My first brush with Jonesy was in 2011 when I reviewed the bizarre Dark Matter (Inner Space), apparently a mish-mash of old recordings and new sound effects. Looking back, I cannot fathom why I gave it 7 out of 10,…
View More Jonesy – Waltz For Yesterday: The Recordings 1972-1974Category: Album Reissues
Bill Bruford – Making A Song And Dance: A Complete Career Collection
William Scott Bruford, primarily known as the “go to” prog drummer, as stints in Yes, King Crimson (three times), Genesis, and UK attest, has had a career that is so much more than that. After all, the time he spent…
View More Bill Bruford – Making A Song And Dance: A Complete Career CollectionHawkwind – Dreamworkers of Time: The BBC recordings, 1985-1995
Cherry Red Records now have a long history of releasing Hawkwind albums, having handled box sets of their late seventies releases and following those up with their eighties/nineties albums. Each release has been excellently packaged and remastered to create a…
View More Hawkwind – Dreamworkers of Time: The BBC recordings, 1985-1995Jethro Tull – Benefit: 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition
Like most rabid Jethro Tull fans, I have dutifully opened my wallet and said “Help yourself” each time a new box set has rolled out of the Steven Wilson remix factory. And, for the most part, I haven’t regretted a…
View More Jethro Tull – Benefit: 50th Anniversary Enhanced EditionCyan – For King and Country
For King and Country is a new project led by Magenta mainman Rob Reed, but its roots go right back in his school days. Before Reed formed Magenta in 1999 he was in Cyan, formed at school in the early…
View More Cyan – For King and CountryA Different Aspect #62
In this ADA update we feature: • J. Peter Schwalm & Markus Reuter – Aufbruch • Toboggan – Première Descente • Sombre Reptile – For A Dreamer… • High Chair – Hey Mountain Hey • Compassionizer – Your Gold And…
View More A Different Aspect #62Marillion – Fugazi (Deluxe Edition)
1984’s Fugazi, Marillion’s second album, is the latest of the band’s ‘EMI era’ albums to be re-released as an impressive deluxe edition. There are albums which stand the test of time, some ‘deluxe’ editions seeming little more than cosmetic marketing…
View More Marillion – Fugazi (Deluxe Edition)Magma – Retrospektïw I-II-III [Remastered]
I came late to the wonder that is Magma, my musical tastes developing as I got older, looking for more challenging listening. Magma fitted the bill perfectly. I purchased a number of their albums and they really spoke to me.…
View More Magma – Retrospektïw I-II-III [Remastered]Gandalf’s Fist – The (Re)Master & The Monkey
I do love this band. They are fun, musically talented, current occupants of planet Earth, but more likely from Zog. They still, in my opinion, wear their hearts on their sleeves, stealing styles and intonations from wherever they like, and…
View More Gandalf’s Fist – The (Re)Master & The MonkeyIt Bites – The Tall Ships/Map Of The Past (Reissues 2021)
The remastered reissues of the two John Mitchell-led It Bites albums is a timely reminder of just how good these releases were when they came out in 2008 and 2012 respectively. Not that I needed reminding – they are amongst…
View More It Bites – The Tall Ships/Map Of The Past (Reissues 2021)