Hello readers and welcome to a new feature where we reviewers scour our vaults for some unearthed gems that you may have missed the first time around. These are antiquities, shrouded in obscurity, that nevertheless have all the lustre of…
View More Island – Pictures (1977)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is home to a plethora of musical artists from a surprising variety of genres. This interesting list includes – but is in no way limited to – The Violent Femmes, Steve (The Joker) Miller, the ubiquitous bass supremo…
View More Far Corner – Risk
Based on the Northwest Gulf Coast of Florida is keyboard player, multi-instrumentalist and singer Doug Bowers, aka KDB3, and I Fill My Days With Noise is his third release, another recent discovery in my regular hunting ground, CD Baby. Bowers…
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One of the earliest album reviews to appear on TPA was the second release from Edinburgh based The John Irvine Band, their name derived from the man behind the project – composer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, yep you guessed it, John…
View More The John Irvine Band – Metaphysical Attractions
Opeth continue their string of excellent live concert releases with Garden of the Titans: Opeth Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. This film/live album captures their performance from a special concert at the famed natural amphitheatre in Denver, Colorado that also…
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Follow up to the first Twinscapes, Vol.2 further probes the intriguing possibilities presented by a big bottom. A synergistic collaboration between bassists Colin Edwin and Lorenzo Feliciati, with Roberto Gualdi once again providing his dexterity on the tubs. Added embellishments…
View More Colin Edwin & Lorenzo Feliciati – Twinscapes Vol.2: A Modern Approach To The Dancefloor
Symphonic melancholy. Damn! If it sounds this intelligent, this enticing and this beautiful then please go right ahead and sign me up. Patrick Moleswoth’s debut album is an elegant, refined and frankly quite magnificent tour de force of musical finesse…
View More Zeelley Moon – Zeelley Moon
Roine Stolt has had a long and varied career since joining the band Kaipa as a teenager in 1974, the guitarist, singer and song writer going on to be involved with The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, Agents of Mercy, The Tangent…
View More Roine Stolt’s The Flower King – Manifesto of an Alchemist
In this update we feature: • Alec K. Redfearn & The Eyesores – The Opposite • Täpp – Mixtape:1 • VAK – Budo • Shell From Oceanic – How To Let Go • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs…
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Just Believe is the sixth album from Éowyn, a Christian musician whose music is full of grace and words of faith that are meant to inspire. However, the album is also full of powerful music and words of hope no…
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