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Dr Folamour - Dr Folamour

About halfway through my first listen to Dr Folamour's eponymous debut, I had to go and find my copy of baG's

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

Draft & Bill - Reported Missing

Mellow's "New Progressive Series" (a title they tend to put on the newer releases) is a rather misleading category. I don't want to entertain a discussion of what...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Dweller at the Threshold - No Boundary Condition

Dweller at the Threshold is a trio of Paul Ellis, Dave Fulton, and Jeff Vasey, on synthesizers, synthesizers, and synthesizers respectively, out to explore the far reaches of a finite universe with...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

Eiliff - Eiliff & Girlrls

It's amazing how many great albums are still being reissued from Germany from the early 70s. It seems at times that there is no end to the wealth from that period. Eiliff was another gem of a...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

El-Hadra - The Mystic Dance

Featuring three respected German new-electronic musicians, Ted de Jong on tabla, Klaus Wiese on zither, and Matthias Grassow on keys, one might hope that the three would use this unusual...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

Electric Diamond - Electric Diamond

Electric Diamond is a trio of keyboards (piano and analog synths), lyricon, and violin. The music is all instrumental, and ranges from analog synth renditions of 13th and 14th Century dances to...

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(Posted by Rob Walker 1996-08-01)

Electric Orange - Orange Communication

Some may recall that we reviewed the original Electric Orange album back in issue #4. That album,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

Eloy - The Tides Return Forever

There is something strangely familiar about the latest studio release from this long time fixture on the German prog scene. First off, the old Eloy logo is back after a fairly long hiatus. Secondly,...  » Read more
(Posted by Chris Snow 1996-08-01)

Exclusive Raja - Insubmersible

Insubmersible is Exclusive Raja's second album and is a step onward from their debut, Off the Map, of three years ago. This eclectic band shows musical influences of such...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 1996-08-01)

Finnforest - Finnforest / Lähtö Matkalle

At the core of this classic Finnish prog-fusion unit were two brothers, Pekka and Jussi Tegelman, on guitars and drums respectively. They recorded three albums in the mid-late 70s; the first two...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

FM - Retroactive: FM Archives Volume 1

This Canadian trio is probably best known for their three late-70s LPs Black Noise, Headroom, and Surveillance (the first of which saw CD reissue a couple years ago)...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)

Folli di Dio - Folli di Dio

It sounds like Folli di Dio just missed being on Mellow's Fruit Salad label, as it fits into that most amorphous of genres – neo-psychedelic. Neo-psych is as ambiguous as most genre names...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Fonya - Earth Shaper

Fonya is Chris Fournier, a multi-instrumentalist adept at making instrumental symphonic progressive rock in a variety of moods. The album is primarily keyboard-based, using modern keyboard sounds...

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(Posted by Steve Robey 1996-08-01)

Fonya - Earth Shaper

Earth Shaper is a travel into a fantasy land. A rather colorful travel where most of the times the instruments are equal in conveying the soundscapes to these imaginary places. It could be...

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(Posted by Alain Lachapelle 1996-08-01)

Fonya - Earth Shaper

Fonya continues to be the solo vehicle for multi-instrumentalist Chris Fournier. His latest release is one that builds well on previous efforts, and is simultaneously familiar and accessible, not...

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(Posted by Dan Casey 1996-08-01)

Francesco Buccheri - Journey / Second Journey

Italian synthesists are a rare breed and only a few of them did anything of note (Cacciapaglia, Baffo Banfi, and very few others). Buccheri was a very obscure musician with a pronounced Teutonic...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Françoise Toullec - Histoire d'Onk

Pianist Françoise Toullec leads her quintet through some mellow and mysterious avant-garde jazz on this intriguing album. Accompanied by acoustic bass, drums, saxophone, and voice, she...

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(Posted by Rob Walker 1996-08-01)

Garden Wall - The Seduction of Madness

Now here's a band who has made some serious progress. From listening to Principium or Path of Dreams, there's no way of telling that they would have made this much of a step up. ...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-08-01)

Garden Wall - The Seduction of Madness

When I first heard the name "Garden Wall," I thought, "This band must be another one of those Genesis influenced bands." Well, after listening to the CD, I wonder if they've ever even heard of...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Grimes 1996-08-01)

Garden Wall - The Seduction of Madness

One might ask how Garden Wall could possibly top their previous album, Path of Dreams from 1994. This writer was initially skeptical about that possibility, but after a few listens to this...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-08-01)