Lazuli have come from nowhere to become one of my very favourite current bands, based initially on their performance at last year’s Summer’s End Festival. They were just stunning and put on one of the most effortless and absorbing performances…
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This latest addition to the Esoteric Recordings’ Man reissues is this Deluxe 3CD Edition of their 1977 album, All’s Well That Ends Well, recorded at what was a regular haunt for the band, The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London. For these three…
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Swiss minimalists Sonar were formed after guitarists Stephen Thelen and Bernhard Wagner had attended Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft classes. The pair recruited drummer Manuel Pasquinelli and bassist Christian Kuntner and Sonar was born. Inspired by the Crimson line-ups of 1972…
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I was only half joking when I introduced this album in a recent edition of “Something For The Weekend”, a blog which seeks to point the inquisitive towards the new releases we scribblers consider worth a spin, with the phrase…
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After the distinctly dark times towards the end of the 70s the beginning of 80s marked an up turn for Jack Bruce (JB) and kicked off by the splendid release of I’ve Always Wanted to Do This, under the name Jack Bruce & Friends…
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John Symon Asher Bruce was born in Glasgow on 14th May 1943. So in 1993, Jack Bruce to you and me, reached the age of 50 and to mark the event two concerts were held, (thankfully recorded), on 2nd &…
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These two deluxe reissues by American label Cuneiform – Triskaïdékaphobie and Le Poison Qui Rend Fou – shine a light on one of the original Rock In Opposition bands, the Belgian collective Présent. In 1979 having left Univers Zéro after…
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Three years in the making, Lucid has achieved Matt Stevens’ goal of wanting to make a significant step forward from his previous solo albums. Despite being inspired by some dark times for Matt, it is certainly an uplifting listen that…
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Into The Maelstrom is the fourth album from Los Angeles’ Bigelf and their first release after signing for InsideOut last year. Following their well-received 2008 release, Cheat The Gallows, the band drifted apart and main-man, Damon Fox, found himself without a clear…
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Jack Bruce’s only album between 1980 and 1987, the year the Somethin Els project was started, was the atypical electronica oddity Automatic from 1983. During that time, although touring occasionally Jack was doing battle with his personal demons, a battle…
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