Norwegian jazz-rock fusion behemoth Elephant9’s previous release was the twin-headed live monster Psychedelic Backfire I & II back in 2019, two righteous slabs of visceral creative crackle that left scorch marks on your carpet. The passing of the Plague Year…
View More Elephant9 – Arrival Of The New Elders
The enigmatic JP Rossi is the man behind Unquiet Music Ltd, which is “both a concept and a company”, formed in 2019 to promote the questing experimentalism of its founder. In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times) is…
View More Unquiet Music Ltd – In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times)
Renowned music documentary makers Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder return with the fifth instalment of their “Progressive music saga”, and the second trawl through that fascinating European experience, loosely collected within the borders of what was West Germany under…
View More Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part 2)
It’s not often us old farts at TPA find our increasingly blurred-at-the-edges Venn circle intersecting with the up-and-coming hip about town sounds, but here is a rare occasion. The enigmatically named Black Country, New Road are being raved about in…
View More Black Country, New Road – For The First Time
The Residents – more a concept than a band, at least in the early days, when their carefully constructed mythology based around an obscurantist cult of anonymity was enough to arouse the curiosity of many a passing left-field inclined listener.…
View More The Residents – Freak Show: pREServed Edition
It is not possible to be aware of everything going down in the wonderful world of niche music, even if you are part of (or incarcerated in, come to think of it!) a fine institution like TPA, where our metaphorical…
View More Cesarians – Rachel Frieda
Do you get the feeling you’ve been overtaken by events beyond your control, this past year? Spare a thought for Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter, and Tony Levin, plus special guest Gary Husband, aka Stick Men. In mid-2019, MoonJune Records head…
View More Stick Men featuring Gary Husband – Owari
I read somewhere recently that this ’ere universe that we all inhabit shouldn’t actually exist, as the apparently proven theory that each particle of matter co-exists with a corresponding particle of anti matter, is kyboshed by the posit that the…
View More League Of Morons – Krautchip Replica
In this update we feature: • Once & Future Band – Deleted Scenes • Ray Russell – Fluid Architecture • Custard Flux – Oxygen • Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere – θ5 • Causa Sui – Szabodelico • Stephan Thelen…
View More A Different Aspect #52
For many years, the one and only Edgar Broughton Band album I owned was Sing Brother Sing. Like a lot of first albums by bands bought in the dim distant days of one’s youth, it retains top spot in the…
View More Edgar Broughton Band – Speak Down The Wires: The Recordings 1975 to 1982