It’s interesting to return to something after a considerable amount of time and this record sounds better to me than when I first heard...

If you haven’t heard of them, Daniel Vincent and Dominic Hemy are the two gentlemen behind this project. If you check out their Bandcamp...

I have been reviewing the prolific improvisational space rocker Øresund Space Collective. Going back to “Ode to A Black Hole” (2016),...

The Rick Ray band just goes from strength to strength. If Rick thought “Under the Sky” was their best yet, this release is right up there...

SUN RA (1914-1993): Born in 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama, Herman Blount changed his name to Sun Ra in 1952. He claimed he had never been...

Now I must confess I knew absolutely nothing about this Moscow group. I see from their Bandcamp page that this album was (inevitably!)...

On the way home from the Edinburgh fringe, I decided to do a Monty Python and go for something completely different. It was then that I...

STEVEN WILSON – THE HARMONY CODEX and XTC – THE BIG EXPRESS; FRANK ZAPPA – OVER-NITE SENSATION (50th anniversary) How he finds the time...

In progressive rock it is often the case that the whole is more than the sum of the parts. There are exceptions. Off the top of my head:...

This CD arrived unexpectedly through the door – ah, it was like the old days! We keep hearing about enterprise, but isn’t it about time...

I read David West’s review of Karnataka’s first studio album for eight years in the latest edition of PROG magazine, and just had to...

Due to the disappointing sales of my first book “Within In, You Without You” an examination of British music and culture, I decided to...

On the publication of Ginger Gilmour’s book “Behind the Wall (etcetera)” PROG magazine seized on the opportunity to put the Floyd on the...

Due for release on 6th October, Darrel is known as the keyboardist for TEN and prog rock band Nth ASCENSION. He is also a...

If you haven’t heard of this Chicago “neo-psych master painters” as the press release rightly calls them quoting a Record Collector...

STEVEN WILSON – THE HARMONY CODEX and XTC – THE BIG EXPRESS; FRANK ZAPPA – OVER-NITE SENSATION (50th anniversary) How he finds the time...

Following the review of Hiro Kawahara/ Heretic’s “Complete Works”, Hiro has contacted us to say this has now been digitally released by...

Much acclamation preceded the 2005 Martin Scorcese produced ‘Arena’ programme. Unfortunately, the eagerly awaited documentary failed to...

“I lowered the needle onto the spinning black disc. The music began with the notes of a piano stepping lightly as a dancer. Suddenly and...

AN OUTSIDER In an excellent article in ‘Guitar’ magazine defines an outsider: An outsider “suggests persons who are ‘out there’, whether...