Well known quotable curmudgeon, scatological juvenile humourist, and sometime genius musician Frank Zappa once said of music journalism: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. Emmett Elvin, purveyor of keyboard goodness for Knifeworld and Guapo, is nothing if not…
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Eclectic Maybe Band – Reflection In A Mœbius Ring Mirror
Guy Segers is best known as a founder member of the only original Rock In Opposition band still working, Univers Zéro, although they seem to be on hiatus at present. However, one look at his Bandcamp page shows there is…
View More Eclectic Maybe Band – Reflection In A Mœbius Ring MirrorTony Banks
Tony Banks should need little or no introduction to most of our readers. Since the earliest days of Genesis throughout the many changes of members, music and direction, Tony’s intelligent, musically strong composition skills have been a cornerstone of their…
View More Tony BanksTony Banks – Banks Vaults: The Albums 1979 – 1995
Tony Banks, a very familiar name to most, one of the founders and for over 50 years one of only two constant members, in every incarnation of Genesis. Banks’ elegant and grandiose keyboard playing and composition skills were one of…
View More Tony Banks – Banks Vaults: The Albums 1979 – 1995Kaprekar’s Constant – Depth of Field
“The Depth of Field a Moment sealed in Time… The Images Live on, but the Cameraman has Gone.” These resonant words from Depth of Field, the gentle and elegiac final track of the second album by Kaprekar’s Constant, touchingly honour…
View More Kaprekar’s Constant – Depth of FieldFlying Lotus – Flamagra
Before the usual suspects get their knickers in a twist, the adjective of this website is “progressive”, and that’s exactly what this album is. Anyone who thinks that progressive is a word confined to a certain type of rock music…
View More Flying Lotus – FlamagraÚna Quinn – Inside Out
Inside Out is the rather beguiling debut album from Irish born, now residing in Liverpool, composer and songstress Úna Quinn, which offers an insight into her personal and somewhat world-weary perspective, fuelled by the increasingly toxic social environment of U.K.…
View More Úna Quinn – Inside OutEddie Jobson – Green Album / Theme of Secrets
With a career that must have started playing baby rattle on his earliest recordings, Eddie Jobson started thinking about his first solo album when he was only twenty-four years old in 1980, having previously added considerable weight to Curved Air,…
View More Eddie Jobson – Green Album / Theme of SecretsBroken Parachute – Living Dangerously
When you are presented with an album that completely and without shame reveres the late ’60s and early ’70s, sits on grannies pouffe in the corner of the room, provides you with numerous audio worm infections and makes you grin…
View More Broken Parachute – Living DangerouslyPoiL – Sus
I suppose some of you might see this album as “difficult music”, but I don’t see it like that at all, having a penchant for a feral racket or two, which this may well be, who knows? I just see…
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