In 2012, one of the most hotly anticipated collaboration projects in the progressive sphere came to fruition (no, I am not talking about Squackett). Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt had been working together for a decade and Opeth had plunged…
View More Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion (2024 Re-issue)
The history of Osibisa goes way back to Ghana in the 1950s, when saxophonist Teddy Osei was a member of a highlife (a fusion of traditional African music with Western jazz) band. He moved to London on a music scholarship…
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Twenty years after it was released Mercury Rev are re-leasing The Secret Migration on double vinyl in beautiful artwork, befitting the pastoral splendour of this magical gem. Mercury Rev are rather an enigma with their unpredictability making them difficult to…
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In what seems to be a never-ending stream of reissues from Poles SBB and released on the GAD Records label, this latest collection of music that first saw the light of day between 1975 and 1976. Przebudzenie consists of recordings…
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Following on from In Search Of Space, which cemented their signature sound, Hawkwind released their third album Doremi Fasol Latido in November 1972. Here, the sound is more full on, and with the driving rhythms provided by Lemmy and Simon…
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The opening line in the exhaustive booklet in this box set is a quote from the greatly missed John Peel – “Kevin Ayers’ talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it”. This was indeed the case,…
View More Kevin Ayers – All This Crazy Gift Of Time: The Recordings 1969-1973 (10 Disc Boxset)
With Parlophone/Warner having completed their deluxe treatments of Marillion’s EMI back catalogue, the band have apparently decided to carry this process forward on their own with a brand-new remix of their ninth album (and fifth with Steve Hogarth), This Strange…
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Dear reader, I’m Bonzoed out. When I took the reins in reviewing this mammoth twenty-disc boxset, I fully intended to explore every facet just as I did with Keith Emerson’s similarly-sized Variations. But after stumbling through five bizarre LPs and…
View More Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Still Barking (20 Disc Boxset)
Box sets can be a dicey proposition. As a huge fan of their documentary approach to an artist or scene, they can contain everything you need to know in terms of popular output while also addressing rarities and other surprises.…
View More Vanilla Fudge – Where Is My Mind? The Atco Recordings 1967 – 1969
‘Here begins an Exercise in Pointlessness…’ are the opening words from a very old tape demo recording by Peter Jones used on the new documentary disc ‘Inside the Cocoon’, about the making of Tiger Moth Tales’ remarkable 2014 debut album…
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