Kooba Tercu’s latest album, Proto Tekno, barely needs a review. You either like cacophonous chaos like this, or you don’t. But if you do, then you’ll love Proto Tekno. It’s like a militant march of zombified Zeuhl Zoophytes callously cracking…
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Chimpan A is a fascinating project led by multi-instrumentalist Rob Reed, of Magenta, and the superb vocalist Steve Balsamo, who worked with Reed on Kompendium in 2012. Balsamo is probably best known for his stellar performances on the West End…
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Although founded some 18 years ago by composer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist Chris Gill and Petrichor is Band Of Rain’s seventh release, I can safely say all are completely new to me. Some digging, along with a lot of listening, reveals that…
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Grandval are a new band to me, but have immediately endeared me with their sound. Grandval may have begun as a solo vehicle for Henri Vaugrand, but for second album, Descendu sur Terre, they sound like a band – even…
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As its name suggests, these albums are the combined output from Tzuke’s time with Chrysalis, and are made up of two from the studio, Shoot the Moon and Ritmo, and a third a live album composite of concerts at Hammersmith…
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Fren is a band that seems to have come from out of nowhere with their debut album, Where Do You Want Ghosts To Reside. I’ve seen all manner of people mentioning the album on social media in glowing terms, so…
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Samsara. A word in Sanskrit that means ‘wandering’. The aimless wandering through successive states of mundane existence. The endless cycle of birth, growth, decay and death. Eternal wandering of a homeless soul. It seems obvious, but I have to admit…
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Messrs Mike Rutherford and Greg Spawton have a number of things in common. First of all, they are both co-founders of a prog rock band of some stature. In addition, they are both bass guitarists with a predilection for Moog…
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For three years, Roman Spektor has been working on his debut album, Functionality. It was released at the end of April and is Roman’s first release since the three track Moss EP released in January 2016. That EP showed the…
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Be-Bop Deluxe nearly passed me by during their brief but brightly burning four year existence between 1974 and 1978. It was only on borrowing their Hot Valves EP from a school friend in 1976 or ’77 that I became aware…
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