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BLOODCOG – STAGED (Bandcamp/ whi-music.co.uk) (CD/ DL) (2024)
Liverpudlian saxist/ flautist Phil Hargreaves fronts a band with two bass players (Fran Bass on electric and Richard Harding on Chapman...
Dec 14, 20241 min read
KEVIN KASTNING - ETHEREAL VII (Greydisc/ Bandcamp) (2024) (DL)
This is the fourth Kevin Kastning release to be reviewed on DISS. Previously, Kevin has played variations of a very specialised contra...
Dec 14, 20241 min read
ZOLDER ELLIPSIS – IL LIBRO DEI TROPI (Lizard Records/ Bandcamp) (2024)
On ‘Sketch A’ organ (Tom Aldrich) fades in; quirky rhythms and strange time signatures, throbbing bass (Chad Langford), extravagant snare...
Dec 12, 20242 min read
FAT MATTRESS – HOW CAN I LIVE – THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS (Cherry Red) (1969- 1970/ 2024) (release date 24th January, 2025)
Fat Mattress had a high-profile leader in Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding. He was joined by a seasoned rhythm section that...
Dec 10, 20242 min read
INTERVIEW WITH JUAN of Mylodon Records, a Chilean based label at the forefront of Prog
PHIL: Thanks for agreeing to do this interview. First of all, I would like to know how you got into Progressive Rock and why you decided...
Dec 10, 20245 min read
ASTRAL MAGIC – WIZARD’S EUPHORIA (Bandcamp- Astral Magic & Dr, Space) (2024)
Santtu Laakso is back in collaboration with Shane Beck and Dr Space (Scott Heller), as well as Astral Magic stalwart Jonathan Siegel, and...
Dec 10, 20241 min read
ELEGANT SIMPLICITY – BEFORE THE END PART 1 (Bandcamp) (2024)
First of all, apologies are due for the tardy review of this summertime release by multi-instrumentalist Steven McCabe, collecting...
Dec 9, 20241 min read
ELEGANT SIMPLICITY – BEFORE AND AFTER (single) (Bandcamp) (2024)
It’s incredible how much Steven McCabe manages to pack into 3 minutes of music! The most astonishing thing is that on this one track he...
Dec 9, 20241 min read
JACOPO COSTA – TEACHER AND DEMONS (2024) (Soundcloud)
Jacopo Costa is a lecturer in musicology at the University of Strasbourg whose music is classified as electro acoustic, art rock and...
Dec 9, 20241 min read
HAWKWIND – LIVE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL (Cherry Red) (31st Jan, 2025) (3 x CD; 3 x LP)
The Royal Albert Hall – doesn’t seem quite right does, it? It’s a real rags to riches story in the sense that Dave Brock started off as a...
Dec 8, 20241 min read
RICHARD GORMAN – WCNSF Palestinian Relief Charity single.
It was great to have the opportunity to meet up with Richard on Thursday. He told me that a significant amount of money has been raised...
Dec 7, 20241 min read
ADAM MAJDECKI-JANICKI – ZONEOUT (2024) (listened to on Soundcloud)
The press release synopsis: “An artist with a penchant for creating mind-bending musical landscapes; a fusion of psychedelic rock,...
Nov 29, 20241 min read
ANNA WEBBER with Matt Mitchell and John Hollenbeck - simpletrio2000 (Intakt Records) (2024)
Here is the background courtesy of the press release: saxophonist, flautist, and Canadian composer Anna Webber—a meticulous conceptualist...
Nov 29, 20242 min read
MARIE KRÜTTLI TRIO with Lukas Traxel and Gautier Garrigue - SCORIA (Intakt Records) (2024)
The trio consists of Marie Krüttli on piano, Lukas Traxel on bass and Gautier Garrigue on drums and percussion Following her solo piano...
Nov 28, 20242 min read
ANGLING – WAS IT 1984 OR 1985? (Cuneiform Records) (2024)
Angling consists of Zeena Parkins on accordion and acoustic harp, George Cartwright, ex Curlew, on soprano sax, Chris Cochrane on...
Nov 28, 20241 min read
THE JETHRO TULL CHRISTMAS ALBUM- FRESH SNOW AT CHRISTMAS (Inside Out) (2024)
Here’s one to look forward to: available in a 180g 2 x LP edition or a 4 x CD + Blu-Ray. In the latest PROG magazine Ian Anderson...
Nov 26, 20241 min read
VOLAPÜK – WHERE IS TAMASHII? (Cuneiform Records) (2003/2024) (DL only)
A French drummer/percussionist Guigou Chenever, and compatriots Michel Mandel and Guillaume Saurel on clarinet and tarágató (looks like a...
Nov 26, 20241 min read
DENMAN MARONEY – NITS MUSICA (Cuneiform Records) (2024) (DL only)
Veteran hyperpiano master Denman Maroney presents, through the ever-inclusive Cuneiform label, three pieces of mostly abstract piano...
Nov 26, 20241 min read
LUCA CALABRESI – I SHIN DEN SHIN (Moon June/ Bandcamp) (2024) (2 x LP/ CD/ DL)
Communication transcending speech: “what the mind thinks, the heart transmits”, with roots in Zen Buddhism and ‘Confucionism’, this is...
Nov 26, 20241 min read
NUBDUG ENSEMBLE – THIRD (Catsynth Records/ Bandcamp) (2024)
Nubdug Ensemble is the brainchild of Jason Berry, who handles some of the keyboards as well as the electronics and programming. “Third”...
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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