I grew up by the sea, happy, carefree hours spent playing on sandy shorelines, excitedly scrabbling over rocks as the waves noisily threatened frothy sprays of water, and exhilaration from the wind dancing in your hair as you scamper along…
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F Project is a solo venture from a Canadian musician by the name of François Meg. His genre is described as ‘guitar-based rock’, which doesn’t quite tell the whole story, as you may expect. His songs are instrumental and whilst…
View More F Project – Infinity Axiom
Forty years on from when Steve Overland and his original posse, FM, rode out from London into the wild west of the music industry, they are still entertaining in saloons around the world. Over many years in the saddle they…
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An expected surprise. I thought having bought the Broken Parachute collaboration, that a Ben Bell solo effort might bring another choice of similar highs. It doesn’t but it doesn’t need to, it has its own perfectly adequate choice, different as…
View More Patchwork Cacophony – Hourglass
At the end of 2023, The Flower Kings (TFK) toured Europe and the UK. In the Netherlands, at the Pul in Uden (October 27) and the Boerderij in Zoetermeer (October 28), we had the pleasure of catching the Swedish progrock…
View More The Flower Kings – Live In Europe 2023
It’s been six years since Coma Rossi burst onto the prog scene with their critically acclaimed eponymous debut album. For this second record only guitarist Gaurav Govilkar remains from that pre-Covid line up, and the five-piece has slimmed down to…
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Last year, I fell down a Baker Gurvitz Army rabbit hole with Esoteric’s excellent Neon Lights five-disc set. As I said at the time, I was convinced to purchase the collection of three studio albums that Esoteric put out in…
View More Baker Gurvitz Army: Since Beginning: The Albums: 1974-1976 | Live 1975
Listening to the Grapefruit label’s compilations of seminal years in rock is a lot like reading a history book. Much of it is boring and forgettable, some of it piques your interest, and occasionally there is something that just gobsmacks…
View More Various Artists – Can’t Seem To Come Down – The American Sounds Of 1968
Dvne are a progressive metal band from Edinburgh, and Voidkind is their third full length album. They are a heavier proposition to my usual taste to be honest, but sometimes a band comes along which demands your attention, and they…
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Do you like bass? I asked DO YOU LIKE BASS?!!!!!! The Omnific return with this audacious sophomoric gem after the blast of their first album. The use of a bass guitar as lead may not appeal to everyone, but in…
View More The Omnific – The Law Of Augmenting Returns