Procol Harum Firstly, a caveat – the copy we have for review is the single CD edition, but for the fan there is a 2-CD version available that includes a further 23 tracks of alternate takes and radio sessions. I…
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Sky – Sky 3 / Sky 4: Forthcoming / Sky Five Live / Cadmium / The Great Balloon Race / Mozart
At the end of last year I reviewed the first two fruits of Esoteric’s remastered reissues series of the complete works of Sky, the Anglo-Aussie classical/rock crossover band formed in 1978 by classical guitar maestro John Williams. Probably the zenith…
View More Sky – Sky 3 / Sky 4: Forthcoming / Sky Five Live / Cadmium / The Great Balloon Race / MozartEmerson Lake & Palmer – Trilogy
Deluxe 3 Disc Edition including 5.1 Mix There’s no potted history of the band included here, and after 43 years, I can’t imagine Emerson Lake & Palmer’s third studio album needing any introduction either. Certainly not in a progressive rock ezine. Neither…
View More Emerson Lake & Palmer – TrilogyBurnin Red Ivanhoe – W.W.W.
For me, Burnin Red Ivanhoe fall into the category “heard of, but never heard”, which is surprising given the band’s long history, their sonic affinity with Krautrock, a musical place I’m constantly revisiting, and my decades-long entanglement in Rock’s Rich…
View More Burnin Red Ivanhoe – W.W.W.Keith Emerson – At The Movies
In general I’m not a huge fan of compilations, preferring, in the most part, to purchase the original albums and if necessary create my own “best of”. In the case of Mr Emerson’s previous band this would not include any version…
View More Keith Emerson – At The MoviesDeke Leonard – Iceberg / Kamikaze
Iceberg Co-founder of Welsh wizards Man and lifelong rock’n’roll raconteur, Deke Leonard was in and out of that legendary band more times than Harold Wilson collected and handed in the keys to 10 Downing Street. After being sacked by Man…
View More Deke Leonard – Iceberg / KamikazeBill Nelson – After The Satellite Sings
The latest in Esoteric’s series of reissues from the massive back catalogue of singular Yorkshire artist Bill Nelson is this 1995 album, After The Satellite Sings. By 1995 I had largely, if not forgotten about Mr Nelson, drifted away from…
View More Bill Nelson – After The Satellite SingsYesterdays – Holdfenykert
Holdfenykert, originally issued in 2006 and recently re-released by Seacrest Oy Records, is the first album by Yesterdays, a Romanian based but ethnically Hungarian progressive rock band. They started out playing Yes covers so it is no coincidence that their…
View More Yesterdays – HoldfenykertPanic Room – Satellite
This newly packaged reissue of Satellite from Esoteric Recordings is a superb little set, it contains brand new cover artwork and comes with two discs, the CD contains the original Satellite album, whereas the second disc is a DVD containing…
View More Panic Room – SatelliteVezhlivy Otkaz – Go to it!..
My second foray into the weird and wonderful world of Vezhlivy Otkaz, which translates as “Polite Refusal” comes with this 1992 album re-released last year by distributors AltrOck. If Geranium, my first encounter with The Polites is anything to go…
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