2016 – Page 3

French TV – Ambassadors of Good Health and Clean Living

A name almost as unknown in their Louisville, Kentucky backyard as over here in Blighty, Mike Sary’s French TV have been ploughing their own furrow, making albums and occasionally gigging since 1983. Ambassadors of Good Health and Clean Living is…

The Fierce And The Dead – If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe (2016 Remaster)

Is it really more than 5 years since this came out? The Fierce & The Dead have built a very loyal following in the intervening period and continue to go from strength to strength, being due to embark on their…

Tony Banks – A Curious Feeling (Deluxe 2 Disc Expanded Edition)

From the moment you hear the opening chords of From the Undertow there is a reassuring and comforting sense that you are in familiar waters. Both the style and the tone signal not only clear connections with And Then There…

Gravy Train – Second Birth & Staircase To The Day

St.Helens band Gravy Train were one of hundreds on the undercard of the nascent progressive rock scene at the turn of the ’60s into the ’70s, and they made their first two LPs for Philips’ underground subsidiary Vertigo. Their first…

The Security Project – Live 1 & Live 2

As far as I am concerned Peter Gabriel is a musical God so one would expect this to be a project, including as it does former members of Gabriel’s touring band and an ex-member of progressive luminaries King Crimson, which…

Holon – The Time Is Always Now

I receive a lot of albums to review and it is often a daunting task to wade through reams of, shall we say, disappointing music before hitting gold. In the case of Holon, I wasn’t familiar with the name –…

Iamthemorning & Tim Bowness

Bush Hall, London Monday, 14th November 2016 Tim Bowness by Roger Trenwith A completely seamless journey from our doorsteps out in the sticks, down to Euston, and on to Shepherd’s Bush Market tube station saw us arrive at the oddly…

Cosmograf – The Unreasonable Silence

As we approach the end of the year we start to look back at stand out albums of the year, and wonder if our initial thoughts about a newly released album will stand up to scrutiny after a significant period…

The Move – Looking On

The marvellous cross-genre Leicester band Family had a U.K. hit earlier in the same year Looking On was released called Strange Band, which certainly applied to them, but could also have been just as easily a theme tune for The…

IZZ – Ampersand: Volume 2

IZZ, that quirky New York band that makes some very fine progressive rock music, is off on another pop-oriented compilation. Ampersand: Volume 2 is a collection of songs that explore the different strengths of their sound beyond traditional progressive themes.…

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Year: 2016