Multi-instrumentalist and session player John Hackett just happens to be the younger brother of Steve, with whom he has contributed some very fine flute work in the past, remember Kim? We Are Not Alone is the first album by this…
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Having developed a liking for the music of Italian composer Stefano Giannotti, and having reviewed his band OTEME’s L’Agguato, L’Abbandono, Il Mutamento some eighteen months ago, it was a nice surprise to receive a copy of his latest collaboration in…
View More Stefano Giannotti & Salvo Lazzara – La Vostra Ansia Di Orizzonte
I was lucky enough to see Mystery at The Borderline in London in September 2014. The tour was in support of their fifth studio album The World is a Game; Benoît David had left in March, to be replaced by…
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From the start, the delicate guitar intro to The Veil shows a more gentle and introverted side of Karda Estra mainman Richard Wileman in his first, nominally at least, solo venture. Elements of the more elaborate Karda Estra sound, including…
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This band hail from Norway, and I’ll bet they’re from Trondheim, without looking at the PR blurb, I hasten to add… actually, they appear to be from Oslo. No prizes to me for that then, but listening to this fat…
View More The Tronosonic Experience – The Tronosonic Experience
Möbius Strip are a young Italian band who come from small towns in the Lazio and Abruzzo areas, they are all in their early twenties but on this debut appear to show considerable maturity. The band states that they got…
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A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer was Gandalf’s Fist’s fourth album, released in 2013. An enjoyable sci-fi musical romp based on signals from a stricken vessel on the edge of a wormhole and assembled by “the best…
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With news of a new studio album from Alan Emslie scheduled for late 2018 and with the new re-mastered editions of his first four releases appearing in April this year, it seems a timely opportunity to revisit the early years.…
View More Alan Emslie – Floating | Emotive Bay | Driven Heavy | Dark Matter
Jet Black Sea came into being in 2013 as a new musical project for Adrian Jones and Michael Simons, after they had been working in the studio with Adrian’s band, Nine Stones Close. It became apparent that they both wanted…
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The signs were all there: forward-thinking music, a vocalist who can both scream and sing, a dedicated keyboardist, and 2014’s Language was already moving in that direction anyway. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that The Contortionist have almost entirely…
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