This is left field, but I think it will appeal to some of the progressive music audience. It’s more of a crossover combining classical, progressive and electronica elements in a similar vein to Tangerine Dream, some of Grice Peters’ work,…
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Laughing Stock – Zero, Acts 3 & 4
I have been struggling to write this review for some months now, not because I can’t think of anything positive to say, but simply because I have found it difficult to review the final acts of Laughing Stock’s Zero without…
View More Laughing Stock – Zero, Acts 3 & 4Pattern-Seeking Animals – Only Passing Through
Since the last Spock’s Beard album, Noise Floor in 2018, half the band have joined the Pattern-Seeking Animals project, the brain child of one of Spock’s principal songwriters John Boeghold. Now on album number three, what began as a side…
View More Pattern-Seeking Animals – Only Passing ThroughThe Ant Band – A Light on the Hill
OK, we can all imagine the existence of tribute bands for Genesis – there are plenty of them around. The same goes for Peter Gabriel, and to a lesser extent Phil Collins. But a tribute band for the man who,…
View More The Ant Band – A Light on the HillHawkwind – Dreamworkers of Time: The BBC recordings, 1985-1995
Cherry Red Records now have a long history of releasing Hawkwind albums, having handled box sets of their late seventies releases and following those up with their eighties/nineties albums. Each release has been excellently packaged and remastered to create a…
View More Hawkwind – Dreamworkers of Time: The BBC recordings, 1985-1995Bizirik – Revelaciones del Fin del Mundo
“Music without predefined structures or scores, built on improvisations in one take with Chapman Stick and loops, a minimalist journey of sonic experimentation through the events that are born from this telluric land at the end of the world.” The…
View More Bizirik – Revelaciones del Fin del MundoStewart Clark – Journeys
Journeys is, for Stewart Clark, that difficult third album. I reviewed the previous one, Let’s Go There, early last year, and thoroughly enjoyed it, the album finally ending up in my year end top five. But what would I make…
View More Stewart Clark – JourneysPencarrow – Live at San Fran
Pencarrow’s likeable debut sounded almost like some young fans of bands such as Opeth and Dream Theater were inspired to create a band to make their own music in that style. And I have a feeling that’s not far off…
View More Pencarrow – Live at San FranFading Lights
Genesis visited the Netherlands. And no, I wasn’t there. A conscious decision. In 2007, however, I actually made it, together with a couple of close friends, also big fans of the British prog legends. I even bumped into some former…
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O2 Arena, Greenwich, London Thursday, 24th March 2022 The Last Domino? Ages eleven to sixty has been my personal Genesis, now concluding with this tour and these shows. That’s all I think for live performances, as they go out on…
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