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Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third

Pure Reason Revolution is part of a new breed of British Neo-progressive acts balancing neo-folk vocal phrases with familiar engaging art rock trappings. Led by guitarist Jon Courtney and bassist...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2008-01-01)

Quodia - The Arrow

Several years in the making, Quodia is the brain child of Warr guitar masters Trey Gunn and Joe Mendelson. Somewhat similar to many of Laurie Anderson's multi-media productions, the Crimson alumnus...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2008-01-01)

Ranarim - Morgonstjärna (Morning Star)

This tasty and rousing slice of modern Swedish trad-folk grows on the listener like a nice warm coat on a cold winter morning. This is music full of color, warmth, melody, and rich in tradition,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Randy California - The Euro-American Years 1979-1983

It merits discussion as to what, in the early 80s context, constituted the difference between a Spirit album and a Randy California album. Because nearly every Spirit composition in those days was...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Rapoon - Time Frost

Glacial movements indeed. On this release (as on many before), Rapoon (a.k.a. Robin Storey) creates atmospheric minimalist musical landscapes that pass the drone test, although on this particular...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band

Is this some long lost Gentle Giant album that I’m hearing? Just insert Patrik Lundström into Derek Shulman’s shoes and you get an idea of the sound bursting from the title track...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2008-01-01)

Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement

Riverside's new one consolidates their position at the forefront of Polish prog bands and convincingly encapsulates what makes this quartet so effective, with few of the hamstrings that can...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2008-01-01)

Robert Fripp - At the End of Time: Churchscapes Live in England & Estonia, 2006

There is a great volume of music that we can work to comprehend, and there is a more elusive body within the body of music that it is best to apprehend. The first, of course, is a conscious...

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

Robert Wyatt - Comicopera

Robert Wyatt must truly be the most playful world artist on the planet. His tireless efforts making strong musical statements in pop and jazz format stand up and apart from any other British or US...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2008-01-01)

Roger Powell - Fossil Poets

Roger Powell is best known as long-time keyboardist for Utopia as well as his early pioneering synthesizer records (Cosmic Furnace and Air Pocket). Fossil Poets is his first...  » Read more
(Posted by Jeff Melton 2008-01-01)

Runaway Totem - Esameron

Since their debut in the early 90s, Runaway Totem has always had interesting music to serve up. Their early Black Widow releases were extremely dark and twisted endeavors, while their first for Musea...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Rush - Snakes and Arrows

When a short audio sample of "Far Cry" was posted on Rush's web site it led to excited and hopeful premonitions of a return to the kind of prog rock the Canadian trio had pioneered on...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2008-01-01)

Sarcasme - Mirage

Maybe I'm just a little dense, but I'm not sure how a band that's been around for 12 years can be called young and new, even if this is their first release. That being said, I will admit that the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2008-01-01)

Saturnia - Muzak

Saturnia has been around since the late 90s, and Muzak is the latest release from this little known Portuguese psych-prog band. Saturnia is essentially multi-instrumentalist Luis...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2008-01-01)

Seamus - Zealotry Sterblichen Schizophrenia

Seamus is a French/English band that takes on the monumental task of portraying the horror of the Holocaust. The music is very intense, even abstract at times, as Seamus tries to convey the anguished...  » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2008-01-01)

SimakDialog - Patahan

For their first international release, SimakDialog offers a live set recorded in Jakarta in April 2005. At this juncture, bandleader and keyboardist Riza Arshad is joined by a rhythm section of...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Six Gun Lullaby - Six Gun Lullaby

I’m the last person who would insist on bands adhering to standard instrumentation, but when I listen to this one, I hear a sound that’s tinny and kind of wimpy – and wimpy is the...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2008-01-01)

Spirit - Salvation... The Spirit of '74

One of the heretofore undocumented periods in Spirit's career began shortly after Epic's rejection of Potatoland in '73. Randy California left the group (for the second time)...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2008-01-01)

Squonk Opera - You Are Here

You Are Here is a companion soundtrack to Squonk Opera’s latest stage production, (put your hometown’s name here): The Opera and continues a string of theatrical...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2008-01-01)

SSI - E Pluribus Unum

SSI (Sonic Solutions, Inc.) apparently consists of California brothers Will and John Goff, who combine laptops and MIDI synths along with live and programmed percussion to create sounds reminiscent...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2008-01-01)