This is Irish musician Jim Griffin’s third solo album, after 2015’s The Ranger & The Cleric and 2017’s To A Far City, but this one shows a different side of Jim’s musical muse. Where the previous releases took a lot…
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During the interview I had with Needlepoint founder/composer/singer/guitarist Bjørn Klakegg in 2018, around the release of The Diary Of Robert Reverie, Klakegg indicated that he had only heard of Caravan and the Canterbury Scene at a late stage. He also…
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Drummer Gavin Harrison is a seasoned professional, probably most famous for his tenure in Porcupine Tree and then King Crimson. At the moment The Pineapple Thief are the lucky ones to employ this most talented of stickmen. Antoine Fafard is…
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The Future Bites – A Steven Wilson ADA Special As Oscar Wilde once famously said, “there’s only one thing worse than being talked about, and that’s not being talked about”. As a past master of self-publicity, Wilde would be well…
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Crack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in Weirton, West Virginia in the early 1970s. In 1975, Rolling Stone named their first album ‘Debut Album of the Year’, and the 1978 Rolling Stone Record Guide even compared…
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Lockdown is a journey, to each of us their own, where we go, what we do, some constructive, but sadly for others a destructive journey as all that they believed important is dashed on the rocks. But not Richard Barbieri,…
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Ken Hensley holds a special place in my musical upbringing. My first ever rock concert was in 1973 at Bournemouth Winter Gardens, and the band on stage that night was Uriah Heep. They were at the height of their powers,…
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“We have long found our sound”, says Mark Jansen, “but within that sound, there is lots of room for evolution. We always try to reinvent ourselves, to bring in refreshing elements.” I admire the clarity of vision that Mark (founder,…
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A six-disc repackaging of the Drastic Plastic album from 1978, discs 1 to 4 available for review, so only the 5.1 mix and video content missing. Nostalgia aside, I have enjoyed my revisit to Bill Nelson’s Be Bop Deluxe beyond…
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The Residents – more a concept than a band, at least in the early days, when their carefully constructed mythology based around an obscurantist cult of anonymity was enough to arouse the curiosity of many a passing left-field inclined listener.…
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