Album Reviews – Page 70

Gecko & Tokage Parade – Heart of Tokage

What we have spinning today is Heart of Tokage by Gecko & Tokage Parade, a Japanese new-generation instrumental jazz band. If that sounds like a mouthful to you then you may well be asking “why?”. In fact, this particular release…

Amplifier – Hologram

It’s been a while – Hologram is Amplifier’s first album since 2017. Amplifier main man Sel Balamir has not been idle in that period, releasing two well received solo albums, Swell and ( )rphans in that Covid affected period, and…

Blank Manuskript – A Live Document

Blank Manuskript have described themselves as a ‘musical chamber of wonder’, a description which anyone who has been fortunate enough to see this remarkable Austrian band live in concert would certainly have to agree. The Blank Manuskript live experience is…

A Different Aspect #88

Featured artists: Virgil & Steve Howe | Adarsh Arjun | Midas Fall | Ancient Future | Exowst Scotland ||: TPA’s Leo Trimming and Bob Mulvey take a look at some of the recent releases in one of our periodic ADA…

Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble – A Gallery of the Imagination

Since the turn of the century, Rick Wakeman has been re-invigorated by the interest generated from his various re-workings of old favourites, and he has embarked on a new creative period, including a couple of well-received albums accompanied by his…

Tomorrow – Permanent Dream

Tomorrow had a brief career in the mid- to late-’60s that was remarkable for two reasons. They were one-hit wonders with My White Bicycle (taken from their one eponymous LP), but more notably Steve Howe was the guitarist and he,…

Dave Foster Band – Glimmer

Dave Foster is probably known to prog fans for his first band, Mr So & So, who released a few albums and once looked like they might ‘happen’, but ultimately fizzled out. Or perhaps for his role in the Steve…

Days Before Tomorrow – Now and Then Part II: Stories and Dreams [EP]

American melodic progressive rock band Days Before Tomorrow (DB4T) return, a decade after disbanding, with an EP of previously unreleased material from that period, entitled Now and Then Part II: Stories and Dreams. Newly mixed, with musicians from an earlier…

P!nk – Trustfall

Yes, yes: I know. Please don’t look at me like that. It’s not prog. Allegedly. I blame Graham Norton. It’s all his fault. I only tuned in to his show to see Hugh Jackman, Judi Dench, Paul Rudd, Eugene Levy,…

Sad Serenity – The Grand Enigma

Sad Serenity’s The Grand Enigma is another in a long line of Covid lock-down projects that we have seen over the past year. Hatched by multi-instrumentalist Marcell Kaemmerer, this is the first project from the German-born former school teacher (music…

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