So there I am, doing a bit of snorkelling on the coast of Southern California, the sun penetrating down through the surface of the sea, reflecting through the waves above, bathing the water in a warm golden light. It’s another…
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Hailing from Hedmark, Norway, 8-piece band Meer play a mixed genre of music. Playing House is their fourth album, I have now listened in a variety of places – car, studio, headphones and through the iPhone – and I have…
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The eighth edition of the famous Progdreams Festival at the Boerderij in Zoetermeer, Holland, back in 2019 was especially interesting for me because of the performance of the John Hackett Band. This was mainly due to the release of his…
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Aqualung – Ian Anderson Marks The 50th Anniversary of Jethro Tull’s Greatest Album 19th March 1971. 50 years ago Jethro Tull released one of their – one of the – classic albums of the fledgling progressive rock movement, Aqualung. Aqualung…
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The third album from Finns Minutian has been a long time coming, but it’s absolutely been worth the wait. I first became aware of the band after the release of their second album, Inwards, which has remained a firm favourite…
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This album seems to have been a long time coming. The last Jane Getter Premonition studio album, ON, was back in 2015, and although there was a live album taken from the ON tour, we’ve had to wait six years…
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Allan Holdsworth fans start drooling now. The late jazz guitar genius is at the top of his game on this superb live recording of a short-lived but celebrated offshoot of Soft Machine. Canterbury aficionados who mourn the loss of sax…
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Norwegian jazz-rock fusion behemoth Elephant9’s previous release was the twin-headed live monster Psychedelic Backfire I & II back in 2019, two righteous slabs of visceral creative crackle that left scorch marks on your carpet. The passing of the Plague Year…
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Time is clearly very important to Robin Armstrong, the man behind Cosmograf. When he is not producing high quality progressive rock albums, he is an expert on repairing watches. Indeed, he has revealed that the origin of the project name…
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Yes. Yes. I know. The second album from Kepler Ten, A New Kind of Sideways, was indeed released in November 2020, on the always excellent White Star Records label. And yes, you are quite right: I did select it my…
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