Let’s cut straight to the chase – Fact and Fiction is one of the greatest Progressive Rock albums released in the 1980s, and yet for some strange reason it never achieved the success its sheer inventiveness, lyrical excellence and fluid…
View More Twelfth Night – Fact And Fiction: 3-CD Definitive EditionAuthor: Leo Trimming
Amplifier / Awooga
The Exchange, Bristol Sunday, 27th May 2018 AWOOGA Awooga start the evening with an entertaining set of heavy psychedelically tinged rock. Hailing from Sheffield they are signed to Rockosmos, the label of Amplifier mainman, Sel Balamir, and there are clear…
View More Amplifier / AwoogaAmplifier – Trippin’ With Dr. Faustus
A Deal with the Devil is the central theme to the Christopher Marlowe play ‘Dr.Faustus’, and Amplifier main man Sel Balamir in his inimitable style explores the relationship between Man and the ’ultimate baddy’ in their most recent album… at…
View More Amplifier – Trippin’ With Dr. FaustusThomas Andersen – Gazpacho
Gazpacho played the only U.K. gig on their 2018 European tour, in support of their latest album Soyuz, at The Dome at Tufnell Park, London on 28th May, and their keyboardist Thomas Andersen sat down for a chat with TPA’s…
View More Thomas Andersen – GazpachoC:Live Collective – The Age of Insanity
This is an age in which a mendacious, manipulative manchild lunatic has taken over the Asylum whilst elsewhere a blackened, ruined stump of a Tower shamefully overshadows a nation that’s lost its moral compass, amidst the stench and filth of…
View More C:Live Collective – The Age of InsanityGazpacho – Soyuz
Gazpacho return with Soyuz, their tenth studio album since 2003. There really is no band quite like these Norwegian artists, distinctive, moving and haunting, each new release imbued with their unique brand of ambitious music, full of idiosyncratic themes, inventive…
View More Gazpacho – SoyuzRiversea – The Tide
Riversea return with their first album since 2012, The Tide is a fine release of emotional maturity expressed beautifully through a skilled and sensitive synthesis of music and lyrics. It is clear that both Marc Atkinson and Brendan Eyre, the…
View More Riversea – The TideJadis – More Than Meets The Eye 25
Jadis have re-released their first proper album as More than Meets the Eye 25 in a special edition to mark 25 years since its original release in the early 1990s. These days, in the 21st Century when progressive rock has…
View More Jadis – More Than Meets The Eye 25John Holden – Capture Light
There’s a saying that ‘everyone has a book inside them’ – this debut album by John Holden may similarly suggest that perhaps we may all have an album inside us. After years of ‘normal life’ John Holden just decided he…
View More John Holden – Capture LightVLMV – Stranded, Not Lost
This is the sound of that state in between sleeping and waking – a place in which we’re not quite dreaming, but we’re not fully awake. Forget the usual review scribblings, wasted on these sound impressions drawn with piano, strings…
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