Audience – Audience Esoteric Recordings, go to label of choice for the rock history connoisseur, continue mining the rich seam of underground music from the end of the 60s and the early 70s with these two fine albums from the…
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“The Water and the sky drew near each other. All of Mankind drowned and turned to fishes.” – Aztec Tale With the above words featuring in the artwork, the scene is set for the latest release from Touch guitar legend…
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Encircled have been together as a 3-piece for around 18 months and Scott Evans related the following to me about how the band got together:- “I had been writing but casually for a few years but decided to get serious…
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Umphrey’s McGee emerged from the U.S. jam band scene in the late ’90s and have since recorded a string of studio albums and a myriad live, skirting the edges of progressive rock with musical influences from the usual Prog suspects…
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Dig underneath the highly unassuming and somehow typically British reserve of the name “The David Rhodes Band” and you will find three musicians with highly impressive CVs. Guitarist David Rhodes is most well known for his long association with Peter…
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As anyone who has read my other reviews knows, I’m not one for genre labelling. The songs are described in the properties of the MP3 files I used for the review as “General Jazz”. What an innocuous, and probably inaccurate…
View More Michael Bernier & Ritchie DeCarlo – Bernier-DeCarlo
After a five year gap, composer, arranger and all-round musical polymath Rocco Lomonaco, Milan-based but southern Italian by origin, releases his second album as Breznev Fun Club, il misantropo felice (“the happy misanthrope”). The new album continues with the chamber…
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We are all travelling through time and space but there’s not enough time and some sort of void in space. By the time you have read this we will have gone a lot further on our journey and you will…
View More Emmett Elvin – Emmettronica 1998 – 2013
Purely by chance I happened across a link in my social meeja trawling that publicised a new album by Linda Hoyle, a name that rang some distant bells in the compartment labelled “Record Collecting” in my aging noggin. Linda was…
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Two albums over a decade apart, one band and a more or less intact line-up. Similar but subtly different, the earlier album Monument (2001) has Yes influences to the fore, some other styling but overall Yes with enough originality to…
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