With a couple of years gap, Portland (Oregon) based multi-instrumentalist Daniel Crommie reappeared on my radar in 2022 with Two of A Kind, a collaborative album featuring violinist Leslie Gray. Since then Daniel has released five solo and/or collaborative albums…
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Featured artists: AVAWAVES | Amanda Chaudhary | Nubdug Ensemble | Downcutting Streams | Exowst Scotland ||: As we transition from 2022 to 2023, TPA’s Bob Mulvey catches up on some of the releases that have somehow slipped under the radar……
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Having recently reviewed the debut release from Rafael Pacha & Kimmo Pörsti I find myself back-tracking to The Samurai of Prog’s The Spaghetti Epic 4, released in the summer of this year, a couple of months prior to Pacha &…
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Hailing from Finland, Juha Kujanpää is a keyboard player and composer who, along with his ‘solo’ albums, writes music for movies, documentary films and theatre productions. In 2013 he formed a quartet which acted as the core band for the…
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The prolific The Samurai of Prog, along with its many offshoots, are certainly on a roll. If, for the moment, we set aside the half-a-dozen albums produced since 2020 by the TSoP collective, we also have six collaborative albums from…
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Hot on the heels of the Berlin Suite & Other Short Stories EP, released in September of this year, Neil Campbell returns with Faldum, the penultimate release for 2022. In many respects the delightful Berlin Suite & Other Short Stories…
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Featured artists: Neil Campbell & Nicole Collarbone | Steve Broomhead | Pandamoanium | Nevrness | Exowst Scotland ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) update TPA’s Bob Mulvey checks out recent Albums, EPs & Singles from: • Neil Campbell & Nicole…
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The Oval Cricket Ground, Kennington, London Saturday, 30th September 1972 Howzat! 50 & Out This time last year I decided to mark the 50th anniversary of the ‘Goodbye Summer’ festival, the first of three similar events held at the Oval…
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Featured artists: Potter’s Daughter | Roy Crank | The Prog Collective | Vision Swords | Vanderwolf ||: Continuing the theme of the previous ADA (shorter reviews) update, we feature five contrasting releases highlighting a diverse range of musical styles and…
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Crossing a varied spectrum of influences and genres, and featuring nine well conceived tracks, Fearful Symmetry’s debut, Louder Than Words released in 2019, was a late but welcome discovery last year. In the review I commented about looking out for…
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