This for me is a very welcome release indeed as I am a big admirer of Jon Lord’s work. One of his songs was very helpful to me at the time of my father’s death, sadly I never got to…
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Atomic Rooster – Sleeping For Years: The Studio Recordings 1970-1974
The discovery years for this reviewer were in the early ’70s, when I spent each and every Saturday morning leafing through endless album covers, with the eager anticipation of uncovering that week’s musical gem. A risky selection process at that…
View More Atomic Rooster – Sleeping For Years: The Studio Recordings 1970-1974Barclay James Harvest – Barclay James Harvest (Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set)
This 3CD and 1DVD boxed set consists of the recent Esoteric Recordings reissue of Barclay James Harvest’s self-titled debut album, originally released in 1970. Esoteric have a good relationship with the band, previously reissuing expanded versions of Octoberon, Live Tapes,…
View More Barclay James Harvest – Barclay James Harvest (Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set)Comus – First Utterance
47 years ago, one of the most surreal and scariest albums ever came out on the Dawn label. I was only 23 years old in 2008 when I first heard Comus’ music on a progressive rock podcast, it just took…
View More Comus – First UtteranceTwelfth Night – Fact And Fiction: 3-CD Definitive Edition
Let’s cut straight to the chase – Fact and Fiction is one of the greatest Progressive Rock albums released in the 1980s, and yet for some strange reason it never achieved the success its sheer inventiveness, lyrical excellence and fluid…
View More Twelfth Night – Fact And Fiction: 3-CD Definitive EditionSpirit – It Shall Be, The Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972
This 5CD clamshell box set, reissued by Esoteric Recordings this year, consists of one of the most legendary bands to come out of the West Coast psychedelic scene, Spirit. Formed from the Red Roosters in 1967, Spirit often flew under…
View More Spirit – It Shall Be, The Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972Sonja Kristina – Anthology
This 2-CD set consists of Sonja Kristina’s career outside of her work with both Curved Air and Mask, containing not just her solo work but various releases that she’s been involved with beyond the two bands, showing that she’s more…
View More Sonja Kristina – AnthologyQuintessence – Move into the Light: The Complete Island Recordings 1969-1971
Even though Esoteric’s resplendent repackaging of retro progressive rock is occasionally prone to errors in artwork or sound quality, it must be said that they do a finer, more consistent job than anyone else in the market at bringing us…
View More Quintessence – Move into the Light: The Complete Island Recordings 1969-1971Jadis – More Than Meets The Eye 25
Jadis have re-released their first proper album as More than Meets the Eye 25 in a special edition to mark 25 years since its original release in the early 1990s. These days, in the 21st Century when progressive rock has…
View More Jadis – More Than Meets The Eye 25Procol Harum – Still There’ll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017
In the 2012 foreword notes of Henry Scott-Irvine’s amazing book Procol Harum: The Ghosts Of A Whiter Shade Of Pale, film maker Martin Scorsese describes the band in this way; “Procol Harum’s music drew from so many deep wells –…
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