June 2015 – T P A

Roland Bühlmann – Aineo

Back in 1972 Mike Oldfield went into the Manor Studios and recorded Tubular Bells, huge sound desk, multiple instruments and copious recording engineers. Now the likelihood is that a singular artist will record in the back bedroom/garage/shed at the bottom…

Chris Squire – RIP

The Progressive Aspect join the numerous tributes being paid to Chris Squire, the founding member of Yes, who passed away today and a little over a month after announcing that he was suffering from a rare form of leukaemia. The…

Vennart – The Demon Joke

It’s probably hard to dance to but I wouldn’t know about that. What I do know is that Vennart’s The Demon Joke is a great listen. I want music to captivate my mind and soul and it doesn’t matter what…

William D. Drake – Revere Reach

Take a swathe of eccentricity of the Very English kind, a keening sense of melody, mix in a wide spread of acoustic instrumentation with wielders who know how to get the best out of them, add pinches of folk, Cardiacs,…

Simon Steensland – A Farewell To Brains

Simon Steensland hails from Sweden, and makes a living as a professional musician composing and playing music for theatre productions. The list of plays he has contributed to is rather impressive. He describes his albums away from the “day job”…

Ghost Rhythms – Madeleine

Young French jazz-fusion ensemble Ghost Rhythms arrive at TPA Towers hitherto unknown to me with their third album, a two-hour long instrumental tribute to the movie Vertigo. Intrigued by the oft-quoted synchronicity between Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon…

Lunatic Soul – Walking On A Flashlight Beam

According to some, Steven Wilson is a genius. Believe me, Mariusz Duda is not far behind. You may know him from his bass playing, singing and writing for Riverside but if that is as far as you have got, then may…

Sky – Sky 3 / Sky 4: Forthcoming / Sky Five Live / Cadmium / The Great Balloon Race / Mozart

At the end of last year I reviewed the first two fruits of Esoteric’s remastered reissues series of the complete works of Sky, the Anglo-Aussie classical/rock crossover band formed in 1978 by classical guitar maestro John Williams. Probably the zenith…

The Aristocrats – Tres Caballeros

With a US tour starting in July and European dates scheduled for the end of the year, Messrs Govan, Beller and Minnemann return with the third studio instalment of their mind-bendingly dextrous outings as The Aristocrats. The album is well…

Emerson Lake & Palmer – Trilogy

Deluxe 3 Disc Edition including 5.1 Mix There’s no potted history of the band included here, and after 43 years, I can’t imagine Emerson Lake & Palmer’s third studio album needing any introduction either. Certainly not in a progressive rock ezine. Neither…