The loose-limbed combo that is Mumpbeak was the idea of keyboard player Roy Powell who, not that you would know it, here restricts himself to a Hohner clavinet, the sounds from which are pulled, stretched, distorted into all manner of…
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Formed in 2007 by composer, keyboard player and multi-instrumentalist Andreas Hack, Frequency Drift are a unit that have crafted their art, producing more and more assured albums with each outing. This, their fifth studio recording, finds them throwing the net out…
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It’s a sobering thought to reflect that Transatlantic first formed in 1999, and such is the presence they have, it is hard to believe that Kaleidoscope is only their fourth studio album. Following Neal’s departure from the Prog scene in…
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On the contrary this release from Not A Good Sign is well and truly a good sign for progressive rock and should certainly appeal to fans of the heavily keyboard orchestrated prog of the early 70s. A bold opening statement, but one…
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Tatvamasi are, for me at least, a hitherto unknown Polish band that fuse elements of Eastern European folk music with helpings of jazz, 60s underground rock music, and angular experimentalism. The band name derives from Sanskrit and loosely translated means…
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The Fierce And The Dead (TFATD) first appeared in 2010 with the release of their debut EP, Part 1. This was followed up in 2011 by the wonderfully titled If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe.…
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No-one does introspective soul-searching quite like the Scandinavians. Isolated geographically, they form a willing island of the mind wherein every dark corner is probed. This manifests itself in their art, literature, (fabulous) TV, and of course, in their music. One…
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Next Stop is the second release from The John Irvine Band and follows up their impressive debut Wait & See from 2011. As with their debut Next Stop is written and composed by John Irvine (guitar & keyboards) and features…
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The Cosmic Remedy are relatively a new band tracing their origins back to early in 2012. Initially a solo project for Bogáti-Bokor Ákos (Yesterdays & Tabula Smaragdina), who decided to utilise some downtime from Yesterdays to work on material he had…
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The aptly titled, second studio album, All Intertwined, was my first introduction to the all acoustic, instrumental quartet, Might Could. They followed this album up two years later by the equally impressive Wood Knot and as both albums enjoy regular…
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