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BLACK SABBATH’S FINAL BOW: Back to the Beginning, Villa Park, Birmingham, 5th July, 2025
The original Black Sabbath line-up is reforming for a historic concert with all profits going to charity. There is an interesting article...
Jun 14, 20251 min read
BARO PROG – PROG-JET IV AIONVERSE (MaRaCash Records) (DL & CD) (2025)
This is Baro Prog’s fourth album, a ‘rock opera’ based on eight characters by Alberto Molesini AKA Baro with fourteen guest players...
Jun 4, 20251 min read
INGLESE AND NANNETTI – L’ARTE DI ARRANGIARSI (Maracash Records) (DL & CD)(2025)
Gabriele Inglese and Paolo Nannetti released their first album together in2023, “Working to Distract Myself”. “The Art of Making Do.” is...
Jun 4, 20251 min read
CHAKRA VIMANA – FEED MY SOUL (Bandcamp/ Tonzonen Records/ Cargo distribution) DL/ CD (2025)
Chakra Vimana is Santtu Laakso from Astral Magic on synthesizers, vocals, and bass, Mark Cook on fretted and fretless Warr guitar,...
Jun 4, 20252 min read
SPACE RITUAL – OTHERWORLD (ReDISScovery) (2007)
In an occasional series of ‘blasts from the past’, Nik Turner’s Space Ritual was reviewed in “Acid Dragon” #48 if memory serves. As you...
Jun 3, 20251 min read
SIMON HOUSE R.I.P. (1948 – 2025)
Sad to hear the news that Simon House has passed. Classically trained, his violin work helped to define the sound of the legendary High...
Jun 3, 20251 min read
More on HAPPY FAMILY
The Happy Family review is proving a popular read so I thought I would present a brief potted history of Happy Family, recently...
Jun 3, 20251 min read
GENTLE GIANT – PLAYING THE FOOL – THE OFFICIAL LIVE (2025 rerelease)
Didn’t the Shulman brothers from Simon Dupree and the Big Sound do well to develop the early promise into a prog rock phenomenon, unique...
Jun 3, 20251 min read
RICHARD GORMAN – W C N S F (Bandcamp) (2025)
Please support if you can. The cause is a just and worthy one. More words of wisdom in this troubled world of ours from Dundee’s...
Jun 3, 20252 min read
SENDELICA – NIRMATA (Fruits de Mer) (various formats including limited edition via Bandcamp) (Release date – mid-August, 2025)
The hospital field recordings and blood pressure readings seem an unusual way to start a new album by Welsh space rockers Sendelica, but...
May 29, 20251 min read
YAATRI – LETTERS TO A LOST POET (Bandcamp) (2025)
I first heard Yaatri at Peggy’s Skylight and was entranced by them, eagerly snapping up an autographed LP; I saw their subsequent EP...
May 29, 20251 min read
ATOMIC ROOSTER – The Reunion Album (Cherry Red) (2 x CD) (Release date: 30th May, 2025)
Coming with a bonus CD of a gig the band played at the Marquee Club in 1980, there are also 11 bonus tracks (out-takes, demos and a rare...
May 28, 20252 min read
GREENSLADE – LARGE AFTERNOON (Release date: 30th May, 2025) Remastered & extended edition (Cherry Red/ Esoteric) (2 x CD)
A surprise reunion in 2000 after Greenslade had disbanded in 1976 yielded “Large Afternoon” with original members Dave Greenslade...
May 28, 20251 min read
MAJA, GILAD AND NIXOS – A DARK MOVIE SCENE (Aesthetiko) (RSD limited white vinyl) (2005)
Maja Babyszka, British woodwind virtuoso Gilad Atzmon and Greek drummer Nikos Sidirokastritis have joined forces to create what the press...
May 28, 20251 min read
HAWKWIND – THERE IS NO SPACE FOR US (Cherry Red) (2025) (various formats)
This is the third in a trilogy of heavily synthesised albums that includes last year’s Stories from Time and Space and The Future Never...
May 26, 20252 min read
ADAM FAIRHALL & JOHNNY HUNTER PLAY MARY LOU WILLIAMS (Discus/ Bandcamp) (CD & DL)
Mancunians Fairhall and Hunter get back to basics with an upright piano and a snare drum. The origins of this recording are unusual in...
May 26, 20251 min read
JULEE CRUISE _FALL _FLOAT- _LOVE (Works 1989- 1993) (Cherry Red) 2 x CD (2025)
Julee Cruise (1956 – 2022): WIRE magazine said that Julee fitted into “the David Lynch world with her peroxide shock and rockette...
May 26, 20251 min read
FLYING LOTUS – ASH original soundtrack (Milan DL) (2025)
A heads up for the latest project of Steven Ellison, the man behind Flying Lotus who is the grandnephew of Alice Coltrane. He signed for...
May 26, 20252 min read
KAMASI WASHINGTON – LAZARUS (Original soundtrack) (Milan DL) (2025)
A heads up to a new release from Kamasi Washington who is already well known for his soundtracks: “Becoming” (Netlix) and “Shinichirð”...
May 26, 20251 min read
THE FLOWER KINGS – LOVE (Inside Out Music) (2 LP/ 2 CD) (2025)
*If anyone has a contact e-mail for Roine Stolt, I would be grateful if this could be shared so I can ask some questions about the album....
May 22, 20252 min read
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