TALEA JACTA MEETS ELECTRIC MOON – SABOTAR (Sulatron Records/ Bandcamp) (2024)
What a jam! This is my first experience of Portuguese duo Talea Jacta (Is it a coincidence their name is nearly an anagram of the Latin...
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Jun 262 min
PROWLERS - ORCHIDEA (Maracash Records/ Bandcamp) (2024)
Alfio Costa is not only the keyboard player but has also written an excellent review of the music already, referring to the “vintage...
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Jun 262 min
JANEL LEPPIN AND ANTHONY PIROG – NEW MOON IN THE EVIL AGE CD/ 2 x LP (Cuneiform Records)
LP one is 10 tracks of instrumental duets and LP two is a 9-track vocal album. This couple play together in ENSEMBLE VOLCANIC ASH, named...
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Jun 262 min
JANEL LEPPIN – ENSEMBLE VOLCANIC ASH - TO MARCH IS TO LOVE (2024) (Cuneiform Records)
Janel Leppin has appeared on numerous albums encompassing various genres, and as a member of PRIESTS. She is joined on her latest...
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Jun 262 min
ASTRAL MAGIC – SHADOWS OVER JUPITER (Bandcamp) (2024)
“Shadows over Jupiter” is a remix of a 2021 album originally released on a cassette tape by Weird Beard, and fans of Finland’s Santtu...
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Jun 262 min
IZZ – COLLAPSE THE WAVE (2024) (Bandcamp)
The first in a series of recommendations by the Prog fan SANDY GREENHORN, IZZ is one group I am really glad Sandy drew my attention to...
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Jun 261 min
ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE – ESPAÇA (Bandcamp) (2024)
“Umma” is a 34-minute instrumental of textural music, with some arresting clanging percussive separation in its equable 12-minute...
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Jun 261 min
GETTING REVIEWS INTO AND PUBLICITY FROM DISS
Ever since I started reviewing many Moons ago, I have always sought to publicise independently and progressively minded artists It is...
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Jun 261 min
HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY TO CUNEIFORM RECORDS!
Can it really be that long? I still remember getting CDs and promo packages with glossy photographs of the artists in the post. With...
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Jun 191 min
SPACE ROCKERS UPDATE
I mentioned the releases by ASTRAL MAGIC, ORESUND COLLECTIVE and SULA BASSANA (see below). I almost forgot about ELECTRIC MOON meets...
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Jun 193 min
LONDON UNDERGROUND – LIVE AT THE 19TH DREAM OF DR. SARDONICUS FESTIVAL 2023 (Regal Crabomophone/ Fruits de Mer Records – pre-order now for 13th August, 2024 release)
London Underground were formed in Florence in 1998 (apparently there is a connection to great Italian keyboard driven prog band...
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Jun 192 min
PINHDAR – A SPARKLE ON THE DARK WATER (Fruits de Mer Records/ Bandcamp – LP released on 13th August, 2024)
Electronica, dream pop, shoegaze, darkwave, trip-hop, art rock, comparisons with THE CURE, Pinhdar have been creating quite a stir in...
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Jun 192 min
VARIOUS ARTISTS – 19TH DREAM OF DR. SARDONICUS FESTIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIA (Regal Crabomophone/ Fruits de Mer Records – 2 LP on sale on 13th August, 2024)
Blimey, it can’t be the 19th festival already. Only 150 people can get into Cardigan’s Cellar Bar, so it’s only fair that Fruits de Mer...
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Jun 191 min
DOCTORS OF SPACE – ADVENTURES IN THE DEEP DARK SEAS OF SOUND (Bandcamp) (2024) (CD/ DL)
DR SPACE (ØSC) and DR WEAVER (WICKED LADY/ DARK) have combined again to entrance the world with their heady mix of synths, electric...
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Jun 191 min
ASTRAL MAGIC – FLOATING IN SPACE with VESA PARTTI (Bandcamp single) (2024)
“Why can’t you hear me?” The Spacelords are back again with a really good record on the familiar theme of the ultimate nightmare: being...
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Jun 192 min
SOFT MACHINE - HØVIKODDEN 1971 4 x CD/ 4 x LP (Cuneiform Records) (part one)
For the first time the entire two nights of the legendary concert at the Henie- Onstad Art Centre near Oslo can be heard in glorious...
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Jun 191 min
MASCOT MOTH – NOL I ANNWFN (2024) (Bandcamp)
About to be released is a new experimental psychedelic album from Llanfylln (mid-Wales) collective Mascot Moth (named after a conjuring...
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Jun 192 min
SIAPIAU – PI (Discus Music) (2023) and CHRIS SEARLE – TALKING THE GROOVE- JAZZ WORDS FROM THE MORNING STAR (2024)
I take the unusual step here of reviewing and album at the same time as a book just released on Jazz in Britain books with a 2 x CD...
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Jun 192 min
JADE WARRIOR – BORNE ON THE SOLAR WIND: THE VERTIGO ALBUMS, 1971-72 3 x CD (Released 28th June 2024 on Esoteric/ Cherry Red)
On their 1971 eponymous debut album Jade Warrior was a trio of Tony Duhig on guitar, Jon Field on flute and percussion and Glyn Havard on...
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Jun 191 min
HÉRVE PEREZ – L’APRÈS MONDES with HENRY HERTEMAN and various types of meditative music (2024) (Bandcamp)
Herve Perez is a saxophonist and shakuhachi player (a Japanese end-blown flute) and self-confessed laptop music maker and sound designer,...
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