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OVRFWRD – Fantasy Absent Reason

Music is an amazing thing, it can mean so many different things to so many people. It can suit our changing moods, be light-hearted fun, from serious stuff to throw away pop. Then you get the music that requires your…

Proteo – REPUBLIKFLUCHT!…facing east

From Trieste in Italy, Proteo formed in 1996 as a mainstream rock act but soon moved into more progressive areas. After recording three demos their first album, Under A Red Polar Light, appeared in 2009. Republikflucht! …facing east arrived in…

Loomings – Everyday Mythology

Hold on to your hat, for you are about to take a thrill-a-minute rollercoaster ride through the untrammelled imagination of Jacopo Costa and friends. Calling at all stations, from doo-wop through pop, Euro-folk, classic RIO moves, and on eighth track…

TesseracT – Polaris

Polaris is the third studio album from British rock and prog metal band TesseracT and with it they have unquestionably captured the shifting moods of a restless generation. There is an immersive, unrefined and at times gravelly realism permeating the…

Steven Wilson – 4½

As a stop gap between his fourth solo album Hand.Cannot.Erase. and whatever is coming next, The Hardest Working Man In Showbiz is keeping his audience sated with this mini-album. 4½ comprises four tracks recorded at the H.C.E. sessions, one from…

Peter Hammill – …all that might have been…

I have been meaning to write about this truly visionary piece of work all year, but what with one thing and another have never found the time. As the album became a year old on 1st December, it is now…

Colin Bass

Long time Camel bassist Colin Bass has recently released his latest solo album, At Wild End, and TPA’s Jez Rowden took the opportunity to speak to Colin about the album and many aspects of his long and varied career. You…

Colin Bass – At Wild End

Colin Bass will be familiar to many TPA readers as bassist and vocalist for Camel, with whom he has been associated since 1979. But that is only one facet – albeit a substantial one – of Colin’s career which, starting…

Juha Kujanpää – Kultasiipi | Goldwing

Once again the festive season has allowed the gathering of old friends to socialise, catch up on the year’s events and in general put the world to rights ahead of 2016. At one such gathering the subject of music and…

Gizmo – Marlowe’s Children

Not heard of Gizmo? Well, as I do not wish to spend too much time repeating myself, I suggest you read the long and hopefully not too rambling intro to my review of the Canterbury band’s previous and self-titled album,…