Ken Hensley was a founding member of Uriah Heep from their earliest inception right through to June 1980 after the Conquest world tour, at which time he felt he had gone as far as he could with the band and…
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Klan – Mrowisko
By the end of the seventies, progressive rock music got stuck in a rut. The big bands struggled with their (musical) direction and did not always release their best work. Moreover, there was the emergence of punk, a musical movement…
View More Klan – MrowiskoJethro Tull – Stormwatch [40th Anniversary Box Set]
The concept of the digitally remastered reissue has been a marketing staple for many years now, but it’s only relatively recently that the box set complete with the ubiquitous hi-res copy and/or the 5:1 surround version has competed for your…
View More Jethro Tull – Stormwatch [40th Anniversary Box Set]Marillion – Afraid of Sunlight: Deluxe Edition
One of the things I most admire about Marillion is their ability to take risks and try new things, both in terms of their sound and their approach to marketing the band itself. To the former, Marillion have continued to…
View More Marillion – Afraid of Sunlight: Deluxe EditionRefugee – Refugee [3CD Box Set]
This review covers the recently released boxed set of three discs from Esoteric Recordings, comprising the sole album, recorded in 1974, for the Charisma label by Refugee, a trio of Patrick Moraz (keyboards), Lee Jackson (bass and vocals) and Brian…
View More Refugee – Refugee [3CD Box Set]Fruupp – Wise As Wisdom: The Dawn Albums 1973-1975
Sometime in 2011, just before each of Fruupp’s albums reached their respective 40th birthdays, I happened upon two interesting looking CDs in an independent music shop in Leeds. They were the middle two albums from Fruupp’s sadly short-lived career, Seven…
View More Fruupp – Wise As Wisdom: The Dawn Albums 1973-1975Gong – Love From Planet Gong: The Virgin Years 1973 -1975
Released as part of this alternative rock band and musical institution’s 50th anniversary, Universal/Virgin send us this large box of enticing shiny things from Planet Gong, approaching us in a descending orbit around our burning planet. It’s landed over there…
View More Gong – Love From Planet Gong: The Virgin Years 1973 -1975Caravan – The Decca/Deram Years: 1970 – 1975
Caravan are a legendary Prog band from Canterbury whose elegant and whimsically lyrical music has captivated many listeners over the years. They released a stunning selection of albums of consistently high quality in the mid-1970s and are still around today…
View More Caravan – The Decca/Deram Years: 1970 – 1975Tony Banks – Banks Vaults: The Albums 1979 – 1995
Tony Banks, a very familiar name to most, one of the founders and for over 50 years one of only two constant members, in every incarnation of Genesis. Banks’ elegant and grandiose keyboard playing and composition skills were one of…
View More Tony Banks – Banks Vaults: The Albums 1979 – 1995Eddie Jobson – Green Album / Theme of Secrets
With a career that must have started playing baby rattle on his earliest recordings, Eddie Jobson started thinking about his first solo album when he was only twenty-four years old in 1980, having previously added considerable weight to Curved Air,…
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