Aqualung – Ian Anderson Marks The 50th Anniversary of Jethro Tull’s Greatest Album 19th March 1971. 50 years ago Jethro Tull released one of their – one of the – classic albums of the fledgling progressive rock movement, Aqualung. Aqualung…
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Minutian – Magical Thinking
The third album from Finns Minutian has been a long time coming, but it’s absolutely been worth the wait. I first became aware of the band after the release of their second album, Inwards, which has remained a firm favourite…
View More Minutian – Magical ThinkingJane Getter Premonition – Anomalia
This album seems to have been a long time coming. The last Jane Getter Premonition studio album, ON, was back in 2015, and although there was a live album taken from the ON tour, we’ve had to wait six years…
View More Jane Getter Premonition – AnomaliaSoft Works – Abracadabra in Osaka
Allan Holdsworth fans start drooling now. The late jazz guitar genius is at the top of his game on this superb live recording of a short-lived but celebrated offshoot of Soft Machine. Canterbury aficionados who mourn the loss of sax…
View More Soft Works – Abracadabra in OsakaElephant9 – Arrival Of The New Elders
Norwegian jazz-rock fusion behemoth Elephant9’s previous release was the twin-headed live monster Psychedelic Backfire I & II back in 2019, two righteous slabs of visceral creative crackle that left scorch marks on your carpet. The passing of the Plague Year…
View More Elephant9 – Arrival Of The New EldersCosmograf – Rattrapante
Time is clearly very important to Robin Armstrong, the man behind Cosmograf. When he is not producing high quality progressive rock albums, he is an expert on repairing watches. Indeed, he has revealed that the origin of the project name…
View More Cosmograf – RattrapanteKepler Ten – A New Kind Of Sideways
Yes. Yes. I know. The second album from Kepler Ten, A New Kind of Sideways, was indeed released in November 2020, on the always excellent White Star Records label. And yes, you are quite right: I did select it my…
View More Kepler Ten – A New Kind Of SidewaysCiolkowska – Психоделия
As we get further into 2021, somehow I’m still stuck in 2020. Well, that’s not entirely true, as I have been listening to a lot of music from this year, but I continue to find gems I missed from last…
View More Ciolkowska – ПсиходелияUnquiet Music Ltd – In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times)
The enigmatic JP Rossi is the man behind Unquiet Music Ltd, which is “both a concept and a company”, formed in 2019 to promote the questing experimentalism of its founder. In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times) is…
View More Unquiet Music Ltd – In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times)Joseph Williams – Denizen Tenant
Joseph Stanley Williams is an American singer, songwriter and film score composer, best known for his work with rock band Toto, as their lead singer from 1986 to 1988, 2010 to 2019 and again from 2020. He is the son…
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