Exposé Online banner

Exposé Online

Not just outside the box, but denying the existence of boxes.
Covering music from the fringes since 1993.

Available online from Issue 40

Winter 2012

0 Pages

Rebirth

Showing items 101 to 118 of 118

Taylor's Universe - Kind of Red

Cover art With each subsequent 'Universe' release, guitarist Robin Taylor's vision reaches a new level of refinement, and the latest, Kind of Red, is yet another step along that enlightening path. The...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-04-01)

The Goblin Market - Beneath Far Gondal's Foreign Sky

Cover art

The Goblin Market is an occasional project of Jeff Kelly and Laura Weller, both of whom are probably better known as members of The Green Pajamas. Their other collaborators are Emily, Charlotte,...

 » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-04-01)

The Green Pajamas - Death by Misadventure

Cover art

Think about Odessey and Oracle, S.F. Sorrow, and Pet Sounds. All classics of a particular era, and all sharing a similar aesthetic that combined psychedelic rock with a...

 » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-04-01)

The Machine - Calmer Than You Are

Cover art The third and latest release by this Dutch trio combines dark passages of moody introspection with hard edged heavy stoner rock, mixing in some tasty classic psychedelic elements along that path. The...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-04-01)

The Pretty Things - Honey, I Need / I Can Never Say

Cover art The Pretty Things have been around for over 50 years and are arguably the best R'n'B band the UK ever produced. One of the founding fathers, guitarist Dick Taylor, was originally with the Rolling...  » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-04-01)

Tohpati Ethnomission - Selamatkan Bumi (Save the Planet)

Cover art This album has so much going for it I'm not sure where to begin. When you start it up, you hear a brief bit of bass, an interesting ambient wash of indistinct notes, and some echoing flute. Then the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-04-01)

Tony Levin / David Torn / Alan White - Levin Torn White

Cover art Tony Levin and David Torn are no strangers to improvisational instrumental music, but the name that caught everyone's attention in this outing is drummer Alan White. It's been many moons since Alan...  » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2013-04-01)

Trois Expatriates - Conspiracy Weary

Cover art I suppose that given who these trois expatriates are (though I'm not sure they count as actual expatriates in any legal sense), it should come as no surprise that the music is totally nuts....  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2013-04-01)

Unit Wail - Pangaea Proxima

Cover art A new vision of darkness with some Zeuhlish touches, Unit Wail is a French five-piece playing the compositions of keyboardist Vincent Sicot Vantalon, twelve pieces in all, but also noteworthy is the...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-04-01)

Various Artists - A Sepiachord Passport

Cover art

There is a sub-genre of speculative fiction called Steampunk (see Wikipedia) and a corresponding musical sub-genre. For many...

 » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-04-01)

Various Artists - Prog Exhibition – 40 Anni di Musica Immaginifica

Cover art

How can a box set that took me nearly a week to work my way through (it was a wonderful week indeed!) be condensed into a review of less than 5000 words? This writer will attempt to do the...

 » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-04-01)

Various Artists - Psychedelic Underground 16

Cover art The Garden of Delights label has a long history of issuing compilations pulled from their vast library of mostly obscure, German prog and psych bands from the 70s. Entry 16 moves the series forward in...  » Read more
(Posted by Paul Hightower 2013-04-01)

Various Artists - Sorrow's Children - The Songs of S.F. Sorrow

Cover art In 1968, The Pretty Things recorded and released the first rock opera, six months ahead of Tommy. The basic story is about a man driven into a dark mental seclusion where he suffers from...  » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-04-01)

Vital Information - Live! One Great Night

Cover art Smith, who was the drummer for Journey during their rise to fame in the 1977-84 period exited that band at the height of their fame to concentrate on his Vital Information project which had started a...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-04-01)

Voltaire - Spooky Songs for Creepy Kids

Cover art Aurelio Voltaire Hernández aka Voltaire is a popular dark cabaret Cuban-American musician. He is also an experienced animator, comic artist, and a professor at the School of Visual Arts...  » Read more
(Posted by Henry Schneider 2013-04-01)

Yggdrasil - Yggdrasil

Cover art When discussing the rarest of rare titles in the archives of German rock history, this six-piece band from Munich has to be at the top of the scarcity list. Only 10 metal acetate copies of exist of...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-04-01)

Yūgen - Mirrors

Cover art With three outstanding studio albums behind them, last years' RIO festival seemed like an excellent opportunity to capture the band in a live setting. The material here, drawn mostly from the band's...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-04-01)

Zoppo Trump - Zoppo Trump

Cover art In the annals of German progressive rock, there are bands that are known by many, some that are known by a few, and some that unfairly never got their chance. Zoppo Trump is one such band. Their mix...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 2013-04-01)
 

What's new

These are the most recent changes made to artists, releases, and articles.