Neil Campbell’s latest album, The Turnaround, is certainly something I’d looked forward to and with keen anticipation, especially as this latest release carries special significance, marking two decades since I first discovered his music. My introduction came via 3 O’Clock…
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St George’s Church, Hartlepool Saturday, 17th May 2025 It had been slightly longer than I remembered since I last visited St George’s in Hartlepool, and on that occasion it was to see the superb Dave Bainbridge & Sally Minnear in…
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Featured artists: Nubdug Ensemble | Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin | Ramón Oliveras | Daniel Crommie | Aether Sometimes ‘life’ just gets in the way and there’s bugger all you can do to change it… enough said! As a consequence there are…
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Here Come The Robots! concludes John Irvine’s three-part sci-fi based concept albums which started with 2023’s Scanning The Dark Horizon, followed by The Starships Are Gathering in 2024. And in case you missed TPA’s reviews of parts one and two…
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I thought it might be nice to mark the 40th anniversary of John McLaughlin’s eponymous Mahavishnu album released in 1984, unfortunately time constraints during the latter part of 2024 means it is now in its 41st year. A Personal Intro…
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Back in 2016 I took a punt on Echoes In Time, the second album from Canadian duo/ensemble Sills & Smith and then three years later their third album, Maps ~ Burned Or Lost came under scrutiny. Both albums were not…
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Featured artists: The Pineapple Thief | Foxpalmer | Akihisa Tsuboy | Daniel Crommie & Leslie Gray | Felix Martin Five bite-sized reviews of some of the recent and not so recent albums & EPs to land at TPA HQ: •…
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Hot on the heels last year’s excellent In the Rain Shadow MVI (Mark Vickness Interconnected) return with the follow up album. Follow up being the operative word as I Will Find My Way not only presents us with several new…
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Crooked Mouth return with album number four and the follow up to the very enjoyable One Bright Midnight released in 2015, which in turn followed on from their equally enjoyable albums Hold In The Sun (2007), and a personal favourite,…
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The arrival of the second full length outing from Gavin Harrison & Antoine Fafard was certainly one I had looked forward to as their previous album, 2020’s Chemical Reactions, was such a wonderful alchemy of progressive-fusion replete with exhilarating music…
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