Four years in the making, Terrestrials is a collaboration between two beacons of alternative music, shining their black light at one another across the vastness of the tumultuous Atlantic Ocean and the entire uncaring width of the North American continent.…
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This is the sixth studio album from a South Carolina five-piece who have been plying their trade since way back in 1997, but who have evaded my attention until now, and who state that their vision is “to create melodic…
View More Farpoint – Paint The Dark
The currently prolific Richard Pinhas, French electronic music pioneer and otherworldly guitar wrangler famed for his exploratory ambient/rock band Heldon returns with a double release on the esteemed Cuneiform label. Whereas Welcome In The Void, created in partnership with drummer…
View More Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi – Tikkun
With sheets of sound whistling around the listener’s ears this is an intergalactic trip like no other. It is certainly a visceral experience that shows the power of both of the artists involved to their full potential. And what artists…
View More Richard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya – Welcome In The Void
A name that has regularly cropped up in recent years, is Swiss-born Italian keyboardist and composer Alex Carpani. I’ve heard a couple of pieces by him previously, but for whatever reason he seems to have always remained on my to…
View More Alex Carpani – 4 Destinies
Originating in the New York experimental music scene of the mid to late 1960s, The United States Of America shared a radical outlook with fellow Big Apple dwellers The Velvet Underground, and, according to legend, Nico once tried to join…
View More The United States Of America – The United States Of America
Hailing from Malmö in southern Sweden, Pingvinorkestern unsurprisingly take their name and ethos from that mildly eccentric English institution, the Penguin Café Orchestra. Similarly fusing pop, folk, classical and general quirkiness, but with a modernistic bent, Pingvinorkestern with their debut…
View More Pingvinorkestern – Push
A couple of years ago I got a copy of the last album from The Bob Lazar Story to review. It was called Space Roots and it was good. Unorthodox to say the least but a refreshing and entertaining listen…
View More The Bob Lazar Story – Ghost Of Foodstool
Taking over 10 years to deliver your second album does not smack of any desire to rush things and In Droplet Form is certainly an album that has benefitted from the care and attention to detail brought to bear in…
View More Stars In Battledress – In Droplet Form
As with previous Rick Wakeman’s works, Softsword takes its concept from medieval English history and here the inspiration is drawn from the life of King John and the events surrounding the signing of the Magna Carta. The album title is derived from John…
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