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Writer based in Nottingham (UK); publications include Eastern Bloc Songs - Party Pop & Politics (2018), Eastern Bloc Songs - A Sampler (2016), Exotica Suite & Other Fictions (2015), Black Glass - New & Selected Poems (2015), The Holcombe Tarot (2014), The Apple Sequence (2011) etc. Also exhibits as a visual artist, often under the pseudonym of Robert Holcombe (b.1923 - d.2003). Particular interests in 1950s - 1980s pop culture of former Eastern Bloc countries, exotica, folklore, psychedelia and half-forgotten, possibly entirely imaginary, cultural artefacts.

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Post-Psychedelic Enka II (Japanese New Sound, Folk & Acoustic Songs, 1968 - 2008)

Kayōkyoku Wonderland III (Japanese Pop, Enka, Beat, Lounge & Disco, 1967 – 1982)

Eastern Bloc Disco: The Soundcarriers Support Set (Nottingham Contemporary, 24 Sept 2022)

May Contain K-Pop (or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Korean Pop Mix IV)

Kayōkyoku Wonderland II (Japanese Lounge, Pop, Enka, Blues & Bossa, 1964 – 1975)

May Contain Q-Pop Mix II (Post-Soviet Kazakh & Kyrgyz Pop, 2014 - 2022)

Wassail – Six Songs from The Apple Sequence (Orchard Editions, Nottingham, 2010)

Eastern Bloc Songs Mix: Lucifer In Coelis - Beat, Pop, Chanson, Jazz & Folk (1963 - 1974)

Post-Psychedelic Enka (Japanese Folk, Pop, Lounge & Disco, 1969 - 1981)

May Contain K-Pop (or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Korean Pop Mix III)

Ritual Discotheque (SOBJECTS Feast Event Mix, One Thoresby Street, 19 Nov 2021)

Tokyo Barbarism: Idol Punk, Techno-Enka & Bubblegum J-Pop Mix (1984 - 2019)

May Contain Q-Pop (Post-Soviet Kazakh & Kyrgyz Pop, 2016 - 2021)

Kayōkyoku Wonderland: Japanese Lounge, Pop, Disco, Folk & Bossa (1967 – 1979)

Songs From An Imaginary Ex-Soviet Psychedelic Road Movie Soundtrack (Eastern Bloc Mix)

May Contain K-Pop (or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Korean Pop Mix II)

Disco Minimalism (Eastern Bloc Songs, Soundtrack, Post-Punk & Disco Mix, 1969 - 1985)

谷山浩子 Hiroko Taniyama (The Avant-MOR 'New Sound' of an Imaginary Japan, 1972 - 1986)

May Contain K-Pop (Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love Korean Pop Mix I)