Routes To Roots (Yoruba Drums From Nigeria) - Sola Akingbola

Get your kicks from errr... Root 6

Advantages: Powerful, Portable, Looks like a space-gun
Disadvantages: Price,. Noise

around. Perhaps surprisingly, it was a fair few years before Dyson made the leap from "regular" vacuum cleaners to handheld ones. In fact, they only came on the market last year. I can only guess that it took them this long to perfect the design - or think up the marketing that would allow them to maintain their premium price-tag. Regardless of the cause of this delay, Dyson finally got a handheld to market in the form of the DC16 Root 6 in "Steel & Yellow". Looking more like a hand-gun from Star Wars than a Dustbuster(tm), it's got a certain gadgety charm. In fact I'd be so bold as to guess that most are bought by men for no other reason than they do look remarkably like a Star Wars prop... what next, a feather duster that looks like a light-sabre? Finished in a fairly tough mix of yellow and swirly grey metallic plastic (not ...

LegendaryMrDude 04.12.2007 (28.01.2007) · Read full review
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Review Of From Roots To Branches

Advantages: Excellent Return To Roots
Disadvantages: None

This is one of the best albums and my favourite yet with a return to the more complicated musical progressions of their heyday and numerous shifting sounds and themes even within a single song. The tracks “Rare and Precious Chain” and “Beside Myself” have a Asian-Indian feel to them. This album cracked the top twenty and was critically acclaimed. It has elements of George Harrisons Indian experimental pieces about it while still retaining the Jethro Tull feel of probably the Songs From The Wood. This is Tull turning full circle. ...

rocking 30.01.2001 (29.03.2001) · Read full review
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Digging for dirt right down by the root

Advantages: Light, very manoeuvrable, robust, very powerful suction
Disadvantages: Initial outay is expensive, no ability to use mains power

in Dyson?s yellow and grey livery; personally I was glad when they moved away from that unattractive purple. It has the usual transparent cylinder bin to repulse you with the filth it sucks up and personally encourages me to vacuum more frequently! As I said it is styled rather like a drill so you consequently get a very good grip and it is easily manoeuvrable so you can get into nooks and crannies very easily; the free hose increases this even further; I was able to get right under the car seats without crippling myself- I have a knee injury at present so am not as flexible as usual but the Dyson compensated for this very nicely. The machine is light; weighing only 1.5 kg and this weight is distributed ergonomically so it is superbly balanced in the hand. Despite this the Root 6 is well made and tough. It doesn?t feel flimsy or cheap ...

Miskah 21.07.2007 · Read full review
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