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Phil Mercy - Fear of Fantastic Flight

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I don't know who Phil Mercy is, but, if I had to guess from what's in the CD booklet, I'd say he's a gifted English guitarist who has always wished for a chance to record the kind...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 1999-04-01)

Paul Dunmall Octet - Bebop Starburst

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If big band jazz is an acquired taste for any progressive music aficionado, then big band jazz with free jazz overtones is a likely a challenging ordeal. Even for the casual bebop jazz fan...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 1999-04-01)

Patrick Broguière - Mont Saint-Michel

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Borrowing from the famous Mont Saint-Michel legend, this third album under the name of this French electronicist is not at all a solo album but a real album group, with bass, guitars, vocalists,...

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(Posted by Jerome Schmidt 1999-04-01)

NeBeLNeST - NeBeLNeST

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Rare it is, the debut of classic caliber. We saw one a couple years back with DFA’s Lavori in Corso, Änglagård’s Hybris before that; but they don’t...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-04-01)

Nathan Mahl - The Clever Use of Shadows

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From what we’re led to believe, Parallel Eccentricities was only a small part of the Nathan Mahl story, one that spans 20 years and includes two parts of a trilogy that this new CD...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 1999-04-01)

Mystery - Destiny?

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Yikes, my second guilty pleasure disc this time around! Mystery are a four piece from Quebec and on Destiny? they serve up some fine slices of progressive pop, often sounding like an...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 1999-04-01)

Mercury Rising - Building Rome

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Of late I have had to re-evalute my definition of what I thought progressive metal was. Take Mercury Rising, for example: the vocals are understandable, the guitar licks are not Metallica based,...

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(Posted by Dane Carlson 1999-04-01)

Martin Velíšek & Už Jsme Doma - Jaro, Peklo, Podzim, Zima (Spring, Hell, Autumn, Winter)

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This upstart Czech ensemble occupies firm Rock in Opposition territory, with honking horn fanfares over rhythmically tricky power chord riffs. However, this generalization doesn’t quite work...

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(Posted by Steve Robey 1999-04-01)

Magma - Flöë Ëssi / Ëktah

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After a long hiatus from recording and playing, then several years of touring, Magma has finally released something new, and although the eight minutes on this CD that could have easily...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 1999-04-01)

L'Ange Vert - Le Sang des Hommes

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Remember a while back, when I reviewed Tempest's Turn of the Wheel, and I lamented the fact...

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(Posted by Mike Ohman 1999-04-01)
 

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