Touching Oblivion is the debut album by Philipp Lippman, a promising 23-year old German guitarist from Thuringia, released under the Briscon name. It brings together around five years of instrumental composition, recording, mixing and hard graft – and the current…
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According to their Bandcamp page, postcards from new zealand (all lower case) have been making “rhythm and noise since 2008”, but this year when their latest release found its way into the TPA review queue was the first I’d heard…
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Lockdown has taken people to many places. Howard Boder rose from those depths with Atlantis, an exceptional album that I believe will grow on listeners with repeated listens. A potted history of Howard: He played keyboards with a short-lived band…
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The exciting Bristol quartet Franklin Mint return with their new album, Bristle, the follow-up to 2018’s Scrage, which I reviewed for TPA. Their blend of rock and punk with progressive leanings continues, alongside their at times upfront, in-your-face presentation. They…
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After reviewing the recent Cronofonía release, I found myself wondering what else Pablo Ortíz had been doing all these years (as Cronofonía had been in the making since at least 2013. It turns out that while Ortíz is Mexican, he…
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It has been said before: Mystery and De Boerderij, that is a kind of unity. There can hardly be any other explanation for the fact that the Canadians keep returning to the Dutch rock temple, time and again. And not…
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Tarot, the latest album from Norway’s Anders Buaas, is a must for all fans of instrumental guitar-led music, with a range of acoustic and electric guitar styles ranging from delicate, folk-influenced pieces all the way through to full-on electric guitar…
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In February 2015, Danish band VOLA released their debut album, Inmazes. It so enamoured the admin of a Facebook prog page I followed that he posted about the band for weeks on end, urging everyone to give Inmazes a listen.…
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The first album I heard from Arabs in Aspic was their 2013 release, Pictures in a Dream. This year, the band’s releases prior to that have been re-released by Karisma, giving the first opportunity for many (including myself) to hear…
View More Arabs in Aspic – I to III (Progeria [EP] / Far Out in Aradabia / Strange Frame of Mind [Reissued])
Last year I reviewed the second studio album from Mexico’s The Advent Equation, Remnants of Oblivion. After finding much to like on that album, I explored more of what had come before. What I found is that The Advent Equation…
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