I first became aware of German band Electric Mud from a review of their 2018 album The Deconstruction of Light on The Prog Mind. I was intrigued enough by the review, and impressed enough by the music, to buy that…
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Sometimes, don’t you want to just buy stuff? When I saw this was out, I bought it without bothering to check anything, I thought it was a safe bet. I was expecting a studio album but was not in the…
View More The Utopia Strong – Dreamsweeper
KalevIi Hämäläinen Group’s debut album, First Days of Summer, is one I’ve had for review for quite some time, yet have never managed to put down words for it. The one major reason for this is that every time I…
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This debut from That Joe Payne seems to have been a long time coming. Since leaving The Enid, there have been singles and EPs previewing songs, teasing us almost, and he has been playing some of this material for some…
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I don’t think there can be many people who won’t agree that 2020 has been a tough year. Music has been my solace for most of my life, and it seems, especially so this year. In recent times, I have…
View More Alam Khan – Solace
Wayfarer is the second solo album by the Finnish drummer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Kimmo Pörsti, perhaps best known as part of The Samurai of Prog project. So my initial thoughts, glancing through the list of musicians, which also includes bassist…
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London combo Asian Death Crustacean, if I’ve read correctly, sprang from the joining of members from jazz fusion and black metal bands. Now black jazz, or jazz noir, or whatever label it goes by these days, does exist, but I’ve…
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The Tangent have been going through a purple patch of late. Pretty much every album since 2013’s Le Sacre du Travail has hit the spot so far as critics and fans are concerned, with the most recent couple of releases…
View More The Tangent – Auto Reconnaissance
I was introduced to Griot by way of another Portuguese band, Esfera. I had been hugely impressed by the latter’s 2016 album, All the Colours of Madness, so when I heard Nuno Aleluia would be providing the vocals for Griot’s…
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In years to come 2020 will always be regarded as a remarkable year, forever associated with the Covid 19 virus and its strange impact on society. However, it will also be a year in which the ‘Lockdown’ period has inspired…
View More Tiger Moth Tales – Still Alive / A Visit To Rockfield