The Dome / Boston Music Room / Aces & Eights, Tufnell Park, London 14th & 15th May 2022 Having thoroughly enjoyed the last Portals Festival, held at the same venues in September 2021, I was keen to experience it again…
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The Samurai of Prog machine keeps rolling along, whether it be as Bernard and Pörsti, as it is here, individually in Mr Pörsti’s case, as The Guildmaster or TSoP themselves, with an impressive eleven studio albums released, so far, in…
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If vibrant and expressive jazz fusion mixed with intricate instrumental prog rock is your thing, then the latest album from Art Griffin’s Sound Chaser, entitled The Seven Ages of Starlight, is not to be missed. The Canadian band, led by…
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Robert Berry has always been a quality performer who should be much more well known than he is, despite the high-profile collaborations he has been involved in since the mid-’80s when he was recruited by Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer…
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Welsh band Last Flight to Pluto, return with their third album, Random Karma, Fate and Destiny, following their impressive 2019 release A Drop in the Ocean, once again on Robert Reed’s White Knight record label. When a musician as eminent…
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This album has taken a while to come to my attention, which is a shame as I was so impressed with the band’s self-titled debut album, released in 2017, and began to look forward to their follow-up release. So here…
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Edinburgh based, The John Irvine Band return with album number five, and it’s a welcome addition to the already impressive back catalogue released over the last decade or so. Formed circa mid-2011 – and it probably goes without saying –…
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EartH, Hackney, London Sunday, 17th April 2022 Some of us went to earth on Easter Sunday. No, not hiding from anyone, although you’d be forgiven if you’d thought we had if you’d seen us disappearing through the unobtrusive, but scarlet…
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Pure Reason Revolution return with their new album Above Cirrus, two years after their impressive 2020 return Eupnea, which came 10 years after their initial break-up. Eupnea was their ‘re-birth’ album, borne out of the emotional turmoil Jon Courtney went…
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Imagine a collaboration between Enya and Enigma, and Leprous and Liquid Tension Experiment. Now don’t, because that still won’t work as those bands all have quite Western sounds. So imagine that collaboration by similar artists with a more Eastern sound.…
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