Cheval Sombre – ‘Cheval Sombre (10th Anniversary Reissue)’ (2020)
The music of Cheval Sombre (Chris Porpora) is as seamless and intricate as the vintage Persian carpet laying across my living room floor. His music flows with an...
Reviews
JAZZ CORNER Presents: Grant Green – ‘Idle Moments’ (1965)
I find it a sincere shame that there is not more jazz where the primary instrument is the guitar. That said, I’ve heard fine soling jazz where there’s...
‘Paper Cup’ from upcoming album by Real Estate (2020)
I’m sure that if I hadn’t seen the official video of Real Estate’s “Paper Cup,” from their soon to be released album The Main Thing, featuring an enormous...
Cary Grace – ‘Lady Of Turquoise’ (2020)
A true Renaissance woman, Grace expresses her myriad talents through music, production, engineering, poetry, and building custom Wiard modular synthesizers via her company Wessex Analogue. A brilliant interpreter...
The Meters – ‘Gettin’ Funkier All The Time’ (2020)
One of the most influential funk/R&B bands of the late 1960’s and 1970’s, New Orleans’ The Meters released eight albums and twenty singles between 1968 and 1977. While...
The Hanging Stars – ‘A New Kind of Sky’ (2020)
With album art instantly bringing to mind CSN&Y’s hypnotic Déjà Vu, the Hanging Stars, who hail from London, weave a genuine mix of psychedelic folk laced with country...
Mick Ronson – ‘Only After Dark: The Complete MainMan Recordings’ (2019)
Following David Bowie’s abrupt disbanding of The Spiders From Mars band, group members were left to scramble. Lead guitarist Mick Ronson, however, was the one band member who...
Caedmon – ‘Caedmon’ (1978)
The legendary self-released folk album by this quartet of Edinburgh University students boasts prog, jazz, and spiritual overtones. Issued in limited qualities (about 500), it was their only...
The Asteroid No.4 – ‘Under My Umbrella’ b/w ‘The House of the Seventh Moon’ (2020)
Always seeming to step back in time, yet revitalizing those hazed sounds that made the 60's so memorable, Asteroid 4 have released a very limited 7" record, employing...
Various Artists – ‘Psychedelic States: West Virginia in the 60s’ (2020)
For the past two decades, the Gear Fab label has been spitting out volume after volume of its Psychedelic States series. As the title of these compilations indicate,...