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Nexus - Perpetuum Karma

This Argentine symphonic band made a big splash back around the turn of the decade, fronted by beautiful lead singer with golden voice, Mariela Gonzalez, leading to invitations to Baja and...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites - Friesengeist Part π - Ascendances

For the third installment of his Friesengeist series, Julien Ash has pared things down, utilizing only four musicians to augment his own keyboards and effects; previous releases featured eight or...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2008-01-01)

Novalis - Novalis

Novalis was a Krautrock band from Hamburg, Germany and their self-titled second album is part of Revisited Records’ reissuance of the Brain back catalog. This album is an amazing mixture of folk...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2008-01-01)

NR Hills - Eleven Nails in the Coffin

These pieces originally appeared on English composer and musician N.R. Hill’s first three (now deleted) albums: Romeo & the Beast, Nails, and The Triumph of Death. With...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2008-01-01)

Nurse with Wound - Rock n Roll Station

Somewhere within the seven pieces that comprise Rock ‘n’ Roll Station a sadly conformist aesthetic emerges, apparently in conformity with its own tradition of non-conformity....

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(Posted by K. Leimer 2008-01-01)

Odin - SWF Session 1973 & Live at the Maxim

Along with the reissue of this quartet's amazing self-titled debut album from '73 (which originally appeared on the Vertigo label), Long Hair has released these two collections of archival...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Oki Hikoki - Krinkle

From some Wright honorable Meddle-era keyboard plonks to pretty much anyone’s arpeggiated Telecaster (here noted to be a “Rikencaster”), Brian Packham has been listening...

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(Posted by K. Leimer 2008-01-01)

Os Mundi - 43 Minuten

Os Mundi, Latin for “origin of the world,” was a 70s Berlin-based band that released only two albums, Latin Mass and 43 Minuten. Both of these Krautrock classics have been...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2008-01-01)

Øresund Space Collective - It's All About Delay

The ØSC web site states “totally improvised space rock!” That was quite evident on their debut release

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2008-01-01)

Panzerballett - Panzerballett

In my mind I picture the dancing of tanks — the cover art helps. But the only dance I can imagine is a slow, clumsy, brutish affair, most unlike the quick, dextrous, sophisticated music I...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2008-01-01)

Pendragon - Past and Presence

It’s funny that Pendragon, who represented the “new wave” of prog rock not that long ago, have now been around long enough to be having commemorative reunion and anniversary...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2008-01-01)

Periferia del Mondo - Periferia del Mondo (3)

Their third album, my first to hear. There’s a good variety of tones and influences here, not really like anything else I can think of. Some of the heavier parts remind me of the heavier...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2008-01-01)

Peter Hammill - Singularity

Peter Hammill’s hardened stare adorns the cover of the songwriter’s current recording from his home studio in Wilts, UK. If fans needed any reminder, the singer’s stance has always included...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2008-01-01)

Phased - Medications

The promo sheet says something about Black Sabbath crossed with Hawkwind, and for once you can take that at face value. Heavy, spaced-out rocking good fun, skeletal imagery notwithstanding. These guys...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2008-01-01)

Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon

This is a very different turn from last year’s The Great Leap, but that’s what Phideaux does – a different sound with every new release, but one can always count on...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Pinnacle - Meld

Heck, any band that gives thanks to "the spectacular Eliza Dushku for inspiration" deserves the benefit of the doubt, don't they? This American three-piece treads some familiar ground — the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2008-01-01)

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Not known for uplifting and cheerful music, Porcupine Tree has delivered another dose of downer prog rock. The theme of Fear of a Blank Planet is adolescent angst and the large number of...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2008-01-01)

Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring

This mini album consists of four songs (totaling about 30 minutes) that were written and recorded during the Fear of a Blank Planet album session but were held off for a variety of...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2008-01-01)

Psicotropia - Grog

A few years back this young Spanish trio left its mark on the audience in Mexicali, proving themselves to be competent purveyors of free-wheeling high-energy jamming and tightly composed math-rock....

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Puppet Show - The Tale of Woe

Puppet Show’s long awaited second studio album has finally made it out the door. Squashing any blatant anticipation, the quintet jumps right to it on the opening cut, “Seasons,”...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2008-01-01)