CARLA CAMPOPIANO TRIO – CHICAGO/BUENOS AIRES CONNECTION
The Argentinian-born Carla Campopiano has been an important part of the Chicago tango scene since 2015. The flutist has also been exposed to jazz and blues, resulting in her leaving her tango performances open to the improvising and chance taking spirit of jazz. On...
GREENSLADE – BEDSIDE MANNERS ARE EXTRA – ESOTERIC
I am not sure when I first came across this album, but it wasn’t when it was first released in 1973 but some time in the Eighties. I was immediately blown away by the concept of having two keyboard players, and no guitar, and while some likened them to ELP I never...
ATME – STATE OF NECESSITY – INDEPENDENT
This 2017 album is the debut from ATME, a Wrocław based rock band who could probably be accurately described as progressive in its truest sense as opposed to regressing back into what has come before. The band itself have a standard quartet line-up of Łukasz „Luke”...
ALCATRAZZ – PAROLE DENIED – FRONTIERS MUSIC
To many, Graham Bonnet will always be associated primarily with Rainbow and then with MSG, but it must also be remembered he had his first hit single with The Marbles in 1968. In 1983, he co-founded Alcatrazz, with Gary Shea (bass), and Jimmy Waldo (keyboards) of the...
THE MINSTREL’S GHOST – JACK: A DIFFERENT TALE – MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDS
This is the first album from The Minstrel’s Ghost since 2012 and is also planned to be the final release from the band as leader Blake Carpenter has decided it is time to move on. Blake provides some of the lead vocals, plus rhythm guitar and keyboards, and is again...
ALAN SIMON EXCALIBUR – LADIES OF THE LAKE – BABAÏKA PRODUCTIONS
It was with is third album that Breton musician Alan Simon really made a huge impact, 1999’s ‘Excalibur, La Légende des Celtes’. As with the further albums in the series, he used a combination of well-known musicians and singers (in that instance it included the likes...
ATARAXIA – ENA INFINITE FOG PRODUCTIONS
I first came across Italian band Ataraxia back in 2005, when I was sent ‘Arcana Eco’ to review. At that time, I said “Ataraxia are a band quite unlike any other that I have come across while writing reviews – this is much more than just acoustic music, it is...
CARPTREE – SUBIMAGO – REINGOLD RECORDS
I first came across the duo of Nicklas Flinck and Carl Westholm with the release of their second album, ‘Superhero’, back in 2003. But although I also heard ‘Man Made Machine’ in 2005 it wasn’t until 2018 that I finally heard the next two albums. But after 2010’s...
CEREUS – DYSTONIA – CEDEUS RECORDS
ereus are yet another Polish progressive band who have obviously been highly influenced by their countrymen Riverside (but have also been paying attention to Disturbed, a name I never thought I would put into a progressive rock review!). This is their debut album,...
CURVED AIR -THE CURVED AIR RARITIES VOL 3 – INDEPENDENT
The third album in the Curved Air Rarities Series finds the band headlining the second British Rock Meeting at Germersheim in Germany on 22ndMay 1973. What is of real interest to many fans will be the sheer panic which set in when the band realise that for some...
