Good and bad news for TOTO fans: after the simultaneous release of two solo albums earlier this year by guitarist Steve Lukather and singer Joseph Williams, the third album from the American collective has been released in a short time.…
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De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, the Netherlands Wednesday, 17th November 2018 A few months after the release of the new studio album Lies and Butterflies, the successor to the extremely successful Delusion Rain from 2015, the Canadian progressive rock band Mystery returned…
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It has been said before: Mystery and De Boerderij, that is a kind of unity. There can hardly be any other explanation for the fact that the Canadians keep returning to the Dutch rock temple, time and again. And not…
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Spoiler alert: I am a great admirer of the music of Italian multi-instrumentalist Luca Zabbini. Still, first listening to his new solo album, One, was a bit unsettling. I did hear a lot of beautiful music, melodies and harmonies, but…
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Anyone was founded in the mid-1990s by American singer/guitarist/composer Riz Story, along with Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) and Jon Davison (Yes), in Laguna Beach, California. Hawkins and Davison left and were replaced by the time the band signed a record…
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Robert Reed’s fascination with Mike Oldfield’s music is well known. It resulted in a number of very enjoyable albums under the Sanctuary moniker. Beautiful works, made with great respect and taste, that contain their own interpretation of the work of…
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Few artists put as much variety in their music as Dutch progressive rock band Kayak. Over the course of a 48-year career, numerous personnel changes and eighteen studio albums, the band has truly established itself as one of Europe’s most…
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He looks like Lemmy Kilmister’s unwanted bastard son on the cover of his new album, Episode 6: the resemblance is striking. The album’s first track makes me unsure whether I have entrusted the right disc to my stereo set. His…
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Named after a Rush song, Different Strings is a band put together by Maltese multi-instrumentalist Chris Mallia. The band has released four albums and an EP, with the two parts of The Sounds of Silence from 2012 and 2015 originally…
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With their 2020 tour plans shot to Dénudé pieces by Covid, Lazuli returned to France where they put together an unexpected stripped down album, Dénudé, that revisited songs from earlier phases of their career. This also became a good way…
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