After a string of albums as a duo with Jeremy Sills (the latest Sills & Smith album, Maps – Burned or Lost, was reviewed by TPA in 2018), singer-songwriter Frank Smith has formed the collaborative Halcyon Phase with producer/multi-instrumentalist Phillip…
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Existentia is a new band from Russia who impress greatly with their debut album, The Planet in the Universe. It’s a particularly clever title, as it contains the layers of meaning that are explored within the album. The planet in…
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The 1865, Southampton Sunday, 18th July 2021 Gigs are back in all their former glory! Well, not quite… With the lifting of all Covid-19 restrictions in England on 19th July 2021, attending a gig at The 1865 in Southampton on…
View More The Emerald Dawn / Spitdust
“Once upon a time, there was a young lady named Katy Cocks. Katy was a classically trained singer, and I’m sure you know what that means. Katy might put on a big dress, and sing standing next to a man…
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In this update we feature: • Reflection Club – Still Thick As A Brick • Daïda – La Passion Du Cri (Kyrielle) • Oxygene8 (Linda Cushma) – Rhino [EP] • Caeli Concept – The Dark Playground • Isobar – Isobar…
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Last year, one of my favourite releases was the debut recording from Italian band Ikitan, a twenty-minute-and-twenty-second opus named Twenty-Twenty. I couldn’t help but read into it feelings and experiences from that year. Of course, these were my feelings, and…
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American progressive rock band Evership plunge us back into the pomp/prog-rock era of the ’70s with their third album, and it’s a concept one at that – the first half of an allegoric journey in search of truth, full of…
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Lost Humanity is the first album I’ve heard from Bulgarian outfit the Daniel Eliseev Project (DEP), but based on the enjoyment I’ve gained from it, it surely won’t be the last. Daniel Eliseev is a guitarist, so unsurprisingly it is…
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A retrospective look at the last two releases by CIRRUS BAY Bill Gillham’s Washington State-based symphonic/neo-prog project – currently on hiatus – were sadly overlooked by many on their initial release. There is much for followers of Renaissance, the classic…
View More Cirrus Bay – Places Unseen / The Art of Vanishing
No Mandate. The band name seems almost paradoxical, for their mandate appears to be to have, you guessed it, no mandate. The title for the Australian trio’s debut full-length release seems to confirm this – No Mandate have recalibrated. The…
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