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Calliope - Il Madrigale del Vento

Some are no doubt familiar with Calliope's two earlier albums La Terra dei Grandi Occhi and Città di Frontiera from '92 and '93 respectively. Those first two...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)

Camel - Harbour of Tears

It's hard to believe that Dust and Dreams, the album that single-handedly revived Camel, was released so long ago. The subsequent 20th anniversary double-live CD elevated the band to...

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(Posted by Dan Casey 1996-03-01)

Camel - Harbour of Tears

Camel's latest album is a rather moody, somewhat slow-moving concept surrounding the events which take place in a small town on the Irish coast. Harbour of Tears is again (like...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1996-03-01)

Camel - Harbour of Tears

For anyone hoping that Camel might be turning out something a bit more uptempo, full of fire and color, after the somewhat 'gray' Dust and Dreams, I hate to be the bringer of bad...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)

Caravan - The Battle of Hastings

A reunion of the line-up which brought you For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night (1973) , and The Album (1880), here comes another by a group which has evolved into a well-honed...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1996-03-01)

Carl Weingarten - Redwood Melodies

For those that checked out his highly regarded Acoustic Shadow (reviewed in last...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)

Caryn Lin - Honour the Rain

Caryn Lin is a violin player who plays on one track of the Project Lo disc. Here, on her solo album, we find overdubs of echoed pizzicato and such over which a rather spatial violin flies....

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(Posted by Alain Lachapelle 1996-03-01)

Cast - Endless Signs

Cast has carved a niche for themselves in the neo-prog scene for good reasons. Their sound is very melodic and flowing. As with almost all bands lumped into the "neo-prog" classification,...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 1996-03-01)

Cast - Endless Signs

The perpetually industrious Cast have done it again, with yet another release, Endless Signs. One of the big surprises of Progfest '95, Cast delighted with their strikingly...

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(Posted by Mike Ohman 1996-03-01)

Cast - Endless Signs

Cast has dropped five CDs in just over two years, yet much of that material was recorded in the 80s and early 90s, and not released until now. Endless Signs, however, is their latest...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)

Cheika Rimitti - Sidi Mansour

Cheika ("crazy") Rimitti began her musical career in about 1936. The horrors of war and the epidemics that ravaged her native region of Oran in Algeria gave the inspiration for her first...

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(Posted by Alain Lachapelle 1996-03-01)

Chris Savourey - Chris Savourey

Looks are deceiving. Sure, this leather clad biker dude on the cover, clutching a flashy black Ibanez and covered with tattoos might lead one to believe this is just some average screaming hard...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)

Christian Vander - Baba Yaga la Sorcière

Huh? Christian Vander's latest release on his private AKT label is a chorus of sixty-or-so children doing a twenty-four minute re-worded (in French) version of the Magma classic Mekanïk...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)

Cinema - The Seven Stories

Cinema are a new project that Belle Antique are promoting. The band consists of former members of Fromage, and includes two keyboardists, an operatic female vocalist, and string players performing...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 1996-03-01)

Cinema Show - Dança dos Ventos

Nothing original about their name, but I was surprised by the plethora of creative compositional ideas put forth by this young Brazilian five-piece from Porto Alegre. As one might suspect, their...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)

Claude Lamothe - Nu

Flight after the escape. Derailment. Unconfined wildlife. Frenetic cello, rhythmic cello, unbridled cello soloing. Claude Lamothe, cellist with a classical formation, who played with the chamber...

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(Posted by Alain Lachapelle 1996-03-01)

Cliffhanger - Cold Steel

It's been a while since we've heard from SI Music, the Dutch label whose main thrust seems to range from decent neo-progressive bands on one end, to a very mainstream sounding rock on the...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)

Collage - Changes

This Polish five piece is no doubt best known for their CD Moonshine from 1994 released on the SI...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)

Courtyard Moth - Alive 'n' Gigging

Not too many groups these days play in the late 60s early 70s classic blues rock style, and fewer yet do it with an inventive outlook. Courtyard Moth are from Leicester, England and play somewhere...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1996-03-01)

Cyrille Verdeaux - Messenger of the Son

Verdeaux' name should be familiar to many, he was the main mover in the intensely symphonic seventies French band Clearlight, whose first two albums Symphony and Forever Blowing...  » Read more
(Posted by Peter Thelen 1996-03-01)