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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For lovers of the weird and wonderful, the late Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream, who produced some wonderful atmospheric albums; my first being Aqua, my mother’s interpretation being something along the lines of “Can you shut that bloody racket up!?”…
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Back in 2017, a friend suggested that I check out an EP by a young Canadian duo. The EP was Odyssey and the duo were Jupiter Hollow. That EP was amazing, and even more so for being made by just…
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Shaman Elephant return with their second album, four years after their highly acclaimed debut, Crystals, an album that I had the pleasure of reviewing for TPA. At the time I remarked that I looked forward to what they would do…
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I came to The Hirsch Effekt via Long Branch Records, when I was exploring the label a few years back. Eskapist (2017) immediately clicked with me, and I definitely think they are one of the strongest and most interesting artists…
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A hologram is an image that looks three dimensional even though it’s actually flat. If this process could be applied to a piece of audio art then it would sound bigger than the sum of its parts and therefore synergistic,…
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