Beautiful and Monstrous, released in 2009, is a wonderful showcase for the restless and creative spirit which lies at the very heart of progressive rock. Soaring melodies which fondly linger in the memory are cradled in layers of delicious harmonies,…
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Counterweight is a new project from producer Gregory Howe’s San Francisco-based label/studio/performance space Wide Hive Records which has been releasing forward-looking jazz music since the late 1990s. The core of Counterweight is the rhythm section of bassist/composer Matt Montgomery and…
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In 2016 the occasional band reunion suggestions finally took off when the most enduring members, Brian Hulse, David Jones and Tim Bowness, decided to re-record sixteen of Plenty’s songs and to try and complete the album they had wanted to…
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I enjoyed ESP’s debut album Invisible Din, so when they asked me to review their sophomore album, the recently released 22 Layers Of Sunlight, I was more than happy to do so. For this latest release the ESP 2.0 line-up…
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Here we have two recent releases from Polish label Metal Mind Productions, jazzy in nature and with a crossover in personnel as both leaders appear on each others albums. Apostolis Anthimos might be familiar as guitarist with long-standing Polish band…
View More Robert Szewczuga Trio – Moonrise / Apostolis Anthimos – Parallel Worlds
Now, how does one follow up the major triumph that was 2015’s Ones & Zeros Vol. 1? The success of 3RDegree’s fifth outing came as a big surprise, even to the creators themselves, who, subsequently, decided to tour Europe in…
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Boston, Massachusetts-based GEPH are back with a second album. According to the Interwebs, Apophenia is “the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena”, the term first coined by German neurologist and psychiatrist Klaus Conrad (1905-1961). Conrad focused on…
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This is the debut album from Dave Kerzner Band member Fernando Perdomo, guitarist and bassist, who pretty much does everything on this album, barring one drum track. This is a totally instrumental tour de force from Fernando, and one which…
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Riversea return with their first album since 2012, The Tide is a fine release of emotional maturity expressed beautifully through a skilled and sensitive synthesis of music and lyrics. It is clear that both Marc Atkinson and Brendan Eyre, the…
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Sax player Danny Markovitch and guitarist Dani Rabin have, until now, worn their ethnic origins fairly lightly. Based in Chicago, their previous albums have been blistering jazz-rock fusion workouts with influences ranging from the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Jeff Beck to…
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