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Hawkwind - Spacebrock

Is this ever going to stop? My first thought on this was it’s a Dave Brock solo record, but on further examination it appears to be a Hawkwind album. It opens with more re-recordings of...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 2001-07-01)

Holy Lamb - Salt of the Earth

What’s a prog band from Latvia doing on Mellow singing in fluent English? Looking for an international piece of the pie, I guess, and it looks like to some degree they may get it. I sometimes...

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(Posted by Mac Beaulieu 2001-07-01)

Hugh Hopper - Parabolic Versions

Hugh Hopper is at that point in his career where he wants to clarify direction. He's been through a well-documented improvisational phase with Soft Machine and its offshoots. Presently he's...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

Iconoclasta - La Granja Humana

Though I’ve been reading about them in Exposé for years, this is the first Iconoclasta I’ve actually heard. I’m going to leave aside the concept-album aspect of Granja Humana...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)

JADE - Jazz Afro Design Electric

Musea has come up with an extremely impressive instrumental progressive power trio in JADE. The album is a delight for guitar fans as Olivier Freche’s wide variety of styles evokes everyone...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2001-07-01)

John Greaves - Accident & Little Bottle of Laundry

Two additional albums from John Greaves' European catalog are now available from Voiceprint. Accident is his first solo album from 1982 and features literally a bizarre set of songs...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

John Serrie - Century Seasons

Fear not the ethereal, new-age looking girl on the front. This set is subtitled "The Space Music of Jonn Serrie," and that is an accurate reflection of this excellent retrospective. Gone...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2001-07-01)

Jon Rose - The Hyperstring Project (New Dynamic of Rogue Counterpoint)

I’m not even going to try to explain how this music was made – check out the web site for details. Just take it as given that Jon Rose has created a monster with violin ancestry, and...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2001-07-01)

Joshua Charles - A Positive Flow

Hailing from New York City, Joshua Charles is the driving force behind this entire disc, compositionally as well as handling most of the instruments and the production. This is most definitely one...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2001-07-01)

Keller & Schönwälder - The Reason Why... Part Two

I already thought that The Reason Why from Keller & Schönwälder’s 3-CD box set was excellent. But then I kept reading reviews of people who had attended the show,...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2001-07-01)

Kent Heckaman - Transitions

Tony Gerber of Spacecraft sent me this CD, and with it he continues to show me that I need to expand my musical horizons. I figured it would be something along space and ambient music lines,...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2001-07-01)

King Crimson - Heavy Contrukction

According to many accounts, the European tour for The Construkction of Light has been nothing short of a major success. A large number of gigs sold out across Germany, and women were seen...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

Land - Road Movies

Jeff Greinke’s Seattle project has evolved from a small collective to a full ensemble taking on an entirely evolved format. This time out, there are smooth grooves and a forward outlook, and...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

Land of Chocolate - Unikorn on the Cob

Combining a strong melodic base and solid pop sensibilities with touches of metal and multi-part harmonies, Land of Chocolate creates a song-oriented progressive rock that should find wide appeal...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2001-07-01)

Leo Kupper / Anna Maria Kieffer - Ways of the Voice

Leo Kupper is a Belgian musicologist and vocal theorist and with Ways of the Voice he furthers his 35-year study of the sonic capabilities of the human voice. His partner for this...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2001-07-01)

Lindsay Cooper & Charles Gray - Pia Mater

Lindsay Cooper has been well known for her obtuse compositions (including the acclaimed The Gold Diggers and Oh Moscow projects) as well as her groundbreaking work with Henry Cow....

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2001-07-01)

Lutz Ulbrich - Kurzmusiken

Inspired by the success of Ash Ra Tempel’s retrospective collection, The Private Tapes, Ulbrich decided to mine his solo archives as well, and the result is this 2CD assortment....

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2001-07-01)

Markus Reuter - Digitalis

Reuter is a German Warr Guitarist creating ambient music of a very individual nature. This is definitely at the abstract end of the Hypnos catalog, a music whose sense of melody is unlike any...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2001-07-01)

Matching Mole - Smoke Signals

After leaving Soft Machine in 1971, drummer Robert Wyatt planned to record a solo album that featured his songwriting and singing talents. He then enlisted guitarist Phil Miller, Dave Sinclair (of...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2001-07-01)

Mind over Matter - Under the Stars

Klaus Hoffman-Hoock is one of my favorite guitarist/synthesists, and this series of live recordings does little to dispel that perception. Recording either as Cosmic Hoffman or Mind over Matter,...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2001-07-01)