[With many thanks to Josep Monrós for the use of his photos, please visit his Flickr stream] The Exchange, Bristol 23rd April 2015 Charismatic and enigmatic Amplifier front man, Sel Balamir, amusingly described in a pre-gig interview (which you can…
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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…
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I’m taking a look at the latest reissue of Anthony Phillips’s 1977 debut solo record, The Geese And The Ghost. Over the years, and to my shame, I had pieced together a kind of composite memory of Anthony Phillips’s later…
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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…
View More La Coscienza di Zeno – La Notte Anche di Giorno
Sub-titled Part One of The Buttered Cat Conspiracy this epic double concept album is a fruition of ideas that Joff Winks and Mat Baber originally had back in the first few years of this century in their first band together,…
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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…
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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,…
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I generally assume that others’ musical tastes are like my own, a musical bouillabaisse, and a melting pot of music for differing moods. By all means I have my favourites, Genesis and Big Big Train currently, but there are other…
View More Drifting Sun – Trip The Life Fantastic
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,…
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Of this new reboot of The Tangent, Andy Tillison says “After all the different things we’ve done, this time it seemed right to come back to our prog roots and ‘stock in trade’”, and that they have certainly done. Although…
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