Throughout his work in no-man and also as a solo artist, Tim Bowness exudes quality and class. A man who rarely steps into the limelight, and when he does, some might say with a little reluctance, he remains a musician…
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Tim Bowness – Lost In The Ghost Light
“You caught the moments in the music by accident, you caught the music in the moment by chance” is one of many poignant lines on this luscious new album from the Doyen of Doomed Romance, or Tim Bowness as he…
View More Tim Bowness – Lost In The Ghost LightKshettra – Five Mothers
One the best aspects of reviewing music is that you get to hear new and interesting sounds from around the globe. Indeed it seems that music can be universal, crossing the world, uniting people and connecting them across different countries…
View More Kshettra – Five MothersSteve Hogarth
100 Club, Oxford Street, London 12th February 2017 In a turbulent time when we have leaders preaching exclusion and hate, and we are exposed to the nonsense of ‘Alternative Facts’, it is surely more important than ever that our artists…
View More Steve HogarthMaschine – Naturalis
For one reason or another this review of Maschine’s second studio album has taken a while to come to fruition and in hindsight I’m glad. As with their debut I initially liked what I heard on Naturalis, but I can’t…
View More Maschine – NaturalisSteve Hughes – Once We Were (Part Two)
Once We Were (Part Two) is the third album released in two years by Steve Hughes since his impressive debut Tales from the Silent Ocean in 2015. This release is the sequel to last year’s imaginative Once We Were (Part…
View More Steve Hughes – Once We Were (Part Two)Magma avec le Metalïk Orkestraah
L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris 2nd February 2017 While briefly communicating with the Earthlings present at the Magma Café OTO gig in London last year, Stella Vander informed us supplicants of a gathering of the tribes to be held at the…
View More Magma avec le Metalïk OrkestraahProgression – Noxologic
If you are going to call your band Progression then you need to be pretty damn progressive. It’s like calling yourself Mr Big – if you’re not the tallest, widest or most powerful geezer in the room then, inevitably, your…
View More Progression – NoxologicFlat White – Blue Square
There’s a conventional wisdom that punk rock came along to burn the bridges and bury progressive rock under an earthquake of nihilism and a slightly less hygienic airborne barrage of phlegm. The reality was, of course, different. There were early…
View More Flat White – Blue SquareSimon Godfrey – Black Bag Archive, Vol.II
Back in November (ish) of 2015, I was lucky enough to get to get hold of a copy of Simon Godfrey’s Black Bag Archive, Vol.I and felt compelled to write a review. When Simon announced that he was going to…
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