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Various Artists - Medium Label Sampler

Medium Productions is a low profile label from the UK which represents the work of three former members of Japan. The trio is alternately creative within varying contexts and combinations of...

Various Artists - Vae Victis I & II

So here are two samplers chock full of French hard rock and heavy metal. Why should you care? Well, I guess cuz it comes from Musea’s hard rock offshoot label, Brennus. But then again, a...

Vermilion Sands - Water Blue

Lush keyboard-oriented symphonic prog bands with pretty female vocals were two-a-penny in 80s Japan. Vermilion Sands gave themselves a bit of distinction via their unusual (for a Japanese band,...

Vidna Obmana & Alio Die - Echo Passage

In a year of many excellent electronic pieces, the collaboration of two of the genre’s top artists is perhaps the year’s most surreally crystalline, a CD-length drone of three titles...

Vidna Obmana & Asmus Tietchens - Motives for Recycling

This is the second collaboration between the Belgian ambient and German experimental musicians, the prior effort being much different than this release, in that this is less a collaboration and...

Vir Unis - The Drift Inside

Following on the heels of The Ambient Expanse, the first solo effort by Vir Unis, after collaborations with Steve Roach and Ma Ja Le, consists entirely of ambient floats and drifts,...

Reviewing the Porcupine Tree Discography —
with Steven Wilson (1999)

Steven Wilson is one very talented and prolific guy. In addition to being lead guitarist, vocalist, producer and primary composer for Porcupine Tree, Wilson has a number of other projects. He plays in a quirky pop band called No Man, a wild instrumental psychedelic project named IEM (The Incredible Expanding Mindf*ck), the ambient Bass Communion, and also various other production gigs and guest appearances. Clearly Wilson is a very busy fellow. Despite all of the other creative outlets, Wilson’s primary focus is Porcupine Tree. With the “band” now having been making music for nearly a decade, and with five studio albums plus numerous other releases to their credit, it seems that a look back at their recorded output is a good idea. Reviewing the Porcupine Tree discography is a true delight as the albums represent some of the best music that has been made during the 90s. The journey through the five studio CDs is also rather exhilarating, as one can watch Wilson (and later on the entire band) progress and grow in leaps and bounds.

Steve Walsh - Glossolalia

This is the second solo project commanded by Steve in his long career, and I must say, this was no small surprise! You see, I was expecting something rather middle-of-the-road, since — though...

Atoll - Rock Puzzle

[Regarding Rock Puzzle]

Rock Puzzle is the long awaited CD reissue of Atoll’s fourth album recorded in 1979. True to their practice of releasing high quality CDs,...

Alrune Rod - Alrune Rod

This is the first of about seven albums by this Danish five-piece. Their sound at this early juncture is a mix of nimble heavy organ progressive rock and trippy spacy, sometimes plodding,...