Three years after Les Insurgés de Romilly and time spent on side project PinioL, Ni is back with a new album, Pantophobie, released on March 1, 2019. While being faithful...
» Read moreFrank Wyatt was one of the main writers in Happy the Man so many years ago, as well as playing keyboards and saxophones, and as such he was a primary contributor to the band’s...
» Read moreThis live-in-the-studio set of four songs shows Axiom to be a formidable band even when unenhanced by overdubs. Their stock in trade is heavy, driving instrumental rock somewhere on the spectrum...
» Read moreWith their Undectet, Vladimir Nikolov and Srđan Ivanović have hit upon a powerful example of the large jazz ensemble. Frame and Curiosity is the group’s second album, and it shows...
» Read moreIt’s one of the most enduring cliches of music: The drummer gets his solo spot in the concert and the audience, as well as the other band members, head for the bar or the restrooms or...
» Read moreAt its core, music is an ephemeral art which exists only in its moment of performance. In the hundred years and a bit, the advent of recording technology has changed this somewhat, allowing the...
» Read moreThose of you who have been around a while probably remember MySpace as the go-to place for music, which has since been replaced by Bandcamp. Back in the day, electronic musician Andreas Baaden was...
» Read moreIn spite of their pretentious name, this Danish band has more in common with Survivor or Europe than any other band I can think of. The band’s roots go back to the 80s with a neo-prog band...
» Read moreNo, I don’t know where all these bands come from — you know, the ones you’ve never heard of that manage to record complex music with strings and brass and whatnot in a world where...
» Read moreI suppose some people know Bjørn Riis from his work with the band Airbag, but as it happens, I’m more familiar with his solo work, and A Storm Is Coming is the fourth of...
» Read moreNever mind the fact that they’re from Germany — if you’re looking for some good old fashioned American folk-rock, Kenneth Minor has an album for you. Jörg "Bird"...
» Read moreIt could fairly be said that if you’ve heard one Sonar album, you’ve heard them all. Their basic idiom is quite fixed, with repeated grooves in varying meters topped by interlocking...
» Read moreIt could fairly be said that if you’ve heard one Sonar album, you’ve heard them all. Their basic idiom is quite fixed, with repeated grooves in varying meters topped by interlocking...
» Read moreOkay, so The Legendary Flower Punk is yet another Russian space rock band. They’re a dime a dozen, right? So the question is what might set this one apart from the others. The group began...
» Read moreThe Wikipedia article about the word “virago” is a glimpse into the way that women have been treated in the English language, and in...
» Read moreCollected here are a trio of Thierry Zaboitzeff download releases from late 2019 that pretty much flew under our radar until now. Zaboitzeff was the long-time bassist and cellist of the band Art...
» Read moreCollected here are a trio of Thierry Zaboitzeff download releases from late 2019 that pretty much flew under our radar until now. Zaboitzeff was the long-time bassist and cellist of the band Art...
» Read moreCollected here are a trio of Thierry Zaboitzeff download releases from late 2019 that pretty much flew under our radar until now. Zaboitzeff was the long-time bassist and cellist of the band Art...
» Read moreYou’ve probably heard the expression “all over the map” for something that is extremely varied and defies categorization. Spine Readers is a band from Bellingham, Washington, in...
» Read moreDaniel Reyes Llinás is a Colombian guitarist and composer with Guitar Craft credentials, though En Remolinos is anything but Frippian. These ten compositions seamlessly blend RIO...
» Read moreI was unfamiliar with Franco Ambrosetti’s name before this CD arrived, though I had probably heard him play on something given his extensive history in jazz. In any case, this quintet release...
» Read moreStarting in 2015, Fruits de Mer Records started co-sponsoring the annual XXXth Dream of Dr. Sardonicus festivals in the Cellar Bar in Cardiff, Wales. The 17th Dream festival took place over three...
» Read moreI first became aware of Queen Elephantine more than ten years ago, when they aroused my curiosity by being a heavy rock band based in Hong Kong. Their brand of rock is slow, heavy, ritualistic, and...
» Read moreI first encountered guitarist Dave Halverson with his band Trance Lucid back in 2013. On...
» Read moreGuitarist Daniel Lippel is the co-founder of New Focus Recordings and his latest solo release is Mirrored Spaces. This double CD contains a little over two hours of solo guitar...
» Read moreandPlay is the neoclassical avant-garde violin / viola duo of Maya Bennardo and Hannah Levinson. Both have taught music at the university level and have advanced degrees. In 2019 they released...
» Read moreColin Hinton is a drummer, percussionist, composer, improviser, and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. Simulacra is his latest effort and contains pieces Hinton composed with specific...
» Read moreOver the last few years, I’ve become a bit fatigued by having to describe so many bands in terms of how they resemble Porcupine Tree. I suppose I don’t really have to use PT in...
» Read moreOGJB stands for Oliver Lake, Graham Haynes, Joe Fonda, and Barry Altschul, and if those names mean anything to you, you know what to expect. Oliver Lake (alto sax, soprano sax, voice) is a legend...
» Read moreThere’s certainly been no shortage of high-quality progressive rock coming out of Norway and Sweden in the last decade or two, and a fair amount of it has had Jacob Holm-Lupo involved in some...
» Read moreWith Messages from Maggie’s Garden, composer Robert Scott Thompson presents three electro-acoustic compositions for clarinet and electronics, with the clarinet part played by F....
» Read moreTo get a clear idea of what’s on offer with Soul Shifter, take a look at my review of...
» Read moreSatoko Fujii piano solo Stone, not what you think! Yes, these fifteen pieces are most definitely performed solo on piano, but using mostly extended techniques, rather than sitting at the...
» Read moreOur readers should know the work of Satoko Fujii well, as we have covered most of her releases as solo, and in collabortion, as well as with the many bands and orchestras that she leads, as a...
» Read moreComposer, conductor and arranger Satoko Fujii has several of these orchestras around the world (Tokyo, Kobe, New York, Berlin) that convene periodically to to perform and record Fujii’s...
» Read morePrepare yourself for one wild and crazy ride with Toh-Kichi, but the musical chemistry between pianist / composer Satoko Fujii and drummer / composer Tatsuya Yoshida is something positively unique,...
» Read moreAntikythera sees bassist Lorenzo Feliciati back in the territory of his outstanding album
On September 25th of last year, I posted a single review of the second and third Moon Men...
» Read moreIf you’ve been paying attention to the progressive rock coming out of Norway, likely you’ve noticed that Tusmørke is a busy group of musicians. But even their steady stream of...
» Read moreIt's been a good ten years since Aarktica’s last release, well overdue. Aarktica is the musical project of ambient / atmospheric composer Jon DeRosa, who has been releasing music with a...
» Read moreThis exceptional Danish instrumental powerhouse released four albums in their original lifetime from 1973-1976, and a reunion album Live in the USA recorded at Nearfest 2007, released the...
» Read moreDrummer Johnathan Blake’s Trion presents a skilled trio with a lengthy set of thoroughly entertaining jazz. His cohorts are saxophonist Chris Potter and bassist Linda May Han Oh, and...
» Read moreAfter playing with Kevin Gilbert’s various bands in the 90s (he played with the version of Giraffe that performed The Lamb at the Variety Arts Center in 1995, as well as with...
» Read moreChris Braide is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer based in Los Angeles, who, after a few solo albums in the 90s turned his attention more towards writing and arranging...
» Read moreWhen it comes to electric bass in jazz, it’s natural that anyone will be compared to Jaco Pastorius. With Udo Pannekeet, the comparison is especially apt, but not in the expected way:...
» Read moreSquire is a band the formed in the late 70s as part of the mod revival. They did not produce a lot of music, but have enjoyed a cult following, so much so that they have now reissued their albums....
» Read moreSquire is a band the formed in the late 70s as part of the mod revival. They did not produce a lot of music, but have enjoyed a cult following, so much so that they have now reissued their albums....
» Read moreI don’t know exactly when it started, but there is a trend in music for adding the sound of vinyl cracking and popping into the background of music, or even the type of distortion that comes...
» Read moreWhen you’re a guitarist making a solo album, inviting as guests some of the greatest guitarists in the world seems like a risky action — what if they show you up, and it’s more...
» Read moreIn preparation for writing this review, I revisited what I wrote about
Jus Primae Noctis is an Italian prog band from Genoa founded in 1991 from the band Third Position. Over the years they have gone through numerous personnel changes and performed live, though they...
» Read moreI was pleasantly surprised upon my first experience with Grimorium Magi, the debut release by the Italian band In Vino Veritas. I was fully expecting a dark gothic classic slice of Italian...
» Read moreWith a roster that includes such diverse artists and Cheer-Accident, Koenjihyakkei, Flying Luttenbachers, Space Streakings, Yowie, and many more, Skin Graft has become one of the most reliable...
» Read moreMartia Pelepsi is the solo musical project by Chilean multi-instrumentalist Carlos Torrejón. Carlos recorded his first solo album, Un Verano Silencioso (A Silent Summer),...
» Read moreWith their third album, Ruphus turned to Terje Rypdal as producer, and the result sees a decided turn away from the symphonic rock of Ransahrt towards jazz-rock. Original singer Gudny...
» Read moreWish is an Italian neo-prog band with roots going back to September 1992. They dabbled with songwriting with a concept album in mind. Years passed with families, children, work, and life in general...
» Read moreThe 60s and 70s were a great era for folk revival, folk rock, and Outlaw Country. The soothing sounds of troubadours were all over the FM airways: Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young, Townes...
