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Akinetón Retard - Akranania

Chilean ensemble Akinetón Retard has hit the prog scene quickly. Their first release came out last year and the follow-up has already arrived, and they have had engagements at BajaProg and...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2002-09-01)

Akinetón Retard - Akranania

Chile’s Akinetón Retard is back! As on their debut [reviewed in Exposé #24], the musicians are listed by humorous and anagramic pseudonyms in the liner notes  (There is,...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2002-09-01)

Arlo Bigazzi / Claudio Chianura / Lance Henson - Drop 6: The Wolf & The Moon

The three artists listed above are only the tip of the iceberg; collaborators on this project include Richard Barbieri (Porcupine Tree), Roger Eno, No-Man, Hector Zazou, and many more. The reason...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2002-09-01)

Black Tape for a Blue Girl - The Scavenger Bride

I really wanted to like this one. I’d read about Black Tape, and they sounded interesting: female vocals fronting ethereal, classical-inflected music with a kind of Gothic mood, but not the heavy...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Bob Drake - The Skull Mailbox

Bob Drake may be a genius, but it is fair to say that, as far as the results of his craft go, he is more than a bit scatterbrained. The Skull Mailbox is chock full of ideas, often more than...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Coral Caves - Voice from a Distance

Musea’s next entrant into the world of New Age music is this release by Japanese keyboard player Toshiyuki Fujita. This one slots squarely into the space between Yanni, Kitaro, and Rick...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2002-09-01)

Dom F. Scab - Analogical Confessions

Dom F. Scab is Spain’s answer for Tangerine Dream fans who wish they still sounded like they did in 1985 or 1986, right when they transitioned from Johannes Schmoelling to Paul Haslinger. His...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2002-09-01)

Faust - BBC Sessions+

The “BBC” part of Sessions + is a twenty minute piece named simply for its date of broadcast: “BBC 1.3.73.” The first section of this track (“The Lurcher”) is a bass and drum...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Frágil - Sorpresa del Tiempo

While they are relatively unknown in most of the world, Frágil must be quite popular in their homeland of Peru. Case in point: this live reunion CD from a concert in 1999, recorded with a...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Garlic - L'Enigma della Trottola

Italian three-piece Garlic recorded this album live in the studio over three days with no overdubs. The songs are all instrumental guitar, bass, and drums with interesting electronic processing...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2002-09-01)

Hemisphere - Attachment X

Hemisphere serves up another slab of dark shadowy theatrical ambience. Labeled “A Psychedelic Deep Ambient Soundtrack,” it is, I believe, all seeing light of day on CD for the first...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 2002-09-01)

Henry Cow - Western Culture

By the time they got to 1978 and the recording of Western Culture, Henry Cow were in the process of breaking apart. Fortunately for us, they saw the project through to its completion, for it...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Here and Now - Give and Take

Here and Now are very heavily patterned in the mold of Radio Gnome era Gong, complete with silly vocals, but luckily they also borrow from Gong’s best features, with some great guitar solos...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Hereward Kaye - Golden Mile

Singer/songwriter Hereward Kaye is something of a mystery even in his homeland, the UK. The artist has crafted thirteen pieces somewhat reminiscent of Elton John's renaissance era with a style...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-09-01)

Honey Barbara - I-10 & W. Ave.

Singer/songwriter Ross Marlow’s conventional set of pieces with cohort James Sidlo (DreamLand) is called Honey Barbara. Together with drummer Lisa Kuehl and various guest artists, this trio...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-09-01)

Imagin'Aria - La Tempesta

La Tempesta opens with a bit of an attitude, with an in-your-face rocker that almost manages to betray their distant past as a metal band while not really being a metal song. Forming in...

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(Posted by Mac Beaulieu 2002-09-01)

IZZ - I Move

Progressive rock fans seem to be split into two distinct camps when it comes to this kind of prog. IZZ operate in the same general area as Spock’s Beard – a rather poppish modern take...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Jewlia Eisenberg - Trilectic

It’s probably stating the obvious to say that fans of Charming Hostess and (to some degree) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are likely to enjoy this release as well. Eisenberg is one of the...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

John Martyn - Sweet Certain Surprise & Live at the Bottom Line

What is remarkable in this last set of two live rarities from guitarist and vocalist John Martyn is that the two performances continue to show an expanding range within different periods of the...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2002-09-01)

Kelly David - Broken Voyage

Mixed and enhanced by Steve Roach, mastered by Roger King, with graphic design by Sam Rosenthal, it is a sheer wonder that this doesn’t come across as a Roach clone, weighed down by comparison and...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2002-09-01)