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Kehell - Galileo

It’s been a few years since this excellent Japanese fusion outfit has released anything new, their last being Arrow of Time from ‘93. Led by guitarist / composer Shigekazu...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-04-01)

L'Ange Vert - Le Sang des Hommes

Remember a while back, when I reviewed Tempest's Turn of the Wheel, and I lamented the fact...

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(Posted by Mike Ohman 1999-04-01)

Magma - Flöë Ëssi / Ëktah

After a long hiatus from recording and playing, then several years of touring, Magma has finally released something new, and although the eight minutes on this CD that could have easily...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-04-01)

Martin Velíšek & Už Jsme Doma - Jaro, Peklo, Podzim, Zima (Spring, Hell, Autumn, Winter)

This upstart Czech ensemble occupies firm Rock in Opposition territory, with honking horn fanfares over rhythmically tricky power chord riffs. However, this generalization doesn’t quite work...

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(Posted by Steve Robey 1999-04-01)

Mercury Rising - Building Rome

Of late I have had to re-evalute my definition of what I thought progressive metal was. Take Mercury Rising, for example: the vocals are understandable, the guitar licks are not Metallica based,...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 1999-04-01)

Mystery - Destiny?

Yikes, my second guilty pleasure disc this time around! Mystery are a four piece from Quebec and on Destiny? they serve up some fine slices of progressive pop, often sounding like an...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 1999-04-01)

Nathan Mahl - The Clever Use of Shadows

From what we’re led to believe, Parallel Eccentricities was only a small part of the Nathan Mahl story, one that spans 20 years and includes two parts of a trilogy that this new CD...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-04-01)

NeBeLNeST - NeBeLNeST

Rare it is, the debut of classic caliber. We saw one a couple years back with DFA’s Lavori in Corso, Änglagård’s Hybris before that; but they don’t...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-04-01)

Patrick Broguière - Mont Saint-Michel

Borrowing from the famous Mont Saint-Michel legend, this third album under the name of this French electronicist is not at all a solo album but a real album group, with bass, guitars, vocalists,...

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(Posted by Jerome Schmidt 1999-04-01)

Paul Dunmall Octet - Bebop Starburst

If big band jazz is an acquired taste for any progressive music aficionado, then big band jazz with free jazz overtones is a likely a challenging ordeal. Even for the casual bebop jazz fan...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1999-04-01)

Phil Mercy - Fear of Fantastic Flight

I don't know who Phil Mercy is, but, if I had to guess from what's in the CD booklet, I'd say he's a gifted English guitarist who has always wished for a chance to record the kind...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 1999-04-01)

Premiata Forneria Marconi - Ulisse

The new album by Italian stalwarts PFM bears interesting comparisons. While many Yes fans continue to buy new albums by Yes irregardless of style or substance, I would wager that fans who bought...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-04-01)

Qoph - Kalejdoskopiska Aktiviteter

I don’t know if Qoph is Sweden’s answer to Finland’s Five Fifteen, but there are at least superficial similarities (perhaps augmented by the fact that I received this disc on the same day I got...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 1999-04-01)

Rahmann - Rahmann

This is one of the year’s most anticipated reissues, an album in the zeuhl family by a French / Algerian ensemble with bassist Gérard Prévost. A late 70s group, Rahmann combined...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-04-01)

Richard Pinhas & Maurice Dantec - Le Pli: Schizotrope III

Back to Heldon? No, back to solo! Richard Pinhas has spent almost one year in studio with new musicians from the top-notch French avant-garde scene to produce a new Heldon album, but in the end...

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(Posted by Jerome Schmidt 1999-04-01)

Robert Rich - Seven Veils

Rich is a soundcrafter who has released a number of excellent CDs, but Seven Veils is perhaps his strongest yet. It is evident that this is an evolutionary descendant of his early Hearts...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-04-01)

Roger Eno - The Flatlands

In a 1990 Wire magazine interview, Brian Eno described a work in progress involving the performance of his synthesizer compositions by the Kreisler Orchestra. This intriguing idea never...

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(Posted by Michael Draine 1999-04-01)

Rova - Bingo

For 20 years now, California's Rova Sax Quartet has been unrelentingly pursuing the ambitious task of inventing new music from the most traditional instrumental family in jazz history –...

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(Posted by Mike King 1999-04-01)

Sadhappy - Good Day Bad Dream

Sadhappy has been one of Seattle’s quietly active units for the last few years. The group has undergone some famous personnel changes (in particular the departure of key saxophonist, Skerik...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1999-04-01)

Sanna Kurki-Suonio - Musta

With this release, Northside proves that their string of extraordinary CDs (see last issue’s overview) was no fluke. In addition, Musta proves that Sanna Kurki-Suonio is not just one of the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 1999-04-01)