Happy New Year! Hopefully 2023 treated you well. In most respects it was a step further along the road to getting back to whatever normal is/was, but the world still feels like a different place these days. Jez Rowden’s opening…
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Dutch band Perfect Storm, hailing from Groningen, surprised friend and foe with their great debut album No Air in 2020, and it even made it to my personal top ten that year. With their well-balanced mix of dynamic and adventurous…
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As a longtime Dream Theater fan, Opeth has always been on my periphery (pun slightly intended). From the start, they were billed to me as “more metal than Dream Theater” which put me off exploring them, as I’m more interested…
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In what seems to be a never-ending stream of reissues from Poles SBB and released on the GAD Records label, this latest collection of music that first saw the light of day between 1975 and 1976. Przebudzenie consists of recordings…
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Joan started singing in the 60’s and released her first album in 1972. Since then, she has issued albums on a fairly regular basis, and this is her 21st studio release. She is no longer the name she used to be,…
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The joy of progressive rock is that it can take you down many intriguing and different paths, and often with a surprise around the corner. This is very much the case with Echoes Of Virtue, the fifth studio album by…
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Robert Reed has been releasing Sanctuary albums, inspired homages to his musical hero, Mike Oldfield since 2014. Sanctuary Covered is mainly a compilation of covers of songs Rob Reed has released on EP’s and bonus discs through the span of…
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Following on from In Search Of Space, which cemented their signature sound, Hawkwind released their third album Doremi Fasol Latido in November 1972. Here, the sound is more full on, and with the driving rhythms provided by Lemmy and Simon…
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The opening line in the exhaustive booklet in this box set is a quote from the greatly missed John Peel – “Kevin Ayers’ talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it”. This was indeed the case,…
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Strange but true: Swiss symphonic prog band Flame Dream returns after a hiatus of no less than 38 years with their seventh album. The new album is entitled Silent Transition and the band is back in its original line-up, along…
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