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JETHRO TULL – CURIOUS RUMINANT single (2025)
With a new album on the horizon, the mighty Tull has released a stunning 6-minute long single. Poignant piano and strummed acoustic...
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Jan 242 min read
NEKTAR – JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EYE (1971/ 2025) (Cherry Red 6 x CD/ Blu-Ray boxset)
Coming out round about now is an album that most certainly needed a significant sound upgrade from its original issue and this will...
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Jan 171 min read
FIFTH DAUGHTER – STELLAR SEASON (Fruits de Mer Records) (Release date: late February, 2025)
Although a new band, a duo in fact, one of Fifth Daughter’s members James Howarth has collaborated with the KLF and Martin ‘Youth’ Glover...
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Jan 132 min read
FALLING A RECORDS: a plea
Thanks to Barry Lamb and Peter Ashby for a copy of their annual report. Why is this post here? Because, for over 25 years now I have been...
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Jan 132 min read
CAMEL – Music Inspired by THE SNOW GOOSE (1975/ 2025)
Another album that will be 50 years old on 25th April: strangely enough despite four albums being reissued by Esoteric Recordings in 2025...
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Jan 111 min read
NOSTALGIA TRIP #2 – i/e – THE MAGAZINE OF PROGRESSIVE AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
To be honest I don’t know what happened to i/e. I am looking at the second edition from winter, 1992 and find advertisements for the...
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Jan 111 min read
ACID DRAGON: THE LATEST ISSUE
The magazine starts as always with Thierry’s candid editorial on the state of music and the world. Reading through the magazine there is...
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Jan 102 min read
THE NEW YEAR – ALBUMS THAT ARE 50 YEARS OLD THIS YEAR – PINK FLOYD – WISH YOU WERE HERE (1975)
Before I get on with the backlog of reviews of new music (Keep sending the music though!), I thought I would prewarn you of some notable...
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Jan 62 min read
NOSTALGIA TRIP #1 – THE LASER’S EDGE Prog magazine (FALL 1997)
Thanks to Thierry Sportouche, the editor of ACID DRAGON for sending me copies of extinct prog magazines, including the above. I don’t...
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Jan 62 min read
PETE SINFIELD – UNDER THE SKY – A COLLECTION OF LYRICS AND POEMS (1974/ 2024)
The article in PROG magazine reminded me of my signed copy of the above-named book. Richard Williams, writing in Melody Maker, said of...
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Jan 61 min read
PARADOX ONE – THIS FRAGILE PEACE (2015/2024)
In 2015 I had the idea of building an album from the bottom up so to speak, that is by asking Tim Jones and Paddi to provide some bass...
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Dec 23, 20241 min read
ANDERSON, BRUFORD, WAKEMAN, HOWE – AN EVENING OF YES MUSIC PLUS (Fragile Records/ Esoteric) (2 x CD/ 2 x DVD box) (Release date: 31st January, 2025)
This is a concert recorded at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The set mostly contains classic Yes material but...
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Dec 21, 20241 min read
THE FIRST FULL CALENDAR YEAR OF DIMENSIONS IN SOUND AND SPACE
As I review the year 2024, here is one of many nice comments we have had: the link is: https://elegantsimplicity.com/2024/12/10/dimension...
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Dec 21, 20242 min read
REVIEW OF THE YEAR ON DIMENSIONS IN SOUND AND SPACE (2024) (part one)
As well as some of your feedback, I’ve been having a look back at what has been reviewed by www.dimensions-in-sound-and-space.com in...
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Dec 12, 20242 min read
ZOLDER ELLIPSIS – IL LIBRO DEI TROPI (Lizard Records/ Bandcamp) (2024)
On ‘Sketch A’ organ (Tom Aldrich) fades in; quirky rhythms and strange time signatures, throbbing bass (Chad Langford), extravagant snare...
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Dec 10, 20245 min read
INTERVIEW WITH JUAN of Mylodon Records, a Chilean based label at the forefront of Prog
PHIL: Â Thanks for agreeing to do this interview. First of all, I would like to know how you got into Progressive Rock and why you decided...
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Dec 9, 20241 min read
ELEGANT SIMPLICITY – BEFORE THE END PART 1 (Bandcamp) (2024)
First of all, apologies are due for the tardy review of this summertime release by multi-instrumentalist Steven McCabe, collecting...
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Dec 9, 20241 min read
ELEGANT SIMPLICITY – BEFORE AND AFTER (single) (Bandcamp) (2024)
It’s incredible how much Steven McCabe manages to pack into 3 minutes of music! The most astonishing thing is that on this one track he...
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Nov 26, 20241 min read
THE JETHRO TULL CHRISTMAS ALBUM- FRESH SNOW AT CHRISTMAS (Inside Out) (2024)
Here’s one to look forward to: available in a 180g 2 x LP edition or a 4 x CD + Blu-Ray. In the latest PROG magazine Ian Anderson...
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Nov 26, 20241 min read
VOLAPÜK – WHERE IS TAMASHII? (Cuneiform Records) (2003/2024) (DL only)
A French drummer/percussionist Guigou Chenever, and compatriots Michel Mandel and Guillaume Saurel on clarinet and tarágató (looks like a...
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