“TTT is at the cutting edge of contemporary music. Watch your fingers!” – Brian Eno When Eno says something like that you’d do well to listen. Three Trapped Tigers are an instrumental noise-rock trio from London. This description does not…
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It doesn’t seem any time at all since Belighted, Iamthemorning have been added to the dictionary and no longer cause spellchecker to throw a wobbly (not that it needs much encouragement). I love Belighted, easily in my top ten for…
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This album is like a breath of fresh patchouli’d air wafting unannounced across your nostrils from a wormhole connecting to an alternate universe where Hawkwind are still narrating imminent Sonic Attack. One is transported back to a lysergic wasteland of…
View More Hawkwind – The Machine Stops
This is my second encounter with The Samurai of Prog, the first being three years ago when I reviewed their second album, Secrets of Disguise, largely a cover album which didn’t bring very much to the songs it covered. Indeed,…
View More The Samurai of Prog – Lost and Found
Progressive music is profoundly existential. Not only does it capture the spirit of our time, it also resonates with crystal clarity in the generations who live in and through those times. For many of us prog, in particular, is a…
View More Katatonia – The Fall of Hearts
When Romantic poets Messenger arrived on the scene in 2014 with the worshipful offering that was Illusory Blues many sat up and took notice, for here was a band out of time, a band in that old post-hippy mystic sense,…
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I first heard Tony Patterson with Brendan Eyre on the album Northlands, a texture rich canvas of musical filmscapes reflecting on their Northern backgrounds. I liked it very much in my Southern nancy sort of way. Well not really, the…
View More Tony Patterson – Equations of Meaning
Around this time last year, Spanish sextet Regna released their debut EP, Meridian, and since then it seems to have flown under the prog radar – a shame really, as it is enjoyable listen and would certainly delight those who…
View More Regna – Meridian [EP]
Unashamedly retro, and placed firmly in the shadow of The Soft Machine (indefinite article essential) while imbibing heavily of the heady atmosphere of alternative London in 1967, Italian band The Winstons give the impression that, for them at least, 10:15…
View More The Winstons – The Winstons
My brother (who has 2 years on me) is the obsessive Yes addict and the copy of Six Wives was his. He was at boarding school and I wasn’t, so much of his record collection stayed at home for me…
View More Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Deluxe Edition