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Clear Light - Clear Light

Other West Coast bands like the Doors, Love, and Jefferson Airplane may have grabbed center stage in the history of the psychedelic era, but there were many others, and some of them rivaled the...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Cobra High - Sunset in the Eye of the Hurricane

I have learned to be wary when the mainstream press describes an artist as “progressive” – you never know what they really mean, since the vast majority of progressive music is...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Curlew - Mercury

For their tenth release (least as I count them), Curlew has pulled out all the stops. The free-wheeling instrumental jazz sound of earlier releases is still very much intact, often packaged with...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2003-12-01)

Curlew - North America

The many incarnations of George Cartwright band Curlew took shape in the fusion wasteland of the early 80s. In parallel with the new release,

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-12-01)

David Sancious and Tone - Transformation (The Speed of Love)

David Sancious came at the genre of jazz-rock fusion from a rather different direction than most of the key figures. Rather than coming into it as an established jazz player or from the progressive...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Discus - ...Tot Licht!

Discus continues to create interesting music using a mix of both traditional Indonesian and Western instruments on their second album …tot licht! With eight people in the group,...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2003-12-01)

Discus - ...Tot Licht!

It’s been a few years since Discus’ debut, and they’ve been using the time well. The hour of music...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2003-12-01)

Discus - ...Tot Licht!

Discus entered the scene a few years back with a CD that captured an interesting fusion/prog mix, with a touch of...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2003-12-01)

Divided Sky - Spectral

Divided Sky is a Philadelphia based four piece progressive act that relies on heavy riffs that don’t quite fit into technical metal categorization. Phased guitar effects on...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-12-01)

DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid - Dubtometry

Hot on the heels of the acclaimed Optometry sessions (charting high in the Billboard top 100) comes an all-star set of seventeen remixes of samples and tracks from that disc. The...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-12-01)

Drama - Inspiración

It’s only been in the last couple years that I’ve started hearing any of the progressive music originating in South America, and while I’m reluctant to make broad generalizations,...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Eloy Fritsch - Mythology

As far as one-man keyboard-oriented projects go, this is not the worst I’ve heard, but neither is it the best. The closest comparison would be with 70s Vangelis albums, maybe Heaven and...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief

Now remastered, Liege and Lief was Fairport’s finest release and may be the definitive album of British folk-rock. The inimitable lineup of Sandy Denny (vocals), Ashley Hutchings...

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(Posted by Jim Chokey 2003-12-01)

Fiaba - Lo Sgabello del Rospo

Lo Sgabello del Rospo is a rock opera in eight parts. The vocals are mostly provided by a lead male vocalist backed by a chorus. His voice has that operatic rich tenor quality of many...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2003-12-01)

Frifot - Sluring

Is anybody out there saying Enough of this Nordic folk stuff, already? So many of us here at Exposé seem to be obsessed with it that I can imagine some readers being...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Frifot - Sluring

For those (such as myself) still finding their way into the Scandinavian folk revival via the NorthSide label, this one is a great new find. Frifot is the highly respected Swedish trio of Per...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2003-12-01)

High Wheel - Back from the Void

The first thing I thought of when I put this CD on was "Echolyn with a German accent." That sums High Wheel up pretty well (at least superficially), but it doesn't tell the whole story. I don't know...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Horace X - Sackbutt

In the mega-genre that is World Music there is a subgenre often called World Beat. Rather than being specifically from any part of the world, either in fact or in sound, World Beat combines...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2003-12-01)

Ian Carr's Nucleus - Out of the Long Dark & Old Heartland

One of the last incarnations of Nucleus from the late 70s featured Carr along with long-time cohort Brian Smith on reeds. Geoff Castle, Billy Kristian, and Roger Sellers rounded out this version of...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2003-12-01)

In Cahoots - All That

It seems hard to believe that it’s been over 20 years since Phil Miller formed In Cahoots after the late great National Health disbanded. All That is only the sixth full In Cahoots...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2003-12-01)