» Read moreGerman singer Suzan Köcher has hit upon a very interesting sound with her band Suprafon. They take the dreamy production and breathy vocals of trip-hop and meld them seamlessly with jangly...
» Read moreI’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again: “Stick Men is one of the best live bands on the planet.” I’ve seen them play live quite a few times and heard many...
» Read moreNot only are we seeing a lot of new bands out of Russia here at Exposé, we are also encountering a number of new Norwegian bands as well. The most recent for me is The Laughing...
» Read moreAlto saxophonist Miguel Zenón’s Sonera presents arrangements of music associated with Ismael Rivera, a Puerto Rican singer and composer whose career began in the early 50s....
» Read moreI am not a fan of metal or prog metal. But with the promo material for the Tylor Dory Trio’s new album Unsought Salvation suggesting that their music would appeal to fans of...
» Read moreOnce in a while I get an album to review that, no matter how many times I listen to it over and over, it never really follows me away after the listening session, just leaving me bewildered. In...
» Read moreOn their fifth album, Magic Pie continues their musical path, bringing together elements of melodic rock, progressive rock, and classic 70s sounds in a most engaging way. Fragments of the 5th...
» Read moreNazca Space Fox is a relatively new band from Frankfurt that plays, as the name suggests, space rock. Their twist on it is that they also have touches of post-rock drama in this instrumental music,...
» Read moreStepping away from his main band, Mostly Other People Do the Killing, bassist Moppa Elliott presents a three-part set of mostly original music gathered as Jazz Band / Rock Band / Dance...
» Read moreThe new Fast Camels album is here and a strange one indeed it is. Full of Strange is a set of twelve new songs that blend 60s psych pop (early The Who, The Hollies, The Zombies, and even a...
» Read moreFans of classic Hawkwind have had plenty to celebrate in recent years. In addition to new music from various people associated with the band, Alan Davey in particular has been revisiting the...
» Read moreFans of classic Hawkwind have had plenty to celebrate in recent years. In addition to new music from various people associated with the band, Alan Davey in particular has been revisiting the...
» Read moreWe now arrive at the final section of Mark Lomax’s massive conceptual work, 400: An Afrikan Epic; volumes 9-12 are collectively called Afro-Futurism: The Return to Uhuru....
» Read moreWe now arrive at the final section of Mark Lomax’s massive conceptual work, 400: An Afrikan Epic; volumes 9-12 are collectively called Afro-Futurism: The Return to Uhuru....
» Read moreWe now arrive at the final section of Mark Lomax’s massive conceptual work, 400: An Afrikan Epic; volumes 9-12 are collectively called Afro-Futurism: The Return to Uhuru....
» Read moreWe now arrive at the final section of Mark Lomax’s massive conceptual work, 400: An Afrikan Epic; volumes 9-12 are collectively called Afro-Futurism: The Return to Uhuru....
» Read moreAs the bassist with The Aristocrats and Mike Keneally’s band, not to mention other work with Joe Satriani, Dweezil Zappa, Steve Vai, and many more, Bryan Beller is no stranger to complex and...
» Read more“We Lost the Sea” sounds like a pretty good name for a post-rock band, and We Lost the Sea is in fact a pretty good post-rock band. This group from Sydney, Australia was formed in 2007...
» Read moreLe Grand Sbam is a French chamber rock band from Lyon. They are a passionate collective dedicated to music creation, research, and experimentation. Propelled by eminent musicians: Mélissa...
» Read moreThe oddly named Guranfoe is a band from Norfolk, England. They have a ton of live material recorded over the last eight years on Bandcamp and Sum of Erda is their debut studio album. After...
» Read moreIn the roughly fifteen hundred years since Anthony Phillips left Genesis, he’s released a few hundred albums, mostly containing instrumental music, especially acoustic guitar pieces....
» Read moreWhile we’re on the subject of well-known guitarists,Canadian veteran Pat Travers presents Swing! — a set of rocking covers of classic tunes from the swing era, pieces made...
» Read moreHere at Exposé, we have to date covered guitarist Rez Abbasi in several different ensembles. There was his group Junction on
One might be forgiven for never having heard of this group before. From Italy, their previous albums just listed the three members’ names, which became simplified on this, their fourth...
» Read moreNorwegian band Sonisk Blodbad (Sonic Bloodbath) released their third album of dreamy soundscapes, Electric Mirror, in December 2019. Hailing from Bergen, Sonisk Blodbad is Ole Christensen,...
» Read moreThis Mongolian four piece (augmented by guest players) has deep roots in the traditional music and singing of their native land, presenting a style of music best characterized as folk-infused rock,...
» Read moreIn the incredibly fertile Lyon avant-prog scene, it seems that every band shares members with every other band — maybe not completely true, but close enough. The three members of PoiL seem to...
» Read moreLucifer Was is a cult proto-metal band from Norway that formed in 1970 in Oslo. They lasted until 1975, gigging at local venues and some festivals, but never got a recording contract. They were on...
» Read moreIt might be kind of hard to describe Richard Peterson to people who haven’t lived in Seattle for decades. As a street musician, he’s a legend from way back, a kind of eccentric musical...
» Read moreThe Witches of Finnmark III is the third album in Norwegian guitarist Anders Buaas’ trilogy of instrumental albums. Based on the title and the cover art, I was expecting an album on...
» Read moreThis band from Helsinki has been around for more than ten years, though Polku is their first album. On it, they present a sophisticated take on Canterbury-inflected progressive rock, with...
» Read moreScott Henderson is no stranger to fans of jazz-rock guitar, with a career going back to the 80s in his band Tribal Tech as well as work with such heavyweights as Jean-Luc Ponty, Chick Corea, Josef...
» Read moreSomewhere back in the Catalan music timeline, there was a group called Celobert Màgic that existed from 1979 to 1983, though my research hasn’t been able to confirm if the group ever...
» Read moreЗлурад, or in English Zlurad, is a Russian noise band. And I am astounded that there is even an audience for this music, and I use the term very loosely. Amazingly this CD is already sold out...
» Read moreMoving along from 2017’s Journey to X, we find The Brainiac 5 dishing out more of their punk-inflected space rock on Back to Shore. “Long Enough” starts us out...
» Read moreFrom its beginnings, one of the primary qualities of jazz has been the fact that it is about spontaneous creation of music by people who are playing together. Even when jazz is recorded, the...
» Read moreEveryone reading this should be familiar with violinist and composer Darryl Way. First, three albums with the original Curved Air, then three albums with his own band Wolf, then back to Curved Air...
» Read moreSometimes I think the main drawback of the CD medium is its 80 minute capacity, leading some artists to think they have to fill nearly every minute of it to make their product worthwhile. More...
» Read moreAs another precursor to this Spring’s massive 4CD set A Band of All Seasons, Fruits de Mer released The Past Tense’s Time Stands Still and accompanying CD Across...
» Read moreThis Spring Fruits de Mer is releasing a hugely expanded 4CD version of their 2018 3LP The Three...
» Read moreI’ve been delaying gratification on a couple of recent Fruits de Mer releases as I worked through my review queue, which never seems to get any shorter by the way. One of the releases is the...
» Read more70 year old Norwegian rocker Sven Johan Reksten AKA Dennis Reksten AKA Dennis returns with his first new release since 2002. Listening to his new album De Gales Dal or The Gales...
» Read moreUnder a Common Sky is the third album from London-based band Electric Litany. They composed the nine tracks in a beach house on the Greek island Corfu in the summer of 2017. They then...
» Read moreIt wasn’t that long ago that we reviewed the three song teaser Work in Progress, which was a preview of sorts to this, Aria Primitiva’s first full-length foray into their...
» Read moreGuitar hotshot Nili Brosh starts out her third solo album with five tracks centered around acoustic guitar and finishes with five on electric. “Cartagena” is a lovely Spanish-inflected...
» Read moreThis group of musicians is based in Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina, playing a psychedelic post-rock with solid experimental and progressive touches. For this recording they are primarily...
» Read moreIngrid Laubrock is a jazz saxophonist originally from Germany, but now living in Brooklyn, New York. She is associated with Anthony Braxton, Mary Halvorson, Living By Lanterns, Lark, Paradoxical...
» Read moreAny musicians who would name their band Mythopoeic Mind obviously have some aspirations towards intellectual, high-concept themes. The roots of this project go back to the late 90s, when Steinar...
» Read morePanzerpappa is back with another set of tasty instrumental music that inhabits a region somewhere between rogressive rock and jazz, and once again, listeners will probably notice that Canterbury...
» Read moreFrom the beginning, Jack o’ the Clock has been one of the most distinctive sounding American bands going. Their blend of unusual instrumentation — hammer dulcimer, bassoon, trombone,...
» Read moreAmong Moe Staiano’s many projects is Surplus 1980, which operates in an area that might be described as “art-punk” — an energetic mix of punk rock and weirdness that has...
» Read moreTaken in relation to the scope of Todd Rundgren’s career, Utopia might be seen as a digression, given that he’s released 30-some studio albums as a solo artist, while Utopia barely gets...
» Read moreContrary to what the title may lead one to believe, this is not an album of surf rock, but instead an album’s worth of original bluesy rock tunes with some rootsy soul and gospel...
» Read moreWith a name like Megalith Levitation and an album title Acid Doom Rites, you can be easily prepared for a onslaught of sludge rock. Megalith Levitation materialized from the acid vapors of...
» Read moreSome may remember the excellent Swedish trad-rock band Den Fule, which released a trio of albums between 1993 and 1995, then went on hiaus for a dozen years only to reunite in 2010 for a couple...
