Andy Tillison has just come out of lockdown. Not a Covid lockdown but 20 months of self-imposed isolation in a compact studio at his remote Yorkshire farmhouse while he single-handedly (well, both hands and feet) created the 13th Tangent album,…
View More Andy Tillison – The TangentAuthor: Kevan Furbank
PAKT – No Steps Left to Trace
The ‘P’ in PAKT is Mrs Jones’s lad Percy, the virtuoso fretless bass player on all the Brand X albums from Unorthodox Behaviour in 1976 to Manifest Destiny 21 years later. On one of those albums – I think 1982’s…
View More PAKT – No Steps Left to TraceJane Getter Premonition – Division World
It’s probably fair to say that most of our guitar heroes are hairy-arsed men, so I really value the talented guitarists working in the prog field who boast a pair of X chromosomes, people like Hedvig Mollestad and Jane Getter.…
View More Jane Getter Premonition – Division WorldAncient Veil – Puer Aeternus
I have reviewed two live albums by this entertaining Italian band, which inspired me to discover their back catalogue and left me hankering for a new studio release. Well, here it is, a lovely example of Ancient Veil’s pastoral prog…
View More Ancient Veil – Puer AeternusGong – Unending Ascending
Captain’s Log: Star Date 02102023. About lunchtime. Our sensors have detected soundwaves from a mysterious green planet populated by little men with propellors on their pointy heads. The Chief Science Officer believes this is the mysterious Planet Gong, which is…
View More Gong – Unending AscendingVarious Artists – When the Alarm Clock Rings
Hey, maaan. We’re putting on our multi-coloured bell-bottoms and phosphorescent tie-dyes, daubing our faces with day-glo paint and dropping acid here at TPA in preparation for 90-minutes of British psychedelic rock. Hang out, just been told we’re out of acid…
View More Various Artists – When the Alarm Clock RingsArnaud Quevedo & Friends – 2nd Life
Monsieur Quevedo, who lectures on Current Music at the Conservatory in La Rochelle on the west coast of France, releases his third full-length studio album packed full of influences from the bands on his syllabus, including Magma, King Crimson and…
View More Arnaud Quevedo & Friends – 2nd LifeAmoeba Split – Quiet Euphoria
Those of us who enjoy the Canterbury sound have long realised that geography has little to do with it. The quirky, melodic jazz-rock of Soft Machine, National Health and Hatfield And The North has spread far beyond the Kent cathedral…
View More Amoeba Split – Quiet EuphoriaMike Keneally – The Thing That Knowledge Can’t Eat
Yielbongura. That’s the thing that knowledge can’t eat. It’s a word used by the Dagara tribe in Africa to mean anything that defies understanding. You can’t explain it, dissect it, cut it down to size with words – it just…
View More Mike Keneally – The Thing That Knowledge Can’t EatThe Tangent – Songs From the Hard Shoulder
Andy Tillison has been going through a purple patch of late. Since his mild heart attack back in 2015, the Yorkshire keyboard player has released four albums as The Tangent, three as a solo artist (albeit under a variety of…
View More The Tangent – Songs From the Hard Shoulder