Kites is the long-awaited third album from Yorkshire’s melodic progressive rock band This Winter Machine. Delayed by both the extended COVID lockdown period and significant line-up changes, arising from the frustrations of not being able to build upon the momentum…
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PFM return for the first time in over four years with Blade Runner inspired album I Dream of Electric Sheep, which was also influenced by the Covid pandemic. These Italian veterans certainly had a challenge with this new album –…
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I was introduced to RMP with their most recent studio album, I Am A Stranger in the Earth, and I admit to a certain degree of wariness when I took on this live album, as while RMP may stand for…
View More Rozmainsky & Mikhaylov Project – Magna Res Est Amor (Live at Babooinumfest)
David Bowie’s latest “era” boxset will be released on 26th November this year. Titled Brilliant Adventure, it includes 1. Outside – one of his most celebrated albums, and rightly so. However, although this is a review looking back to an…
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Featured artists: Lindy-Fay Hella & Dei Farne | TVINNA | AVAWAVES | Tararua | Dikajee | Chlöe Herington (V Ä L V Ē) ||: Celebrating ‘National Album Day’ TPA’s Nick Hudson and Bob Mulvey take a look at some recent…
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In a way, Tony Kaye (born Anthony John Selvidge) is a bit of a tragic figure: in 1971 he was fired by Yes for sticking too long to the two keyboard instruments he loved, the piano and especially the Hammond…
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Well, what do we have here, then? Being a musical ignoramus, I started with the metadata, which tells me that this album is Ambient. This useful tag gives a common frame of reference that not only helps us to build…
View More Jo Berger Myhre – Unheimlich Manoeuvre
Legendary Yes guitarist Steve Howe has recently released the seventh edition of his Homebrew albums. Homebrew 7 marks the 25th anniversary of the guitar legend’s first album in this series. This set largely contains recordings from Steve’s home archive of…
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Earlier this year I, like so many, finally succumbed to Covid. I have suffered from cognitive difficulties ever since, and my ability to put words together to describe the music I listen to became a Sisyphean task. My reviewing slowed,…
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U.S. proggers Glass Hammer follow up their 2020 Dreaming City album, with Skallagrim: Into the Breach; the second album in a planned trilogy paying homage to the sword and sorcery novels of the ’60s and ’70s, and by inference the…
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