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
What is this and where did it come from? Landing here with its Beefheartian swagger via a long stay on Planet Speed Metal and with a math-jazz calculator set to stun, this shit is weird and it’s curdled my custard.…
View More Czar – Life Is No Way To Treat An Animal
In what seems to have become a relentless, burgeoning and ever diversifying musical climate it is so easy to lose sight of what first attracted you, so with the release of The Last Of England the opportunity to reflect, rekindle…
View More Gordon Giltrap & Paul Ward – The Last Of England
From the first sonar-like ping to the last note, Third Quadrant’s 2016 album re:generator holds your attention, with a vocal style not dissimilar to Paul McCartney (at his best), and the modern prog interpretation of Dave Kerzner (with or without…
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Atomic Rooster. Trojan Horse. Henry Cow. Er, Canned Goat? I may just have made that last one up but farmyard-related band names appear surprisingly thin on the ground. Bucking that trend (ahem…), please trot forward, in a genteel and decorous…
View More A Formal Horse – Made In Chelsea [EP]