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Kaprekar’s Constant

Little Mill Oast, Marden, Kent Friday, 1st July 2022 My phone pinged. Message alert. Nick Jefferson… “We are doing a private, warm-up gig on July 1st in an old oast house in Marden. We’d like to invite you. Free food…

Daymoon – Erosion

Erosion is the third release in a triptych from Fred Lessing. Except it isn’t. Or maybe it is? Honestly, I don’t know if it were intended to be, but regardless of intentions, I believe Fred has created that triptych, as…

Yang – Designed for Disaster

Fréderic L’Épée, the sole composer for Yang, seems like an interesting chap. He has an interest in minimalism, Chinese language and culture, the guitar (Robert Fripp is his guru) and his favourite composer is Johann Sebastian Bach. Stick those influences…

Tim Bowness – Butterfly Mind

Butterfly Mind is Tim Bowness seventh solo album, and his sixth for Inside Out Music. It was due to be released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Tim starting to perform music in bands back in his native North…

Faust – Punkt.

I have an affinity for outsider music, as those three of you who irregularly read my nonsense must know by now. No one counterculture embodies that ethos better than the German underground music scene of the mid-’60s onwards, that became…

The Mighty Ra – All Secrets Known

All Secrets Known is a highly enjoyable debut album of melodic progressive rock from The Mighty Ra. This new band of consummate and experienced musicians from South Wales show a vibrancy and synergy between them that has allowed them to…

Melt Motif – A White Horse Will Take You Home

A debut album, where does it fit? To my mind, this is art rock with prog undertones. Experimental with an industrial feel at times, like a dark Depeche Mode. The constituent parts are Rakel and Kenneth Rasmus Greve. It is…

Gayle Ellett & The Electromags – Shiny Side Up

A chance exchange online about a year or so ago with Gayle Ellett revealed an excited guitarist mentioning his latest project, Gayle Ellett and The Electromags. It instantly sounded, from the name of the band, like a guitar album, and…

Alex Henry Foster & The Long Shadows

Thekla, Bristol Sunday, 26th June 2022 This review started life rather conventionally, but apart from almost boring myself into oblivion I concluded that it simply just would not do to convey the truly awe-inspiring and mind-blowing experience of Alex Henry…

Ed Wynne & Gre Vanderloo - Tumbling Through the Floativerse

Ed Wynne and Gre Vanderloo – Tumbling Through the Floativerse

Ozric Tentacles main-frood Ed Wynne – for it is he – makes an album entitled Tumbling Through the Floativerse. No one is remotely surprised. It is in no way detrimental to say that the album sounds in large part as…