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Lazuli – Tant Que L’Herbe Est Grasse

Lazuli have come from nowhere to become one of my very favourite current bands, based initially on their performance at last year’s Summer’s End Festival. They were just stunning and put on one of the most effortless and absorbing performances…

Man – All’s Well That Ends Well

This latest addition to the Esoteric Recordings’ Man reissues is this Deluxe 3CD Edition of their 1977 album, All’s Well That Ends Well, recorded at what was a regular haunt for the band, The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London. For these three…

Sonar – Static Motion

Swiss minimalists Sonar were formed after guitarists Stephen Thelen and Bernhard Wagner had attended Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft classes. The pair recruited drummer Manuel Pasquinelli and bassist Christian Kuntner and Sonar was born. Inspired by the Crimson line-ups of 1972…

Gayle Ellett – Djam Karet

We are delighted to publish this interview with Gayle Ellett, co-founder of Californian prog legends Djam Karet, who this year celebrate their 30th anniversary with the release of the cunningly titled Regenerator 3017, reviewed recently by yours truly on these…

Djam Karet – Regenerator 3017

I was only half joking when I introduced this album in a recent edition of “Something For The Weekend”, a blog which seeks to point the inquisitive towards the new releases we scribblers consider worth a spin, with the phrase…

Jack Bruce – Monkjack

After the distinctly dark times towards the end of the 70s the beginning of 80s marked an up turn for Jack Bruce (JB) and kicked off by the splendid release of I’ve Always Wanted to Do This, under the name Jack Bruce & Friends…

Jack Bruce – Cities Of The Heart

John Symon Asher Bruce was born in Glasgow on 14th May 1943. So in 1993, Jack Bruce to you and me, reached the age of 50 and to mark the event two concerts were held, (thankfully recorded), on 2nd &…

Présent – Triskaïdékaphobie & Le Poison Qui Rend Fou

These two deluxe reissues by American label Cuneiform – Triskaïdékaphobie and Le Poison Qui Rend Fou – shine a light on one of the original Rock In Opposition bands, the Belgian collective Présent. In 1979 having left Univers Zéro after…

Transatlantic Concert Reviews

013 Poppodium, Tilburg, The Netherlands 13th March 2014 by Basil Francis “Just testing you.” I was only able to hear these words, spoken by the man who I’d interviewed just six weeks earlier as he teased the audience after playfully…

Matt Stevens

Matt Stevens is about to release his latest solo album, Lucid, after last year’s highly regarded The Fierce And The Dead album, Spooky Action. To tie in with our review of Lucid we took the opportunity to speak to Matt…