FERGUS McCREADIE – STREAM (Edition Records) (2024)
The nominations of writers in All About Jazz inspired me to check out Fergus McCreadie, in particular his latest album “Stream”, already...
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Jul 242 min read
CENSUS OF HALLUCINATIONS – THE NONSENSE MACHINE (Bandcamp) (2024)
I wrote in December, 2023 of the lead-off single: choppy organ chords, soaring flights of guitar, strident drums and percussion in a...
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Jul 241 min read
PAUL ROLAND – MORBID BEAUTY (Blue Matter Records LP) (2024)
Thanks to NICK SALOMAN for the opportunity to listen to another new release from his Blue Matter label. The album starts with ‘Stars in...
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Jul 244 min read
NORTHERN FAITH – CONNECTING WITH FAITH (Northern Soundscapes/ Bandcamp) (2024)
A review and interview with TIM HUNTER Can I ask you why you have released your latest album "Connecting with Faith" under the name...
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Jul 241 min read
CARLA DIRATZ & THE ARCHERS OF SORROW – BLUE STITCHES (Discus Music) (2024)
With the same band on board as “The Scale” (see separate review), I looked forward to listening to another album three years on. Although...
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Jul 241 min read
CARLA DIRATZ & THE ARCHERS OF SORROW – THE SCALE (Discus Music) (2021)
The opener is impressive: a basic drum pattern (Adam Fairclough) grounding the opening title track into a groove as French chanteuse...
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Jul 191 min read
ASTRAL MAGIC WITH VESA PARTTI - FLOATING IN SPACE (Bandcamp) (2024)
After the impressive single in which The Space Lords delivered an amazing track about the loneliness of space, here comes the anticipated...
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Jul 191 min read
RON CAINES/ MARTIN ARCHER AXIS – PRACTICAL DREAMERS (Discus Music) (2024)
This is the fifth album by Axis, seven-part suite of electroacoustic excursions, recorded this time from saxophonist Ron Caines outwards...
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Jul 1910 min read
AN INTERVIEW WITH GREGORY CURVEY of THE LUCK OF EDEN HALL and CUSTARD FLUX
Phil Jackson discusses The Luck of Eden Hall’s classic album “The Acceleration of Time” with ‘Curvey’ as he is affectionately known, and...
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Jul 181 min read
ANGUS – DIARY OF DREAMS (Blue Matter Records) (2024) LP
Maurizio ‘Angus’ Bidoli was encountered by Nick Saloman and The Frond at a gig in Rome in the early 90s, where Nick was given a cassette...
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Jul 161 min read
P.S. CHARLES LLOYD’s ‘HIP’ CREDENTIALS
Some little snippets from my entry on CHARLES LLOYD in THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE: “On his early albums Lloyd’s tenor sax playing owed much to...
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Jul 161 min read
CHARLES LLOYD – THE SKY WILL STILL BE THERE TOMORROW (2024) (2 x CD; 2 x LP) (Blue Note)
Following his successful trio of “Trios” albums last year, Charles Lloyd is back in age defying form at 86 (and I just heard BOB DYLAN,...
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Jul 164 min read
AFRAID TO AWAKE – A HAUNTING AT SEA (2024), Proximity Records/ Bandcamp: review and interview
“A Haunting at Sea” is a different kind of album from Steven McCabe than his long-lived ELEGANT SIMPLICITY project. For a start, it is...
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Jul 162 min read
JEAN LUC PONTY- LIFE ENIGMA (2001/ 2024) (MPS Records) (LP)
Quoting from what I wrote for THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE: “On some tracks Ponty handled all the instruments and ‘effects’ himself, with only a...
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Jul 141 min read
THE GREAT ROCK BIBLE – SYD BARRETT
Opening a very early page in Martin C Strong’s ultimate music discography (1920- 1976), I came across SYD BARRETT. Being in a psychedelic...
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Jul 141 min read
ACID DRAGON #86 out now!
I know I am biased but the latest Acid Dragon was a cover-to-cover read for me. It starts with Thierry’s usual insightful editorial:...
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Jul 102 min read
ANTON BARBEAU – IN THE VILLAGE OF THE APPLE SUN (BLUE MATTER RECORDS) (2024) (LP /CD)
I remember reviewing this album in 2006 and, checking my archives, described it at the time as “intelligent fractured pop, flowing like a...
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Jul 102 min read
SOFT MACHINE – HØVIKODDEN, 1971 – CUNEIFORM RECORDS (2024) 4 X CD & 4 x LP boxsets
Having written the first part of my review in DISS, I finally got around to listening to the rest of this ‘blast from the past’, a...
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Jul 102 min read
YES – TALK (1994/2024) 4 x CD, 2 x LP, 1 x White vinyl, 1 x CD
Let’s talk about “Talk”. Well, for a start, the artwork was light years away from Roger Dean’s, a sign of the times perhaps. The line-up...
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Jul 101 min read
BILL NELSON – POWERTRON (2016/2024) (Dreamsville/ Burning Shed)
So prolific is Bill Nelson that “Powertron” has had to wait 8 years for release, but listening to it I have no idea why it has taken this...
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