Most bands and artists have emerged from the pandemic with a Lockdown Album safely stored in their discography, and this is the estimable Emmett Elvin’s contribution to that off-kilter section of the filing cabinet of musical life. I mentioned in…
View More Emmett Elvin – Being of Sound Mind
When this Latino alien-jazz-prog band burst onto the scene with their debut album De-Loused In The Comatorium back in 2003, synapses at the more receptive end of the alt-rock universe went “Ping!” and “KApow!!” and “ZZZZAAAPppp!” in a manner unseen…
View More The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta
With the recent release of their Ancient Astronauts album, TPA’s Roger Trenwith spoke to Motorpsycho‘s Bent Sæther about the album, the band’s way of doing things after evolving for so many years and future plans… This summer, the land has…
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I have an affinity for outsider music, as those three of you who irregularly read my nonsense must know by now. No one counterculture embodies that ethos better than the German underground music scene of the mid-’60s onwards, that became…
View More Faust – Punkt.
The Garage, Highbury, London Friday 17th and Saturday 18th June 2022 Roger Trenwith … and now, over to Philomena for the weather… Only in the UK – or more specifically in the southern half of the UK – could you…
View More Magma / The Utopia Strong
‘Transneptunian’ is the term given to “any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than Neptune, which has a semi-major axis of 30.1 astronomical units”, and so would include Pluto (the opening…
View More J. Peter Schwalm / Stephan Thelen – Transneptunian Planets
Sonicbond’s series of books by amateur music enthusiasts continues with these two volumes, and before I go any further, I would simply say that the many and mostly, if not all, amateur enthusiasts, are all far more disciplined than me.…
View More Geoffrey Feakes – 1973: A Year in Progressive Rock / Richard Rees Jones – Peter Hammill On Track: Every Album, Every Song
In an unusual move for TPA, here we offer a selection of views on the forthcoming and fervently anticipated (by many) new album from a reanimated Porcupine Tree, due in one month from… Now. Magnus Moar Porcupine Tree finally return…
View More Porcupine Tree – Closure/Continuation
The Lexington, Islington, London Thursday, 21st April 2022 For two or three hours let’s pretend all that shit going on out there in an increasingly dysfunctional and dangerous world is not happening, and immerse ourselves in the disorienting psychedelia offered…
View More The Holy Family / V Ä L V Ē
William Scott Bruford, primarily known as the “go to” prog drummer, as stints in Yes, King Crimson (three times), Genesis, and UK attest, has had a career that is so much more than that. After all, the time he spent…
View More Bill Bruford – Making A Song And Dance: A Complete Career Collection