“Eclectic” is a word beloved of music writers, but sometimes, like the superlative adjectives, it manages to escape the prison of overuse and actually apply to something in a totally appropriate and valid way. The Vermont collective Jack O’the Clock,…
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With a career covering four decades, this highly listenable outfit, formed in Michigan but now Washington based, is currently a duo featuring returning founder member Steve Kretzmer and James Strain, who joined in 2019. Over the years they have given…
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Chlöe Herington is a woman with a long history on the prog-adjacent fringes of this weird scene we inhabit. TPA’s Roger Trenwith had a chance to chat with her about her project V Ä L V Ē, their imminent new…
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V Ä L V Ē are one of those bands that arrive out of left field to provide a fascinating glimpse into a self-contained universe, removed from the humdrum everyday. A uniquely charming and somehow very English creation, V Ä…
View More V Ä L V Ē – Tiny Pilots
You may have come across my fellow reviewer Martin Hutchinson. We have both been doing this scribbling thing for a long time now, but suffice to say, our musical Venn diagrams seem to have a rather small crossover section. The…
View More One Sided Horse – My Favourite City at Night in the Rain
This album is a treat for any fan of Kosmiche Musik, for previously unheard music by Dieter Moebius, who sadly left this orbit in 2015, is something to be treasured. Hugely influential on experimental electronic music, Moebius and his partner…
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The Black Heart, Camden, London Saturday, 14th October 2023 The Black Heart in Camden – always too hot, always overloaded sound, but tonight it didn’t matter. Rushden’s finest, The Fierce And The Dead, are here to officially launch their new…
View More The Fierce And The Dead / in violet
Is it even possible to divorce this album from its source? Well, probably not, given the all pervading ubiquitous nature of that now half-a-century old rock classic. Come to think of it, would – or should – we even want…
View More Roger Waters – Dark Side of the Moon Redux
The Royal Albert Hall, London Friday, 29th September 2023 This magnificent, if acoustically challenging, venue is an unlikely setting for the once kingpins of the counter culture that is Hawkwind, yet here we are, and not for the first time…
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The Bedford, Balham, London Sunday, 10th September 2023 A warm early mid-September day kindly greeted both audience and performers as they arrived at this lovely venue buried deep in a more salubrious ’burb of South London. The audience had arrived…
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