There are many recordings of Soft Machine’s French tours in late 1969 and early 1970. Both official and unofficial, some come from hopelessly unreliable audience recordings and really poor bootlegs. Cuneiform Records have taken a different approach. Using the best…
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Oh, my goodness me, yes! I haven’t rocked out to an Arena album since the truly magnificent The Seventh Degree of Separation (2011). It’s not that The Unquiet Sky (2015) and Double Vision (2018) don’t have their moments, but The…
View More Arena – The Theory of Molecular Inheritance
The world has turned and the skies have darkened. Men’s hearts have blackened with smudged, dark stains and nothing seems as it was. A pervasive sickness has spread through the world like a biblical retribution, battling against the damage humans…
View More Downriver Dead Men Go – Ruins
Mother Turtle formed in 2011 in Thessaloniki, Greece and this is their fifth album. Previously, the band have experimented freely with various alt-rock and progressive styles. This time they have maintained their appetite for experimentation but kept it somewhat constrained…
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When you think of Christmas albums, it can all get a bit cloying. As a long-term veteran of the Retail Wars, having to hear Christmas music on constant rotation for three months of the year was enough to put you…
View More Mediæval Bæbes – MydWynter
Jazz is one of the few uniquely American art forms. As such, it has been incredibly progressive in the most literal sense of the word. Pop, classical, rock and avant-garde have all influenced, and been influenced by, jazz music. Virtuoso…
View More Bigfoot Meter – Bigfoot Meter
Montrose were formed in 1973 when hot shot American session guitarist Ronnie Montrose quit the Edgar Winter Group and teamed up with Sam Hagar (as he was then known) and drummer Denny Carmassi, who had been playing together in cover…
View More Montrose – I Got The Fire: Complete Recordings 1973-1976
Hailing from Finland, Juha Kujanpää is a keyboard player and composer who, along with his ‘solo’ albums, writes music for movies, documentary films and theatre productions. In 2013 he formed a quartet which acted as the core band for the…
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“Dreams are messages from the deep” – Dune, 2021 London based Benjamin Blank started Binary Order in 2008. He makes no secret of deriving inspiration from Sci-fi and cyberpunk. In the press release, “Dune, Akira, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Deus…
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Charles ‘Chas’ Cronk is an English rock singer-songwriter, musician and producer. However, he is best known as the bassist for the Strawbs from 1973 to 1980 and then from 2004 to the present. Cronk has also collaborated on studio recordings…
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