Esoteric Recordings continue to live up to their name with this reissue of the seminal 1971 release resulting from earlier recordings made by two prime movers in the 1960s avant-garde scene. John Cale, not long out of the Velvet Underground,…
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Gordon Giltrap began his recording career some 44 years ago with the release of the 1968 self titled album. With a mixture of instrumental tracks and songs his debut set the bar high and it was evident, even from those…
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As Neil’s Heavy Concept Album had been unavailable for many years the Esoteric Recordings (Cherry Red Records) team took it upon themselves to restore this missing whimsical oddment and along with the customary re-mastering this reissue reprises the cassette version…
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Originating in the New York experimental music scene of the mid to late 1960s, The United States Of America shared a radical outlook with fellow Big Apple dwellers The Velvet Underground, and, according to legend, Nico once tried to join…
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As with previous Rick Wakeman’s works, Softsword takes its concept from medieval English history and here the inspiration is drawn from the life of King John and the events surrounding the signing of the Magna Carta. The album title is derived from John…
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I have here before me an album originally released in 2002, then re-released in 2013 with a bonus DVD of live performances taken from a 2006 TV performance and elsewhere, and now being given distribution by those eclectic Italian souls…
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Panama Limited, having dropped the “Jug Band” from their name, and having seemingly psychedelicised themselves while listening to Captain Beefheart, no doubt taking a tip from label mates The Edgar Broughton Band in the process, are an entirely different proposition…
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Panama Limited Jug Band formed in the latter months of 1968 and were part of the UK country blues scene, an esoteric (no pun intended!) offshoot of the R&B favoured by the more commercial end of the British Blues Boom.…
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I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for the music of Keith Emerson & Co, which began with ELP’s self titled debut, the first album I purchased and followed shortly after by my first ever concert – ELP…
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Today seems to be as fitting an occasion as any to upload this review of Rick Wakeman’s 2009 concert from the city of Lugano located in the south of Switzerland. The footage was filmed as part of the Lugano Estival…
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