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...
Reviews
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...
Frozen Planet…. 1969 – “From The Centre Of A Parallel Universe” (2017) review
Frozen Planet....1969 are back with their 3rd release and 2nd this year. The band really is on a roll and this one sounds like it could have been...
Arp – “The Soft Wave” (2010) review
Arp - The Soft Wave (Smalltown Supersound, 2010) Alexis Georgopoulos’s prolific artistic career spans numerous musical groups, multimedia curations, and cultural writings. He is both the remixer and the...
The 17th Pygmy – “Ballade of Tristram’s Last Harping” (2007) review
The 17th Pygmy - Ballade of Tristram’s Last Harping (Trakwerx, 2007) I think that over the years, for better or worse, I’ve become more selective in the music...