“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...

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...

“Umma” is a 34-minute instrumental of textural music, with some arresting clanging percussive separation in its equable 12-minute...

Ever since I started reviewing many Moons ago, I have always sought to publicise independently and progressively minded artists It is...

Can it really be that long? I still remember getting CDs and promo packages with glossy photographs of the artists in the post. With...

I mentioned the releases by ASTRAL MAGIC, ORESUND COLLECTIVE and SULA BASSANA (see below). I almost forgot about ELECTRIC MOON meets...

London Underground were formed in Florence in 1998 (apparently there is a connection to great Italian keyboard driven prog band...

Electronica, dream pop, shoegaze, darkwave, trip-hop, art rock, comparisons with THE CURE, Pinhdar have been creating quite a stir in...

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...

DR SPACE (ØSC) and DR WEAVER (WICKED LADY/ DARK) have combined again to entrance the world with their heady mix of synths, electric...

“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...

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...

About to be released is a new experimental psychedelic album from Llanfylln (mid-Wales) collective Mascot Moth (named after a conjuring...

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...

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...

Herve Perez is a saxophonist and shakuhachi player (a Japanese end-blown flute) and self-confessed laptop music maker and sound designer,...

There are two sides to Cristiano Varisco’s music: one as an acoustic guitar player, the other as an electric guitarist, and it proves...

ASTRAL MAGIC’s “Shadows over Jupiter” remix of a 2021 cassette on Weird Beard is overdue; it’s next on my list to listen! Also, Santtu is...

Q: Santtu, I am listening to your latest release “Shadows Over Jupiter” remixed. I believe this music originated in a limited tape...

Merging Cluster play what might be described in modern parlance as Alt-Prog which “intercepts the intensity of e.g. MARILLION, IQ and...