Album Reviews – Page 172

Fire! Orchestra – Arrival

Ones That Nearly Got Away The second in this short “catch ‘em while you can” series was also released on the impressive Rune Grammofon label, and saw the light of day back in May. I caught on two weeks ago!…

Various Artists – A Prog Rock Christmas

Let’s get something clear straight from the off: I love Christmas music, always have done since first hearing Slade’s Merry Christmas Everyone and the masterpiece that is Greg Lake’s I Believe in Father Christmas, and countless other incarnations, reinventions and…

Krokofant – Q

Ones That Nearly Got Away This is the first of a few reviews of albums released in 2019 that I only came across in the last couple of weeks, but deserve some belated attention. Not only that, but they would…

The Blackheart Orchestra – Mesmeranto

Surely one of the busiest gigging outfits on the UK scene, something I can attest to as scarcely a week goes by without me adding to their burgeoning list of shows in the TPA UK Gig Guide. During that time…

Long Distance Calling – Stummfilm: Live from Hamburg

Long Distance Calling are a post-rock band from Germany and are well into their second decade of existence. I was introduced to them by my son-in-law, an ardent death metal and doom fan, but I was immediately interested when he…

Ken Hensley – The Bronze Years: 1973 – 1981

Ken Hensley was a founding member of Uriah Heep from their earliest inception right through to June 1980 after the Conquest world tour, at which time he felt he had gone as far as he could with the band and…

October Equus – Presagios

The return of this fine Spanish band after a six year gap from the superb Isla Purgatorio is as welcome as it is surprising, given that the band released two albums in 2013, and then nothing. Composer Ángel Ontalva has…

A Different Aspect #31

In this update we feature: > Loscil – Equivalents > Hans Lundin – The Solo Years: 1982-1989 [6CD Box] > En Fer – En Fer > Sail By Summer – Casual Heaven > Mother Turtle – Three Sides to Every…

Les Penning with Robert Reed – Return To Penrhos

The chances are that even if you have never heard of Les Penning you may well have heard him – he recorded recorders and other instruments with the legendary Mike Oldfield in the 1970s, most notably on the excellent Ommadawn…

Klan – Mrowisko

By the end of the seventies, progressive rock music got stuck in a rut. The big bands struggled with their (musical) direction and did not always release their best work. Moreover, there was the emergence of punk, a musical movement…

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