Featured artists: Professor Tip Top | Beledo | Existenter | Ikitan | Straytones ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) update TPA’s Nick Hudson looks at five recent Albums, EPs & Singles from: • Professor Tip Top – Lanes of Time…
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Featured artists: A Gardening Club Project | GorMusik | Arnoldo’s Lizards | Time’s Forgotten | Andrew Roussak | Jeffrey Erik Mack ||: It’s all in the title. David Edwards & Nick Hudson take a look at some of the recent…
View More A Different Aspect ~ Melodic Revolution Records Special
Featured artists: Kaatayra | Bríi | Sub Rosa | Papangu | Caio Csizmar ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) album update we travel with TPA’s Nick Hudson to the Federative Republic of Brazil: • Kaatayra – Inpariquipê • Bríi –…
View More A Different Aspect #77
Featured artists: Various Artists (VA) | Luo | Joseph Rabjohns | Sugar Horse | Voronoi | Milton Man Gogh ||: Celebrating the Art As Cartharsis label’s 10th anniversary TPA’s Nick Hudson looks at six of their recent releases: • Various…
View More A Different Aspect #76
The word ‘ambivalent’ is often somewhat misused, and used to express indifference. When I first heard Detieti’s latest album, Serious IV, I was not indifferent. I was ambivalent. I had very strong, simultaneous and contradictory feelings whenever I listened to…
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There are some artists who are prolific enough that I sometimes struggle to keep up. I’m not talking about Buckethead levels of releases, where quantity far outweighs quality (the gems in his vast discography lost in a sea of mediocrity),…
View More Ángel Ontalva – Angel on a Tower
In late 2020, I reviewed the debut album from Compassionizer. Anyone who read that review will know that the files I reviewed from were not fully titled, so I was perhaps coming to the music from a different angle than…
View More Compassionizer – An Ambassador in Bonds
The power of music is a curious thing. Sometimes it takes just one album to open up my mind and ears to something that then consumes me. It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it hits hard. Though I’m…
View More Dead Space Chamber Music – The Black Hours
Portraits, as per its Bandcamp page, is the first in a new series from Unexplained Sounds Group, with each release creating a ‘portrait’ of three musicians by showcasing representative pieces of their recent musical journeys, and hopefully serving as an…
View More Gasparotti – Ciullini – Stancati – Portraits
One of the first albums I reviewed for TPA was Guranfoe’s debut, Sum of Erda – a wonderful and eclectic fusion of sounds that was thoroughly grounded in the ’70s yet never suffered the pitfalls so many retro prog bands…
View More Jomo Tuun – One Tuun