In this update we feature: > Not A Good Sign – Icebound > Army Of Moths – Sorry To Disturb You > Snack Family – Bunny > Roller Trio – New Devices > Stop Motion Orchestra – Lightworks > JOBS…
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Author: Roger Trenwith
A founding member of TPA, Roger is TPA's HR man and all-round attack dog. When not straining at the leash, he has been known to scribble a bit.
Roger keeps his own blog called "Astounded by Sound"
Major Parkinson / Sterbus / The Display Team
The Water Rats, Kings Cross, London 28th September 2018 A lovely autumn day greeted us we stepped out of the ugly modernist functionality of Euston Station once more into the capital, so we decided to mosey on down to Regent’s…
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inFictions – Vanity Project
Post-rock is a chameleon. It means different things to different folk. To some it all stems from the “less is more” school of minimalist and fragile songwriting pioneered, invented even by the uniquely talented Talk Talk, and carried on in…
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Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere – θ4
One of the many symbolic meanings of ‘θ’ (theta), the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, is to signify a special function of several complex variables, and this would seem to apply to the rarefied sonic world of spacious improvisational…
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Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin
Bush Hall, London Friday, 24th August 2018 I must own over a dozen albums where the ivory tinkler is one Dave Stewart, a man who was synonymous with underground progressive music in the 1970s. Dave’s ubiquitous nature was briefly highlighted…
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Jumble Hole Clough – Bats Tidied Up Heliport
1 Down: Biased truth, pied pilot Hmmm, bit of a chin-scratcher, this. You see, Bats Tidied Up Heliport is as cryptic as it gets, and veteran art rebel and all-round professor of rock trivia Colin Robinson, ensconced up there in…
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Soft Machine – Hidden Details
I always found Hugh Hopper and Mike Ratledge somewhat musically abrasive at times, although undoubtedly brilliant. I know, it’s probably some sort of sacrilege saying that and I can expect hanging at dawn from the rabid Softs fraternity no doubt.…
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Jarrod Gosling – Regal Worm
Deep underneath the black shimmer of those northern Satanic mills the Regal Worm has turned a fixation with classic esoteric progressive rock and deep psychedelia into a magnificent sprawl entitled Pig Views. Recently unleashed on an unsuspecting world this fine…
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A Different Aspect #20
In this update we feature: • Njet Njet 9 – Dark Soul • The Pipe Brothers Project – XLV/Sonic Journey • Dam Kat – Alawn • Shatner’s Bassoon – Disco Erosion • Daniel Crommie – Storm Front • Pinski –…
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Jon Hassell – Listening To Pictures (Pentimento Volume 1)
Some say Jon Hassell is the true inheritor of Miles Davis’ sonic explorer’s muse, and listening to his solo catalogue, it is hard to disagree. The octogenarian musician and composer, nominally a jazz trumpeter but so much more, has forged…
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