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Ciolkowska – Психоделия

As we get further into 2021, somehow I’m still stuck in 2020. Well, that’s not entirely true, as I have been listening to a lot of music from this year, but I continue to find gems I missed from last…

Unquiet Music Ltd – In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times)

The enigmatic JP Rossi is the man behind Unquiet Music Ltd, which is “both a concept and a company”, formed in 2019 to promote the questing experimentalism of its founder. In The Name Of… (A Prayer For Our Times) is…

Joseph Williams – Denizen Tenant

Joseph Stanley Williams is an American singer, songwriter and film score composer, best known for his work with rock band Toto, as their lead singer from 1986 to 1988, 2010 to 2019 and again from 2020. He is the son…

Steve Lukather – I Found the Sun Again

After the excellent Transition from 2012, there is now its successor I Found the Sun Again, already the eighth studio album by Steve Lukather, best known as the founder/guitarist/composer/singer of the incredibly successful American band Toto. The album will be…

Fabrizio Giannese – Aborym

A few weeks ago we published Nick Hudson’s review of Aborym and their Hostile album, “a schizophrenic, kaleidoscopic, ever-changing barrage of hostility occasionally wrapped up in a more melodic skin, but never something that feels fully safe”. We now present…

Simon McKechnie – Retro

Having previously taken on Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, it comes as no surprise that Simon McKechnie draws inspiration from the likes of Charles Darwin and Ada (‘Not Linda’) Lovelace for this, his first release for the venerable Bad Elephant…

Esthesis – The Awakening

Esthesis are a new progressive rock band from France who won the ‘Best Unsigned Act’ in the Prog Magazine Readers’ Poll of 2020, and released their debut album The Awakening later that year. Securing such an accolade deserves some attention…

Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part 2)

Renowned music documentary makers Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder return with the fifth instalment of their “Progressive music saga”, and the second trawl through that fascinating European experience, loosely collected within the borders of what was West Germany under…

Deadburger – La Chiamata

I have to admit, I’m a bit of a laggard when it comes to accepting that music may not always come with a physical product these days, so it absolutely fills my heart with joy when a release like Deadburger’s…

Multi Story – CBF10

Much water has passed under many bridges since Leo Trimming’s review of Multi Story’s previous album, Crimson Stone, in 2016. Much has changed, but for the main part that means in the personnel. Multi Story is now a core of…