» Read moreA significant portion of the albums that come my way consist of instrumental music, be it post-rock, jazz, progressive rock, electronic, or some combination of those, like Radare, which features...
» Read moreBack in November 2019 a new album hit the streets that could have fit well in the heady pop-psych days of the late 60s, the self-titled debut release by Skeleton Goode. Skeleton Goode is an...
» Read moreThe doom-stoner-sludge metal band Solstorm from Bergen, Norway is back with their second album eight years after their 2011 debut self-titled album. Today the band line up is Bjørn...
» Read moreHailing from California, Emily Jane White has spent the last several years since her 2007 debut album, Dark Undercoat, honing her Big Sur gothic folk noir music. Her latest album,...
» Read moreIf you are looking for a fun-filled album of Turkish psych music, look no further than this 2019 reissue of Grup Doğuş’ 1975 cassette. Grup Doğuş was formed by brothers Tufan Aydoğan...
» Read moreThere are times when a good psychedelic tune really hits the spot, and we’re living in a great time for discovering more of them. Skeleton Goode is a new entry in the game, but they’re...
» Read moreIt may not be considered proper to qualify an absolute — like saying “more unique” — but in reality, every album is unique, as in “not sounding identical to any other...
» Read moreLast Fall Mega Dodo released an interesting compilation that explores the borderlands of Swedish folklore and mystery, From a Distant Shore. Unlike many compilations with one track by each...
» Read moreComet Gain is a London-based punk and soul and damaged rock 'n' roll band. Long-term members include David Feck (AKA David Christian), Rachel Evans, Jon Slade, Kay Ishikawa, Anne-Laure...
» Read moreAustin prog band Crocodile realeased their second album on October 1, 2019. The album title Howling Mad Black Music under Hot Stars (HMBMUHS) and the artwork echo the 70s, but not...
» Read moreEvery once in a while I am totally taken by surprise and blown away by an album sent for review. When a new album arrives I put it in my queue and don’t listen to it until I am ready to...
» Read moreThis album (the band’s eighth) brings big changes for Led Bib. The band has always consisted of Mark Holub (drums), Liran Donin (bass), and Toby McLaren (keyboards) with the dual alto saxes...
» Read moreHarrigans Lane Collective in Willsons Downfall, Australia, is the home of the Piano Mill, a center for explorative interdisciplinary projects in rural Australia with a focus on architecture, music,...
» Read moreOver the past ten years Crystal Jacqueline has grown and blossomed as a singer and musician. Her latest solo album is A Prayer for the Birds, co-written with her musical and life partner...
» Read moreWith each new release, Crystal Jacqueline solidifies her place as one of the prime current exponents of acid folk. But even aside from genre labels or comparisons with her other work, A Prayer...
» Read moreWhen “Dose Curves” starts, a listener would probably never guess that the sounds are being made by a harp. Under a sheen of reverb, there seems to be a bowed string, so the first...
» Read moreBefore Bernie Shaw joined up as lead singer of Uriah Heep in 1986, he was part of the vibrant Victoria BC music scene. For Too Much Information he has teamed up with one of his old...
» Read moreBrit singer songwriter David Woodcock’s second album, Normal Life, was recorded over a two year period of various recording sessions. The resulting thirteen songs are quite a mixture...
» Read moreHawkwind fans who haven’t been getting enough of the space rock they love from Hawkwind itself can rejoice in Hawkestrel, the latest project by long-time Hawkwind bassman Alan Davey....
» Read moreOne can always count on Robert Rich to deliver something interesting, and his 2019 release, Tactile Ground, most definitely delivers the goods for anyone seeking out a gently floating mesh...
» Read moreThe new Monochrome Set album, Fabula Mendax, is based on manuscripts written in the 15th Century by Armande de Pange, a companion of Joan of Arc. The phrase "fabula mendax" is...
» Read moreIn addition to his work leading the progressive rock band Hats off Gentlemen It’s Adequate, Malcolm Galloway has built up a substantial catalog of non-rock recordings, with...
» Read moreAfter a lengthy break, these enigmatic scientists returned to the studio in early 2019 to record a cover tune for a year-end Fruits de Mer retrospective that is appearing this spring, but Keith...
» Read moreChromlech Chronicles IV is the final installment of the Sendelica series of extended instrumental jams. To end this series Sendelica and Fruits de Mer decided to release something special...
» Read moreFrom the very beginning, Alex’s Hand has been a band with a distinctive vision of what they wanted to sound like — or maybe I should say “visions,” since their sound has...
» Read moreThe last time we heard from Belarus band The Worm Ouroboros was back in 2013, with the release of their debut album Of Things That Never Were, which we
About a year ago I reviewed London Underground’s fourth album Four that was released on...
» Read moreWith so much music coming out every year, there’s no way to keep up, so when I saw District 97 play at Seaprog 2019, I’d never really heard them before. Their stock in trade could be...
» Read moreFrank Makowski is a German electronic composer and musician, active since the early 90s as a solo artist recording under a variety of monikers (Tranquility, The Speed of Dark) as well as being a...
» Read moreLast Summer Fruits de Mer released a very special one-off 12” single featuring Sendelica, Secret Knowledge, and The Orb, which has subsequently sold out. Sendelica is well-known to FdM fans,...
» Read moreAfter presenting epic musical epics dealing with Celtic history and legend, the origins of the universe, and who knows what else, Alan Simon epically moves on to the epic story of the French...
» Read moreChardeau’s latest project, In Terra Cognita?, is a dreamy musical journey around the globe, fifteen tracks featuring an astonishing number of top-flight musicians and singers, twenty...
» Read moreOrsak:Oslo was formed by guitarist Christian Andersson, a Swede living in Oslo. He got together with some local guys (drummer Øyvind Minsaas, bassist Peter Nilsson, and second guitarist...
» Read moreI’ve been listening to this collaboration between these two French artists for about four months now, scratching my head, trying to figure it out, trying to think of something intelligent I...
» Read moreLast year Jack Ellister was voted Fruits de Mer’s favorite solo artist by the label’s members, and FdM has been releasing Jack’s music since 2012. Jack’s latest FdM single...
» Read moreEvery once in a great while I have to review something that is such a difficult listen that, no matter how many times I try, I end up aborting the endeavor well before the album is even half...
» Read moreThere was a time (before the birth of most readers of this website) when the big band was the primary unit of both jazz and popular music. Hundreds of groups consisting of 16 or more musicians...
» Read moreWith an album like this one, which presents a selection of Robert Wyatt songs arranged for chamber orchestra plus a rhythm section, I feel like that’s all I should need to say to get readers...
» Read moreNoah Preminger’s latest release finds him at the helm of a group featuring Jason Palmer (trumpet), John O’Gallagher (alto sax), Kris Davis (piano), Kim Cass (bass), Rudy Royston...
» Read moreWe last heard from VTH in 2018 with their two excellent EP-length releases Aasraa and Botofogos in Shadow Position. Fact is, it’s pretty hard to track down information on...
» Read moreIt’s been a while since we’ve heard from this Munich-based band, now nominally a four-piece with guests. By my count this is their sixteenth recording since their debut in 1995, but the...
» Read moreThe prolific Quimper has released another EP of avant electronics, I Am an Italian Souvenir. The four-track EP clocks in at 14 minutes and features what we have come to expect from...
» Read moreMustard after Dinner is a free downloadable anthology of non-album material from North London’s Fighting Kites (2006-2012). Pulling together their self-releases, compilation...
» Read moreNow well into his 70s, trumpeter Randy Brecker shows no signs of slowing down, with several notable releases to his credit in the last few years. Sacred Bond finds him teaming up with his...
» Read moreAfter seeing the name Toiling Midgets around for decades, Sea of Tranquility is my first time actually listening to them. This music could be described as (mostly) instrumental post-rock,...
» Read moreA surf rock band from New York City, who woulda thought? Plus they’ve released about ten albums before this one, starting in the early 90s with their debut The Big Wet Twang, none of...
» Read moreIn late 2019 Markus Reuter (Touch Guitar, electronics) and Mark Wingfield (electric guitar, electronics) released two albums of music under the moniker TEAR. Both of these were previously recorded...
» Read moreIn late 2019 Markus Reuter (Touch Guitar, electronics) and Mark Wingfield (electric guitar, electronics) released two albums of music under the moniker TEAR. Both of these were previously recorded...
» Read moreDulceMuse is the nom-de-plume of composer and multi-instrumentalist Katje Janisch's folktronic project – she works with synths to manipulate folk instrument textures into a matrix over...
» Read moreIn the ranks of bands playing complex, noisy music, PoiL surely has a special place. Their music is so packed full of changes in rhythm and tempo that it can be challenging for listeners to keep...
» Read moreSteve Eulberg describes himself as a ‘traveling, performing, teaching musician’ in San Mateo, California, right across the bridge from where I called home for over thirty years in the...
» Read moreOn Out to Sea 2, Fernando Perdomo continues his musical tribute to his favorite artists of the...
» Read moreOn Out to Sea 2, Fernando Perdomo continues his musical tribute to his favorite artists of the...
» Read moreIvann Cruz is the “C” in TOC, and an accomplished and adventurous French guitarist (we reviewed his solo album
Oval Planet is an electronic project led by guitarist and synthesist Pete Prown, with support from Jerry King on bass, guitar and synthesizer, and Dave Newhouse on flute, saxes and clarinet. While...
