they first came out, I was slightly too young to appreciate Peter Gabriel’s four, self-titled solo albums that spanned 1977-1982, but ‘Birdy’, his first film soundtrack, really caught my attention.