Dantalian’s Chariot – “Chariot Rising” review
Dantalian’s Chariot - Chariot Rising (Esoteric Recordings, 2017) Recorded fifty years ago, with only two of its ten tracks seeing release at the time, “Chariot Rising” by Dantalian’s...
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Papir – “V” (2017) review
Papir - V (Stickman Records, 2017) https://papir.bandcamp.com/album/v The all instrumental rock trio from Copenhagen are back with their 5th studio album and this time it is a double...
Da Captain Trips – ‘Adventures In The Upside Down’ (2017)
This is the 5th release by an Italian four piece instrumental band. I have not heard all their records but I loved the first one. The CD features...
Strobe – “Bunker Sessions” (2017) review
Strobe - Bunker Sessions (Sulatron Records, 2017) Strobe was a very cool UK band from the early 90s. I have all their old records so I was very...
From The Vault: Sunbirds – “Sunbirds” (1971)
There was a time when Prog, or Progressive Music, had an undeniable jazz influence to it ... then it seemed to have gotten waylaid and then splintered into...
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians – ‘Amerikana’ (2017)
Landing nearly nine years after their last outing Life & Death, the album Amerikana [another play on words for Americana] takes a decidedly more electronic and aggressive posture,...
Dawkins – “Ep1” (2017) review
Dawkins - Ep1 (Self-released, 2017) https://ddaawwkkiinnss.bandcamp.com Three musicians with an assemblage of trans-Atlantic correspondences have skated into our frame of view with a genre-bending novelty that can only...
Peter Sjardin
Group 1850 was one of the most adventurous rock bands in The Netherlands in the late sixties. 'Agemo’s Trip to Mother Earth' and 'Paradise Now' were two of...
From The Vault: Texas Fog Society – “Texas Fog Society” (1998)
Texas Fog Society - Texas Fog Society (Nasoni Records, 1998) Coming off as a cross between more low-keyed Cream meets dreamy atmospheric Jimi Hendrix, The Texas Fog Society,...
Rick Derringer – “Joy Ride: Solo Albums 1973-1980 (2017) review
Rick Derringer - Joy Ride: Solo Albums 1973-1980 (HNE Recordings, 2017) First finding success in 1965, at age 17, as a member of The McCoys, with their smash hit...