First let me apologise to the band. This is a very late review. I wrote it just before the first UK Lockdown in March. Then events overtook me. Nevertheless, the band deserves it to be published. So this is what…
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If you’re a fan of Japanese band Boris, 2020 has been a great year. NO is a phenomenally good album. It’s a real belter – short, sharp and to the point. I didn’t write much about it in a recent…
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Cherry Red Records are well known for curating remastered and expanded sets from yesteryear, and the latest band to get this treatment to their early back catalogue is Trapeze. The label really does invest time and effort into doing a…
View More Trapeze – Trapeze / Medusa / You Are The Music, We’re Just The Band
With Roz Vitalis main man Ivan Rozmainsky releasing the debut album from a new project called Compassionizer, I felt it an opportune time to revisit its namesake. I recently wrote another nostalgic look back at an older album, with my…
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Martin Lancelot Barre (now 74) has been known for years as the guitarist and trustworthy companion of founder/singer/flutist Ian Anderson with the English folk/prog rock band Jethro Tull. It came like a bolt from the blue for the loyal right…
View More Martin Barre – 50 Years of Jethro Tull
“I’m expecting nothing but something out of this world”, is one of the first lines of Expecting A Message, the opening track on Kevin Godley’s new-but-old solo album Muscle Memory. This is a fair premise, given the intriguing way this…
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Our Oceans, as some may know, came from the ashes of Exivious. Well even that’s not quite true, as Our Oceans was originally envisaged as being a one-off side project, and Exivious was reduced to ashes only after Tymon Kruidenier…
View More Our Oceans – While Time Disappears
This one came straight out of nowhere and immediately captured my heart. More exceptional beauty from Scandinavia, it’s Finland this time where Ensemble Gamut! offer breathtaking reinterpretations of Finnish folk and early music with a modern sheen. Expansive soundscapes driven…
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The anticipation of listening to a new album is a bit like the anticipation of making love to a new partner. Remember that? No. Of course you don’t. I know our demographic, I’m part of it (wink)! Imagine, if you…
View More Sproingg – Clam
Ring Van Möbius return to deliver their second album, The 3rd Majesty. This Norwegian band have a great love of the analogue sounds and instruments of the ’60s and ’70s, along with the particular recording methods of the time. Now…
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