I HAVE to admit, I’m a sucker for Latin jazz. It’s happy music that goes straight to your hips and, as we all know, hips don’t lie. But I accept that it can sometimes have a whiff of Manchego cheese…
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This album is my wife’s favourite album of the year so far. Not that she has ever heard a single note of it’s lovely subtle, tonal, mood-fest. It’s my current album of choice to do housework while listening on headphones……
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Fatal Fusion return for what is now their third album; hailing from Oslo in Norway they released their debut Land of the Sun in 2010, following that in 2013 with The Ancient Tale, both receiving great reviews. Total Absence is…
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The last time I heard and reviewed a Tenth Planet album was for the Prognaut back in 2008. Much has changed in those eight years. That sophomore effort, Everything Is Never Over, was produced by famous Tea Party lead vocalist…
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There is a touching, almost nostalgic sense of solidarity which wistfully embraces you the further you travel into this wonderfully assured and beautifully accomplished debut album from This Winter Machine. A powerful and haunting presence elusively lingers in the music,…
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“Zhongyu” is Chinese for “Finally”, so explains the subtitle of this album, referring to much-travelled musician and writer Jon Davis’s long hoped for band fusing Western rock and ethnic Chinese music finally coming to fruition. In partnership with fellow Seattle…
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A year or so from their last full-length waxing, Show Me Where It Hertz, occasional noise terrorists Necromonkey are back twiddling knobs and hitting things in the name of auricular unsettlement with a short blast of cutting edge technofear by…
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Leo Trimming Trilogy (2016 Remastered Edition / 2015 3-Disc Edition including 5.1 Mix of the original 1972 Album) [A quick note: in 2015 we reviewed the then newly reissued Deluxe 3-Disc Edition of Trilogy which included a 5.1 Surround Mix…
View More Emerson Lake & Palmer – Trilogy | Brain Salad Surgery | Welcome Back My Friends… (2016 Remasters)
Adversity, they say, can bring out one’s best and this certainly seems to be the case for Daniel Gildenlöw, or at least his muse, as he draws on the unpleasant experience of being hospitalised in 2014 with a flesh-eating bacterial infection. How…
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Occasionally, when you are least expecting it, some of the best music unfolds right before you. That is exactly what happened with The Far Meadow’s Given the Impossible. I was reveling in the renewal of The Mission’s career and their…
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