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…
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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…
View More Ken Hensley – The Bronze Years: 1973 – 1981
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…
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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…
View More A Different Aspect #31
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…
View More Les Penning with Robert Reed – Return To Penrhos
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…
View More Klan – Mrowisko
As popular as progressive metal is amongst fans, it seems even more popular amongst aspiring, talented new artists, all raring at the chance to show off their chops and dazzle with their musicianship. Unfortunately, this has led to a highly…
View More State of Flux – State of Flux
The second instalment of the collision of soundworlds known as Sonar and David Torn arrives by design rather by accident. Whereas Vortex was the result of Torn’s exploratory guitar finding a home amongst Sonar’s cyclical minimalist grooves after the music…
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The concept of the digitally remastered reissue has been a marketing staple for many years now, but it’s only relatively recently that the box set complete with the ubiquitous hi-res copy and/or the 5:1 surround version has competed for your…
View More Jethro Tull – Stormwatch [40th Anniversary Box Set]
Twelfth Night are truly a force unto themselves. What other band would have a 32-year gap between their last studio album in 1986 and the release of the stunning Sequences in 2018, and somehow manage to produce one of the…
View More Twelfth Night – A Night to Remember: Live at The Barbican 2012