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Available online from Issue 6

March 1995

56 Pages

Progfest '94, Progscape, Vinyl Magic part 1, Miriodor, Mastermind, Minimum Vital, Anekdoten, Echolyn

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Chance - Dunes

Cover art Chance is a new French instrumental outfit led by keyboardist Laurent Simonnet. With bass, drums, and a revolving cast of guitarists, he leads the band through nearly an hour of lush, melodic, and...  » Read more
(Posted by Rob Walker 1995-03-01)

Circus 2000 - Circus 2000 & Escape from a Box

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Circus 2000 is an entirely different beast from the rest of the Vinyl Magic catalog, falling more in the psych realm than in the more classically styled progressive genre. It's not to say they...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1995-03-01)

Citizen Cain - Somewhere But Yesterday

Cover art Further proving that the Genesis school of progressive remains in an exalted tier among the commandeers at SI (Synthetically Indignant — the original label for this album), here's the next hook,...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1995-03-01)

Clepsydra - More Grains of Sand

Cover art Ever miss the sound of Marillion in their glory days? This Swiss five-piece regularly evokes the memory of Misplaced Childhood on this, their second album, and build upon that general sound...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1995-03-01)

Collage - Moonshine

Cover art Well, this album gets off on the wrong foot, but definitely ends up on the right one. The album opens with some heavy keyboards and drums and then the vocals come in... and you can't understand a damn...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Grimes 1995-03-01)

Dalton - Riflessioni: Idea d'Infinito

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Dalton was another beat group turned "progressive" in 1972, and yet another one with an adventurous bent on a well-worn style. Dalton was very similar to bands like early Metamorfosi, I...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1995-03-01)

David Borden - Places, Times & People

Cover art It's so easy to hang labels on things, but in the end the true value of a piece of music is a fairly subjective thing — except maybe for those consumed with dissecting every detail ad nauseum. I'm a...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1995-03-01)

David Cross - Testing to Destruction

Cover art Cross was, of course, the longtime violinist with King Crimson Mk2; I mention this first because Testing for Destruction bears more in common with that edition of KC than probably either of...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1995-03-01)

David Cross - Testing to Destruction

Cover art Violinist David Cross is known to many for his work in the 70s with King Crimson. Less conspicuous have been a few more recent solo albums. His latest, Testing to Destruction, finds Cross...  » Read more
(Posted by Rob Walker 1995-03-01)

David Cross - Testing to Destruction

Cover art This album is the answer to the question, "Whatever happened to that guy who used to play violin in King Crimson?" Don't get your hopes up, though, Larks' Tongues it ain't. I really hated...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Ohman 1995-03-01)

Dead Can Dance - First Five Reissued

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Since 1984, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard have created seven albums that stand the test of time: Dead Can Dance (1984), Spleen and Ideal (1985), Within the Realm of a Dying...

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(Posted by Alan Gunnison 1995-03-01)

Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within

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Toward the Within is a live disk that documents DCD's 1993 tour, ostensibly in support of their latest studio release, Into the Labyrinth. However, Brendan Perry and Lisa...

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(Posted by Alan Gunnison 1995-03-01)

Débile Menthol - Emile à la Campagne

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This two-disc set collects both of Swiss band Debile Menthol's early-80s studio LPs (1981's Emile au Jardin Patrologique and Battre Campagne from '84) into a single...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1995-03-01)

Dedalus - Dedalus

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Dedalus was the jazziest of the Trident groups and this, their debut, has been the only one reissued of their two albums. Dedalus was very similar to the laid back fusion of Perigeo, with spacy...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1995-03-01)

Delta Cyphei Project - Virtual World

Cover art Did you ever listen to a CD and after hearing the first song, the second song starts and you think that someone has switched CDs on you? That's precisely what happens with Delta Cyphei Project's (DCP)...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Grimes 1995-03-01)

Dream Theater - Awake

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Judging by the various opinions that I had heard concerning this album, Awake was either the best album released so far this decade, or a worthless piece of tripe. I opted for believing...

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(Posted by Mike Borella 1995-03-01)

Dream Theater - Awake

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The second album by this part-prog, part-metal outfit with vocalist Jamie LaBrie follows in the footsteps of its predecessor Images and Words without changing much. LaBrie tries to sound...

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(Posted by Dan Casey 1995-03-01)

Dream Theater - Awake

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Over the past few years, Dream Theater has become one of the most talked about bands in several music circles. It's is a band about which most people have a strong opinion. If you like heavy...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 1995-03-01)

Dreamworld - On Flight to the Light

Cover art From the Black Forest city of Freiburg in southern Germany hail the multi-talented Fichter brothers, Klaus and Rolf. In 1972 they released on the Brain label an album called A Meditation...  » Read more
(Posted by Mike Ohman 1995-03-01)

E.A.Poe - Generazioni (Storia di Sempre)

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The original enthusiastic response to this reissue was based, I think, more on the extreme rarity of the original vinyl item than on anything else. Don't misunderstand, though, the music here...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1995-03-01)
 

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