Sometime in 2011, just before each of Fruupp’s albums reached their respective 40th birthdays, I happened upon two interesting looking CDs in an independent music shop in Leeds. They were the middle two albums from Fruupp’s sadly short-lived career, Seven…
When you are presented with an album that completely and without shame reveres the late ’60s and early ’70s, sits on grannies pouffe in the corner of the room, provides you with numerous audio worm infections and makes you grin…
Anyone already familiar with Californian instrumentalists Djam Karet (pronounced Jam Care-Ray), will know what to expect from this, their latest release. There is a welcome familiarity about the way they go about creating music. It will be fundamentally guitar-based, with…
Islington Assembly Hall, London Saturday, 16th March 2019 Bent Knee As Bent Knee take to the stage for the final night of their European tour supporting Haken, they are greeted by a healthy crowd curious to find out what this…
I have enjoyed Vernian Process’ music since I first heard their 2010 album Behold the Machine. Although originally tagged as steampunk, this is an avant-garde band formed in San Francisco in 2003, taking their name from the works of 19th Century author Jules Verne.…
After 18 years, MoonJune Records are still going strong. For me, it’s a favourite label, releasing music that goes far beyond the progressive genre, taking in Jazz, Fusion, World Music, Experimental, and the Avant-Garde – MoonJune is like a train…
There’s a saying that ‘everyone has a book inside them’ – this debut album by John Holden may similarly suggest that perhaps we may all have an album inside us. After years of ‘normal life’ John Holden just decided he…
In this update we feature:- Frackctura – Oculus (EP) Montage – Metamorphosis Taylor’s Universe – Almost Perfected Le Folli Arie – Le Folli Arie Black Moon Circle – Flowing Into The 3rd Dimension Emre Kula – Theory of Change With…
When searching for your next prog fix, you can never tell when you’ll uncover a true gem. You certainly can’t expect it to come from a tiny record shop in Bayswater priced at a measly £5. And yet here I…
In 1985 Djam Karet released an album called No Commercial Potential. Thirteen years later they released an album called Still No Commercial Potential. They produced challenging, blistering, atmospheric instrumental music in outlandish time signatures – and they positively gloried in…