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Gabriel Keller – Clair Obscur

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…

A Different Aspect #81

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…

Robert Reed – The Ringmaster: Part Two

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…

Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra – The Unfolding

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,…

Laughing Stock – Zero, Acts 3 & 4

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…

Pattern-Seeking Animals – Only Passing Through

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…

The Ant Band – A Light on the Hill

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,…

Hawkwind – Dreamworkers of Time: The BBC recordings, 1985-1995

Cherry Red Records now have a long history of releasing Hawkwind albums, having handled box sets of their late seventies releases and following those up with their eighties/nineties albums. Each release has been excellently packaged and remastered to create a…

Bizirik – Revelaciones del Fin del Mundo

“Music without predefined structures or scores, built on improvisations in one take with Chapman Stick and loops, a minimalist journey of sonic experimentation through the events that are born from this telluric land at the end of the world.” The…

Stewart Clark – Journeys

Journeys is, for Stewart Clark, that difficult third album. I reviewed the previous one, Let’s Go There, early last year, and thoroughly enjoyed it, the album finally ending up in my year end top five. But what would I make…