» Read moreChurch of Hed is the solo project of Quarkspace drummer and synthesist Paul Williams, and The Fourth Hour is the latest in a long string of albums (not the fourth, in fact it’s the...
» Read moreVaryete is the collaborative and split release by Istanbul’s beats scene artist and archivist Grup Ses and Turkish electric saz musician Elektro Hafız, now residing in Köln,...
» Read moreSome readers might be familiar with the early Jade Warrior albums, where heavy rock riffs were paired with relatively minimal percussion (sometimes not including a drum kit). I bring this up not...
» Read moreOffering a powerful sense of otherworldly ambient drift, Max Corbacho’s latest Echo of Longing was created over a four year period from 2015 to 2019, released near the end of last...
» Read moreA short history of Celeste. There was a band called Il Sistema that existed from around 1969-71, never released anything during their lifetime, their permanent place in history only assured fot two...
» Read more“Power pop” is a genre with fairly fuzzy edges, and there are probably fans who argue about which artists are and are not properly labeled with it. I witnessed a discussion online...
» Read moreLFant is the solo effort of Guilhem Meier, drummer of PoIL, Icsis, PinioL, Ukandanz, Pili Coit, Le Grand Sbam, etc. He plays prepared drums and the result can be summed up as self-indulgent...
» Read moreRarely do I come across an album that is outstanding from the opening note until the last note fades into silence. I was surprised and excited, to say the least, when I listened to Aldi dallo...
» Read moreIn the early 70s, Venezuelan composer and arranger Chelique Sarabia decided to record an album of Venezuelan traditional and folk songs, but with an updated modern touch using musical instruments...
» Read moreThis multinational band continues with its winning formula on their third album, blending intense rock with atmospheric production and some avant tendencies into a distinctive style all their own....
» Read moreBritish psych-beat-garage band The Galileo 7 released their sixth album There Is Only Now and accompanying single in June 2019. Over the last ten years The Galileo 7 have evolved into a...
» Read moreBritish psych-beat-garage band The Galileo 7 released their sixth album There Is Only Now and accompanying single in June 2019. Over the last ten years The Galileo 7 have evolved into a...
» Read moreAmong the many ways to categorize music is the axis from strictly composed to freely improvised, which has the advantage of being completely objective. A listener can subjectively say they prefer...
» Read moreI first encountered guitarist Harvey Valdes with his trio, which features violin and drums and plays his inventive compositions. With Solitude Intones Its Echo, we get a 38 minute set of...
» Read moreYoko Miwa’s newest trio release plies the same stream as Pathways (2017) — spirited...
» Read moreIn conjunction with the giant Bill Bruford’s Earthworks Complete box set, which contains 20 CDs and 4 DVDs, we have an expanded version of Heavenly Bodies, a compilation...
» Read moreForty years after its original intended release date, we have what should have been Ciro Perrino’s solo electronic debut in ‘79. Recall at that time Celeste was on hiatus, and...
» Read moreNearly 20 years ago I reviewed From A to B, an album featuring a Jeremy Cubert Project...
» Read moreLetze Baum is a cautionary concept album about an eventual environmental apocalypse, based on a quote from Chief Sitting Bull. And like many concept albums, Letze Baum tends to be...
» Read moreIt has been two years since Paolo’s previous album, Faces with No Traces. His new album is The Leprechaun’s Pot of Gold, though not near as interesting as Faces...
» Read moreAmy Denio is a musical (as well as linguistic) polyglot. Her music has taken her around the world, with frequent trips to Eastern Europe, and she has absorbed language and culture deep into her...
» Read moreSally Barry is a singer with a musical career that started in the mid-80s New York punk scene, but Renditions is a small-scale effort that might be called outsider art-folk. Like many...
» Read moreWhen The Face of Life arrived I was unfamiliar with the band Kinetic Element, and I’ll admit that my first few listens to the CD left me cold and even dreading having to write a...
» Read moreBased on my previous exposure to Freddy Delirio’s music on his reissued solo album Journey, I expected The Cross to be a keyboard-dominated gothic Italian prog album....
» Read moreLa Janara is an Italian progressive goth band named after a legendary mysterious creature in Irpinia, a district of the Apennine Mountains in Southern Italy, about 50 km east of Naples. Janara is...
» Read moreBig Five Chord’s ninth recording, Harder on the Outside, celebrates their 15th year as a band, and offers a mighty eight tracks, all purely instrumental explorations of hard-grooved...
» Read moreCertainly Janapati is an ambitious project by these two outstanding Indonesian guitarists who should be well known to all readers of Exposé, since we've covered many of...
» Read moreIf one searches around on the web, most sites will show Bertrand Loreau’s first release as Prière, from 1993 on Musea Parallele, an association that lasted for seven releases...
» Read more“Seven Long Years” was the closing track on Phillips’ 1978 album Private Parts and Pieces, perhaps a foetelling of the long seven year wait since his last album, City...
» Read moreAn accomplished pianist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, Corciolli (he’s one of those guys with only one name) is probably best known for his film music scores, with over a dozen...
» Read moreItalian neo-prog group Fungus have released their fourth album, this time as Fungus Family, The Key of the Garden named after a song on their previous album, The Face of Evil....
» Read moreLos Angeles garage-rock sensations The Night Times have released a new single, “Watch Your Step” b/w “I Got My Mind on You,” two high-power three-minute songs. “Watch...
» Read moreMacchina Pneumatica is a neo-Italian prog band that pays homage to their forebears, wiith Riflessi e Maschere being their debut album. And a killer it is! Coming together in Milan in 2013,...
» Read moreRefreshing. Authentic. And if you did not know better, you would swear that you were listening to one of the masters of Delta Blues. But more fool you. The Blues against Youth (TBAY) is in reality...
» Read moreThere are bands operating in the avant-jazz realm that are all-out crazy energy all the time. Then there are bands like Ghost Rhythms that are more subtle and subversive, lulling listeners into a...
» Read morePrior to hearing the recording at hand, my only knowledge of pianist Kathleen Supové was her contributions to Doctor Nerve and the Sirius String Quartet’s Ereia, Michael...
» Read moreArkhe is the international duo of Canadian guitarist Fraser MacNeil and Chilean vocalist Jimmy P. Torres. Origen is their first release, an EP of six tunes for a total of 24 minutes. The...
» Read moreThere is a lot of exciting music coming out of Norway, and the newest band for me is the melodic prog-rock band Adventure from Trondheim. Even though New Horizons is their fourth album, it...
» Read moreFor their fifth full length album, Norwegian band Sleepyard brings together a number of styles that collectively mine the introspective, ambient, shoegaze vein tastefully with some occasional...
» Read moreHailing from Bergen, Norway, Trojka is a trio that produces a mixture of prog jazz and groovy pop songs. Trojka is Gjert Hermansen (vocals, drums), August Riise (vocals, keys), and Simon Kverneng...
» Read moreNorwegian electronic wizard Alwanzatar is back with his third release, Helsfyr Terminal Ekspress, an album that continues to explore his unique take on tribal space rock. Predominantly...
» Read moreRock music infused with science fiction is nothing new, going back to the 60s, with plenty of examples offering varying levels of success on both musical and science-fictional levels. There has...
» Read moreA glutton is an excessively greedy eater, and the Norwegian alt-rock power trio Glutton consumes music and influences and produces music that defies categorization. Released in May 2019, their...
» Read more“We have sufficient computational power to establish control over all networks and computers on Earth.” So begins the epic concept album Origin of Species by DarWin, with a...
» Read moreSeems like only yesterday that I was listening to an FM station in Los Angeles when they played a song called “Vivaldi with Cannons” by a band called Curved Air Conditioning (or so I...
» Read moreRemy Stroomer was born in 1979 in Haarlem in the Netherlands, and began taking keyboard lessons at the age of nine, and in the mid-90s while still in high school he joined with other bands and...
» Read moreA big part of my enjoyment of music, and certainly what pushes my exploration forward, is finding something that pushes a boundary, defies conventions, and piques the imagination in a way that...
» Read moreI grew up listening to American Country music. It was frequently played in my home, though not exclusively, and I credit my parents for also including some light Classical music in their...
» Read moreIf there was ever a perfectly titled album, Brother Saturn’s Music for Sleep is it. Brother Saturn is the musical alias of Colorado based multi-instrumentalist and composer Drew...
» Read moreThree brothers from Flanders (in Belgium) founded the band in 2010 to create original instrumental music rooted in Flemish traditional sounds, with August being their fourth offering....
» Read moreIt’s been half a dozen years since their previous full band studio album Permafrost, but it’s no surprise given the elaborate compositions and complex arrangements, which are...
» Read morePotter’s Daughter is a band built around singer and pianist Dyanne Potter Voegtlin. She is backed by Amit Chatterjee (guitar) and Ian C. Voegtlin (guitar, saxophone) as full-time band...
» Read morePotter’s Daughter is a band built around singer and pianist Dyanne Potter Voegtlin. She is backed by Amit Chatterjee (guitar) and Ian C. Voegtlin (guitar, saxophone) as full-time band...
» Read moreMoon Over Mountain is the Colorado based duo of Ken Roberts on keyboards (piano, synthesizer, mellotron) and electronic drums, and vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Megan Buness, the latter...
» Read moreThose who are familiar with Kraan throughout their career know that they have some excellent studio recordings, but where they really hit their stride is in a live setting, as any of their previous...
» Read moreEuro lofi twisted pop duo Stereo Total is back with their twelfth album, Ah! Quel Cinéma! If earlier albums resonated with influences from chanson, trash or disco to punk,...
