“Modern cinematic prog” reads the blurb on Circuline’s website, and they’re not wrong. This one has been kicking around on the review pile for too long now. It immediately struck me as a good album but I just couldn’t get…
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Bloom is the third album from Caligula’s Horse and it is the first that I have heard in full. Caligula’s Horse are primarily a Prog metal band who hail from Australia’s Gold Coast, Brisbane to be precise, but unlike many…
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Marvellously expressive, this is an album where the music almost becomes secondary to the swirling and gentle atmosphere it weaves around itself. An intriguing mixture of electronics and guitars in open and other odd tunings, one imagines Nick Drake would…
View More Sphelm – These Roots Know No Boundaries
It feels like only yesterday I saw Synaesthesia tumble onto the stage at the Boerderij in Zoetermeer for their very first gig. Wait, no it doesn’t, it’s been bloody ages! Synaesthesia, er… Kyros are finally back with a second album…
View More Kyros – Vox Humana
When time finally runs out for the human race, what will we be left with? We face increasing uncertainty about the future, the dwindling availability of resources, the extinction of species, the greed and consumption which plunders our planet with…
View More Thence – We Are Left With A Song
It was the perfect, drizzly, fall day by the fireside in Seattle when I began to dive into this review for the new Edensong album, Years in the Garden of Years. This is the kind of album you wait for…
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There are bands who are in thrall to Pink Floyd to such an extent that they spend entire careers vainly trying to create “The Momentary Lapse of the Dark Side”, and of course there are enough Floyd tribute bands out…
View More Savoldelli Casarano Bardoscia – The Great Jazz Gig In The Sky
Nth Ascension, are set to release their second album, In Fine Initium, on 14th October on Melodic Revolution Records, the band consisting of Alan ‘Spud’ Taylor on lead vocals, Craig Walker on drums and percussion, Darrel Treece-Birch on keyboards, Gavin…
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I’m guilty, I admit it. Guilty of a heinous crime, but in my defence it is a sin of omission rather than commission. The sin in question is that of completely ignoring the output of Ray Wilson since his departure…
View More Ray Wilson – Song for a Friend
With a name that is meant to shock, the theatrical side of Birdeatsbaby is never far away in tales of seediness and the dimly lit underbelly of life, exposed for all to see. This is a band that takes a…
View More Birdeatsbaby – Tanta Furia