This fine Italian band, led by guitar player Dario D’Alessandro, make no secret of their love of all things Canterbury, but within these zeros and ones you will find classical references, and Beatles-inspired classy pop, all living comfortably in the…
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It’s been 50 years since Can burst through the floodgates, bringing the genres of Electronica, Experimental, Avant-Garde, Minimal, Musique-Concrete and Ambient music to the forefront in what would be known as Krautrock, or in the late ‘70s as post-punk. It…
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Bobby Previte is a respected drummer and composer, working mostly in modern jazz oriented fields, although that only begins to scratch at the surface of his work. Rhapsody continues his Terminals trilogy on the subject of migration and transit. This…
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“How was it for you?” Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool / The Barbican, York 20th & 22nd April 2018 Much had been made of Marillion’s return to the more comfortable seated concert halls for a brief U.K. tour, following up their grand…
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There are times when people, actions and events come together in such a way that we are simply forced to stop, step back, take stock and have a good, long, hard look at ourselves, at what we’ve become and the…
View More My Indigo – My Indigo
One of the pleasures of reviewing is when you discover an album by a band you were not previously aware of and they blow you away. Having recently returned from a holiday in Edinburgh, and feeling good about all things…
View More Midas Fall – Evaporate
Even though Esoteric’s resplendent repackaging of retro progressive rock is occasionally prone to errors in artwork or sound quality, it must be said that they do a finer, more consistent job than anyone else in the market at bringing us…
View More Quintessence – Move into the Light: The Complete Island Recordings 1969-1971
Rise Above Records have been on my radar since discovering the label nearly ten years ago in the very first issue of PROG magazine, with bands like Blood Ceremony, Astra, Purson, Electric Wizard, Beastmaker, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, and…
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Taking their name from the geometric definition of the four-dimensional analogue of the cube, TesseracT have always been associated with being multi-dimensional, and Sonder is most definitely the next stage as this new album, their fourth, has truly seen them…
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Junction J2, Cambridge 30th April 2018 Having been back from the sunny, warm climes of Venice for a week now, Monday 30th April saw yet another grey and bloody cold, but at least thankfully dry day in the middle of…
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