Hinterland [‘hɪntəland’] noun defn.: An area lying beyond what is visible or known TILT have released their classy debut full length album, Hinterland, featuring an impressive array of melodic rock songs, sampled sonic atmospherics and catchy hooks. Nine years after…
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Homínido – Alados
Homínido produced one of my favourite releases of 2014 with their debut, Estirpe Lítica and they now return with Alados (‘Wings’), an album that considers the birds of their native Chile and how their personalities can be related to human…
View More Homínido – AladosSeven Impale – Contrapasso
There are times with music when you get one of those ‘why have I not heard this band before?’ moments. This happened to me last year upon discovering Discipline at Summer’s End, and it has happened again here with this…
View More Seven Impale – ContrapassoHow We Live – Dry Land
Somewhere in an alternate reality there is a milkman in Derbyshire called Mr. Steven Hogarth, working hard to support his family and dreaming ‘what if’ about his musical past – such are the vagaries of life’s paths. Back in 1988…
View More How We Live – Dry LandMarcela Bovio – Unprecedented
Marcela Bovio is the renowned Mexican soprano and violinist of the band Stream of Passion. If you are a fan of Marcela’s music you have probably wondered when she would come out with her own solo album. She has often…
View More Marcela Bovio – UnprecedentedShadow Hunters – Avatar
Shadow Hunters are a duo from the south west coast of Norway who formed in 2013 and have been self-producing their music. They have also been promoting it themselves and it is difficult for me to tell you much about…
View More Shadow Hunters – AvatarTassos Spiliotopoulis – In The North
I don’t consider it a guilty pleasure, but I like Jazz. In prog terms the distance is not that great, and much of Yes’ output I consider to be Jazz influenced. So when this album fell to me with indications…
View More Tassos Spiliotopoulis – In The NorthJanel Leppin – Songs for Voice and Mellotron [EP] / Mellow Diamond
Back in 2012 I reviewed an intriguing album on Cuneiform Records by husband and wife duo Janel & Anthony entitled Where Is Home, a collection of uniquely constructed songs that brought to my attention a highly individual pair of songwriters.…
View More Janel Leppin – Songs for Voice and Mellotron [EP] / Mellow DiamondRez Abbasi & Junction – Behind The Vibration
An expansive and expressive guitar player, Rez Abbasi is of Pakistani-American descent, and like his family roots his music is not bound to one place, taking influence as it does from his ancestral home in the East and melding that…
View More Rez Abbasi & Junction – Behind The VibrationAngel Air Re-Release Special: Renaissance / Greenslade / Dave Greenslade
In the reviewing business (if you can call it a business) we often get more than one CD at a time from a particular record company. Angel Air Records went one further and also offered us an interview with the…
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