I have had this album a while, and it was only thanks to a Facebook friend raving about it that I remembered it, and it was a darn good thing I did, I can tell you. Formed in Rome in…
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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"
Shamblemaths – Shamblemaths
Further proof to my contention that everyone in Scandinavia is in, or has been in a band is offered by the glorious duo Shamblemaths, who hail almost inevitably from Trondheim in Norway. Simen Å. Ellingsen on guitars, saxophones and vocals…
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Blonde On Blonde – Rebirth / Reflections On A Life
Blonde On Blonde – Rebirth Blonde On Blonde, despite sounding like they lived on the corner of Haight-Asbury actually hailed from the far less glamorous surroundings of Newport, South Wales. Like many bands of the turn of the ’60s into…
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Anakdota – Overloading
Anakdota are a young band from Israel who take influence from modern electric jazz mixed with an ear for melody and complex rhythmic structure that in places ventures down a route once trodden by Gentle Giant, especially in parts of…
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Wingfield Reuter Stavi Sirkis – The Stone House
That these four musicians got together and recorded this nigh on hour-long excursion into stellar improvisation with no rehearsal beforehand is frankly astonishing. Then again, given the calibre of the musicians involved it is almost to be expected. Three of…
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Orange Clocks – Tope’s Sphere 2
Tope poked his head above the parapet of the Rushden of Iniquity and spied a hole in space…you know, one of those left by Fohat. This being East Northants, a place where they still practice the Olde Religion, Tope saw…
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Flashback Caruso – The Flashback Caruso Memorial Barbecue
Any band headed by Anders Bjermeland, the man behind the fabulous Mollmaskin album of 2015, so named after a jewel of a Faust song buried within The Faust Tapes – one of my all-time top ten LPs – has to…
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Tim Bowness – Lost In The Ghost Light
“You caught the moments in the music by accident, you caught the music in the moment by chance” is one of many poignant lines on this luscious new album from the Doyen of Doomed Romance, or Tim Bowness as he…
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Magma avec le Metalïk Orkestraah
L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris 2nd February 2017 While briefly communicating with the Earthlings present at the Magma Café OTO gig in London last year, Stella Vander informed us supplicants of a gathering of the tribes to be held at the…
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Gösta Berlings Saga – Sersophane
In recent times Scandinavia has established itself as the go-to place for heavy prog, and amongst the vanguard is Swedish instrumental behemoth Gösta Berlings Saga. A new album from this fine bunch of Viking renegades is always anticipated chez moi,…
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