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SPACE MIRRORS – NEXUS BETWEEN SPACE AND ART (Atomic Age/ Dead Earnest/ Bandcamp (2024)
Multi-instrumentalist Ailsa Coral has spent over two decades indulging in music that has successfully straddled two seemingly...
Nov 4, 20241 min read
NEIL COWLEY – ENTITY (2024) (Bandcamp)
This is the Neil Cowley Trio’s first trio album for seven years. Generally, in thematic terms, it addresses the “human push back” against...
Oct 24, 20242 min read
IMMANUEL WILKINS – BLUES BLOOD (2024) (Blue Note)
Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins drew much attention with his album “Omega” in 2020. Jazzwise magazine’s response to this album was with...
Oct 24, 20242 min read
DEVIN DANIELS – LES GO (2024) (Sam First Records)
“Les Go” is, in alto saxophonist Devin’s own words, a “running out the gates” first year on the scene after graduation, album, and augurs...
Oct 24, 20241 min read
THE LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL – 15TH to 24TH NOVEMBER, 2024
As The London Jazz Festival is getting closer, it’s time to have a look at some recent releases by some of the headliners. Pianist NEIL...
Oct 21, 20241 min read
SIDEWALK SOCIETY – AN INTRODUCTION TO SIDEWALK SOCIETY (2024) (Fruits de Mer Records)
Coming in December, this is a double CD of a band I know quite well, having purchased a vinyl copy of their remake of The Action’s...
Oct 21, 20242 min read
VIBRAVOID – AN INTRODUCTION TO VIBRAVOID (2024) (Fruits de Mer Records)
Coming in December, this is a double CD that is not to be missed from the legendary psychedelic rockers Vibravoid, 35 years old and as...
Oct 21, 20242 min read
EGG - EGG (1970/ 2024) – A REVIEW FROM THE ARCHIVES
The info: Following the release by Esoteric of “Egg” on CD some time ago, a new remastered vinyl edition can now be preordered, restoring...
Oct 21, 20242 min read
BILL BRUFORD – THE WINTERFOLD AND SUMMERFOLD YEARS (Cherry Red) (2024)
Bill Bruford’s outstanding jazz-rock-fusion album Feels Good to Me (1978) figures prominently in this 3 CD set, with a crack band of...
Oct 16, 20243 min read
DREAM ARIA – AWAKENING (2024)
It is the 20th anniversary of Dream Aria, a Canadian prog band with classical/ operatic roots going back to when they were founded, with...
Oct 14, 20241 min read
SULA BASSANA/ SKYJOGGERS -Split LP (Sulatron Records) (2004)
Wow, Skyjoggers are loud! Subsequent to the Dazed and Spaced Festival in Hamburg, Dave Schmidt (Sula Bassana) has coordinated this split...
Oct 14, 20241 min read
ETERNAL FLASHBACK - I (Bandcamp) (2024)
The prolific Santtu Laakso is back again contributing as a guest synth player to a continuous 38-minute piece by poetic narrator Shane...
Oct 13, 20241 min read
ASTRAL MAGIC – THOSE WHO CAME FROM THE STARS (Bandcamp) (2024)
This is a very different kind of release to “Eternal Flashback” – the rock is back into space! Santtu Laakso reverts to handling the...
Oct 13, 20241 min read
HUMAN TEOREMA – LE PREMIER SOLEIL DE JAN CADET (Sulatron Records) (2024)
Parisian quartet Human Teorema was formed in 2012 and described in Dave Schmidt’s press release as being built around a Cyclopean bass –...
Oct 13, 20241 min read
ALIANTE – ANIME INVISIBLI (MaRaCASH Records) (2024)
“Anime Invisibili” is described in the press release as a long suite in four movements redolent of the Canterbury style music of the 70s...
Oct 13, 20241 min read
INTERVIEW WITH ANTON BARBEAU
DISS: Hi, Ant, first of all thanks for taking the time to do this interview. First of all, how and why did you decide to become a...
Oct 1, 20248 min read
ALICE COLTRANE: THE HIGH PRIESTESS OF SPIRITUAL JAZZ
So goes the title of the feature story in JAZZWISE magazine – their 300th issue, infact – congratulations! I must admit I got into Alice...
Sep 30, 20242 min read
BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO – a look back at the Italian prog giants in the 1970s.
(The full story can be found in THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE) The origins of BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO (Bank of Mutual Relief) from Rome date...
Sep 30, 20242 min read
BURNIN’ RED IVANHOE: signed by John Peel and produced by Tony Reeves: a look back.
Danish prog pioneers BURNING RED IVANHOE was formed in 1967 in the Copenhagen area with a musical recipe that included jazz, rock and...
Sep 30, 20242 min read
CARPTREE, SWEDEN’S best-kept prog rock secret.
CARTPREE was formed in Stockholm in 1997 by two friends Carl Westholm, a keyboard player and Niclas Flinck, a singer. Some reviewers...
Sep 30, 20243 min read
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