It would be easy to say of any new release from Norwegian sonic pioneers Ulver “Well, that wasn’t what I was expecting!”, but I have long come to realise that it is far easier to leave all expectations at the…
View More Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
“Soft, lilting melodies of delicate gossamer loveliness blow through the spring flowers, like a breath of sunshine, giving a relaxing air of calmness…” …is not something that you would hear said about any release from The Bob Lazar Story. This…
View More The Bob Lazar Story – Baritonia
Following my eye-catching review of their debut album, how could those strangely comprehensible Glaswegians Big Hogg fail to be noticed by the big boys down in That London? Quite easily in all probability, but in the real world these winsome…
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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – from Shakespeare’s The Tempest The sleeper awakens into a world he no longer recognizes. The ruined landscape spread out before him, laid waste by the hellish torrent that departed as…
View More Telepathy – Tempest
Richard Barbieri is a name that needs little introduction, but on his occasional solo albums he calls on his long career in synthesiser technology and sound design to craft highly intricate ambient works that never fall into the trap of…
View More Richard Barbieri – Planets + Persona
Dutch progressive outfit Summer Breeze Project – often shortened to SBP – complete their Contact “triptych” (their word, not mine) of EPs with Part 3, a single track lasting over 25 minutes, automatically making it longer than any song Yes…
View More Summer Breeze Project – Contact: Part 3
In this update we feature:- Mike Oldfield – Return To Ommadawn Ikarus – Chronosome Ale Bruckman’s Zaedyus Project – Patagonia North Atlantic Oscillation – Lightning Strikes The Library TesseracT – Errai EP Flicker Rate – Reframe As Easter approaches here’s…
View More A Different Aspect #7 – April 2017
For almost 50 years Allan Holdsworth has been at the cutting edge of guitar craft, boldly going where no player has gone before with a jaw-dropping fluidity of style that continues to influence generations of players. He has been referred…
View More Allan Holdsworth – Eidolon: The Allan Holdsworth Collection
Esoteric Records continue their reissue of Hawkwind’s albums, grouped together in box sets with the other releases on the original labels. On this occasion we have the albums released on the GWR Records label between 1988 and 1991, these being…
View More Hawkwind – The GWR Records Years: 1988-1991
I’ve never understood the need to endlessly compare Anthony Phillips’ work with Genesis. Sure, he was the original guitarist, but it has been over forty-five years since he quit the band; doesn’t the man deserve to be examined as an…
View More Anthony Phillips – Private Parts & Pieces V-VIII