» Read moreEarly on, which for Forrest Fang would be the 80s, much of his music was textural and minimalist, all things moving slowly through an ever-evolving listening space. Albums like Some Brighter...
» Read moreFor fans of mainstream progressive rock who also love Christmas music, Billy Sherwood has you covered. With A Prog Rock Christmas, he's assembled an all-star cast of prog luminaries to...
» Read moreFor her quartet, cellist Tomeka Reid joins up with two thirds of Thumbscrew — Mary Halvorson (guitar) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums) — and bassist Jason Roebke, a Chicago musician with...
» Read morePolly Gibbons is a jazz singer from, of all places, a small town in Suffolk, England, the daughter of a farmer. None of which you would guess from listening to her. This is straight-up classic...
» Read moreMark Wingfield and Gary Husband are two musicians we’ve encountered before in a fairly wide variety of settings. Wingfield is on a number of releases on Moonjune in various configurations...
» Read moreAsaf Sirkis is an Israeli born drummer, composer and bandleader, now resident in the United Kingdom. He has played with Gilad Atzmon and his Orient House Ensemble, his own Asaf Sirkis Trio, albums...
» Read moreOla Onabulé is a London-born singer whose music can be categorized in various ways depending on how you look at it. There are aspects of jazz and latin at times, with occasional flavors from...
» Read morePak has been around since around 2000, mostly in a trio formation, and members have come and gone over that nineteen year period; the one constant throughout the lineup changes is guitarist Ron...
» Read moreLo Zoo di Berlino is an Italian instrumental trio (keyboards, bass, and drums) that has been making music since 2000. Their latest album, Resistenze Elettriche, features Patrizio Fariselli...
» Read morePush Thru is an album built from a very small number of elements. There is a human voice, a clarinet, and a bass clarinet, all handled by Beth Fleenor with the use of a few electronic...
» Read moreRaccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno (RRR) formed in the early 70s in Rome and released their debut album Per....Un Mondo di Cristallo in 1972. They played a few Italian pop festivals in 1972 and...
» Read moreI love it when a musician known for one kind of music ventures into a different style and manages to nail it. My view that genre labels mean nothing is reinforced when, for example, a saxophonist...
» Read moreThe first thing you notice about As You Were is the disturbing cover art of a mentally deranged clown sawing his arm off. Is this someone suffering from Body Identity Disorder or Body...
» Read moreBlessed Is the Boogie is the third album by the Western Australian band Datura4, fronted by Dom Mariani. Here we have ten brand new songs recorded in a studio farmhouse in Fremantle....
» Read moreCarl is a prolific composer, currently resident in Hartford, Connecticut, where he is chair of the composition department at the Hartt School, University of Hartford. While he has less than a dozen...
» Read moreWith Separation Songs, upstate-New York based composer, guitarist, music technologist, and audio engineer Matt Sargent makes his first appearance in the pages of Exposé....
» Read moreCare of the Cow was a trio based out of Chicago in the early 80s who played a fascinating blend of psychedelic folk, minimal electronics, and post punk weirdness. Their second album,...
» Read moreMy last encounter with Rhys Marsh’s solo career was Sentiment (2014), which was a lovely set of...
» Read moreThe latest release by this Norwegian quartet of sonic improvisers offers a powerful trio of extended tracks with no vocals (some occasional shouts buried deep in the mix are barely audible at the...
» Read moreWith their third release, this Portland, Oregon band stays true to their past while not repeating themselves. In the time since Farang (2015), founding members Susan Lucia (drums) and...
» Read moreThinking about jazz groups led by drummers in my recent reviews, Mark Lomax, II is the most prominent, but I’ve also covered Sean Noonan, Jeff Siegel, John Hollenbeck (The Claudia Quintet),...
» Read moreThe album at hand is an expansive floating ambient panoramic soundscape that calms the nerves and soothes the spirit, a perfect coupling between the busy world of consciousness and the relaxed...
» Read moreWinding the clock back to 1966 in Lexington, Kentucky, a group of friends at the University of Kentucky got together to form the garage-psych band One of Hours. They released their first 45,...
» Read moreThe latest in a series of deep ambient explorations, Woodlands’ inspiration comes from the natural beauty in his home country of New Zealand, as did Coastlines,...
» Read moreSwiss born, New York based percussionist Mark Wagnon should need no introduction to long-time readers of Exposé, but since this is his first release in almost ten years, all should...
» Read moreIMA is the duo of Hong Kong born (now based in California) electronic sound artist Amma Ateria and Japanese percussionist Nava Dunkelman. Their music is an explorative and impressionist offering of...
» Read moreSeattle in the 80s was a hotbed of musical activity, much of it centered around the heavy rock of punk-inflected bands that eventually gave birth to what the world knew as grunge rock. But among...
» Read moreIn 2015 the Russian extraterrestrial band Lunar Cape released their debut album, Just Lunatics....
» Read moreThe free cosmic music that pianist Satoko Fujii and bassist / flutist Joe Fonda create together is at once magical and liberating, feelings that are easily convered by the musicians as they work...
» Read moreGintonic is a Basque band that plays a mixture of progressive and jazz-influenced rock, with elements of classical music. The band members (Aurkene Núñez - keyboards and vocals; Mario...
» Read moreFor a number of years, composer Michael Byron has been on Exposé’s radar, beginning with his 2003 full length release Awakening at the Inn of the Birds, and more...
» Read moreOne has to wonder, after so many years and so many releases, how does an artist like Steve Roach come up with new ideas that don’t sound like what he’s done before? Some reference...
» Read moreUnlike this trio’s last outing, Loneliness Road (2017), You Don’t Know the Life ventures out of the piano trio mold with other keyboard instruments in the mix, mostly...
» Read moreWadada Leo Smith’s tribute to and meditation on civil rights icon Rosa Parks takes the form of an oratorio, seven songs interspersed among instrumental passages for a variety of different...
» Read moreBizirik is one Cristián Larrondo who was the bassist and Chapman Stick player for Mar de Robles, a fine Chilean band that released two excellent albums in the early to mid 2000s on the...
» Read moreThe opening cut, “Dream Meditation,” on Bart Hawkins’ Spotted Peccary debut 21 Pulse Eclipse begins with an expansive and dreamy three chord loop, not unlike Patrick...
» Read moreKulak's Woodshed is a live recording studio / venue in North Hollywood, CA. Live at Kulak’s Woodshed is brief but breathless audio and video recording from Cloud (Tyler Taormina,...
» Read moreAs of this writing, we have four bands on the Expose site with the word “Autumn” in their name: Autumn Electric, Autumn Tears, Autumn’s Grey Solace, and Mostly Autumn. Of these,...
» Read moreA catenary is the curve that a chain or cable assumes under its own weight when supported from two fixed points. Its graceful beauty lies in its simplicity. When Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey...
» Read moreAle Hop is Peruvian expat Alejandra Cardenas, now living, studying, and working in Berlin. She is a researcher, artist, and experimental instrumentalist, who makes her living creating film scores...
» Read moreHybrid Hymns finds Professor Tip Top very much in the same vein as their previous album, 2017’s
Rosenthal is best known as the founder of Projekt records and the leader of the band Black Tape for a Blue Girl, but Tanzmusik pre-dates both, released in ‘85 when Rosenthal was...
» Read moreThis Italian band has a lot in common with jangly melodic music of the 80s from bands like The Feelies, The Sundays, The Church, The Go-Betweens, and so on. The use of Mellotron sounds adds in a...
» Read moreAt the risk of sounding like one of those old farts who’s always going on about how the “good old days” were better than today, I’m going to throw out the generalization...
» Read moreSean Noonan’s project called Pavees Dance is a very unusual entity that makes very interesting music. Jazz and rock meld to back mostly-spoken vocals in a way I’ve never heard before,...
» Read moreWhile he only has about a half dozen prior releases over an extended period of time, solo and in collaboration, pianist and arranger Corrado Guarino is known well on the Italian jazz scene. For...
» Read moreShining Pyramid is the London-based duo of guitarist Nick Adams and keyboardist Peter Jeal, who play a modern impressionist-based flavor of instrumental progressive rock. Children of the...
» Read moreGeometría del Vínculo translates to ‘Geometry of the Bond’ in English, and is a wholly appropriate title for this, the third album by Buenos Aires based six-piece...
» Read moreMoving along from the first section of 400: An Afrikan Epic by composer / percussionist Dr. Mark Lomax, II (
Moving along from the first section of 400: An Afrikan Epic by composer / percussionist Dr. Mark Lomax, II (
Moving along from the first section of 400: An Afrikan Epic by composer / percussionist Dr. Mark Lomax, II (
Moving along from the first section of 400: An Afrikan Epic by composer / percussionist Dr. Mark Lomax, II (
It’s always an interesting situation when one ‘discovers’ an artist who already has eight previous releases. Where have I been all that time? Polly Fae, for those eight previous...
» Read moreSometimes you can just look at the cover of an album and have a pretty good idea – in a general sense – what the music is like. I used this method all the time back in the 60s and 70s...
» Read moreThe latest release from German quartet Halma finds the band flying through deep yet gentle grooves, sometimes at high speed, some at lesser speed, bassist Gundi Voigt and drummer Fiona McKenzie...
» Read moreMc Guigan is an Irish musician and practicing music therapist, specializing in medical ethnomusicology (music and healing within shamanic and neo-shamanic traditions). Over the years he has played...
» Read moreWhen you listen to Exit North’s debut album, the first thing that will really stand out is the voice of Thomas Feiner, which resembles Scott Walker as much as anyone. He has a tone that is...
