The name Bill Bruford is known to many music fans, mainly due to his work with Yes and King Crimson, but as this collection shows he is much more than just a member of those ground breaking bands. After leaving…
View More Bill Bruford – The Best Of Bill Bruford: The Winterfold And Summerfold Years [3CD Box Set]Category: Album Reissues
Porcupine Tree – Fear Of A Blank Planet: Deluxe Edition [6 Disc Boxset]
Steven Wilson is the curator of his own back-catalogue. He is also a highly sought-after music producer, especially in relation to spatial audio remixes of existing material. So it is of no surprise that he has been in charge of…
View More Porcupine Tree – Fear Of A Blank Planet: Deluxe Edition [6 Disc Boxset]John Cale – Ship Of Fools: The Island Albums [3CD Box Set]
I have always been musically drawn to outsiders, to wonky pop, avant pop, call it what you will, and anything slightly, and sometimes a lot off-kilter. An early satisfier of that strange appetite of mine was John Cale, whom I…
View More John Cale – Ship Of Fools: The Island Albums [3CD Box Set]Tracey Thorn – A Distant Shore
A Distant Shore is the debut release from Tracey Thorn as a solo artist, that was originally released by Cherry Red Records in 1982 when Tracey was 20 years old. At this time, she was still officially in a post-punk…
View More Tracey Thorn – A Distant ShoreHawkwind – In Search Of Space (2CD/Blue-ray Box Set)
Back in the distant past of my youth I was beginning to discover many styles of music, in 1971 I discovered Hawkwind with their, then, new release In Search of Space which remains one of my favourite albums from their…
View More Hawkwind – In Search Of Space (2CD/Blue-ray Box Set)Eyes Of Blue – The Light We See: The Recordings 1969-1971 [3CD Box Set]
How often have you wished that obscure, short-lived band you once enjoyed had just made one more album? It doesn’t count when they reunite several decades later, of course, because their energy and influences will have changed completely. For some…
View More Eyes Of Blue – The Light We See: The Recordings 1969-1971 [3CD Box Set]Stackridge – Lost And Found: The Reunion Years 1999-2015 [4CD Box Set]
Esoteric’s Stackridge collection is finally complete after their string of (mostly 2CD) reissues of the band’s 70s albums last year, as well as the live 2CD+DVD of The Forbidden City released in April this year. It might seem like a…
View More Stackridge – Lost And Found: The Reunion Years 1999-2015 [4CD Box Set]The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams – A Good Thief Tips His Hat
My introduction to The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams came about five years ago through a friend who lived in New York’s Hudson Valley. He sang the praises of a local band out of Sleepy Hollow that I just had to…
View More The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams – A Good Thief Tips His HatThe Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid (Super Deluxe Box Set)
Pyramid was the third studio album by The Alan Parsons Project (APP), the progressive rock ensemble comprising the engineer/producer Alan Parsons and the songwriter, musician and manager Eric Woolfson. Originally released in May 1978, it followed the successful and eclectic…
View More The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid (Super Deluxe Box Set)Jade Warrior – Borne On The Solar Wind: The Vertigo Albums
Jade Warrior – a name that has cropped up many times in my exploration of 70s prog, but a path I’ve not had the courage nor motivation to travel down until now. By reputation, they’re a more psychedelic, experimental group…
View More Jade Warrior – Borne On The Solar Wind: The Vertigo Albums