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Revelation - Addicted

Happily, this neo-progressive outfit from London avoids copying the overworked Marillion sound so many neo-prog bands favor these days. Instead, they update their sound considerably, with a big...

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(Posted by Steve Robey 1996-08-01)

Ring of Myth - Unbound

First impressions are generally correct. This could be a likable excursion down a well trod path, however, I found it pretty much impossible to listen to this CD all the way through. This LA band is a...  » Read more
(Posted by Dane Carlson 1996-08-01)

Robert Rich / B.Lustmord - Stalker

This evidently is music for or from a soundtrack to a movie. I'm of the opinion that most music in this vein would do well as soundtrack music so it doesn’t really figure into my...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Rocket Scientists - Earthbound & Brutal Architecture

I wouldn't call the first CD by the Rocket Scientists progressive. It is a collection of songs, predominantly vocal. There is a lot of talent here. RS is Eric Nordlander on keyboards and...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 1996-08-01)

Sagittarian - Sagittarian

Sagittarian were a Japanese primarily-instrumental six-piece that put out one obscure album in the early 80s (in a limited edition of 100). The dominant sound is a Camel-influenced progressive...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

Saro Cosentino / Mino di Martino - TV Dinner

Mino di Martino was one half of Albergo Intergallatico Spaziale (reviewed

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

Simon Goubert / Christian Vander / Welcome - Beinvenue

These guys have just about got it right on this one! For the last several years, Christian Vander has been following the spirit of John Coltrane, particularly the Impulse years, Both he and Goubert...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Sithonia - Confine

This fourth album by Sithonia, a modern Italian band, brings an up-front approach to their style, underlined by lots of chordal guitar work supported by keyboard pads, contrasting a bit from their...

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(Posted by Alain Lachapelle 1996-08-01)

Sithonia - Confine

Sithonia have actually been around quite a while. This I believe is their fourth album since they started roughly around the same time Nuova Era did. Sithonia are moving more and more into that...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Sithonia - Confine

Sithonia certainly stand apart from their neo-prog contemporaries. Their influence draws mainly not on Genesis, but on classic 70s bands from their native Italy like Metamorfosi and Biglietto per...

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(Posted by Mike Ohman 1996-08-01)

Soft Heap - Soft Heap

Another splinter project of the Soft Machine / National Health ilk, Soft Heap was described as the "living evolution of the Softs" going forward into the present day (even though Gowen...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1996-08-01)

Soft Machine - Live in Paris May 2nd, 1972 (aka Live in France)

[This was written about the original One Way edition. - ed.]

Wow! Another newly found live recording which was previously available only in bootleg format? Unfortunately, the...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1996-08-01)

Spektakel - Spektakel

Unless one has been hiding in the forest for a year, it should be fairly well known that The Laser's Edge was planning on releasing this, the tapes of an early band involving Ede Schicke and...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

Spirosfera - Umanamnesi

Does Alberto Piras have a twin brother? Spirosfera is an Italian quartet of guitar, bass / keys, drums, and dedicated lead vocalist Nicola Pavan, with regular guests on Hammond organ and saxes....

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

St Tropez & La Compagnia Digitale - Icarus & La Compagnia Digitale

Both of these groups contain percussionist/synthesist Ciro Perrino in their ranks. These groups were both post-Celeste and showed a vast change in style from that group. You may have heard Ozric...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Standarte - Standarte

This new Italian band has a sound that hails unmistakably from the early 70s heavy progressive scene. Though no guitar is credited in the notes, this is classic guitar and keyboard driven, mostly...

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(Posted by Rob Walker 1996-08-01)

Steve Howe - Homebrew

This new CD is a collection of guitar pieces and song writing ventures by the noted Yes guitarist which covers a span of over twenty years work from several solo and band projects. Almost completely...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 1996-08-01)

Steve Roach - The Magnificent Void

It seems Mr. Roach can do no wrong, always working with quality musicians always following different trails into uncharted areas and always sticking to psychosomatic energy in music. Lately,...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Steve Roach / Michael Stearns / Ron Sunsinger - Kiva

Stearns and Roach have collaborated before on 1989's Desert Solitaire as have Stearns and Sunsinger more recently on Singing Stones. For all three this is the first project...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Tel Basta - Lickerish

I really like this CD. Musically it's very simple. I am reminded of early Cure and Joy Division music. Progressive? Well, not as I call progressive. The promo statement for the band read...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 1996-08-01)