Colouratura – Unfamiliar Skies – Melodic Revolution Records
So I had this playing in the background, but when it started with a corner shop quartet from the Forties I thought I must have put on the wrong playlist. But, what it did do was make me stop whatever else I was doing and concentrate on this, and I am so very glad...
YAGULL – KAI – MOONJUNE RECORDS
Some years ago I was lucky enough to come across the debut album from Yagull, ‘Films’. At that point in their career the band was Sasha Markovic on guitars, bass, percussion, voice and keyboards with a few guests on some of the songs. There were a couple of co-writes,...
MICHAEL-ALAN TAYLOR – AVALONIA (THE SONNETS OF GUINEVERE) – MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDS
Right, here is my third attempt at writing this review, as so far I have ditched every attempt as it either comes across as too fawning or doesn’t really portray exactly what this album means to me. What we have here is the debut album from Michael-Alan Taylor of Nth...
BLÅ LOTUS – TUBE ALLOYS – MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDS
As soon as I started playing this I was taken back more than 20 years to two albums released on the long-lost Ad Perpetuam Memoriam label by a band called Death Organ. Led by keyboardist Per Wiberg (Opeth, Spiritual Beggars), their music was a strange mix of death...
ARCA PROGJET – ARCA – JOLLY ROGER RECORDS
I very nearly missed out on this one, as although the material was made available to me, I didn’t chase it down as I hadn’t heard the name anywhere, and it’s not as if I am hunting for albums to review. But, I was told that there was a PFM connection so thought that...
BABAL – THE CIRCLE OF CONFUSION OF TONGUES – MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDS
This is the fourth album by UK art rock/psych/prog outfit Babal. The band is based around the core of singer Karen Langley and Rob Williams (guitars), with Jon Sharp (drums), Zoie Green (keyboards) and Ben Balsom (bass), and to be honest, I don’t like it very much at...
CARPTREE – NYMF – FOSFOR CREATION
The first four albums were all released two years apart, but it took three years for the fifth to see the light of day, and what wasn’t understood at the time was that this would be the last album until a return some seven years later with 2017’s ‘Emerger’. Edelönn,...
CARPTREE – INSEKT – FOSFOR CREATION
Although I really enjoyed Carptree’s second and third albums, I somehow lost touch with what happened after that, and it is only now that I have heard their third album, ‘Insekt’, which was released in 2007. As with their earlier albums, the band is still a duo of...
NTH ASCENSION – IN FINE INITIUM – MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDS
For their 2016 album, Nth Ascension made the move to American label MRR, and the confidence they gained from the critical acclaim of their debut is clearly apparent. Whereas the debut ‘Ascension of Kings” was an excellent album, this one just seems to have that touch...
GANDALF’S FIST – THE CLOCKWORK FABLE – INDEPENDENT
Some years ago I came across the debut album from Gandalf’s Fist, then lost touch with them again until I received an email one day stating that to celebrate the two year anniversary of their latest album they were providing a free download of the first act. A short...
