To pinch a quote from fellow TPA scribe Graham Thomas… So the burnin’ question on your lips must be… “Do we need another ELP compilation release?” Well having waded my way through this release, several times now, I’m inclined to…
View More Various Artists – Tribute to Keith Emerson & Greg Lake
In this update we feature: • Neil Campbell – The Forest Dwellers [EP] • Vasudeva – Generator • Liontortoise – Photosynthesis [EP] • Plastic Noose – PN50 • Widmer-Stauss – Duos • Markus Stauss – 5 Compositions 2017-19 & Neolithic…
View More A Different Aspect #38
In this update we feature: • Ikarus – Mosaismic • David Helpling – Rune • Lite – Multiple • Rainburn – Resignify [EP] • Sandro Perri – Soft Landings • Alex Crispin – Watersending Ikarus – Mosaismic Bob Mulvey Zürich…
View More A Different Aspect #36
With precision timing, as one might expect from a drummer, Alan Emslie returned in late 2019 with his latest offering. As with other recent albums on the now customary release date of 21st December… I’ll let you work it out,…
View More Alan Emslie – AE 50
My introduction to Dandelion Charm came in the shape of their Riding The Flood EP, released in January 2018, and as we hadn’t covered their 2015 debut album Tiny Drop, both releases were reviewed in one of our periodic ADA…
View More Dandelion Charm – Maybe Dreamers
Surely one of the busiest gigging outfits on the UK scene, something I can attest to as scarcely a week goes by without me adding to their burgeoning list of shows in the TPA UK Gig Guide. During that time…
View More The Blackheart Orchestra – Mesmeranto
Is this a definitive list – hell NO! I could name numerous albums that might/should have been on this list and were certainly in the nominees category, however: “Then, shalt thou count to ten. No more. No less. Ten shalt…
View More The Decade in Review – Bob Mulvey
By way of an introduction, AVA are violinist Anna Phoebe and pianist Aisling Brouwer who collectively released their stunning debut album, Waves, in July of this year. Although written against the farcical Brexit debacle, the music is neither chaotic or…
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Two years on from the excellent double CD release Proto Mundi/Doomsday Vault, Antoine Fafard returns with album number six. For his latest release he has recalled Gary Husband, solely on keyboards, and occupying the drum throne this time around is…
View More Antoine Fafard – Borromean Odyssey
Inside Out is the rather beguiling debut album from Irish born, now residing in Liverpool, composer and songstress Úna Quinn, which offers an insight into her personal and somewhat world-weary perspective, fuelled by the increasingly toxic social environment of U.K.…
View More Úna Quinn – Inside Out