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Various Artists - Thousand Days of Yesterdays - A Tribute to Captain Beyond

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For most of us, Captain Beyond is a sort of footnote in the history of progressive rock, having achieved little apparent success or recognition for the three records they released between 1971 and...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)

Various Artists - Un Voyage en Progressif Vol. 5

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We all know that one cut off of a sampler can’t possibly give an accurate picture of a band’s full breadth and quality. But if the purpose of a sampler slot is to shine positive light...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2001-07-01)

Värttinä - Ilmatar

Cover art With Ilmatar, the Finnish band Värttinä enters a third phase of their career. The switch to NorthSide puts them in the company of many like-minded Scandinavians. Like Sweden’s Hedningarna...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)

Wendy Carlos - Digital Moonscapes & Beauty in the Beast

Cover art One of the shortcomings of electronic music is that no matter how sophisticated the hardware and software have become, it can’t approach natural instrumentation for the wealth of detail in sound and...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)

Aelian - A Tree under the Colours

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Aelain is a five-piece guitar / keyboards / bass / drums Italian band that serves up music in the 80s AOR rock style. The song arrangements are typically neat and clean and there are loads of...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2001-03-01)

Alo Mattiisen - Read

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After some none-too-fulfilling encounters with the likes of Eloy Fritsch and Artemiy Artemiev, I was becoming weary of what my next task with reviewing synthesizer-based music would hold. Alas,...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2001-03-01)

Amoeba - Pivot

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Without reading the credits, it would be easy to assume Amoeba is a four or five member band, but in reality it’s two guys: Robert Rich (vocals, keyboards, steel guitar, flutes) and Rick...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-03-01)

Amstrong - Sprinkler

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Amstrong hail from Copenhagen, and are often compared to Massive Attack and Portishead, but I don’t hear much of that. Their sound is a strange mixture of very artificial and organic, with...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-03-01)

Annie Whitehead - Home

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Annie Whitehead is a trombonist and composer who has made what I’d characterize as an optimistic revalidation of the roots of early Brit jazz, adding a careful handling of world music themes....

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-03-01)

Anscha - Anscha

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This is a very good example of good “musical” ideas ruined by an out-of-control singer. “Musical,” here meaning instrumental ideas. The vocalizations of the singer, Andreas...

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(Posted by Jerry Baiden 2001-03-01)

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