This is the fifth and latest album from Hungarian band Special Providence, a Jazz/Proto Metal band who mix jazz fusion interludes with a prog metallic crunch and attack, and yet still manage to create some great sounding grooves to work…
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Chattanooga is a very famous American city boasting its own font and known to the world for Glenn Millers’ “Pardon me sir, is this the cat that chewed your new shoes, etc.” song, but in the prog world it’s the…
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Female double bassists are few and far between so it’s nice to see someone with XX chromosomes not only composing and playing interesting jazz music but also leading her own quartet. Finnish-born 27-year-old Kaisa Mäensivu has just completed her Masters…
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Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari is a singer with an impressive range and enough drama in his highly expressive voice to fill the Old Vic several times over. Having appeared with various bands on numerous releases on the RareNoise label, LEF now…
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Off The Radar is the fourteenth studio album from Isildurs Bane, and that title could reflect how they have gone about their musical vision these last forty years; quietly, evolving, changing direction, all the time maintaining their integrity. From my…
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I guess like many I was drawn to the music of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer in the early 1970s when I was in my youth, and especially to the Brain Salad Surgery and Pictures At An Exhibition…
View More Emerson Lake & Palmer – Black Moon / In The Hot Seat [2017 Remasters]
With For Mange Melodia Norwegian newcomers Knekklectric present an ambitious and sonically varied sophomore effort, displaying elements ranging from Indie-Rock, Post-Hardcore and Jazz to classic progressive rock. The Ålesund-based outfit successfully combines the above mentioned musical influences in an appealing…
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Suffering from a surfeit of weltschmerz recently? What you need is to give it a no-man soundtrack, then everything becomes clear, and by transposing your suffering and crushing ennui onto the surprisingly strong shoulders of the deceptively elfin-like Tim Bowness,…
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Esoteric’s deluxe treatment of Anthony Phillips’ back catalogue continues with the not-so-highly sought after 1983 pop album Invisible Men, a collaboration between himself and long-time musical partner Richard Scott. The notes of this 2CD edition explain that it was a…
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Greetings, fellow misanthropes! Like me, do you loathe the way Christmas has become a “season” that seems to start the second after the autumn equinox, and goes on until January 7th or thereabouts? And do you detest the ever-growing tacky…
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