Featured artists: A Gardening Club Project | GorMusik | Arnoldo’s Lizards | Time’s Forgotten | Andrew Roussak | Jeffrey Erik Mack ||: It’s all in the title. David Edwards & Nick Hudson take a look at some of the recent…
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“We haven’t got long to the end of this song”, is the desperate cry from Steve ‘h’ Hogarth on Be Hard on Yourself, the opener from Marillion’s new album, an impactful song that focuses on environmental concerns, but which could…
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It’s hard to believe that Voivod have been around for four decades, and that I’ve been listening to them on and off for most of that time. I remember being attracted to their third album, Killing Technology, mainly because of…
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What do you get when an experienced prog musician meets a one-off piano student? Five years later: an excellent prog album that can easily withstand the test of criticism. OK, maybe I’m getting a bit ahead of myself, but these…
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Featured artists: Kaatayra | Bríi | Sub Rosa | Papangu | Caio Csizmar ||: In this ADA (shorter reviews) album update we travel with TPA’s Nick Hudson to the Federative Republic of Brazil: • Kaatayra – Inpariquipê • Bríi –…
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Most people will no doubt be aware that Kalle Wallner is the ‘W’ in RPWL, and a much admired guitarist. This solo album is his first since 2016’s Liquid, which he released under the band name Blind Ego. Whereas that…
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The Moody Blues are one of the legendary bands and pioneers of the progressive movement. Their sequence of seven iconic albums between 1967 and 1972 elevated the Moodies from fading one-hit-wonders to global superstars who would influence successive generations of…
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Featured artists: Various Artists (VA) | Luo | Joseph Rabjohns | Sugar Horse | Voronoi | Milton Man Gogh ||: Celebrating the Art As Cartharsis label’s 10th anniversary TPA’s Nick Hudson looks at six of their recent releases: • Various…
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The word ‘ambivalent’ is often somewhat misused, and used to express indifference. When I first heard Detieti’s latest album, Serious IV, I was not indifferent. I was ambivalent. I had very strong, simultaneous and contradictory feelings whenever I listened to…
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Melody (noun): ‘a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying; a tune.’ ‘The aspect of musical composition concerned with the arrangement of single notes to form a satisfying sequence.’ ‘The principal part in harmonised music.’ ‘Sweet music; tunefulness.’ It’s…
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