When you get three stellar musicians together, you know you are guaranteed some interesting and exciting music, and that’s exactly what you get with Stick Men. Messrs Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto and Marcus Reuter have been playing together for some…
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Urban Vision is a remarkable experience. It’s one of those albums which come into your life and make you instantly wonder how you’ve ever managed to survive without it. Across ten gorgeously sensual musical windows, our senses are enchanted and…
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Back in 2016 I took a punt on Echoes In Time, the second album from Canadian duo/ensemble Sills & Smith and then three years later their third album, Maps ~ Burned Or Lost came under scrutiny. Both albums were not…
View More Halcyon Phase – Critical Misunderstandings On The Precipice
We’ve Been Expecting You is the third album, from Tony Patterson and Doug Melbourne, who toured last year for the final time with the eminent Genesis tribute band, ReGenesis. It is a tough ask following up their previous excellent album…
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Fernando Perdomo never sleeps. Ever. How else do you explain his incredibly prolific output? He is a solo artist with a surfeit of albums under his own name. He is in bands with Dave Kerzner, Carmine Appice and Ruti Celli…
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A lot of you in this small pond we swim around in will be aware of a prog-adjacent band hailing from Rushden, Northamptonshire, England. Less of you will be aware that Rushden is a sleepy and somewhat neglected backwater of…
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In their twenty-year history Crippled Black Phoenix, lead by Justin Greaves have released a dozen albums, a number of mini albums or EP’s and many bootleg live recordings. So with a rich musical catalogue to choose from it seems a…
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Save Us is a new EP by Unitopia / United Progressive Fraternity vocalist Mark Trueack, inspired by the unfortunate flooding in late 2023 of Mark’s new home and business at a café Restaurant in Thailand, which occurred while he was…
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WIZRD’s first album, Seasons (2022) was a breath of fresh air, blown across the North Sea from their homeland of Norway; a heady mix of indie flavoured prog and psychedelia. The follow up, Elements, has just been released, and their…
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When Mountain first appeared on the scene in 1969, guitarist Leslie West had already begun to make a name for himself as part of New York area band The Vagrants. The newly formed Mountain even managed to secure a spot…
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