As Prog magazine have already covered the release of Gentō by Bioscope with a fascinating interview and an extended review most visitors to TPA will probably know all about the background to this album. For the non-subscribers amongst you, in…
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In 2014 Esoteric Recordings acquired Anthony Phillips’ back catalogue and this is the latest album scheduled for an updated re-release. Radio Clyde is a rare live recording of performances from 1978. At the time Anthony Phillips was promoting two releases…
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I last came across Gordon Giltrap MBE accompanying Julie Fordham on a track from her 2024 album Earth Mate, some 47 years after first hearing Heartsong his most memorable instrumental guitar-fest. In between, his career has meandered along many and…
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The release of the new album Trollringen from Anders Buaas is a significant landmark in the Norwegian multi-instrumentalist’s career to date. So far, he has released instrumental albums, achieving an ever-increasing measure of respect, in his home country and worldwide,…
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This mega-package from Madfish contains 11 CDs, a DVD and a 72-page hardback book with rare photos, session documentation from the BBC vaults and exclusive insights from the band. The audio recordings are high quality and whether you are fanatic…
View More Wishbone Ash – At The BBC 1970-1988 (11CD/DVD Boxset)
Rioghan have gone from strength to strength in this follow up album to 2022’s Different Kinds of Losses, in more ways than one. The original trio, from Finland, has been beefed up with the addition of bassist Antti Varjanne and…
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Since officially parting ways from Kraftwerk in 1986-ish, Wolfgang Flür has kept himself busy in the music business as a club DJ and also by collaborating with various dance and synthpop bands. A debut solo album wasn’t forthcoming until 2015,…
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Van Der Graaf Generator’s (VDGG) seventh studio album, released in 1976, is generally seen to be a last hurrah of the classic line up, coming as it did at the end of a fertile creative period, following closely behind two…
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If, like me, you are interested in how the various strands of rock music, including progressive rock, emerged from the embryonic but frankly unappetising world of the early 60’s pop culture then this compilation does a great job of peeling…
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Back in April 2023 I gave a qualified thumbs up to Random Earth Project’s debut release Airwaves. I felt at the time that if the band could channel its energy into playing to its strengths, then the they would have…
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