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Gilgamesh - Arriving Twice

The musical world suffered a major loss in May of 1981 when Alan Gowen died of leukemia at the age of 33. Perhaps best known for his work with National Health, Gowen had also been the leader of his...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2001-03-01)

Gjallarhorn - Sjofn

Fans of the progressive strain of Nordic music pioneered by Hedningarna and Garmarna now have another genre-bending band to latch onto. Finland’s Gjallarhorn take some of the elements of those two...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-03-01)

Glenn Hughes - Return of Crystal karma

Glenn Hughes has always been a hidden, overlooked talent in my book. The man came to prominence first with rockers Trapeze, before moving into the high profile of Deep Purple during the...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-03-01)

Golaná - Feather on the Wind

Though Golaná (a.k.a. Scott Cunningham) plays handcrafted Native American wood flutes, his compositions have little connection the musical traditions of his Cherokee ancestors. Instead, the...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2001-03-01)

Guillermo Fragoso - Mexxico

Fragoso practices a brand of swarthy, doomy ambient prog that bears the imprint of Peter Frohmader. Fragoso serves up dark, dank soundscapes with a love of low registers, thick textures, and...

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(Posted by Dean Suzuki 2001-03-01)

Guru Guru - 2000 Gurus

I remember Guru Guru from back in the 70s, when I picked up one album on a whim. It was spacey, funky jazz rock done with a sense of humor (I don’t suppose you can be too serious with a name...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-03-01)

Haikara - Geafar

Geafar was the second album from Finnish band Haikara. Led primarily by guitar and sax, the music is in the quirky funk rock category. The tracks have a lot of variety. The album's...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2001-03-01)

Hands - The Early Years 1974-76

Further tapping the bottom of the barrel of archives by Texas group Hands is this collection of live recordings and rehearsals by two prior incarnations of the band, named Prism and Ibis. The first...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-03-01)

Hector Hernandez - La Evocación de lo Sublime

The up side of the modern availability of inexpensive digital recording equipment is that virtually anybody who wants to can put out a CD of their own music without having to go through the...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-03-01)

Hugh Burns - Dedication & Mindwash

For those of you who don’t know him, Hugh Burns is a much traveled and in- demand session guitarist who has played with the likes of Wham, Gerry Rafferty, and Jack Bruce. He is also involved...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-03-01)

Iconoclasta - La Granja Humana

After years of cranking out a release every year or two, Iconoclasta’s last release was De Todos...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-03-01)

Iconoclasta - La Granja Humana

Iconoclasta is back, but you would never have known it from how little fanfare this latest release has received. In fact, it seems to have basically slipped under the radar of most progressive rock...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2001-03-01)

Iona - Open Sky

This is the symphonic Celtic ensemble’s seventh album and their first studio release since

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-03-01)

Iona - Open Sky

After two live releases, Iona have gone back into the studio and made their most progressive album yet. Although the band’s overall sound remains the same, with Joanne Hogg’s gorgeous...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2001-03-01)

Iona - Open Sky

It may seem like there’s been a lot of Iona product floating around lately but if you think about it this is their first studio release since 1995’s

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2001-03-01)

Jade Warrior - Fifth Element & Eclipse

Jade Warrior has to be considered one of the 70s most innovative rock groups in both of their incarnations, the full-band version of the Vertigo albums and the duo version of the Island years....

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-03-01)

Jade Warrior - Fifth Element & Eclipse

25 years can be a lifetime for unreleased albums suspended in limbo. Jade Warrior had recorded new material in late 1972 and planned to separate tracks into two albums across as many years....

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-03-01)

Jade Warrior - Fifth Element & Eclipse

1998 has turned out to be a windfall year for Jade Warrior fans. Anyone familiar with the band’s

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-03-01)

Jade Warrior - Jade Warrior, Released & Last Autumn's Dream

After much effort and personal attention from the Hi-Note label, the set of the first three Jade Warrior albums is now available for mass consumption. Previous CD releases from Germany were poor...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-03-01)

James Johnson - Entering Twilight

This 66 ½-minute, one track CD reveals a style that may be part of the lineage of positive, gentle, cloudy ambient music that one finds on Steve Roach’s Quiet Music albums and...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-03-01)