Neil Campbell’s latest album, The Turnaround, is certainly something I’d looked forward to and with keen anticipation, especially as this latest release carries special significance, marking two decades since I first discovered his music. My introduction came via 3 O’Clock…
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For someone who writes for an on-line magazine/blog about music, you’d think I would have an encyclopaedic knowledge of all things musical. In fact, as with most walks of life, I employ the philosophy of striving to be the one-eyed…
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“There’s so much stress and division in the world and Hinterland provides a space outside of that.” So says David Joseph, the creative mind behind the band, Held By Trees, when discussing, with Prog Magazine, the second album from this…
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The release of the new album Trollringen from Anders Buaas is a significant landmark in the Norwegian multi-instrumentalist’s career to date. So far, he has released instrumental albums, achieving an ever-increasing measure of respect, in his home country and worldwide,…
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Special Powers sees the first album of new songs by Craig Fortnam’s chamber pop ensemble North Sea Radio Orchestra since 2016’s Dronne, and as such this is an event of some note, certainly highly anticipated by this listener. In the…
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After much anticipation, I am delighted to see that the Italian pianist, keyboardist and composer, Massimo Pieretti has now released his second solo album, The Next Dream. Like his 2022 debut release, A New Beginning, it is a concept album,…
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“Unspool the tape and queue to join the order,” sings Michael Woodman, in soft hallowed tones over a bevelled glimmer of guitar. Then his voice changes, subtly but sharply. “But you can’t have it as you had it then.” It’s…
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When I first discovered Robert Reed’s albums, I thought they were a joke perpetrated by Mike Oldfield. Surely these must be Oldfield albums, somehow lost and now put out under a nom de plume? Reed’s albums sound as good as…
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Vidrada by Obiymy Doschu is, for me, the album of 2025. Oh yes: it’s ‘only’ May and I’m going there. And this review would have appeared a lot earlier if only I could have found the words to tell you…
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When one looks back at the music scene of the Seventies, so often it is the big boys that are remembered, but bubbling under those guys were host of wonderful bands who maybe did not get the recognition they rightly…
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