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Unreal City - Frammenti Notturni

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It seems like it’s been quite a while since I reviewed an album of classic-style Italian prog, so I’m happy to have this gem come up in my list. Unreal City has been in existence about...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-31)

Louis Minus XVI - De Anima

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This French jazz quartet from the Flanders region has been around for about nearly ten years, working the live scene and releasing four previous albums on various private labels, beginning with...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-12-30)

Herd of Instinct - Drone Priest

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From the beginning of its history, rock music has mostly been about bands — relatively stable groups of musicians who work together over time. Jazz, on the other hand, is largely about...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-29)

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

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If you remember the 80s, you remember the t-shirts — for me they were ubiquitous in guitar classes. To my ears Iron Maiden were and still are the greatest act to come from the New Wave of...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2017-12-28)

Tony, Caro & John - All on the First Day

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The original 1972 private LP pressing of All on the First Day (only 99 copies with spray painted cover) by the psychedelic folk trio of Tony Doré, Carolyn Doré, and John...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-12-27)

The Heliosonic Tone-tette - Heliosonic Toneways, Vol. 1

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From the name of this ensemble, you might guess that there’s some kind of connection with Sun Ra, and you would be absolutely correct. The impetus for the group’s formation was the 50th...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-26)

Steve Roach - Spiral Revelation

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Here we are in a soundworld that lies somewhere between Roach’s floating ambient style and his more sequenced work, one breathing life into the other, shifting as it goes across the...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-12-25)

She Owl - Animal Eye & Drifters

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After the lovely debut She Owl album in 2013, I lost track of this Italian duo until the announcement of the new Drifters EP, and I took the opportunity to check out what I’d missed,...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-24)

Johannes Luley - Qitara

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Many will know German-born, California based multi-instrumentalist Johannes Luley from his band Perfect Beings, and before that, Moth Vellum. Having studied under guitarist Eddy Marron of Dzyan and...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-12-23)

Collapse under the Empire - The Fallen Ones

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Collapse under the Empire is a German duo taking an electronic slant on the genre of post-rock. Normally, I’m not one to emphasize genre labels in music, as most of the best music defies easy...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-22)
 

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