While I have had the Eighth Tower compilation Hauntology in UK since the beginning of the year, it took the recent death of Philip Jeck (on 25th March 2022) to kickstart my writing this review. Jeck was a celebrated and…
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At a time when some are promoting the boycotting of all Russian media, it’s important to remember that many Russians stand in solidarity with Ukraine, and against Putin’s war. The Russian [addicted label] has long worked with many Ukrainian bands…
View More Various Artists – Addicted Tunes
Hot on the tail of Eighth Tower Publication’s first anthology of short stories to accompany a compilation on Eighth Tower Records, comes a second. I noted in my review of The Black Stone that “Lovecraftian works provide their horror in…
View More Various Artists – The Beyond – Music Inspired by the Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy
Thanks to Facebook, I am able to see that on 17th January 2021 I had been listening to the Eighth Tower Records compilation The Black Stone – Music for Lovecraftian Summonings for about a week, and had already declared the…
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Renowned music documentary makers Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder return with the fifth instalment of their “Progressive music saga”, and the second trawl through that fascinating European experience, loosely collected within the borders of what was West Germany under…
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Another one of Cherry Red’s magnificently curated boxed sets, Musik, Music, Musique (taking it’s name from the single by Zeus – included in this set) gathers together, across three discs, the moment when synth pop transitioned from the underground to…
View More Various Artists – Musik, Music, Musique – 1980: The Dawn Of Synth Pop
“The songs were all from very different backgrounds, but because they were played in pubs, it got called ‘pub rock’ by the music press. It wasn’t a specific music, other than that there were no lengthy, tedious solos. It was…
View More Surrender To The Rhythm: The London Pub Rock Scene of the Seventies
To pinch a quote from fellow TPA scribe Graham Thomas… So the burnin’ question on your lips must be… “Do we need another ELP compilation release?” Well having waded my way through this release, several times now, I’m inclined to…
View More Various Artists – Tribute to Keith Emerson & Greg Lake
Krautrock – Part 1 is the fourth musical documentary film from Zeitgeist Media, and a long-running labour of love for its founders, writers, and directors Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. I have always been slightly uncomfortable using the term…
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“A punk album being reviewed on TPA?”, I hear your incredulous question, but read on and all will hopefully become clear… “By early 1976 as a teenager, although I was a fan of the usual prog giants, … and a…
View More Various Artists – 1977: The Year Punk Broke