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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In my review of 2019’s Living in the Gap + Hungarian Pictures album I mentioned Leslie Mándoki was one of those musicians who would occasionally crop up in conversation, but other than some YouTube concert footage, I knew little about…
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Featured artists: Davey Dodds & Friends | Regna | The Twenty Committee | Exowst Scotland Five bite-sized reviews of some of the recent and not so recent albums & singles to land at TPA HQ: • Davey Dodds & Friends…
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Discovering Max Richter – A Personal Introduction… Released in February 2004, and to the best of my knowledge there are no plans to release 20th anniversary edition, so with a multitude of new releases waiting attention – why now? I…
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Featured artists: Alter Ego | Wombat Supernova | Malwina Zero | Oddtomatic Kicking off the ADA section for 2024 (yes… we know it’s April) we have bite-sized reviews of just some of the recent instrumental albums & EPs to land…
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