» Read moreHere we have a somewhat unassuming album featuring three musicians of note. Tony Levin needs no introduction, and Jerry Marotta should be familiar for his work with Peter Gabriel (and Tony Levin)....
» Read moreThe title track of The Big Blow reminds me of Soft Machine on Bundles, with a great riff worthy of a comparison to “Hazard Profile” — this in spite of the lack...
» Read moreOver the years Osamu has released some of the most stunning music, which would easily include 1984’s The Source, 2013’s Over the Brink, and his psychedelic masterpiece...
» Read moreTen Worlds is the latest foray into the area of vocal jazz by french pianist Stefan Orins, who composed all of the music on the eleven titles herein. Of equal importance is singer Karine...
» Read moreJarguna is the project name of Italian ethno-ambient artist Marco Billi who has been plying his trade and refining his style for at least a dozen years. His explorative, meditative drones create an...
» Read moreA couple of years ago I reviewed RandyPop! which was a live collection that served to highlight the...
» Read moreThere is a bit more than straight-up improvisation in this second offering from Astral TV, the synthesizer duo of Rasmus Rasmussen (from Causa Sui) and Keith Canisius. With Rasmussen’s...
» Read moreAbraham was the bassist of Galahad from 2005 until 2009. Unfortunately my familiarity with Galahad ends with Following Ghosts (1998) and I’ve never heard any recordings by them where...
» Read moreMoon Men is an unconventional musical collective, though it’s a stretch to call them a band, maybe a recording project would be a more accurate term. Uncomfortable Space Probe is...
» Read moreI said it before and will say it again, Potatoland (originally intended to be the follow-up to Randy California’s Kaptain Kopter and the Fabulous Twirly Birds album) is a...
» Read moreThe Norwegian band Fervent Mind occupies a very interesting stylistic space, bringing together elements of post-rock, modern progressive rock, and dreamy pop music with great compositions to form a...
» Read moreBack in 1974, Humble Pie was in a very uncertain state. Founding member Steve Marriott had left the band briefly, but was coaxed back to work with Dave Clempson and Jerry Shirley for sessions at...
» Read moreHaving been a mandolin player since I was around fifteen years old and having written about half a dozen songs on it, I’ve always wanted to hear a band that made good use of the instrument in...
» Read moreListening to Cabinets of Curiosity, it is necessary to leave expectations and preconceptions behind, as they’ll only hinder the experience of listening to this remarkably diverse album. And...
» Read moreNicolas Meier is an immensely capable Swiss-born and British-based guitarist and composer who works in many styles in quartets, trios, duos, solo, as well as other configurations, and has appeared...
» Read moreThere is something about this Israeli prog metal band that I find very appealing. It could be the balance of male — Opher Vishnia (guitar and vocals), Yaron Gilad (guitar), Alon Shulman (bass...
» Read moreFrom the late 70s to the mid-80s there was a group of Peruvian composers and musicians who attempted to fuse modern experimental and avant-garde compositional techniques while at the same time...
» Read moreLe Rex is back with another set of mutant jazz. With their horns and drums lineup, some comparisons to New Orleans street bands are inevitable, but this Swiss band definitely takes that sound into...
» Read moreI first encountered guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson a couple years ago on Wadada Leo Smith’s
Hugo Selles and the Psychic Equalizer are back with a new album, The Sixth Extinction. Hugos’s musical efforts continue to grow, this time integrating elements of progressive rock,...
» Read moreAibohphobiA is Kouma’s third album. Kouma is the trio of Romain Dugelay (baritone sax and keyboards), Damien Cluzel (baritone guitar) and Léo Dumont (drums), who have worked...
» Read moreIn 2018, we found Dave Liebman and Adam Rudolph collaborating with Tatsuya Nakatani on a fascinating album called
It’s been a few years since The Aristocrats’ last studio album Tres Caballeros, apparently off doing more lucrative projects, tours, and such in the interim. But the trio...
» Read moreTom Dyer is something of a musical institution in the Pacific Northwest, having been involved in a variety of endeavors since the 80s, including running the Green Monkey label and being in bands...
» Read moreIn the annals of eccentric, complicated modern music, Rascal Reporters deserve a special place if they don’t have it already. With a history stretching back to the 70s and a catalog of...
» Read moreWelcome to our first review ever of the musical collective miserable.noise.club, said to be based in Charlotte, North Carolina, but also claiming members in Amman, Jordan and Guangzhou, China....
» Read moreWelcome to our first review ever of the musical collective miserable.noise.club, said to be based in Charlotte, North Carolina, but also claiming members in Amman, Jordan and Guangzhou, China....
» Read moreWelcome to our first review ever of the musical collective miserable.noise.club, said to be based in Charlotte, North Carolina, but also claiming members in Amman, Jordan and Guangzhou, China....
» Read moreWith Meditation in Green, Kelly David opens a world of dreamy atmospherics, slow-evolving tapestries that combine passages of ambient electronics, acoustic and electronic percussion, loops...
» Read moreFor those who appreciate the big-band orchestal jazz sound, Mike Holoder's Gotham Jazz Orchesta's latest release Hiding Out is a two disc set of awe-inspiring compositions,...
» Read moreOver the years France has produced some of the finest progressive rock, as well as some of the strangest, far out music you can imagine. Case in point is the French band Ultra Zook. This trio of...
» Read moreThe full title includes the subtitle (Perspectives on Afro-Peruvian Music. The Collection), and was originally released on the New York-based label Lyrichord way back when it was recorded in 1991....
» Read moreJay Graboski has been a mover and shaker in the Baltimore area music scene since the very early 70s, playing in numerous different bands over the years, and what Steps attempts to do is...
» Read moreListening to Marilyn Mazur’s Shamania is like receiving an invitation to visit a new world, one that developed along different lines than ours, where peace and positivity are as...
» Read moreThis Norwegian group brings together four names that show up on a lot of other recordings. There’s Even Helte Hermansen on guitar, and he’s also in the band Bushman’s Revenge;...
» Read moreOne of the more engaging contemporary Russian progressive bands is Disen Gage. Their latest album of eight instrumental tracks is The Big Adventure. Disen Gage is quite an inventive band,...
» Read moreMuch like the cover art might suggest, Bloom Ascension uncovers numerous aspects of Roach’s more sequenced interests, melding the more dreamy elements of his floating ambient style...
» Read moreAvtomat Proshlogo is transliterated Russian meaning the Automat of the Past, referring to cause and effect or karma, with automat also meaning the virtue of the mind to...
» Read moreThe two Los Angeles based collaborators Miles Richmond and Peter Grenader have long and varied histories with electronic and experimental music, although much of their work has been making film and...
» Read moreAlmost a year after his previous album, Eric Goulden AKA Wreckless Eric, released Transience on May 17, 2019. Whereas his previous album had a Bowie / Bill Nelson flavor,...
» Read moreWith The Final Frontier, Nik Turner gives us another tasty slab of what he’s best at — rollicking space rock with steady grooves, trippy synthesizers, and plenty of Mellotron...
» Read moreSEN3 is a Brit jazz-rock instrumental band consisting of Max O’Donnell (guitar, synths, kalimba, and metallophone), Dan Gulino (bass and synths), and Saleem Raman (drums and percussion)....
» Read moreWhen Keith Jones was combing the Fruits de Mer archives for the tenth anniversary Goldfish compilation, Marc Swordfish of Astralasia was going down an entirely different path of...
» Read moreWith Equal Time, this trio creates a serious yet fun jazz sound with a simple trio of organ, guitar and drums. Drummer Jeff Hamilton is a veteran player, in addition to his work with the...
» Read moreThis Danish synth duo is comprised of Jakob Skøtt and Kristoffer Ovesen, the former being a founding member of the great Causa Sui in addition to having a half dozen solo albums to his...
» Read moreWith their second album, Karakorum further develops an interesting combination of progressive rock influences that’s quite distinctive. The title Fables and Fairytales may hint at...
» Read moreFar from the base of El Paraiso's operation, which would be Denmark, and also far from their typical sound, which would be the heavy instrumental rock jam-band sound of groups like Causa Sui,...
» Read moreThe 60s are over. They were over a long time ago, but their musical influence lives on, having left a mark on virtually every genre of music. So when one of the bands that actually went into making...
» Read moreWe know Jonas Munk from his work as longtime multi-instrumentalist (primarily guitar) and writer in the Danish powerhouse Causa Sui, as well as solo endeavors like 2012's Pan....
» Read moreI first encountered Hanterhir on their ambitious epic concept album The Saving of Cadan, the success of which has prompted the band to release these two collections of their earlier...
» Read moreI first encountered Hanterhir on their ambitious epic concept album The Saving of Cadan, the success of which has prompted the band to release these two collections of their earlier...
» Read moreWhen I first heard William Steffey’s Reality Jockey, his name didn’t ring a bell, but that’s not because I’d never heard his music before. He was in the band...
» Read moreIt’s always good news whenever Kit Watkins releases new music, and for me, being unaware of his two 2015 releases, the last one I heard was Sky Zone from 2006. When one listens to...
» Read moreDizzy Mystics is a band from Winnipeg, Canada, with an interesting and engaging style. In many ways, they remind me of Opposite Day, with strong vocals over complex instrumental backing, but where...
» Read moreThe story behind this album starts with the Harrigans Lane Collective, a creative space for explorative artistic interdisciplinary projects in rural Australia with a focus on architecture, music,...
