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Natsuki Tamura - White and Blue

Relying on a minimalist instrumentation (trumpet, sundry percussion, and drums), composer Natsuki Tamura is interested in filling space not only with free jazz excursions but also with textural...

NeBeLNeST - Nova Express

For the French quartet's second album, the band has procured Bob Drake as producer and joined Cuneiform records, but both new developments have left little difference in the band's music....

NeBeLNeST - Nova Express

This is the first time I have heard NeBeLNeST, and boy do they cook up a Hungry Man Dinner of Crimson-inspired fusion with a low-end wallop! Bass and drums are probably what create the closest link...

NeBeLNeST - Nova Express

Dark, dense, and intense sums up the excellent second effort from France’s NeBeLNeST. With the help of Thinking Plague / 5uu’s Bob Drake as producer and some live gigs, a more mature...

Niacin - Time Crunch

Time Crunch is Niacin’s fifth overall release and second on Magna Carta. Like their other albums, the music is all-instrumental keyboards / bass / drums. However, the band’s...

Oliver Wakeman with Steve Howe - The 3 Ages of Magick

[Regarding The 3 Ages of Magick]

The sons of Rick Wakeman are slowly beginning to follow in their father’s large footsteps as both acclaimed keyboardists and composers....

Oskar Aichinger - To Touch a Distant Soul

Mainland European Jazz is a true mystery looking from this continent eastward across the Atlantic. To keep tabs on what is happening, what impact there is, and how volatile a jazz scene may be,...

Peter Blegvad - Choices under Pressure

Choices under Pressure is a career retrospective done in a rather oblique (and typically Blegvadian) manner. He has rerecorded more-or-less acoustic versions of some of his best songs from...

Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live

At long last, a legitimate live release of Pink Floyd’s The Wall is available! The band played this magnum opus in full a mere 29 times, in only four cities. Even bootlegs of it are...

Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34: The Complete Trip

History: In 1992, Porcupine Tree was a little-noticed solo project of Steven Wilson. The first album had made little splash on the progressive psychedelic scene. Wilson decided to bring a little...

Pulsar - Bienvenue au Conseil d'Administration

Coming off the success of their first three albums, and facing the rise of the punk esthetic with its corresponding decline in the popularity of complex music, Pulsar began to work within the...

Raoul Björkenheim - Apocalypso

The only other release by Raoul Björkenheim I’ve heard is the collaboration he did with Nicky Skopelitis from 1997. I liked that a lot, but with two guitarists, you never know...

Raoul Björkenheim - Apocalypso

No, this is not a cover of that famous National Health song... Originally written in 1995, "Apocalypso" is a commissioned piece guitarist / composer Raoul Björkenheim (of Krakatau...

Raoul Björkenheim - Apocalypso

Björkenheim has been a contributor to works by the UMO Jazz Orchestra (covering various Miles Davis pieces), percussionist Paul Schütze's band, and been on the experimental music...

Remember Shakti - The Believer

The travels of John McLaughlin return to a path of Indian influence and spontaneous combustion with Remember Shakti, a new version of the group he formed after disbanding the Mahavishnu Orchestra....

Renaissance Illusion - Through the Fire

In our Renaissance Mark 1 feature in issue 12 several years...

Robert Rich - Bestiary

For an artist who has continually reinvented his sound over the years, his latest diversion must be his most drastic yet. Perhaps the major change in sonics is the dominance of the MOTM modular...

Robert Rich - Bestiary

Glewsh, bleep, blewsh, clickityclack, blublublub. The first eight minutes or so of Bestiary sound something akin to a Conrad Schnitzler album played through a room full of jello. Not even...

Roger Eno - The Flatlands

Roger Eno's fifth individual release, The Flatlands, is solo piano and small string section focused on poignant themes, but delivered passionately. Imagine Brian Eno's Discreet...

Roger Eno with Kate St John - The Familiar

As precursor to Channel Light Vessel, Roger Eno and enlightened conspirator (ex-Dream Academy) Kate St. John collaborated together on a set of thirteen string-supported pieces. Five songs feature...