Whilst a guitar is always pretty central to a Phi Yaan-Zek record, it’s been quite a while since he released an album where the guitar was the focus throughout. Well, the wait is over, as his latest musical outpouring is…
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Whimsical Creature is the latest outlet for the songs of Michael Whiteman, whose prolific writing brought us I Am The Manic Whale, as well as Spock’s Beard keyboard maestro Ryo Okumoto’s most recent solo album. Here he teams up with…
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Guitar, bass, drums and voice; it’s a format as old as the hills. Bands have been exploring the possibilities for decades, and you might think all bases had by now been covered. From Cream to Sabbath, Motorhead to ZZ Top,…
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Norwegian jazz prog stalwarts Pymlico return with their eighth album, Core, their first for three years. Unusually for Pymlico, the band’s line up is unchanged from 2022’s Supermassive. It seems that they believe they have hit upon a particularly rewarding…
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Focus is the second album by Norwegian jazz proggers Soft Ffog, led by acclaimed guitarist and composer Tom Hasslan. He is something of a virtuoso player, hinting at John Etheridge at times, or occasionally Zappa, particularly in the improvised passages.…
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Pryzme are a French prog band built around the nucleus of guitarists and singers Dominique Blanchard and David Chollet. Their latest album True Stories…And Other Lies is their first since 2021’s Four Inches, and is a step forward in terms…
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One of Canada’s finest and most idiosyncratic bands, Half Past Four, are back! If you know them, that’s great news. If you aren’t familiar yet, it’s still great news, because you have vibrant exciting new music to discover on this…
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Islington Assembly Hall, London Saturday, 24th May 2025 As Blue Öyster Cult begin their 2025 European tour, which kicks off at the Palladium, they couldn’t resist the chance to play a low key warm up show at Islington Assembly Hall,…
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Jonas Reingold is so busy touring with Steve Hackett these days, it’s a wonder he ever finds time for his own music, and yet here we have a new Karmakanic album, Transmutation, and my goodness it’s been worth waiting for.…
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Many of us of a certain age will return time and again to the classic bands of the seventies which fired our imagination in our youth, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. But of course, they aren’t going to…
View More Dominic Sanderson – Blazing Revelations