» Read moreNorwegian trio 35 Tapes is a modern melodic rock band inspired by the progressive rock of the 70s. The sound of the mighty Mellotron, with its 35 tapes to produce notes, made a deep and lasting...
» Read moreFor their second full-length outing, the all-star Peter Gabriel interpreters tackle seven more tunes from the repertoire, this time bringing in some earlier material. Where Contact relied...
» Read moreThe world of studio musicians is a part of the music business that many people don’t know about. Outside of pop stars whose music is primarily the product of producers, we always think of the...
» Read moreAround a year ago I reviewed French bassist Shob’s second album Karma Obscur; since then...
» Read moreZiblat is an Israeli-Argentinian singer-songwriter and composer of film music now based in Holland, who first came to our attention when he was the leader of the band Modest Midget around the time...
» Read moreLike their previous releases, the five pieces on Depart make superb use of math in their overall concept, seemingly moving forward in multiple simultaneous time signatures, something most...
» Read moreSongwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Wileman is probably best known as the guiding force behind Karda Estra (a dozen full length releases from 2000-2017) and Lives and Times before...
» Read moreRegarding Ranshart:
The Norwegian group Ruphus suffered a drastic lineup shift after their 1973 debut, New Born Day, which resulted in the loss of, among others,...
» Read moreStarting back in 2015 with the 13th Dream of Dr. Sardonicus Festival, Fruits de Mer Records has been presenting an annual festival of musicians and bands who have been, currently are, or soon will...
» Read moreEd Macan is a professor of music at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California. The sprawling campus is hard to miss as one drives through Northern California on US highway 101. His idea in...
» Read moreManfred Mann, as of this writing, is just seventeen months shy of his 80th birthday, and what an amazing career he has had with his various bands through all the years, plus soundtracks and other...
» Read morePaul Kirkpatrick is a British composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who operates under the moniker Paul K. On these fourteen tracks he creates a musical homage to Italian...
» Read moreNeil Campbell is a Liverpool based master-guitarist with about twenty releases to his credit, both solo albums and with various ensembles, mostly instrumental, but some with vocals, mostly original...
» Read moreKarisma Records has begun a reissue campaign for the catalog of Norway’s Ruphus, a band formed in 1970 that went through a lot of changes and gained some notoriety in Europe, though they...
» Read moreKarisma Records has begun a reissue campaign for the catalog of Norway’s Ruphus, a band formed in 1970 that went through a lot of changes and gained some notoriety in Europe, though they...
» Read moreZëss. Hardcore Magma fans will be familiar with it through two previous official releases: First, there is the Bobino Concert 1981 CD (released in 1995) where we get a...
» Read moreCaravela Escarlate is Brazilian band in the classic tradition of keyboard trios, Emerson Lake & Palmer being the prototype (or 1-2-3 / Clouds if you want to go a little earlier and less well...
» Read moreWith Nattfiolen, Jordsjø proves that their debut album was no fluke. This duo is indeed one of the top progressive rock bands in the world today. Looking at all the qualities that...
» Read moreFerguson is a Portland, Oregon based composer and multi-instrumentalist with nine releases to his credit. We reviewed his first album Strad to Strat way back in 1996, a masterful treatment...
» Read moreMaster guitarist Frédéric L’Épée has done just about everything, recalling his work with Philharmonie, Yang, Shylock, and numerous solo albums alongside...
» Read moreIn a general sense, Kepa Härkönen is mostly known as a “surf guitarist” in his native Finland, previously the lead guitarist of The Wristshakers; he’s been honing his...
» Read moreLucifer’s Friend hit the scene around 1970, a German progressive hard-rock band fronted by the gifted British singer John Lawton, their apparent influences were Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and...
» Read more6 Lenins is the third release by the London jangle pop group The Proper Ornaments. I was a little thrown off by the disturbing cover art that looks like an execution, as the image does not...
» Read moreThis is where it all began for a band so unusual and outside the ‘rock box’ that many at the time may have dismissed them as being too far out. When I first heard Alchemy, I...
» Read moreWhile it may have enough umlauts to make a metal fan salivate, Hirttomiehiä Työväenluokalle is in fact a highly abstract and atmospheric creation involving various wind...
» Read moreIn his latest release, the Argentine composer and multi-instrumentalist has surrounded himseld with a small orchestra. His previous releases (at least the three that I have heard) have been all...
» Read moreNodens Ictus began back in the mid-80s as a subset of Ozric Tentacles performing that type of music in a more ambient style (as opposed to the space rock of Ozrics), specifically guitarist Ed Wynne...
» Read moreIn the legions of jazz-rock power trios, Cantrip sets itself apart in several ways. First of all, there’s the guitar of leader Simon Henneman, whose resume includes such diverse settings as...
» Read moreI’m going to assume that there is a segment of music fans for whom Phenomena is a big deal. I am not a member of that segment, and in fact, I’m not even sure I ever heard of the project...
» Read moreIt’s been many years since I’ve heard anything new by IZZ, maybe their second album I Move, but they’ve been busy releasing numerous albums in the interim while I...
» Read moreI’ve been aware of Big Big Train as long as Exposé has been a going concern, since the days of early albums like Goodbye to the Age of Steam and Gathering...
» Read moreAlban and Cédric Theys are French-born brothers now both living out of their mother country. Cédric, the elder brother, now calls Texas home, and he started playing guitar, and then...
» Read moreFirst question is: What is the Anacostia Delta? One might be forgiven for not knowing, but it’s the area of the East Coast which includes southern Maryland, northern Virginia, and of course...
» Read moreThis Northern California band has been honing their craft in relative obscurity for several years now, and their dedication is apparent on Fertile Ground, which is their third full-length...
» Read moreThis past November UK musician Tim Burness released his latest album, Interconnected. Like his previous album, this one features a wide range of musical styles, touching on electro-pop,...
» Read moreWhile there is a good chance I haven’t heard every one of Kastning and Szabó’s previous collaborations, I think it can be safely said that Ethereal III is unique among...
» Read moreThe man behind the name Hoia is Prateek Rajagopal, who is also known for his work with a metal band called Gutslit. But Hoia is the result of his interest in music outside of the metal genre, and...
» Read moreThese are two names that any floating ambient music enthusiast can trust with certainty, and much like Alio Die’s collaboration with Mathias Grassow Expanding Horizon way back in...
» Read moreThis album might be the last thing one would expect from Walter Holland: an album of traditional, cover and original folks ongs, especially given that his previous releases were pretty much...
» Read moreYellow Walls seems to me like an application of the attitude which produced albums like After the Heat to modern pop music. Wooden Peak is a duo using a combination of guitar and...
» Read moreAt hand is a remastered reissue of Lambert’s sixth album from 1995, whose released works date back to the late 80s. With the addition of a seven minute bonus track “Distance,”...
» Read moreThis is the fourth in a series of excellent documentaries produced by José Zegarra Holder and Adele Schmidt, and judging by the title, it probably won’t be the last. I checked my video...
» Read moreDer Finger is a band from Moscow, Russia who play avant-free, dark jazz, noise, and psychedelic improvisational music. Their new album, Le Cinque Stagioni, is a set of five instrumentals...
» Read moreMoon Goose is a new band on Fruits de Mer. They came to Keith Jones’ attention last year on Facebook. Keith really liked what he heard, so he persuaded them to contribute a track, “The...
» Read moreWhat the Norwegian composer and synthesist has created here could be summed up as an instrumental representation of planet Earth’s history in roughly 62 minutes. Precambrian is...
» Read moreBibi Den’s Tshibayi was born in the Province of Kasaï Occidental, Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly known as Zaire) on February 5, 1954. Growing up in a musical family, he...
» Read moreThe 60s were turbulent times, the decade where rock music grew up, going through a number of phases and reaching new extremes as time went forward. Within the span of just two years, from 1963 to...
» Read moreNow, if you thought that the lovely Miss MacPumpkin’s latest album
The latest installment of the Romantic Warriors series takes us to Germany, a country with such a rich and varied history that it will require three full-length films to cover. As...
» Read moreThis Russian band started releasing digital EPs on Bandcamp in 2016, but The Route through the Canyon marks their label debut. Most of the nine tracks on this album have appeared on one or...
» Read moreItalian electronic jazz explorers Chat Noir are back after three years with Hyperuranion, and the duo of Michele Cavillari (keyboards) and Luca Fogagnolo (bass) has expanded to a quartet...
» Read moreFor a couple of years now in the Seattle area, Moon Letters has been impressing audiences with their modern take on classic progressive rock. The band could be considered a Northwest supergroup of...
» Read moreAdisa Zvekić a.k.a. Diamusk is a Bosnian musician currently living in Norway, and Sleepwalkers is the third Diamusk album, and the eighth in her career. The music is primarily reggae and...
» Read moreWhat do you do when you try to surpass your previous success? Try something different. And that is exactly what Kuhn Fu has done on their new album, Chain the Snake. The same elements are...
» Read moreA most unusual jazz trio, in that there is no bottom end (drums or bass) to hold down the rhythm, but that’s not to say they’re not there, mostly implied by their absence using the...
» Read moreBrit neo-psych rockers Green Seagull released a new single on May 3 that is a taste of things to come on their forthcoming second album, to be released later this year. Both songs are so good that...
» Read moreDuring their short life as a band (1967 - 1970), Brit psych group Mandrake Paddle Steamer opened for the likes of Pink Floyd, The Nice, and Vanilla Fudge, as well as performing at the Isle of Wight...
