OK, confession time. I had not previously heard of Starlight Brigade until I listened to some samples from this new album and I was intrigued. Starlight Brigade come from Sweden and appear to be the musical vision of Anders Nilsson,…
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Led by guitarist Salvo Lazzara, Roman band Pensiero Nomade (possibly translated as “Free Thinker”) have been in existence since 2007, and Da nessun luogo is their fifth album. A wide range of modern instrumentation and electronic trickery produces an impressionistic…
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“30 years down the line and we’re still hanging on!” is the opening line of Stuart Nicholson’s sleeve notes for this outstanding set encompassing Galahad’s career, summing up their tenacity, commitment and a sense of their own self-deprecating humour. However,…
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Gandalf’s Fist… …Gandalf’s…Fist. Hmmmm. Right, let’s get something out of the way. Surgens is a rose by any other name. You probably have to be as mashed as they were when they came up with their name to get the…
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Although loosely tied in with the prog genre, Knifeworld are a band who make genuinely progressive music, thereby bucking an all too common trend where many musical collectives and their comfy audiences revel in looking backwards at bands who were…
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I would guess that most of you have never heard of Simon McKechnie, so allow me a little preamble… Laid low by a nasty neurological illness, compounded by spinal problems, the lingering after effects of which he still suffers, Simon’s…
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I know what I like… but you may not want this in your wardrobe? It’s a curious beast is music and you never quite know what will, or will not appeal. For the most part I don’t really do progressive metal,…
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New York avant-garde luminary Joe Byrd had been the leader of pioneering ’60s electronica band The United States of America until given the heave-ho by his own creation. His riposte was to create this in turns beguiling and bizarre album,…
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You have to admire Russian record label MALS as not only do they import, shall we say, less commercially supported albums from across the globe to sell through their on-line shop, but re-invest some of the monies earned to support…
View More 7 Ocean – Son of Sun (Сын Солнца)
There appears to have recently been a growing interest in reinterpreting prog material in a jazz setting, re-imagining familiar pieces via a different methodology, as was seen last year with Gavin Harrison’s Cheating The Polygraph album of Porcupine Tree songs…
View More Delta Saxophone Quartet with Gwilym Simcock – Crimson!