Esoteric’s series of reissues keep bringing me opportunities to discover or reassess albums I’ve overlooked in the past; some are newer than others, it seems. As I found with Nektar’s Remember the Future, it was worth giving the album a…
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Capping a career that has lasted for over half a century, Blue Öyster Cult have issued their fifteenth studio album. Ghost Stories is comprised of performance rehearsals and workshopping demos that were intended for albums recorded between 1978 and 1983…
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Dario Saraceno is a singer, guitarist and Stickist native to Ripacandida, situated in the Italian province of Potenza, about 150Km east of Naples, and 1300Km from London, where he settled in in the sixties. Dario and his band, The Clear,…
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Every now and then I need some chaos in my musical life, whether that’s King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Mr Bungle or Bent Knee. It didn’t take me long to realise that this album ticked all the chaos boxes and a…
View More Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – of the Last Human Being
It was in 2021 that I first came across the talented Mexican musician and songwriter, Guillermo Garcia Herreros, and his band Electro Compulsive Therapy. Their debut release was a captivating mix of melodic and atmospheric prog and art rock with…
View More The Echo Veils – The Calm Beneath The Noise
Trifecta’s second album, The New Normal is an album of fusion music, combining any number of genres and as such it won’t be to everyone’s taste. It is the equivalent of picking up a comic, such as the Beano or…
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Didn’t I already review Private Parts & Pieces XII? Ah, I’m mistaken; turns out what I reviewed in the past was Twelve, the title of Private Parts & Pieces V. Confused yet? The music of Anthony Phillips has had a…
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My first encounter with Finnish band Viima was back in the first decade of the new century when they contributed tracks to the Musea concept albums Kalevala, Inferno and Tuonen Tytär II. Pleasant enough, but nothing about them left a…
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A few months ago, I reviewed Patterns on the Window, a set that I hoped would introduce me to dozens of little-known progressive artists from the 70s – after all, it had ‘progressive’ in the subtitle. But as wave after…
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Norway’s Elephant9 return with a new album, guaranteed to pique your interest, and this is certainly the case for me having been on a writing hiatus due to the loss of my great friend and TPA editor Jez Rowden. So,…
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