Following on from his One Thousand Birds, the creative mind that is Grice Peters has created the One Thousand Birds Symphony. Grice spent the Lockdown Year creating soundscapes and relating them to birdsong. It is an interesting companion piece and…
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Lockdown has taken people to many places. Howard Boder rose from those depths with Atlantis, an exceptional album that I believe will grow on listeners with repeated listens. A potted history of Howard: He played keyboards with a short-lived band…
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I do love this band. They are fun, musically talented, current occupants of planet Earth, but more likely from Zog. They still, in my opinion, wear their hearts on their sleeves, stealing styles and intonations from wherever they like, and…
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Kate Arnold is a multi-instrumentalist with her main instruments being the hammered dulcimer, violin, drum and vocal, often live-looped and put through real-time effects. The first three tracks here are Kate’s compositions with the fourth being an arrangement of Picforth’s…
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1976 – the Drought Year. I was 15, spending my hard-earned paper round money on some of the many interesting albums released that year. A prime one for me was the Gabriel-free Genesis and A Trick of the Tail, but…
View More Al Stewart – The Year of the Cat [45th Anniversary Edition]
The Emerald Dawn are a four-piece symphonic progressive rock ensemble taking their influences from classical, progressive, jazz, and folk genres. 2019 brought us their critically acclaimed – and deservedly so – third album, Nocturne, however 2020’s plans were shipwrecked by…
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Hailing from Hedmark, Norway, 8-piece band Meer play a mixed genre of music. Playing House is their fourth album, I have now listened in a variety of places – car, studio, headphones and through the iPhone – and I have…
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Much water has passed under many bridges since Leo Trimming’s review of Multi Story’s previous album, Crimson Stone, in 2016. Much has changed, but for the main part that means in the personnel. Multi Story is now a core of…
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With The Emerald Dawn‘s new album, To Touch the Sky, due for release towards the end of this month (pre-orders start on 5th March from their Bandcamp page), TPA’s Tony Colvill speaks to the band about the album, recording during…
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Lockdown is a journey, to each of us their own, where we go, what we do, some constructive, but sadly for others a destructive journey as all that they believed important is dashed on the rocks. But not Richard Barbieri,…
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