Gwenno has been around for a while, twenty years, touring with Elton John and the Manic Street Preachers during that time. Tresor is her second Cornish language album and is influenced by and inspired by powerful female writers and artists,…
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Featured artists: No Answer Trio (Dusan Jevtovic, Vasil Hadzimanov, Asaf Sirkis) | Envy Of None | Nebala | Guranfoe | Sikasa ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) update TPA’s Nick Hudson looks at five recent albums featuring: • No Answer…
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When Progressive Rock, Prog, Progressive Music (or however you may wish to name it) had its birth at the end of the 1960s and early ’70s, the place it was most welcomed was Italy. Genesis recorded chart success there before…
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Comedy of Errors return with an ambitious new album, Time Machine. Five years is a long time since their fine 2017 album House of the Mind, so it is perhaps apt that Time is an important aspect of this new…
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New music from Djam Karet is always a cause for celebration, and given the numerous other projects Gayle Ellett has on the go at the moment, (The Electromags, Kelp Dwellers, etc.), they perhaps aren’t as frequent as they once were.…
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It’s not often that I would review two albums together, but there’s really no way to do justice to either volume of Barrdo’s Équivoques by tackling them individually. In terms of length, the two could certainly have been released as…
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A couple of years ago, I attended the Ten Years of Chaos celebration of Chaos Theory’s first decade. It was an incredible gig of two halves for me, each half chock full of the weird and wonderful. As I wrote…
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An erupting bubble of synths, an assertive nimble keyboard riff with a touch of funk, some power chords, some more layered keys as we romp away… yes, it’s the latest Derek Sherinian album, Vortex. His style is instantly familiar, as…
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Babe Ruth began life in 1972 as Shacklock, named after Alan Shacklock, the creative driving force behind the band. He was a gifted guitarist, composer and arranger who trained at the Royal Academy no less, and a young talent which…
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Crippled Black Phoenix (CBP) return with their new album Banefyre. From their early days of Pink Floyd-influenced music they have forged and crafted their own unique sound, which is difficult to put into a category as they have defined one…
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