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Available online from Issue 12

May 1997

72 Pages

Yes, Ash Ra Tempel, Camel, Exposure Concert Series,French TV, Earthlings, moe, Trance Mission, Renaissance Mark 1, Solstice/Andy Glass, Mona Lisa, Bill Forth of Ten Seconds, Martin Barre, Toshio Egawa of Gerard, Doane Perry

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Soft Head - Rogue Element

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More of the Soft Machine family tree keeps meandering down the analog highway onto digital. Soft Head, the second album actually by Soft Heap (replacing the P (Pip Pyle) with D...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1997-05-01)

Sonic Abandon - Sonic Abandon

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This overlooked project is simply two talented guitarists playing together with engaging rhythms and somber effects units. There are four pieces loosely connected by some vague, linear continuity....

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1997-05-01)

Spock's Beard - The Beard Is out There (AKA Official Live Bootleg)

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The Los Angeles ProgFests have proven their worth to the attendees and now they seem to be yielding rewards for the performers as well. While there was no ProgFest last year, 1996 turned out to be...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 1997-05-01)

Stelvio Cipriani (with Goblin) - Solamente Nero

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Funk bass lines, analog synth lines, weird effects, and campy horror movies, no one knows how to mix them like Goblin. The soundtrack of Solamente Nero finally released (like I knew it all...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1997-05-01)

Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited

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After Steve Hackett left Genesis in 1977, he continued to create imaginative music while his cohorts gradually faded into a massive commercial success. With the Genesis of old long gone, Steve...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 1997-05-01)

Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri - Other Worlds in a Small Room

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Other Worlds in a Small Room is the only second duo project by half of Japan (later Rain Tree Crow) and also a few side projects with Mick Karn (Seed). In addition, Barbieri is...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1997-05-01)

Surrender to the Air - Surrender to the Air

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Free jazz is little more than an afterthought in the consciousness of the jazz world today, so it is refreshing as well as a bit intriguing to see a gutsy new release in this genre, from a major...

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(Posted by Rob Walker 1997-05-01)

Swallows - In Trance

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Oh, Dear Lord... I took a look at the titles for some of the tracks on this album: "Rock n Roll's My Life," "Lost Without You," "Nasty Boys," and just cringed. I...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 1997-05-01)

Telaio Magnetico - Live '75

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Steve Hackett once made a very poignant comment on the conflicts engendered when instrumental music is inappropriately adorned by vocals; he said it was as if you had painted this marvelous canvas,...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 1997-05-01)

The Black - Apocalypsis

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Black Widow is home to numerous bands like Malombra, Standarte, and Abiogenesi that work a very vintage early 70s progressive hard rock sound, a pre-synthesizer based style that utilizes plenty of...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1997-05-01)

The Last James - Kindergarten

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Is this Magical Mystery Tour Vol. II? Kindergarten is a brilliant concept album of intense psychedelic pop, loaded with Mellotrons, great vocal harmonies, song-to-song musical...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1997-05-01)

The Ululating Mummies - Sacred Snack

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The Ululating Mummies use a mixture of guitar, mandolin, accordion, piano, saxophone, bass, and drums to create an eclectic blend of European and American folk musics, tinged with traces of rock...

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(Posted by Rob Walker 1997-05-01)

The Wishing Tree - Carnival of Souls

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After several years of speculation and rumor, Steve Rothery (Marillion's mainstay guitarist) has finally released a solo band project, which includes Pete Trewavas and spotlights female...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1997-05-01)

Thistle - Thistle

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What a pleasant surprise I had the day when I found this treasure in my mail box! Thistle is the latest release of mysterious-cosmic-eerie female vocal-electronic music from Ventricle. Up...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 1997-05-01)

Trembling Strain - Bottom of Empty

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Trembling Strain may well lose whatever fans they have gained, or else recruit lots of new ones by virtue of this, their third album in less than a year and a half. In this short time the ensemble...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 1997-05-01)

Ultimate Spinach - Ultimate Spinach, Behold & See & III

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Long before the British domination of all things progressive, progress was being made in the post-San Francisco underground scene in many US cities, among them Boston. The fact that producer Alan...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1997-05-01)

Už Jsme Doma - Uprostřed Slov (In the Middle of Words)

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Use a tuner for the guitar? The hell with that! Už Jsme Doma's first album has lots of the same trademark zany quirks that defined their recent

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 1997-05-01)

Valarie Morris - Transformations

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Like an artist's sketchbook; that is, in essence, what Transformations presents itself as. Most of the titles were written for small groupings of winds, piano, etc., but are rendered...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 1997-05-01)

Various Artists - Czech Masters of Rock Guitar / Čeští Mistři Rockové Kytary

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As the title implies, what we have here are eleven tracks of smoking hot instrumental guitar rock. The list of featured performers reads like a who's who of Czech guitarists — some...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1997-05-01)

Various Artists - Czeching In

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Well, well, well, I was as unprepared for this omnibus CD as one could be. Apart from Iva Bittová, Dunaj, and Už Jsme Doma, little other Czech rock music of a creative nature seemed to hit...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 1997-05-01)

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