With all of the brilliant new Classic Rock albums and re-issues released in 2015, it has taken me a while to get back to reviewing the newly packaged reissue of Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe from Esoteric Recordings. Yet, after watching…
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Surprisingly hot on the heels of the last Karda Estra album, Strange Relations, comes another 20 minute EP. In a rather succinct and acoustic 20 minutes The Seas and the Stars chronicles the collision between the Andromeda galaxy and our…
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Ciro Manna has spent the last 20 years dedicating himself to the guitar, first classical before switching to electric when he started to play live. In 2007 his debut album Feel ‘N Groove was built on rock-funk and jazz featuring…
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Spock’s Beard are back with the 12th album of their 20 year career, following 2013’s Brief Nocturnes and Dreamless Sleep. This release is available in all listening formats; standard CD, Media Book CD with bonus track, 180g Gatefold 2LP vinyl…
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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…
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