Further proof to my contention that everyone in Scandinavia is in, or has been in a band is offered by the glorious duo Shamblemaths, who hail almost inevitably from Trondheim in Norway. Simen Å. Ellingsen on guitars, saxophones and vocals…
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The Charade opens with almost a Travis-like melody – prog Travis? The instruments are better defined and clearer, the balance between vocal and instrumental favouring the musical passages, and, if anything, it sounds more French on this 2016 remix of…
View More Drifting Sun – On The Rebound (2016 Remix)
The shimmering, hazy silhouette of the sun’s dawning rays, cresting the horizon in joyful anticipation of all the possibilities of a new day sends cascading ripples of ultraviolet sound to wash the earth. The rich, dominating chords of an imposing…
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Blonde On Blonde – Rebirth Blonde On Blonde, despite sounding like they lived on the corner of Haight-Asbury actually hailed from the far less glamorous surroundings of Newport, South Wales. Like many bands of the turn of the ’60s into…
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Anakdota are a young band from Israel who take influence from modern electric jazz mixed with an ear for melody and complex rhythmic structure that in places ventures down a route once trodden by Gentle Giant, especially in parts of…
View More Anakdota – OverloadingReleased in the middle of 2016, Awake, the debut album from Los Angeles-based Moving Structures, is a concept album that begins with a burial at sea and ends with an ascension to a higher plane. Whoa! From the website:- “The…
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That these four musicians got together and recorded this nigh on hour-long excursion into stellar improvisation with no rehearsal beforehand is frankly astonishing. Then again, given the calibre of the musicians involved it is almost to be expected. Three of…
View More Wingfield Reuter Stavi Sirkis – The Stone House
Difficult. A favoured band, gigs I actually attended, and memories that resurface with the playing of the album. Well, I could gush, wallow, say how beautiful it is, or I could attempt to be neutral – at least until the…
View More Big Big Train – A Stone’s Throw From The Line
Steve Hackett is not a man to rest on his laurels or use his illustrious past as a member of Genesis in an exploitative manner, thankfully that is because on this, his 25th solo album, The Night Siren, he has…
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Post Rock seems to be a popular genre these days, at least by the numbers of releases, but as is often the case, plenty of uninspiring releases overwhelm the market making it hard to find the few real gems –…
View More Morning Mode – Short Story EP