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Saga - Network

Saga just keeps on trucking. Network is like their 947th studio album or something. What’s amazing about Saga is that unlike most bands fortunate enough to have 30-year music...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2006-05-01)

Saga - The Chapters Live

This is the live album Saga fans have dreamed about. It was only a matter of time before Saga did the obvious – release a live collection of all The Chapters. Saga released two songs on each...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2006-05-01)

Saturnalia - Magical Love

This particular obscurity in Akarma’s campaign to rescue lost or legendary albums is an odd beast. The overall impression is much like the first incarnation of Renaissance with less appealing vocals...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2006-05-01)

Scenes - Call Us Now at the Number You Provide

Swedish prog metal protagonists Scenes are not a well known commodity on the international scene yet but they are making substantial inroads in that direction with this first label release. The...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2006-05-01)

Scott Amendola Band - Believe

For those not in the know, Scott Amendola has been pounding the skins in the experimental music realm for several years. In his many travels the time keeper has met a few kindred spirits along the way...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2006-05-01)

Secret Oyster - Vidunderlige Kælling

While listening to this album, I find myself often comparing it to Camel’s Snow Goose. For one thing, there is a certain stylistic similarity, as they are both keyboard-centric instrumental...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2006-05-01)

Shrimp Boat - Speckly

Chicago’s Shrimp Boat exemplified a regional lo-fi approach which was championed by late 80s bands such as Camper Van Beethoven, REM and the Replacements. Where many alternative rock acts appeared...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2006-05-01)

Side Project - Our Last Album

Their first serving is ska jangle sailing right at the edge of Primus in a Sublime bowl on the outskirts of the New York Downtown scene at a soup kitchen. Bad Brains never tasted this good. They...

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(Posted by Cesar Montesano 2006-05-01)

Sigur Rós - Takk

Iceland’s Sigur Rós’ claim to fame appears to be as a European bridge between 70s progressive rock ideas and modern alternative rock. The band has been tabbed by industry magazines such as...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2006-05-01)

Sky Cries Mary - Here and Now - Live 2005

For those of you familiar with this Seattle band, you will remember that they disbanded after their 1999 release Seeds to pursue different musical ideas. For example, their female vocalist...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2006-05-01)

Soft Bounds - Live at Triton 2004

Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper have been involved in so many projects together all it takes is for an alternate rhythm section to assemble under the two musical compatriots and a new project is born....

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2006-05-01)

Soft Machine Legacy - Live in Zaandaam

Moving forward from the Softworks lineup that included Allan Holdsworth, 2005 brought the opportunity to that icon with guitarist John Etheridge for a newer, more vital incarnation with distinct...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2006-05-01)

Spaced Out - Live in 2000

Anyone familiar with this hotshot Canadian fusion quartet (and shouldn’t all Exposé readers be?) knows that they are above all a musicians’ band – one of those...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2006-05-01)

Spirit - Son of Spirit / Farther Along & Future Games / Spirit of 84

After Spirit’s first four classic albums, the band entered a period of fluctuating personnel, style, and success. The double-LP Spirit of ‘76 had marked the revitalization of the band...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2006-05-01)

Spock's Beard - Gluttons for Punishment - Live in '05

These two CDs capture Spock’s Beard on their 2005 Octane European tour. Disk one is almost entirely taken from that record, while disk two pulls from past albums Feel Euphoria,...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2006-05-01)

Stella Vander - Le Coeur Allant Vers

Stella Zelcer established herself as an artist with an uncompromising independent streak long before the close of the 60s, when she was known simply as “Stella.” Despite having a keen...

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(Posted by Mac Beaulieu 2006-05-01)

Stephen Parsick - Hollenengel

Stephen Parsick, the other half of the well known (in EM-circles) German formation Ramp has made an album that immediately floats into dark realms. Travelling side by side with Vangelis, dark...

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(Posted by Roel Steverink 2006-05-01)

Stevan Tickmayer - Repetitive Selective Removal of One Protecting Group

I know what you’re saying, why is this perennial commercial panderer back in the pages of Exposé? For those who think Tickmayer’s work in the Science Group is too...

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(Posted by Sean McFee 2006-05-01)

Steve Howe - Homebrew 3

This is the third edition in Steve Howe¹s collection of archival demo recordings. With this disk the Yes guitarist has pulled together pieces spanning some twenty years, beginning with the...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2006-05-01)

Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return

The myths and legends of the Australian Aborigines provided the inspiration for this expansive opus that is generally touted as Roach’s first masterpiece. Here it is presented again in 24-bit...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2006-05-01)