» Read moreBreidablik is back with another choice set of tasty electronic music. For the most part, Nhoohr is firmly in mid-70s Tangerine Dream mode, starting with icy string synth and the sounds of...
» Read moreStratus Luna is a new four-piece from Brazil, but to hear this, their debut release, one would think these are old pros who have been at it as long as most of the members have been alive. The band...
» Read moreThose who know Jeff Kelly only from his work in The Green Pajamas might be a little surprised hearing Beneath the Stars, Above the River. His distinctive voice and a tinge of psychedelia...
» Read moreIn the late 60s a group of young friends (Harry Wellott, Gordon Carlisle, Don Hathaway, and Chris Nelson) in Montclair, NJ formed the Hasting’s Street Opera, named after an old Detroit blues...
» Read moreWho or what is a Hhoogg? Is it an alien or the sound of a stuttering pig? There is a dearth of information about them, but neither answer is true. Hhoogg is an improvisational quartet of aliens...
» Read moreA most unusual album, especially for the pages of Exposé, but when a change of pace is in order Happy Songs und Herzenslieder (“Happy Songs and Songs from the...
» Read moreAustin’s progressive rock scene continues to produce excellent music. The latest is Thirteen of Everything’s second album Our Own Sad Fate. The band has a long and storied...
» Read moreTom Eaton is a Massachusetts based composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and engineer who has spent most of his career behind the scenes, producing and engineering dozens of releases for other...
» Read moreAfter six albums on Cuneiform, all nothing less than superb, the Ed Palermo Big Band is back in action on Sky Cat records with A Lousy Day in Harlem, this time taking it in a slightly...
» Read moreSam Rosenthal is probably better known for his band Black Tape for a Blue Girl, who have been releasing albums since the mid-1980s, or his label Projekt Records specializing in gothic,...
» Read moreIf you come to Out of the Moment as a listener unfamiliar with Emily Bezar’s music, I can only try to imagine what you might think. “The Longest Way” starts out with a...
» Read moreOn their site, the band claims that this is their 19th album, but in fact their discography shows a few additional releases that they must not be counting (and that’s not even counting those...
» Read moreOne has to wonder... If this was designed to be a continuous 71 minute listening experience, why the heck was it broken into six tracks, especially when the end of one track is no different than...
» Read moreSurely what Kuhn Fu accomplished on their last album Kuhnspiracy couldn’t be topped, so this time out they seem to have wandered down a slightly different path, bringing forth their...
» Read moreElectronic musician Rudoph Heimann is back with a new album, which is possibly his best to date, Die Unendlichkeit des Augenblicks or The Infinity of the Moment. This new album...
» Read moreKenyon Bunton is a musician with roots back to bands in the 90s, ultimately unsuccessful, but mainly in the Cardiacs and London avant noise scene. Disillusioned with the music scene, Kenyon...
» Read moreOverall all, L’Âme de Paris is an excellent set of aggressively pleasant French psych pop songs by French Boutik. L’Âme de Paris is meticulously...
» Read more“Bad breaks and hard knocks, it’s been a long hard road” are the opening lyrics on “Hard Road,” a dark, bluesy number that opens the first disc of this two disc set,...
» Read moreIf one goes to the ‘discogs.com’ website and searches for Peter Orins, they will find that it simply says ‘drummer,’ though that’s certainly an oversimplification of...
» Read moreOne has to be amazed at how just two guys can make such absolute mind shattering music in a live setting, but the evidence is right here on this 71 minute compact disc, recorded on June 6, 2018 at...
» Read moreIn the annals of American garage rock, My Favorite Martian is an interesting footnote, and this archival release serves to illuminate a little-known corner that deserves to be remembered. Al Bloch...
» Read moreMassergy is the floating ambient electronic music project of one Eric Jensen, based in Austin, Texas. There’s an interesting back story here: Massergy was originally created to honor...
» Read moreThe Honey Pot have come a long way since their first album and then debuting on Fruits de Mer Records. Their fifth full album, Bewildered Jane, was just released on Mega Dodo Records and...
» Read moreMoving into 2019, after releasing twelve albums (seems like more) last year, Satoko Fujii takes a back seat on this album, leaving composer and co-conspirator Alister Spence to take the reins of...
» Read moreFor many years at Exposé we have been reviewing the work of Craig Padilla, both as a solo artist and in collaborations with Zero Ohms, Skip Murphy, Howard Givens, and others. A...
» Read moreRobert Foster has a long musical career starting as the co-founder of the indie band The Go-Betweens in 1978. After that band broke up in 1989, he released his first solo album, Danger in the...
» Read moreThe only thing constant with The Telescopes is founding member Stephen Lawrie. Every release explores a different musical direction. For his 11th album, Exploding Head Syndrome, Lawrie...
» Read moreRadiant Mind is a soundscape and meditation music artist who prefers to exist in relative anonymity, but we suspect his real name is Robert Englis. On his first two releases Sense (2012)...
» Read moreA couple years since their debut, Jeff Aug and company are back for their sophomore release, another (almost) instrumental exploration of edgy hard rock played with a punk vengeance with only a few...
» Read moreKastning has played piano on many of his albums to date, mostly on collaborations where someone is playing guitar, but for his sixth solo album, he has crafted nine pieces – over an...
» Read moreReleased on January 1st 2019, I’ve been spinning this nearly every early morning for almost three months as this review is written, and it could go on like this for much longer too. We have a...
» Read moreExhibit A
Ashes to Ashes covers The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016 — every song Bowie wrote or recorded in that time period in chronological order....
» Read moreDr. Mark Lomax, II is a 2018-19 Artist in Residence at the Wexler Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, and he has taken advantage of the Center’s support in a big way, putting...
» Read moreDr. Mark Lomax, II is a 2018-19 Artist in Residence at the Wexler Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, and he has taken advantage of the Center’s support in a big way, putting...
» Read moreDr. Mark Lomax, II is a 2018-19 Artist in Residence at the Wexler Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, and he has taken advantage of the Center’s support in a big way, putting...
» Read moreDr. Mark Lomax, II is a 2018-19 Artist in Residence at the Wexler Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, and he has taken advantage of the Center’s support in a big way, putting...
» Read moreA most unusual collection of folksongs by Mexican singer Xochitzin, with several previous albums to her credit, and multi-instrumentalist Luis ‘Ixonetzli’ Perez, who penned most of the...
» Read moreAppropriately titled, most of Forrest Fang’s catalog could seem like the soundtrack of dreams, and this latest release underscores that sense, from the sprawling eleven-minute opener...
» Read moreIt’s been a good four years since the last Ozric Tentacles album Technicians of the Sacred came down from on high, a double CD and a great one which was promptly
It’s been at least ten years since Metaphor’s last album, The Sparrow, so the band certainly can’t be accused of flooding the market with product. Even with the passage...
» Read moreThis short but anazingly effective helping of crisp, snappy, aggressive instrumental funk clocks in just shy of twenty minutes, and is in fact the debut offering by Level 5, the four-piece led by...
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2021-04-01
New Aristocrats Live Album on the Way –
No foolin'! These supreme musicians toured Europe early in 2020, just before touring ceased to be a thing musicians could do, and there were some hot performances captured. On May 7, some of these will be releases as Freeze! Live in Europe 2020. »
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2021-03-25
Return of Jerry Lucky's Progressive Rock Files –
After much consideration and surprisingly, positive feedback, Jerry Lucky is announcing the launch of the progressive Rock Files podcast, featuring the latest progressive rock music from around the world. »
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2021-03-14
Jewlia Eisenberg RIP –
The sad news has come out that Jewlia Eisenberg has died. As a founding member of Charming Hostess, Eisenberg changed the face of music, bringing together Balkan klezmer, American folk, and experimental rock in a distinctive blend that garnered much praise. »
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2021-03-11
RIP Roger Trigaux –
The sad news has come to our attention that Roger Trigaux, the guiding force of Present and former member of Univers Zero, passed away on the evening of March 10, 2021 after a long ilness. »
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2021-02-14
SoundQuest Fest 2021 –
SoundQuest Fest, first experienced as a live festival in Tucson Arizona in 2010 was created by ambient music pioneer Steve Roach. This 2021 event will unite a worldwide gathering of artists and audience members together for a 3-day online event unique in the realm of ambient music. From March 26-28th a continuous flow of streamed performances, audio-video wonder worlds and deep immersion zones will burn bright on Roach’s YouTube channel. »
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Blackmore's Night - Shadow of the Moon – Well, if this album doesn't make you want to run barefoot through the heather I don't know what will. Former axeman for Rainbow and Deep Purple has joined with his Lady to create an utterly enchanting... (1999) » Read more
Cathedral - Kingdom of Ends – Kingdom of Ends is the first CD by the Washington, DC based five-piece Cathedral. Their sound is firmly in the neo-progressive camp, perhaps more radio-ready than most. Their sound blends tried and... (1993) » Read more
The Smell of Incense - Of Ullages and Dottles – The passage of time is not always what it seems. Sometimes it crawls interminably and at others it passes in an instant. In the case of The Smell of Incense it is shocking to me that it has been 10... (2008) » Read more
The Bass Gang - Evasioni, Fughe & La Contrabbassatta – Alberto Pocini is a double-bass player from Italy who's played extensively in his homeland as well as with the London Symphony Orchestra. Pocini's After Genesis project attests to his varied musical... (2007) » Read more
Amoeba - Pivot – Without reading the credits, it would be easy to assume Amoeba is a four or five member band, but in reality it’s two guys: Robert Rich (vocals, keyboards, steel guitar, flutes) and Rick Davies... (2001) » Read more