With a name like The Fractured Dimension, you know this has to be a great progressive rock band, and with an album titled On the Precipice of Many Infinities you know this is going to be good. And yes, the…
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There’s not a single stop sign when it comes to Kevin Kastning. It’s been a good while since I’ve listened to Kastning’s music, so it’s time to dust off my albums and dig into his work. Whether it’s his collaborations…
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Samuel Hällkvist has released a mini “album”, consisting of just two tracks. Flying in the face of “Prog Tradition” they are not sprawling epics but superbly concise and innovative tracks lasting a total of nine minutes. Now, this will no…
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The Fold is Montreal based Karcius’ fifth release, their current sound forming in the previous album, 2012’s The First Day when they added vocalist and bass player Sylvain Auclair to the band that was previously mainly an instrumental outfit that has been on the…
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The music of Sanna Ruohoniemi is jazz. It includes set pieces and improvised songs. This is her second album. The title track, Start from Nothing, has been released as a single and it’s a beautiful example of modern vocal jazz.…
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Imagine if a bunch of childhood friends, who used to make music by bonfires on the beaches of the Seattle area, got together and recorded an album in a log cabin in Anacortes, WA… well that is the story of…
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Blackfield is the collaborative project between Israeli and British songwriters and musicians, Aviv Geffen and Steven Wilson, which began back in 2004 with their self-titled debut album. They followed that with a further four albums with the last, V released…
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This 3CD set reissued by Esoteric Recordings consists of Procol Harum’s seventh studio album, Exotic Birds and Fruit. Originally released on the Chrysalis label in April, 1974, this was the band’s return as a five-piece and going back to their…
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What can I say about this rather obscure album that takes one of NASA’s most successful missions as its source material? Charting the 40 plus years of the Voyager programme and the untold wealth of knowledge that it has gained…
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Consistency is a problem, progression is often a problem, and yet Encircled have delivered both in their third album (Can you be consistent and progress?). This time themed around computers and social media and our love/hate relationship with those two…
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