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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Hawkwind have a great track record of releases, and to be fair it is rare that any fall through the re-release net, but here we have one that maybe did. Roadhawks gets its first release on CD through Cherry Red…
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“So here we are once more…” Marillion’s debut album from 1983, Script for a Jester’s Tear, is the latest EMI-era album to get the deluxe edition re-reissue treatment. Many will look back very fondly at this album, which introduced a…
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An album that forms an interesting stitch in Rock’s Rich Tapestry™ is the sole album recorded by Brian Davison and the group he assembled after being cast aside by Keith Emerson as the latter strove to find musical egos as…
View More Brian Davison’s Every Which Way – Every Which Way (Remastered 50th Anniversary Edition)
The classic pop division of Cherry Red Records have recently released this trio of classic Kim Wilde albums, spanning her self-titled debut album from 1981, Select from 1982 and Catch as Catch Can from 1983. Now, I know this page…
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The quartet from Warsaw, founded in 1969, celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, an ideal opportunity to re-release a number of older albums and to bring them to the attention with, in addition to Mrowisko, also Senne wędrówki (Polish for…
View More Klan – Senne Wędrówki
The release of this album made me very happy indeed, as I used to have it on vinyl many years ago (on the Illegal Records label). This new sonically improved version not only acts as a decent reissue, it expands…
View More Spirit – Two Sides Of A Rainbow
“Is this Prog?”, I hear you asking. Well the simple answer to that is clearly ‘No’. It is, however, superiorly crafted AOR from a British band whose history certainly makes for interesting reading, especially when you consider the various bands/careers…
View More The Babys – Silver Dreams: Complete Albums 1975-1980