Raja Ram & Quintessence’s Complete Island Recordings
Just released are the remastered Island recordings of Quintessence (Move Into The Light, Cherry Red Records under their Esoteric imprint ECLEC 22584). Complete with a single and full-length...
Brian R. Banks
Beau – ‘When Butterflies Scream’ (2017)
The singer-songwriter Trevor Midgley, known as Beau, has aged well like all good vintage stock; still a rich, heady consistency after all these years. From a Yorkshire teen...
Mick Softley – ‘Any Mother Doesn’t Grumble’ (1972)
At last a classic of the time before the Punk dam burst has a first CD release, from an era when a singer-songwriter could get a three-LP contract...
Snake Eye Rises Out Of Red Dirt
Just released is a recording by an obscure band Snake Eye, but it’s got a tale to tell and the only sting was done to them. Aficionados of...
Simfonica – ‘Song of the Volcanoes’ (2016)
Released on a Friday sold out by Monday: not bad for a musician performing for a change under his own name rather than a forty-year pseudonym! The genre...
Three Man Army – ‘Three Man Army’ / ‘Three Man Army Two’ (2016)
Some bands had cult status in their time and some have retained it ever since, even if they played together only for a short period. Later estimates may...
Bread Love & Dreams
BREAD LOVE & DREAMS: Availability of their rare debut coincides with founder’s death The name might at first suggest California ’67 flower-power or compatriot mainstreamers who hit on...
Catherine Howe and Saffron Summerfield
Catherine Howe Because…It Would Be Beautiful (Talking Elephant TECD 306, 54.27) Saffron Summerfield Salisbury Plain / Fancy Meeting You Here! (Talking Elephant TECD 309, 69.09) Now and again...
Eddie Baird – Exposed (2009) review
Eddie Baird - Exposed (Talking Elephant TECD 146; 26.56) Eddie Baird is most well-known for his first (and only) recording band, Amazing Blondel,...
Quintessence: Spirits From Another Time 1969-1971 (2016) review
DOUBLE VISION AND WHO DREAMED UP THE T.V. TITLE OGWT Quintessence: Spirits From Another Time 1969-1971 (Hux Records, May 2016) This album is Hux Records' 150th release and...