O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London Wednesday 12th March 2014 Having reviewed the recently released Live In Tokyo by The Crimson ProjeKCt on these very pages, it now falls to your intrepid correspondent to report from the front… well, row D…
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Jack Bruce’s only album between 1980 and 1987, the year the Somethin Els project was started, was the atypical electronica oddity Automatic from 1983. During that time, although touring occasionally Jack was doing battle with his personal demons, a battle…
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After releasing her first album Sugar For A Dream back in 2005, Susan Clynes continued with her studies rather than pursuing the singer-songwriter dream, eventually obtaining a master’s degree in composition from Ghent Conservatory. My first musical encounter with Susan came…
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I will not explain how this pairing came about, and the recording process that ensued, as you can read all about that and much more in TPA’s interview with the Peter and Gary, HERE. From a personal perspective, pairing the…
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About to be released to coincide with their world tour, The Crimson ProjeKCT’s Live in Tokyo showcases the Fripp-approved double trio storming their way through a set of mid to late period Crimsoid classics with all the natural aplomb of…
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This latest addition to Roger’s EclecKtic Corner is another courtesy of a trawl through Sid Smith’s Best Albums of 2013 for bands that went under my radar last year. Hejira are a newish band from London who show the good…
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This German band released their debut album, The Outer Planes, in 2010, and just under a year ago presented us with their second set, the all-instrumental II: Mistral. Their sound is a mix of prog-metal moves and soaring post-rock, and…
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The loose-limbed combo that is Mumpbeak was the idea of keyboard player Roy Powell who, not that you would know it, here restricts himself to a Hohner clavinet, the sounds from which are pulled, stretched, distorted into all manner of…
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Tatvamasi are, for me at least, a hitherto unknown Polish band that fuse elements of Eastern European folk music with helpings of jazz, 60s underground rock music, and angular experimentalism. The band name derives from Sanskrit and loosely translated means…
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No-one does introspective soul-searching quite like the Scandinavians. Isolated geographically, they form a willing island of the mind wherein every dark corner is probed. This manifests itself in their art, literature, (fabulous) TV, and of course, in their music. One…
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