I have had this short album – or long EP, whatever – in my “to do” pile for quite a while, and a recent discussion on a Facebook thread with those fine Bad Elephant chaps about cover versions prompted me…
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Category: Album Reviews
Magic Bus – Transmissions From Sogmore’s Garden
Down in deepest, darkest rural Devon is the semi-mythical rural town of Totnes, which some inhabitants now believe is twinned with C.S. Lewis’s magical land, Narnia. Renowned for its atmosphere of alternative lifestyles and ‘New Age’ hippy culture, Totnes is…
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Janet Feder – T H I S C L O S E
From Denver, Colorado, this is different. Janet Feder plays guitar and sings. Nothing unusual there perhaps but she does it in a particularly unusual way. T H I S C L O S E is Janet’s fifth album having started…
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Blackmore’s Night – All Our Yesterdays
Blackmore’s Night return with their tenth studio album, the follow up to 2013’s Dancer and the Moon. Ritchie Blackmore, Candice Night, and their band of minstrels continue to perform their Renaissance inspired rock which made its debut on 1997’s Shadow…
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Lapis Lazuli – Alien
Another band helping to define the New Canterbury sound, and actually hailing from the Kent cathedral city, Lapis lazuli burst upon an unsuspecting world in 2012 with their double-debut, the “un” rather than “in” famous Bungalow Sessions, released as two…
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Spring – Spring
When I heard that Esoteric Recordings, those wonderful curators of Rock’s Rich Tapestry, were re-releasing the self-titled album by Leicester band Spring, an obscure bunch of very early prog rockers, conversely well known in the world of record collecting, my…
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Dworniak Bone Lapsa – Fingers Pointing At The Moon
With such a wealth of new albums being released, and many now falling under the progressive umbrella, it is inevitable that a growing number will not receive the exposure they deserve. In the case of Fingers Pointing At The Moon…
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Various Artists – ¡Salgan Al Sol!
Argentina is a vast country, in fact the eighth largest in the world. Consequently, with a population of only 41.5 million it is somewhat sparsely populated, especially given the fact that nearly 13 million of the total live within the…
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Niall Mathewson – Eclectic Electric Volume 1
After spending well over 30 years as a key member of Pallas, guitarist Niall Mathewson has stepped out on his own with a varied collection of pieces that, as the title suggests, attempts to demonstrate his more eclectic influences. Niall’s…
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Roz Vitalis – Lavoro D’Amore
Founded in St. Petersburg in 2001 by keyboard player Ivan Rozmainsky as a one man project, Roz Vitalis has evolved through many stages, and since their sixth album, 2011’s Revelator which was released on the well-known Russian imprint MALS Records,…
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