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…
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Gentle Giant – Vinyl Reissues: Gentle Giant / Acquiring The Taste / Three Friends / Octopus
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 / OctopusJudie Tzuke – The Chrysalis Recordings
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…
View More Judie Tzuke – The Chrysalis RecordingsBe-Bop Deluxe – Axe Victim (Limited Edition Deluxe Boxset)
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)Edgar Froese – Dalinetopia
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!?”…
View More Edgar Froese – DalinetopiaHawkwind – Roadhawks
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…
View More Hawkwind – RoadhawksMarillion – Script For A Jester’s Tear (Deluxe Edition)
“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…
View More Marillion – Script For A Jester’s Tear (Deluxe Edition)Brian Davison’s Every Which Way – Every Which Way (Remastered 50th Anniversary Edition)
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)Kim Wilde – Kim Wilde / Select / Catch as Catch Can
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…
View More Kim Wilde – Kim Wilde / Select / Catch as Catch CanKlan – Senne Wędrówki
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…
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