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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Kestrel and their eponymous debut album were, in the words of Dave Black, to suffer a series of disappointing ‘ifs’ and ‘what ifs’ and ultimately the blame for the lack of success of the band lay firmly with their inept…
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Finally a new album from Swedish band Beardfish (with apologies for the delayed review! – Ed.), following on from their 2012 release The Void. This latest album clearly shows that the band are continuing to develop an identity of their…
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Since 2009 Godsticks have steadily been building an impressive catalogue of releases but with Emergence they take their sound to a new level of intensity whilst still incorporating most of the elements that made the band special in the first…
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Where were you in 1970/71? Musically the Top 20 gave you the choice of Mungo Jerry, Norman Greenbaum or the England World Cup Squad. The Beatles broke up. Tull, Crimson, VdGG and ELP all released albums and child actor Phil…
View More Stone The Crows – Stone The Crows | Ode To John Law
Procol Harum Firstly, a caveat – the copy we have for review is the single CD edition, but for the fan there is a 2-CD version available that includes a further 23 tracks of alternate takes and radio sessions. I…
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Music has been around for millennia, instruments come and go, some last, some set the standard (Stradivarius?). Les Paul did not invent music with the invention of the electric guitar, and perhaps that’s where Fernwood come in. Taking old instruments…
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