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 North
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 Diamond
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 Vibration
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…
View More Angel Air Re-Release Special: Renaissance / Greenslade / Dave Greenslade
If you are a fan of Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s, you have probably wondered what his deeply emotional and visual music would sound and look like live. Well, now you can experience it as a full theater production in The Theater…
View More Ayreon – The Theater Equation
“Jack Dupon” is a fictional character who travels back and forth through time in order to make the world a better place, and when visiting our timeframe assumes the persona of guitarist Gregory Pozzoli’s French avant rock band who take…
View More Jack Dupon – Empty Full Circulation
Back in 1983 I was a footloose and fancy free young man, probably hobbled by longish hair and a love of the musical genre called ‘Progressive’. In an attempt to pull I would go to night clubs, shuffle my feet…
View More Tony Banks – The Fugitive
Born in Uruguay, but for over twenty years now a resident of New York, the otherwise singularly named guitarist Bele Beledo here makes his recording debut for Moonjune Records, surrounding himself with a stellar cast of sidemen, garnered through years…
View More Beledo – Dreamland Mechanism
Wolverine are an invigorating breath of fresh air. Although having their origins in death metal, the cradle which once rocked this Swedish based band has been well and truly left behind as, by their own confession, they have relentlessly explored…
View More Wolverine – Machina Viva
A Third Of A Lifetime by Three Man Army was one of the first LPs I bought, around 44 years ago (gulp!) from a cut-out bin in a dodgy independent supermarket, run by a local chancer and located at the…
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