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ZONE SIX – FULL MENTAL JACKET (2023)
Zone Six was founded in 1997 by Dave Schmidt of Sula Bassana. They classify themselves as Neo-Krautrock and Improrock. It is no surprise...
Mar 12, 20242 min read
SULA BASSANA – NOSTALGIA (2022)
In the year of Sula Bassana’s 20th anniversary, multi-instrumentalist Dave Schmidt got together a series of pieces composed and recorded...
Mar 12, 20242 min read
CHERRY RED ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF NEW HAWKWIND ALBUM
Encouraged by the reception to 2023’s “The Future Never Waits”, HAWKWIND’s “Stories from Time and Space” is to be released on 5th April,...
Feb 2, 20241 min read
ASTRAL MAGIC – END OF TIME (2024) – soon to be released. Check BANDCAMP.
The prolific and popular space rocker Santtu Laakso is back with some more magical Finnish space rock. ‘Serenity’ starts the album with...
Feb 2, 20241 min read
ASTRAL MAGIC featuring BRIDGET WISHART – AD INFINITUM (2023)
This is a full review to follow my review of the promo. ‘Shine’ begins the album, a great vehicle for the voice of Bridget Wishart of...
Nov 21, 20232 min read
ASTRAL MAGIC featuring BRIDGET WISHART – AD INFINITUM (2023)
‘Shine’ begins the album, a great vehicle for the voice of Bridget Wishart of HAWKWIND and SPIRITS BURNING fame, as the unmistakeable...
Nov 15, 20231 min read
HAWKWIND – RCA ACTIVE YEARS 1981-1982 (2023)
On 3rd November Atomhenge/ Cherry Red will release, in replica card wallet style with poster, in a clamshell 3 x CD box set. The albums...
Sep 27, 20231 min read
ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE: HELSINGØR 2021 (2023)
I have been reviewing the prolific improvisational space rocker Øresund Space Collective. Going back to “Ode to A Black Hole” (2016),...
Sep 5, 20233 min read
SPACE DEBRIS – Getting right inside the music of my favourite improvisational rock band (PART THREE)
SHE’S A TEMPLE (2012): Jerry Kranitz enthused about the 15 minute ‘Palmyra’ with its swirling Hammond, and Tommy Gorny’s “ripping guitar”...
Aug 9, 20236 min read
SPACE DEBRIS – Getting right inside the music of my favourite improvisational rock band (PART TWO)
ARCHIVE RECORDINGS CD ARCHIVE VOLUME 1: JOURNEY TO THE STARGLOW RESTAURANT (2011): An extract from my Acid Dragon review can still be...
Aug 9, 20234 min read
FROM THE ARCHIVES: SULA BASSANA and THE SULATRON LABEL
SULA BASSANA: ORGAN ACCUMULATOR: Most of the album has an ambient feel with gorgeous synth melodies accompanied by placid techno beats....
Aug 9, 20233 min read
ASTRAL MAGIC- EXPERIENCES IN HYPERSPACE and VORTEX OF ETERNAL LIGHT (2023)
First of all, thanks to Santtu Leakso for getting in touch and kindly providing BANDCAMP codes for some of his albums. Given that not...
Jul 19, 20232 min read
HAWKWIND: SPACE RITUAL 50th ANNIVERSARY (1973/ 2023)
It can’t be 50 years! Makes me feel really old! I saw them twice in their heyday and a couple of mates of mine went to their infamous...
Jul 8, 20231 min read


SULA BASSANA - NOSTALGIA (2022)
For the unacquainted, let’s set the record straight here; Sula Bassana is actually Dave Schmidt, an incredible one band (He does have a...
Jun 24, 20231 min read
FARFLUNG- LIKE DRONES IN HONEY (2022)
I hadn’t heard L.A. space rockers’ Farflung for a while, but heard that Dave Schmidt had released their latest LP on Sulatron Records...
Jun 24, 20231 min read
HAWKWIND – DAYS OF THE UNDERGROUND 1977-1979 (2023)
Just how much Hawkwind does the world need? I have reviewed dozens of them and here is another one. It’s on Atomhenge, a subsidiary of...
Jun 21, 20231 min read


HAWKWIND: DAYS OF THE UNDERGROUND: RADICAL ESCAPISM IN THE AGE OF PARANOIA by JOE BANKS
Joe Banks takes a unique approach in ‘Days of the Underground’: a chronological précis of all the Hawkwind albums from 1970 to 1980...
Jun 2, 20232 min read
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