Uriah Heep are one of the most well known Hard and Progressive Rock bands of all time. With a tremendous back catalogue of 24 studio albums, they tour relentlessly to the delight of thousands of fans worldwide. Following on from…
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Continuing on from Esoteric Recordings’ excellent re-mastered and expanded reissue of Man’s The Twang Dynasty, which included within the 3CD boxset the entire Glastonbury set from June 1994, we forward to March 1995 and the release of Call Down The…
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Having tentatively reformed in 1980 it would be a further twelve years before a new studio album emerged in the form of 1992’s The Twang Dynasty and some sixteen years elapsing since their previous studio release All’s Well That Ends…
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It has been a decade since I first discovered the music of gifted Liverpudlian composer and guitarist Neil Campbell, a journey which began in 2005 with the release of The Neil Campbell Collective’s 3 O’Clock Sky. Along with the aforementioned…
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In the heady days of the first wave of prog rock, decades before our current instant access era, if you had asked any prog fan worth his (rarely her) lark’s tongue to name any non-British prog band, PFM would more…
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In the autumn we received Kivenpyörittäjä, a splendid album from Finnish composer and keyboard player Juha Kujanpää. As I greatly enjoyed and therefore favourably reviewed the music, I was intrigued when a few days after the article appeared we received…
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Yes, it’s a Christmas album, but bear with me, it’s a Marillion Christmas Album, now read on… A Collection Of Recycled Gifts is a collection of Christmas songs that Marillion have released to their fans over the years together with…
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In 1979 I was just starting along my musical journey, mainly interested in soundtracks and classical music, the latter thanks to my Mother’s preferred listening, and Sky were a band that piqued my interest. I heard them on one of…
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Part of my duties as an unpaid scribbler and music obsessive is to unearth obscurities and bring them to the attention of the wider prog-inclined audience on DPRP’s Something For The Weekend blog. That is how I found this fine…
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Happy Family are a long running if hardly prolific band from Japan, who are well respected members of that country’s singular RIO scene. Minimal Gods is only the band’s third album since 1995’s self-titled debut, having been on a long…
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