The third musical probe of 2018 into the twisted compositional mind of Elk Minister’s Great Aunt Coleslaw continues with Pisces. As part of a 26 part cycle, alternating musical and spoken word albums, to be released through the year at…
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Ungdomskulen are a band from Bergen in Norway who have been around for a number of years, having been formed in 2003 by three friends eager to write and record songs without musical restrictions. Their debut album Cry Baby was…
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Just preceding the time that post-punk was leading hitherto musically hidebound yoof into unchartered waters, courtesy of the wildly imaginative Public Image Ltd and all who sailed in its glorious deconstructivist atonal wake, one of the bands that no doubt…
View More Art Zoyd – 44 ½: Live And Unreleased Works
Heavy Horses was the first Tull album I bought after seeing their live broadcast from Madison Square Gardens in 1978. Second in the so-called ‘folk-rock trilogy’, it’s darker than Songs From The Wood but not as dark as Stormwatch, in…
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In this update we feature: > Plastic Noose – Enmity > Louis de Mieulle & Matt Garstka – Dual > Toto – 40 Trips Around The Sun > King Buffalo – Repeater > Moop – Moop > Widowmaker – Running…
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The band Tautologic, who hail from Chicago, have released their second album, some seventeen years after their debut, West is North, East is South. The band came together in 1997 when Ethan Sellers and Pat Buzby left college, they both…
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This is the sound of that state in between sleeping and waking – a place in which we’re not quite dreaming, but we’re not fully awake. Forget the usual review scribblings, wasted on these sound impressions drawn with piano, strings…
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My first preview of Monarch Trail’s new Sand album was like hearing the early work of English prog rockers IQ for the first time, wonderful and a great journey back to the music that drew me into progressive rock in…
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In this update we feature: > Universal Totem Orchestra – Mathematical Mother > Muffx – L’Ora Di Tutti > Il Cerchio D’Oro – Il Fuoco Sotto La Cenere > L’Albero Del Veleno – Tale Of A Dark Fate > Panther…
View More L’aspetto progressivo (A Different Aspect #17): New Italian Prog
Esoteric Recordings have, for me, always come up with hidden treasure when it comes to discovering unearthed gems that might otherwise have been lost. Whether it’s Marsupilami, Mellow Candle, Eyes of Blue, Julian’s Treatment, or Galliard, to name a few,…
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