Ramsgate Music Hall, Kent Saturday, 4th May 2024 Saturday night in Ramsgate, at the Ramsgate Music Hall, which apparently has earned the accolade “Best small venue in the country”. Certainly, the layout of the place and the superb sound earn…
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Dario Saraceno is a singer, guitarist and Stickist native to Ripacandida, situated in the Italian province of Potenza, about 150Km east of Naples, and 1300Km from London, where he settled in in the sixties. Dario and his band, The Clear,…
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Every now and then I need some chaos in my musical life, whether that’s King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Mr Bungle or Bent Knee. It didn’t take me long to realise that this album ticked all the chaos boxes and a…
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It was in 2021 that I first came across the talented Mexican musician and songwriter, Guillermo Garcia Herreros, and his band Electro Compulsive Therapy. Their debut release was a captivating mix of melodic and atmospheric prog and art rock with…
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Tavistock Wharf, Tavistock, Devon Thursday, 25th April 2024 The rather modest but homely venue of The Wharf in Tavistock, a town tucked away on the western edge of Dartmoor in SW England, is fast becoming the unlikely spiritual home of…
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Trifecta’s second album, The New Normal is an album of fusion music, combining any number of genres and as such it won’t be to everyone’s taste. It is the equivalent of picking up a comic, such as the Beano or…
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Didn’t I already review Private Parts & Pieces XII? Ah, I’m mistaken; turns out what I reviewed in the past was Twelve, the title of Private Parts & Pieces V. Confused yet? The music of Anthony Phillips has had a…
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My first encounter with Finnish band Viima was back in the first decade of the new century when they contributed tracks to the Musea concept albums Kalevala, Inferno and Tuonen Tytär II. Pleasant enough, but nothing about them left a…
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Oslo, Hackney, London Friday, 25th April 2024 LEONI JANE KENNEDY A solo spot opens the entertainment tonight, with Leoni Jane Kennedy accompanied by her acoustic guitar, played with consummate skill. Her set includes a Rush cover, pleasing the prog audience,…
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A few months ago, I reviewed Patterns on the Window, a set that I hoped would introduce me to dozens of little-known progressive artists from the 70s – after all, it had ‘progressive’ in the subtitle. But as wave after…
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