Graeme Ginsberg’s second full‑length release under his If Not If banner arrived in late June, the follow up to 2023’s Structure. Across ten tracks, including the three‑part centrepiece Performance, Electricity confirms Graeme as a multi‑instrumentalist whose influences run deep into…
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Throughout recent history, there’s been a number of bands who, for whatever reason, have ended up touring both as electric versions and acoustic variations. Fairport Convention’s Acoustic Convention for instance was convened out of necessity when one key member was…
View More Martin Barre – The Acoustic Trio & The Electric Quartet: Live In The USA & Europe
In my opinion, one of the finest albums released in the 90’s was the 1992 debut album Back in Denim, by Denim. Fronted by cult musical legend Lawrence, previously in Felt, Back in Denim was his homage to the 1970s,…
View More Mozart Estate – Tower Block In A Jam Jar
Former Giles, Giles & Fripp, Fairport Convention, and Trader Horne vocalist Judy Dyble was, to all intents and purposes retired from the music business, apart the odd one or two guest appearances at Fairport’s Cropredy convention, when in 2004, only…
View More Judy Dyble – Darkness To Light: The Recordings 2004-2006 (3CD Boxset)
One of the most original and refreshing prog bands to have come along in recent years, The Emerald Dawn have released 5 highly acclaimed albums so far, each one advancing and building on the bands sound, without losing any of…
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This remastered reissue of the fourth and final The Move album is out now on Esoteric, completing their The Move remaster campaign, and remarkably, for the first time in the band’s history their entire released back catalogue is now available…
View More The Move – Message From The Country (Expanded Edition)
Cephid will be a new name to us all here at TPA, however this debut album released in February this year is the culmination of years of solo work by talented keyboard player Moray Macdonald, who will be familiar to…
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Released in June 2023, Structure is the first album from London based multi-instrumentalist and composer Graeme Ginsburg under his ‘If Not If’ alter-ego. Graeme’s third release as If Not If follows up the two EPS (Sunshine Everywhere 2018 & Forgiveness…
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Northern Irish four-piece And So I Watch You From Afar released their fifth album, Jettison, back in February this year, following on from 2017’s The Endless Shimmering. Consisting of Rory Friers and Niall Kennedy on guitars, Ewen Friers on bass…
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Back in 2017, it was announced that Esoteric had picked up the rights to part of the vast Warner Music back catalogue, and the first fruits of this (with plenty of really exciting re-issues including Barclay James Harvest, Be-Bop Deluxe…
View More Curved Air – The Albums 1970-1973