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THE PINEAPPLE THIEF – IT LEADS TO THIS (2024) (K Scope)
Guitarist/ vocalist and leader Bruce Soord has spoken in interview of a minority creating the toxic environment we have to live in; hence...
Feb 19, 20242 min read
EXPERIMENTAL – HOMÓNIMO (2023) (Mylodon Records)
Towards the end of last year this extraordinary record was released. It actually originates from 2001 and has been remastered in digipack...
Feb 19, 20242 min read
RE DISS-COVERY: DEEP PURPLE – MACHINE HEAD (1972/ 2024) (Warner)
Guess what? Deep Purple’s classic 1972 album is, following the 40th anniversary edition, in a deluxe 3 x CD/ LP/ Blu-Ray edition with a...
Feb 19, 20242 min read
RE- DISS-COVERY: ACQUA FRAGILE – MOVING FRAGMENTS (2023) (Ma. Ra. Cash Records)
ACQUA FRAGILE, from Parma, Italy, was founded by Bernardo Lanzetti (vocals, guitar), Gino Campanini (guitar) and Piero Canavera (drums),...
Feb 19, 20243 min read
INSIDE OUT: new album from STEVE HACKETT to be released on 16th February, 2024
“The Circus and the Nightwhale” is a concept album about a young person called Travla’s rite of passage, with an autobiographical element...
Feb 7, 20241 min read
INSIDE OUT: New album coning down the tracks from BIG BIG TRAIN (1st March, 2024)
Preliminary thoughts of what I have available to me of the upcoming release of “The Likes of Us” on 1st March. The BIG BIG TRAIN line-up...
Feb 7, 20242 min read
VAN DER GRAAF – VITAL LIVE (2024) (Esoteric)
‘Vital’ was never one of my favourites when first released on the famous Charisma label; I had been spoiled by a series of classic albums...
Feb 6, 20243 min read
BAGUIBATUS – MANIFIESTO (2024) (Mylodon Records)
Described as a fusion and experimental rock power trio from Valparaíso/Viña del Mar, I absolutely love this album by Baguibatus. We are...
Feb 5, 20241 min read
EINAR SOLBERG – 16 (2023)
Prog magazine’s vocalist of the year and the lead singer of LEPRUS released his first album in 2023. It remains true to the spirit of his...
Feb 5, 20242 min read


NEW ACID DRAGON OUT NOW!
Issue #85 has interviews with AIRBRIDGE, KARMAMOI and NINE SKIES, a feature on HERETIC AND YES’s “Heaven and Earth”, “The Quest” and...
Jan 30, 20241 min read
NeBeLNeST – SeLF-TiTLed (1999/ 2023) (Cuneiform Records)
Hats off to Cuneiform for reviving interest in this brilliant album originally released on the Laser’s Edge label, following their two...
Jan 30, 20242 min read
KING CRIMSON – LARKS’ TONGUES IN ASPIC (1973/2023) (DGM / Panegyric 2XCD/ 2 Blu-Ray/ 2xLP)
It was a surprise to find a review of the 50th Anniversary edition of JAZZWISE magazine: “high-octane”, “profund” and “bravura” are all...
Jan 30, 20241 min read
PASCAL GLOBENSKY – ZIGZAG (2023) (Cuneiform Records)
Pascal Globensky is a founder member of MIRIODOR, a Quebec band who straddle Rock in Opposition, Jazz, Prog and Chamber music with...
Jan 30, 20242 min read
RICK WAKEMAN – LIVE AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM, 2023 (2024) (Esoteric Recordings)
As with all great progressive rock, Rick Wakeman’s classic concept albums still stand up, unlike other popular music forms that can sound...
Jan 15, 20242 min read


CENSUS OF HALLUCINATIONS – THE NONSENSE MACHINE (2023)
As relevant and inspiring as ever, Census of Hallucinations is back with a new six-minute long single, and a real aural treat! Choppy...
Dec 12, 20231 min read
THE BEST TEN GENESIS ALBUMS – WHAT ARE THEY?
Near the beginning of what was, and is, a hobby, as a naïve music reviewer (for which I have never been paid), I was a member of the...
Dec 12, 20233 min read
CENSUS OF HALLUCINATIONS: NEARLY 30 YEARS OF STONE PREMONITIONS, MAGICAL VIBRATIONS
Time flies, said the man who threw the clock out of the window… Please, if there is one thing you read today let it be this. My most...
Dec 12, 202316 min read
ELEGANT SIMPLICITY – KICKING THE OLIVE BRANCH (2023) (Proximity Records)
A REVIEW AND INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN Mc CABE discussing “Kicking the Olive Branch” and a Christmas album (!) called SAD TIDINGS (2023) When...
Dec 12, 20239 min read
KAFOD – CICLOS (Mylodon Records (2023)
Formed in 2008 where they gigged around the Valparaiso area of Chile, Kafod is Carlos Cruz on guitar and bass (He is also the main...
Dec 12, 20232 min read
MIRIODOR – ELEMENTS (2022) (Cuneiform Records)
A welcome return for a Quebec band originating in 1980; this is only their tenth album, their music oft described as if emanating from a...
Dec 12, 20231 min read
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