Just where do you start with Mercury Rev? How do you try to define them? They feel like a dream to me, swimming into my consciousness in the late ’90s with the remarkable Deserter’s Songs album and then bubbling up…
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Another one of Cherry Red’s magnificently curated boxed sets, Musik, Music, Musique (taking it’s name from the single by Zeus – included in this set) gathers together, across three discs, the moment when synth pop transitioned from the underground to…
View More Various Artists – Musik, Music, Musique – 1980: The Dawn Of Synth Pop
Paul Kossoff is mostly known for his guitar work with Free, but his solo output is often missed out, unfortunately cut short due to his untimely death. For me, his guitar work was most distinctive, he felt it was not…
View More Back Street Crawler – Atlantic Years 1975-1976
Galahad have re-released their eclectic 1998 album Following Ghosts in an impressive 3 CD expanded edition. Galahad are rather a conundrum. Born in the ’80s era following the so called ‘neo-prog’ wave of the likes of Marillion, IQ, Twelfth Night…
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Back in the days when people were shorter and did what they oughta, and before the advent of the instantly available music fix soon to be supplied by the dubious delights of the interwebs, the only way to buy obscure…
View More Anekdoten – Official Bootleg: Live in Japan 1997
The history of Progressive Rock is strewn with a strange variety of bands who were active in ‘Prog’s Golden Era’ of the early ’70s and then disappeared, receding into the distant memories of some and forgotten by others. Cherry Red…
View More Fruupp – Maid In Ireland
The discussions about which bands have the greatest influence on progressive rock music always seems to throw up the same five bands, but in my opinion Gentle Giant should always be included. They were a band unafraid to push boundaries…
View More Gentle Giant – Vinyl Reissues: Gentle Giant / Acquiring The Taste / Three Friends / Octopus
As its name suggests, these albums are the combined output from Tzuke’s time with Chrysalis, and are made up of two from the studio, Shoot the Moon and Ritmo, and a third a live album composite of concerts at Hammersmith…
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Be-Bop Deluxe nearly passed me by during their brief but brightly burning four year existence between 1974 and 1978. It was only on borrowing their Hot Valves EP from a school friend in 1976 or ’77 that I became aware…
View More Be-Bop Deluxe – Axe Victim (Limited Edition Deluxe Boxset)
For lovers of the weird and wonderful, the late Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream, who produced some wonderful atmospheric albums; my first being Aqua, my mother’s interpretation being something along the lines of “Can you shut that bloody racket up!?”…
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