Album Reviews – Page 177

Refugee – Refugee [3CD Box Set]

This review covers the recently released boxed set of three discs from Esoteric Recordings, comprising the sole album, recorded in 1974, for the Charisma label by Refugee, a trio of Patrick Moraz (keyboards), Lee Jackson (bass and vocals) and Brian…

Antoine Fafard – Borromean Odyssey

Two years on from the excellent double CD release Proto Mundi/Doomsday Vault, Antoine Fafard returns with album number six. For his latest release he has recalled Gary Husband, solely on keyboards, and occupying the drum throne this time around is…

Article 54 – The Hustle [plus interview with Rhodri Marsden]

Dig out the white suit with the wide lapels, and the ass huggin’, flare flappin’ trews, strike your best Travolta pose, point pointedly at the ceiling with one hand, the other resting at a jaunty angle on your hip as…

Midnight Sun – Dark Tide Riding

In relatively dark times it is hardly surprising that art and music reflects some of that angst and uncertainty and Dark Tide Rising from new band Midnight Sun is awash with feelings of loss and anxiety. Midnight Sun is the…

Flying Colors – Third Degree

This is the new and long-awaited third album from U.S. Progressive Rock supergroup Flying Colors, coming some five years after 2014’s Second Nature. This new album continues in a similar manner with a mixture of shorter and longer songs, some…

Drifting Sun – Planet Junkie

Let’s kick off my first review for The Progressive Aspect off with a disclaimer: I know Pat Sanders, the prime mover in Drifting Sun, and get a name check on the album. Make of that what you will and read…

Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean

In which the six-headed Hydra of creativity, born out of that hotbed of musical derring-do Berklee College of Music some 10 years ago, rises above adversity, and by a collision of the Fates and Muses produces a mesmerising melting pot…

Aethellis – A Home In Your Thoughts [EP]

I’m not sure if it’s just me, or do you sometimes hanker after some classic sounding prog from new bands? I’m after a classic, long piece that offers room for improvisation, uses strong reoccurring melodies and has some emotional value…

Fruupp – Wise As Wisdom: The Dawn Albums 1973-1975

Sometime in 2011, just before each of Fruupp’s albums reached their respective 40th birthdays, I happened upon two interesting looking CDs in an independent music shop in Leeds. They were the middle two albums from Fruupp’s sadly short-lived career, Seven…

KariBow – Supernatural Foe – Rebirth

Sitting on a quiet beach bordering Devon and Somerset on the cusp between Summer and Autumn seemed the ideal moment to reflect and report on an album which spans two decades; an album that brings late-’90s prog rock bang up…

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