Back in June, I was mindlessly doomscrolling when an advert with music started playing. Because the algorithm knows me uncannily well, it was an advert for a new Gentle Giant reissue. “Big whoop,” I thought, as the sound of breaking…
View More Gentle Giant – In A Glass House (Remixed & Remastered)
Instrumental jazz fusion: I happen to love it. The rip-roaring showcase of technical musicianship, precision and blurring the lines between improvisation and structured composition. It’s all good stuff, especially when delivered through familiar warm, crisp, 70s-era timbres as it is…
View More Gary Boyle – Light Again: The Recordings 1977-1978 (2CD Edition)
Status Quo’s history stretches back to the early Sixties, a long arc marked by shifts in fashion and musical identity. For many listeners, myself included, the run from Piledriver (1972) through Blue for You (1976) represents their peak years, obviously…
View More Status Quo – The Early Years Volume 2 [1970-1972] (5CD Boxset)
Cherry Red follow up their Eyes In The Night boxset, which covered Pallas’s early recordings, with this release which focusses on the period from 1999, and the album Beat The Drum, up to the end of their tenure on the…
View More Pallas – The Midas Touch: The Recordings 1998-2007 (9 Disc Boxset)
Having signed for WEA Records in 1983, Howard Jones went on to record and release five original studio albums for them. This collection from Cherry Red Records contains all five of the original CD-format studio albums that Howard Jones released…
View More Howard Jones – Original Studio Albums 1984-1992 (5CD Boxset)
The prog legend Chris Squire was celebrated for his inventive and unmistakable bass work in Yes, but he truly delivered something special with his only proper solo album, released in November 1975. Strictly speaking, that’s not his only ‘solo’ outing…
View More Chris Squire – Fish Out Of Water (50th Anniversary Edition)
This is my 7th Nektar review for TPA and 9th overall, if you count my old DPRP reviews. That’s how committed I am to charting the tale of Nektar, in whatever haphazard order the reissues will come. This time around,…
View More Nektar – Magic Is A Child (Remastered & Expanded 3CD Edition)
Back in late 1973, a gifted young guitarist by the name of Gary Boyle, who had played with various bands, most recently Stomu Yamashta’s East Wind, decided that he had to form his own band to further explore the fusion…
View More Isotope – Upward Curve: The Recordings 1973-1976 (3CD Boxset)
Quicksilver Messenger Service arose in the heady days of San Francisco’s magical 1960s golden era. The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Santana and Steve Miller Band were all making inroads into the local music scene before entering the national (and, eventually,…
View More Quicksilver Messenger Service – Who Do You Love? The Recordings 1967-1972
Back in 1975, Robin Trower was starting to be big news. His latest studio album, For Earth Below, was doing well on both sides of the Atlantic, and his label, Chrysalis, was looking to capitalise on this success. An opportunity…
View More Robin Trower – Live! (50th Anniversary Edition)