Tim Hunter has informed me of a new single on his Northern Soundscapes Bandcamp page. This is a new 2 track single about St Hilda and St...

A Canterbury school teacher’s son, Mike Ratledge was born in Maidstone in Kent and grew up with classical music, He met his friend Brian...

The title is tongue in cheek alluding to the ‘urban myth’ that Jazz Sabbath’s first album in 2020 was by a lost jazz group who were...

As it happens Adrian Belew are currently touring similar music with Beat, with Steve Vai as Robert Fripp. This is the first ever vinyl...

Recorded live at the Verdi Theatre in Salerno on 23rd April, 1975, this vintage concert is now enjoying a 2 x CD release (with 16-page...

If you are an aficionado of heavy progressive rock in the vein of Deep Purple and especially Uriah Heep, look no further than Blind...

Onrico is another group who wear their hearts on their sleeves, and it’s hard to believe that this is their debut, and one that is sure...

With a new album on the horizon, the mighty Tull has released a stunning 6-minute long single. Poignant piano and strummed acoustic...

Coming out round about now is an album that most certainly needed a significant sound upgrade from its original issue and this will...

Although a new band, a duo in fact, one of Fifth Daughter’s members James Howarth has collaborated with the KLF and Martin ‘Youth’ Glover...

Thanks to Barry Lamb and Peter Ashby for a copy of their annual report. Why is this post here? Because, for over 25 years now I have been...

Another album that will be 50 years old on 25th April: strangely enough despite four albums being reissued by Esoteric Recordings in 2025...

To be honest I don’t know what happened to i/e. I am looking at the second edition from winter, 1992 and find advertisements for the...

The magazine starts as always with Thierry’s candid editorial on the state of music and the world. Reading through the magazine there is...

Before I get on with the backlog of reviews of new music (Keep sending the music though!), I thought I would prewarn you of some notable...

Thanks to Thierry Sportouche, the editor of ACID DRAGON for sending me copies of extinct prog magazines, including the above. I don’t...

The article in PROG magazine reminded me of my signed copy of the above-named book. Richard Williams, writing in Melody Maker, said of...

In 2015 I had the idea of building an album from the bottom up so to speak, that is by asking Tim Jones and Paddi to provide some bass...

This is a concert recorded at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The set mostly contains classic Yes material but...

As I review the year 2024, here is one of many nice comments we have had: the link is: https://elegantsimplicity.com/2024/12/10/dimension...