Encircled have been together as a 3-piece for around 18 months and Scott Evans related the following to me about how the band got together:- “I had been writing but casually for a few years but decided to get serious…
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Umphrey’s McGee – The London Session
Umphrey’s McGee emerged from the U.S. jam band scene in the late ’90s and have since recorded a string of studio albums and a myriad live, skirting the edges of progressive rock with musical influences from the usual Prog suspects…
View More Umphrey’s McGee – The London SessionThe David Rhodes Band – The David Rhodes Band
Dig underneath the highly unassuming and somehow typically British reserve of the name “The David Rhodes Band” and you will find three musicians with highly impressive CVs. Guitarist David Rhodes is most well known for his long association with Peter…
View More The David Rhodes Band – The David Rhodes BandMichael Bernier & Ritchie DeCarlo – Bernier-DeCarlo
As anyone who has read my other reviews knows, I’m not one for genre labelling. The songs are described in the properties of the MP3 files I used for the review as “General Jazz”. What an innocuous, and probably inaccurate…
View More Michael Bernier & Ritchie DeCarlo – Bernier-DeCarloBreznev Fun Club – il misantropo felice
After a five year gap, composer, arranger and all-round musical polymath Rocco Lomonaco, Milan-based but southern Italian by origin, releases his second album as Breznev Fun Club, il misantropo felice (“the happy misanthrope”). The new album continues with the chamber…
View More Breznev Fun Club – il misantropo feliceEmmett Elvin – Emmettronica 1998 – 2013
We are all travelling through time and space but there’s not enough time and some sort of void in space. By the time you have read this we will have gone a lot further on our journey and you will…
View More Emmett Elvin – Emmettronica 1998 – 2013Linda Hoyle – The Fetch
Purely by chance I happened across a link in my social meeja trawling that publicised a new album by Linda Hoyle, a name that rang some distant bells in the compartment labelled “Record Collecting” in my aging noggin. Linda was…
View More Linda Hoyle – The FetchGlacier – Monument / Ashes for the Monarch
Two albums over a decade apart, one band and a more or less intact line-up. Similar but subtly different, the earlier album Monument (2001) has Yes influences to the fore, some other styling but overall Yes with enough originality to…
View More Glacier – Monument / Ashes for the MonarchKestrel – Kestrel
Kestrel and their eponymous debut album were, in the words of Dave Black, to suffer a series of disappointing ‘ifs’ and ‘what ifs’ and ultimately the blame for the lack of success of the band lay firmly with their inept…
View More Kestrel – KestrelBeardfish – +4626-COMFORTZONE
Finally a new album from Swedish band Beardfish (with apologies for the delayed review! – Ed.), following on from their 2012 release The Void. This latest album clearly shows that the band are continuing to develop an identity of their…
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