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Akinetón Retard - Akranania

Chile’s Akinetón Retard is back! As on their debut, the musicians are listed by...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2002-09-01)

Akinetón Retard - Akranania

Chilean ensemble Akinetón Retard has hit the prog scene quickly. Their first release came...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 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...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2002-09-01)

Black Tape for a Blue Girl - The Scavenger Bride

Black Tape for a Blue Girl has a long, illustrious career that I am completely unfamiliar with except for running across the occasional favorable comment or compilation entry. So I came at this...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2002-09-01)

Black Tape for a Blue Girl - The Scavenger Bride

Black Tape for a Blue Girl is the creative outlet for Projekt’s founder, Sam Rosenthal. On The Scavenger Bride, the thirteenth release using the Black Tape name, the project is...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 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)

Brannan Lane - Lost Caverns of Thera

Put on the headphones and turn out all the lights, and you are there; this disc will certainly make you believe it! Lane has recreated the sounds of the cavern — first the running water, the...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2002-09-01)

Brannan Lane - To Earth and Back

I was captivated from the opening drones of this CD from newcomer Brannan Lane. Swirling dervishes of ambient sound dance around. The four-part opening suite is a very free-flowing affair,...

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(Posted by Phil Derby 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)

Curtis Reid - Omniumgatherum

When a minute and a half of ethereal voices and textural guitar experimentation gives way to a smokin’ instrumental rocker reminiscent of Eric Johnson at his best, the listener has to wonder...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2002-09-01)

Curtis Reid - Omniumgatherum

Curtis Reid’s second release, Omniumgatherum, is a mostly-instrumental, three-piece journey though rock, jazz, fusion, and some blues. Reid’s influences on this album are...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2002-09-01)

Curtis Reid - Omniumgatherum

Curtis Reid’s sophomore collection of seven distinct pieces is a notch forward since his self-titled work from 1999. There is much to celebrate again for fans of Eric Johnson and Steve Morse,...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 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 was in the process of breaking apart. Fortunately for us, they saw the project through to its completion, for...

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(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)