Tarry awhile goodly ladies and gents, allow me to regale you with tales of a fine fellow, Marc Atkinson, a musical bard of some little known renown. He peddles his calling among the taverns and the greens of the villages…
View More Marc Atkinson – Black & WhiteMonth: September 2020
David Longdon and the late Judy Dyble: Between a Breath and a Breath
“I had a discussion with my good friend Jackie Morris, a writer of enchanting words and an illustrative artist of exquisite paintings, about where magic happens. She gave me the title and the rest of the song came from wherever…
View More David Longdon and the late Judy Dyble: Between a Breath and a BreathThomas Andersen – Gazpacho
Gazpacho imminently release their latest and most ambitious album, Fireworker. Keyboardist and one of the main songwriters, Thomas Andersen, spoke with The Progressive Aspect’s Leo Trimming about the concept behind this imaginative and epic piece of work. This is my…
View More Thomas Andersen – GazpachoGazpacho – Fireworker
Let’s face it, 2020 has been a bloody strange and tumultuous year, and then along come Gazpacho to add their own particularly weird flavour to these peculiar times with a darkly hypnotic and ambitious concept album in five parts. As…
View More Gazpacho – FireworkerCharlie Barnes – Last Night’s Glitter
I first came across Charlie Barnes as the enthusiastic fresh-faced guy behind the merch desk at a few Amplifier gigs I attended years ago. Since then Charlie has gone on his own path and is now a multi-instrumentalist touring with…
View More Charlie Barnes – Last Night’s GlitterThree Colours Dark – The Science of Goodbye
“Beauty always comes with dark thoughts”, warns Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish). When the liner notes of an album have a final page dedicated to an impressive bibliography of further reading, containing titles with phrases which include ‘Narcissistic Abuse’, ‘Chronic Shame’, ‘Covert…
View More Three Colours Dark – The Science of GoodbyeAkenathon – Como Hormigas
Argentine band Akenathon do not appear to be particularly prolific. Their second album, Como Hormigas, released this year, comes some ten years after their debut. The band has apparently continued throughout, with many line-up changes. The one constant has been…
View More Akenathon – Como HormigasMotorpsycho – The All is One
There are times when an album drops into your review list and on first listen it makes you want to start writing straight away, this is one of those albums. Motorpsycho have done it again for me with this release.…
View More Motorpsycho – The All is OneRick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble – The Red Planet
The Red Planet is Rick Wakeman’s first proper instrumental prog offering of completely original material for quite a number of years. Consciously a return to the styles of his Seventies heyday, the album is also the first collaboration with the…
View More Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble – The Red PlanetA Different Aspect #43
In this update we feature: • Coma Wall – Ursa Minor [EP] • An Apparition – An Apparition [EP] • Anthroprophh – Toilet Circuit [EP] • SEIMS – 3 + 3.1 • Tangents – Risk Reaps Rewards • Woomera –…
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