Urskog, Kaipa’s fourteenth studio album, follows a journey through the changing seasons of the Swedish landscape, taking us from winter cold into spring with The Frozen Dead of the Night, through the heady days of summer to the leaves falling…
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I’ve been a huge fan of Airbag for a number of years, but only dipped into the co-founder’s solo releases in the last three-or-so years. I always wondered why I delayed that action (and more fool me) because, from the…
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I first came across Pakistan’s The D/A Method, as I suspect did many, via Bruce Soord on Facebook: he co-produced their second album, The Desert Road, as well as contributing additional vocals and guitars. I guess this was realistically their…
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Clair Obscur is the debut solo release by French guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Gabriel Keller. With collaborations from a host of vocalists and musicians, he has created an album with a wide range of musical styles, reflecting his own musical…
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Featured artists: Trophy Husband | Harvey Valdes | Mother of Millions | Genie Cries | Exowst Scotland ||: In this ADA update we highlight five contrasting releases highlighting a ‘broad church’ of musical styles from across the globe: • Trophy…
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The Ringmaster: Part One was brought into existence in October 2021. Recently, Part Two has been released, completing the Ringmaster story. The Ringmaster albums are the sequel to Robert Reed’s successful Sanctuary series and are therefore also referred to as…
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This is left field, but I think it will appeal to some of the progressive music audience. It’s more of a crossover combining classical, progressive and electronica elements in a similar vein to Tangerine Dream, some of Grice Peters’ work,…
View More Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra – The Unfolding
I have been struggling to write this review for some months now, not because I can’t think of anything positive to say, but simply because I have found it difficult to review the final acts of Laughing Stock’s Zero without…
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Since the last Spock’s Beard album, Noise Floor in 2018, half the band have joined the Pattern-Seeking Animals project, the brain child of one of Spock’s principal songwriters John Boeghold. Now on album number three, what began as a side…
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OK, we can all imagine the existence of tribute bands for Genesis – there are plenty of them around. The same goes for Peter Gabriel, and to a lesser extent Phil Collins. But a tribute band for the man who,…
View More The Ant Band – A Light on the Hill