Monarch Trail are a Canadian progressive rock trio, led by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Ken Baird, Wither Down is their third release. Now, if the band and the album have gone under your musical radar of late, amongst the other fine…
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Once upon a time there was a prog metal band named Blind Spectrum. I really enjoyed their music, but could never get on with the vocals of Sean Butler. I always felt that they would be better as an instrumental…
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Dark Before Dawn is the follow up to The Divide, the excellent 2019 debut album from Tony Patterson and Doug Melbourne, who were previously in the eminent Genesis tribute band Regenesis. Dark Before Dawn has a lot to live up…
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Hold the end of year Best of 2021! Damn, too late… Although released in February 2021, it was purely happenstance that I discovered Uncommon Measures during the recent festive period. So… there I am beavering away on something TPA related,…
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The Mannheimer Schlagwerk is a percussion collective which is celebrating its 25th anniversary. It was the brainchild of Dennis Kuhn, who created it to play a one-off event, but it has somehow endured ever since. The group is known for…
View More Mannheimer Schlagwerk – The Numbers Are Dancing: New Works for Mallet Quartet
Featured artists: Various Artists (VA) | Badieh | Various Artists (VA) | David Hush & Hamed Sadeghi | Gabriel Akhmad Marin ||: In this ADA update we feature albums released by the Australia based Worlds Within Worlds record label. •…
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Around 18:00 on Tuesday 4th January 2022, the German band Dante posted on Facebook to mark the ninth anniversary of the death of co-founder, Markus Berger. As Markus Maichel points out in that post, probably all who have followed the…
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Featured artists: Regal Worm | Jah Wobble | Aquaserge | Stephan Thelen ||: A round-up of some corkers from 2021 that I should have reviewed at the time, but didn’t, and for whatever spurious reason did not make it into…
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This is an intriguing collaboration between Sanguine Hum’s Matt Baber and Richard Wileman, the mastermind behind Karda Estra who has in recent years started to release music under his own name. The pair met in 2011 and first worked together…
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We know him mainly as the violinist, singer and frontman of the legendary American progressive rock band Kansas, with whom he recorded ten studio albums, good for gold, platinum and double platinum status. And now there is a solo album,…
View More Robby Steinhardt – Not in Kansas Anymore