One of the greater joys of being a TPA reviewer is discovering bands who might otherwise have flown under the radar. General Purpose, a young band from Greensboro, North Carolina in the US is one such band. One Last Word,…
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On last March’s Cruise To The Edge, one of the buzzier bands performing was Canada’s Crown Lands. Both my friends with whom I travelled were excited to see them, and as a result, so was I. While this was to…
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Dennis Atlas joined Toto in 2024 having made a name for himself as an up-and-coming multi-instrumentalist, debuting in a collaborative album release with Michael Whelan, as Initiator (2019’s Ice Garden), followed by a solo album in 2021, My Magical Wonderland,…
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St. Barbe’s debut EP Shoal deserves a place in the ever expanding wave of creative music coming out of the prog and prog‑adjacent world. For those unfamiliar with this London‑based trio, their Bandcamp tagline captures the music well: “Dissolving the…
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French TV are probably the best thing to come out of Kentucky since the Colonel’s fried chicken. Yet they’ve managed to lurk almost unnoticed under the prog radar since 1983, despite releasing a family bucket of music that is cheerfully…
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Back in 1975, Robin Trower was starting to be big news. His latest studio album, For Earth Below, was doing well on both sides of the Atlantic, and his label, Chrysalis, was looking to capitalise on this success. An opportunity…
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Usually albums arrive, either physically or digitally, and I give them a few plays and a review is fairly easy to do. I either like the music or don’t and, subsequently, I can choose to play it more times, or…
View More Duncan Parsons – Music For Stairlifts (Vol 3): Listening To Subtitles
Lemon, a Cherry Red label, has appeared to have got hold of the Cleopatra Pink Floyd Tribute albums (a few of which I reviewed back in the summer of 2023) and is now reissuing them in 3CD boxsets. The first,…
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Formed by singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player, Danny Sorrell, The Paradox Twin‘s debut album The Importance of Mr Bedlam, was recorded in Outhouse Studio, run by producer and talented musician John Mitchell. Impressed with what he heard he presented the…
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Italian guitar virtuoso Matteo Mancuso surprised the (jazz) rock world in 2023 with his debut album The Journey. Known until then mainly for his YouTube presence and praise from guitar giants (Steve Vai, Al Di Meola and Tommy Emmanuel), he…
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