For ten years or so from the mid 1990s I was consumed by a deeply entrenched record collecting bug. Many hours were spent trawling Record Collector sale lists, mail order catalogues and latterly eBay for ever more obscure vinyl delights.…
With the release of their new album, Until All the Ghosts are Gone (the TPA review of which can be found HERE), Anekdoten have ended the eight years of silence since their last studio album. To accompany the review of…
This was the first big band format jazz rock album to land on my desk this year, soon followed by the rather good Cheating The Polygraph by Gavin Harrison. Is there a revival going on? Probably not, but it is…
Mellotrons. They’re bloody great aren’t they? And guitars, big drums and massive amounts of in-your-face bass. And Mellotrons. Mmmmmmellotrons. Lots of ’em. I’m a sucker for the old “Orchestra in a Drinks Cabinet” but despite being known for their use…
Sometimes you play an album and fireworks light up immediately. Others you listen to a few times and one track opens the door and you enter into the spirit of the music; this album has now been played about thirty…
Drummer Gavin Harrison, best known for his work with Porcupine Tree and currently one of the three drummers in King Crimson, has played on recordings too numerous to mention over more than 30 years. On the eve of the release…
Gavin Harrison is a musician who is always on the lookout for something a bit different. Since Porcupine Tree stopped he has been much in demand, and in addition to guest spots on other’s albums, and touring his drum clinic,…
With the Tangent’s, A Spark in the Aether, due out shortly, I caught up with Andy Tillison (who’s never short of a word or two thousand) to chew the cud on the new album. And, when you’re done reading this,…
“Always changing, never standing still” is a phrase that as well as tying in nicely with the word “progressive” could easily be applied to Soft Machine, a band linked through markedly different phases, in much the same manner as King…
Deep under London there are 40 underground railway stations that are no longer in use for various reasons, presumably with lines that used to have some purpose historically but no longer go anywhere. They remain a historical curiosity and reminder…