My first brush with Jonesy was in 2011 when I reviewed the bizarre Dark Matter (Inner Space), apparently a mish-mash of old recordings and new sound effects. Looking back, I cannot fathom why I gave it 7 out of 10,…
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While I have had the Eighth Tower compilation Hauntology in UK since the beginning of the year, it took the recent death of Philip Jeck (on 25th March 2022) to kickstart my writing this review. Jeck was a celebrated and…
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French singer/guitarist Jean Pierre Louveton has been producing quality, guitar-led prog rock under the JPL name since 2002. Along with albums from his now disbanded group Nemo, and the heavier output from Wolfspring, he has managed to release 22 studio…
View More JPL – Sapiens, Chapitre 3/3: Actum
Riverwood is a progressive metal band from Egypt, and without writing a further word, I imagine for a lot of people they are already imagining comparisons to bands like Tunisia’s Myrath, or Israel’s Orphaned Land. Given that Egypt is the…
View More Riverwood – Shadows and Flames
“A progression if ever there was one”; those were the words of Phil Stuckey when he kindly gifted me with this new album, Days of Innocence. So, in a single phrase I was left in hot anticipation of what it…
View More Stuckfish – Days of Innocence
William Scott Bruford, primarily known as the “go to” prog drummer, as stints in Yes, King Crimson (three times), Genesis, and UK attest, has had a career that is so much more than that. After all, the time he spent…
View More Bill Bruford – Making A Song And Dance: A Complete Career Collection
When Spriggan Mist arrived on stage on the Sunday afternoon of HRH Prog XI in Sheffield, with their ‘steampunk/folk’ clothing and their lead vocalist wearing an antler headdress like some pagan queen of the woods, you could almost hear the…
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Urskog, Kaipa’s fourteenth studio album, follows a journey through the changing seasons of the Swedish landscape, taking us from winter cold into spring with The Frozen Dead of the Night, through the heady days of summer to the leaves falling…
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I’ve been a huge fan of Airbag for a number of years, but only dipped into the co-founder’s solo releases in the last three-or-so years. I always wondered why I delayed that action (and more fool me) because, from the…
View More Bjørn Riis – Everything To Everyone
I first came across Pakistan’s The D/A Method, as I suspect did many, via Bruce Soord on Facebook: he co-produced their second album, The Desert Road, as well as contributing additional vocals and guitars. I guess this was realistically their…
View More The D/A Method – Sanctuary