In this update we feature:- Jenny Darren and the Ladykillers – Ladykiller Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius – Guilty of Innocence Pingvinorkestern – Look, no hands! Hiromi & Edmar Castañeda – Live In Montreal Next To None – Phases Flowers Must…
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In this update we feature:- Jody Grind – One Step On Jody Grind – Far Canal Carolanne Pegg – Carolanne Gilli Smyth – Mother Chris Thompson – Jukebox: The Ultimate Collection Since 2007 when Mark Powell started Esoteric Recordings, the…
View More A Different Aspect #12: Christmas Special 2017, Pt.2 – Esoteric Recordings
In this update we feature:- Big Bad Wolf – Pond Life Philip Taylor – One Year On Aelita Red – Aelita Red Trallskogen – Trollskogen Scriptures – Lucid Days Of Confusion – Yin & Out Ah, Christmas! A time of…
View More A Different Aspect #11: Christmas Special 2017, Pt.1
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…
View More Glass Hammer – Untold Tales
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…
View More Kaisa’s Machine – In The Key Of K
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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