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NEW ACID DRAGON OUT NOW!
Issue #85 has interviews with AIRBRIDGE, KARMAMOI and NINE SKIES, a feature on HERETIC AND YES’s “Heaven and Earth”, “The Quest” and...
Jan 30, 20241 min read
DIMENSIONS-IN-SOUND-AND-SPACE DIGEST - ARCHIVE 2023
To search our website please click on the month at the left-hand side OR the general categories along the top: Doctor Who/ Film & TV/...
Jan 30, 20244 min read
DISS DIGEST – NAVIGATING THE SITE
For the convenience of newcomers to the site and those wishing to explore if further, Phil compiled a ‘digest’ listing everything on the...
Jan 30, 20241 min read
PAKT - NO STEPS TO TRACE (2024) (Moon June Records) (2024) (2 x CD and 2 x LP) (release date - February 15th)
Welshman Percy Jones has a long history as a widely admired and innovative bass player, most famously with BRAND X (1974-1980 and...
Jan 30, 20243 min read
SOFT HEARTED SCIENTISTS – WALTZ OF THE WEEKEND (2024) (Fruits de Mer Records)
Apparently coming into existence serendipitously as the result of bumping into one another searching for meteor fragments in the Garwnant...
Jan 30, 20243 min read
KEVIN KASTNING/ SOHEIL PEYGHAMBARI – THE SECOND REALM (2024) (Greydisc)
An international enterprise involving: Kevin Kastning on 36-string double contraguitar (which he invented), 24-string double...
Jan 30, 20242 min read
NEWS OF RECORD FAIRS IN SCOTLAND (February, 2024)
I got a message from the fair organiser Andrew Naylor thanking customers for turning up in (yet more) adverse weather conditions for the...
Jan 30, 20242 min read
NeBeLNeST – SeLF-TiTLed (1999/ 2023) (Cuneiform Records)
Hats off to Cuneiform for reviving interest in this brilliant album originally released on the Laser’s Edge label, following their two...
Jan 30, 20242 min read
KING CRIMSON – LARKS’ TONGUES IN ASPIC (1973/2023) (DGM / Panegyric 2XCD/ 2 Blu-Ray/ 2xLP)
It was a surprise to find a review of the 50th Anniversary edition of JAZZWISE magazine: “high-octane”, “profund” and “bravura” are all...
Jan 30, 20241 min read
PASCAL GLOBENSKY – ZIGZAG (2023) (Cuneiform Records)
Pascal Globensky is a founder member of MIRIODOR, a Quebec band who straddle Rock in Opposition, Jazz, Prog and Chamber music with...
Jan 30, 20242 min read
FJALL – FROM THE ROUGH HILL (Discus) (2023)
Turn the lights low (or off) and play this intriguing album late at night and a quite unique atmosphere is created. The twin drumming of...
Jan 15, 20241 min read
THE BOY AND THE HERON (2023/24)
I couldn’t miss the chance of a new Miyazaki film; the famed writer and director is now in his eighties and keeps coming out of...
Jan 15, 20241 min read
RICK WAKEMAN – LIVE AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM, 2023 (2024) (Esoteric Recordings)
As with all great progressive rock, Rick Wakeman’s classic concept albums still stand up, unlike other popular music forms that can sound...
Jan 15, 20242 min read
TIM HUNTER - EBOROCKEM (2023)
One-man musician and historian Tim Hunter’s latest concept album concerns four significant figures in the history of York: firstly,...
Jan 15, 20241 min read


REMEMBER LONG LIVE VINYL MAGAZINE?
A lavishly produced and erudite magazine (Anthem Publishing) LONG LIVE VINYL announced in August, 2020 that “after more than 40 print...
Jan 15, 20243 min read
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