Italian progressive rock has a rich heritage dating right back to the perennial favourites P.F.M. and up to the modern-day excellence of the Barock Project. Therefore, it sparked some interest for me when a track from Beyond the Air, the…
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Waldbühne, Berlin, Germany Friday 26th May 2023 Well, it has been a while – Peter Gabriel has not significantly toured since the curious Rock, Paper, Scissors tour with Sting in 2016, and that pleasure was confined only to North America.…
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There are some albums which come right out of the blue and hit you in totally unexpected ways. Black Bay, from fascinating new project Silver Moth, arose from a Twitter exchange about the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides…
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O2 Institute2, Birmingham Friday, 21st April 2023 Riverside are back, and this time they are determined to define their Identity positively after the nightmare of the pandemic, quite aside from the band’s own personal loss a few years ago. With…
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It’s been a while – Hologram is Amplifier’s first album since 2017. Amplifier main man Sel Balamir has not been idle in that period, releasing two well received solo albums, Swell and ( )rphans in that Covid affected period, and…
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Blank Manuskript have described themselves as a ‘musical chamber of wonder’, a description which anyone who has been fortunate enough to see this remarkable Austrian band live in concert would certainly have to agree. The Blank Manuskript live experience is…
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Featured artists: Virgil & Steve Howe | Adarsh Arjun | Midas Fall | Ancient Future | Exowst Scotland ||: TPA’s Leo Trimming and Bob Mulvey take a look at some of the recent releases in one of our periodic ADA…
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Ian Anderson appears to be on rather a creative kick lately, with a second new studio album from Jethro Tull, RökFlöte, in just over a year, after a gap of over 20 years since their late-’90s albums (aside from the…
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One has to wonder sometimes what motivates artists in their choice of subject matter, and what message they are trying to convey. Crime Scene is the new release from RPWL, casting their gaze on truly dark themes to focus on…
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The Architect is the debut album by a new project called eMolecule which is made up of Simon Collins and Kelly Nordstrom, who most notably worked together in Sound of Contact on their sole but highly regarded 2013 album Dimensionaut.…
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