Featured artists: Dirty Shirt | I Built The Sky | Jean Pascal Boffo | Dopapod | Daniel Crommie & Leslie Gray ||: Continuing the theme of the previous ADA update (#81), we continue with five contrasting releases highlighting a ‘broad…
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Serendipity! No sooner had I finished my review of Amanda’s Weltenraum – in which I lamented that the similar retro-prog act Astra had been offline for a decade – than I discovered Astra had been revived… sort of. Astra released…
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Tavistock Wharf, Tavistock, Devon Monday, 13th June 2022 Some gigs just stand out for unusual reasons, and this is certainly one which will live long in the memories of the lucky few gathered in this small venue, and probably in…
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Introducing Amanda. Here are a bunch of Austrians that must have sat down and listened to Shine on You Crazy Diamond and thought, “That sounds bloody nice!”. The title of this album loosely translates to “Space” and so it shouldn’t…
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Songwriter and composer Richard Wileman released fourteen albums under the Karda Estra name before commencing on a solo career that is now three albums old, the latest being Arcana in 2020, with a collaboration with Matt Baber of Sanguine Hum…
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With the simultaneous explosion of popularity in both video games and streaming, the phenomenon of speedrunning has never been more popular than it is now, with pro speedrunners streaming their attempts live for curious fans to watch at home. Speedrunning…
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Enjoyable and diverse instrumental debut solo album from guitarist and songwriter Steve Anderson of The Room. A journeyman is the term given to a craftsman who is between an apprentice and a master craftsman. It is therefore a suitably modest…
View More Journeyman’s Progress – Journeyman’s Progress Part One [plus interview with Steve Anderson]
Knekklectric are another fantastic find from Bergen, Norway. It seems to be a hotbed of creativity, and this is a delight. Alt Blir Verre (Everything Gets Worse) is their third full album, and I can confidently confirm that the sentiment…
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‘Transneptunian’ is the term given to “any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than Neptune, which has a semi-major axis of 30.1 astronomical units”, and so would include Pluto (the opening…
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The Aristocrats unfreeze themselves from pandemic mode with their first studio album since 2019, ahead of a US tour. Nothing particularly strange about that, perhaps, but this is an album that appears to have happened almost by accident. In a…
View More The Aristocrats – The Aristocrats with Primuz Chamber Orchestra