Since the last Spock’s Beard album, Noise Floor in 2018, half the band have joined the Pattern-Seeking Animals project, the brain child of one of Spock’s principal songwriters John Boeghold. Now on album number three, what began as a side…
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If the idea of a collaborative album between these three gentlemen made your ears prick up, I dare say that by now you’ve figured out that it isn’t a Prog supergroup sounding like a mash up of Spock’s Beard and…
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Arjen Lucassen is an interesting figure, a semi-recluse who has been ploughing his own individual furrow for many years now, dealing primarily in science fiction and fantasy musical works, and often creating albums almost on his own. Except of course…
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There’s something rather special about the fact that Gong still endure after the death of Daevid Allen, and the line-up he endorsed continues to fly the teapot flag proudly. They have produced a couple of good studio albums since his…
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For anyone unfamiliar with Karfagen, they are the main musical outlet for multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Antony Kalugin, and Land of Green and Gold is the thirteenth album from the band. To say that Kalugin is prolific would be an…
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Featured artists: Thank You Scientist | Kumorigahara | Hands Of The Heron | ANYWHEREDOOR | Amanda Chaudhary ||: Here we are in March 2022 and still finding ourselves picking up on some of last year’s overlooked releases… • Thank You…
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It’s hard to believe that Voivod have been around for four decades, and that I’ve been listening to them on and off for most of that time. I remember being attracted to their third album, Killing Technology, mainly because of…
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Most people will no doubt be aware that Kalle Wallner is the ‘W’ in RPWL, and a much admired guitarist. This solo album is his first since 2016’s Liquid, which he released under the band name Blind Ego. Whereas that…
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Denied access to her band members during lockdown, this amazing follow-up to 2019’s debut solo effort has been lovingly crafted by Rosalie together with her partner Rosco Wilson, and the creative juices have most certainly been flowing. The only other…
View More Rosalie Cunningham – Two Piece Puzzle
Jonas Lindberg may well be an unfamiliar name to many of you (it was to me), but that should change very soon, because his talent as displayed on this latest album Miles From Nowhere is undeniable. In fact, Jonas Lindberg…
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