What do you get when an experienced prog musician meets a one-off piano student? Five years later: an excellent prog album that can easily withstand the test of criticism. OK, maybe I’m getting a bit ahead of myself, but these…
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Featured artists: Kaatayra | Bríi | Sub Rosa | Papangu | Caio Csizmar ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) album update we travel with TPA’s Nick Hudson to the Federative Republic of Brazil: • Kaatayra – Inpariquipê • Bríi –…
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Most people will no doubt be aware that Kalle Wallner is the ‘W’ in RPWL, and a much admired guitarist. This solo album is his first since 2016’s Liquid, which he released under the band name Blind Ego. Whereas that…
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The Moody Blues are one of the legendary bands and pioneers of the progressive movement. Their sequence of seven iconic albums between 1967 and 1972 elevated the Moodies from fading one-hit-wonders to global superstars who would influence successive generations of…
View More John Lodge – The Royal Affair and After
Featured artists: Various Artists (VA) | Luo | Joseph Rabjohns | Sugar Horse | Voronoi | Milton Man Gogh ||: Celebrating the Art As Cartharsis label’s 10th anniversary TPA’s Nick Hudson looks at six of their recent releases: • Various…
View More A Different Aspect #76
The word ‘ambivalent’ is often somewhat misused, and used to express indifference. When I first heard Detieti’s latest album, Serious IV, I was not indifferent. I was ambivalent. I had very strong, simultaneous and contradictory feelings whenever I listened to…
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Melody (noun): ‘a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying; a tune.’ ‘The aspect of musical composition concerned with the arrangement of single notes to form a satisfying sequence.’ ‘The principal part in harmonised music.’ ‘Sweet music; tunefulness.’ It’s…
View More Kite Parade – The Way Home
Peder Balke was a 19th Century Norwegian painter, an alumni of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, known for dramatic representations of the landscape of his homeland. From humble beginnings, he travelled widely, through Norway and abroad. In 1846…
View More Bresk – A Journey Through the Life of Peder Balke 1804-1887
Denied access to her band members during lockdown, this amazing follow-up to 2019’s debut solo effort has been lovingly crafted by Rosalie together with her partner Rosco Wilson, and the creative juices have most certainly been flowing. The only other…
View More Rosalie Cunningham – Two Piece Puzzle
There are some artists who are prolific enough that I sometimes struggle to keep up. I’m not talking about Buckethead levels of releases, where quantity far outweighs quality (the gems in his vast discography lost in a sea of mediocrity),…
View More Ángel Ontalva – Angel on a Tower