Potter’s Daughter – Casually Containing Rage – Melodic Revolution Records
Here we have three songs from Potter’s Daughter, showing some different sides of one of the most exciting bands coming out of America at present. Based around the amazing vocals and piano of Dyanne Potter Voegtlin, the first song is a new arrangement of “To My Love”...
Marco Ragni / Björn Riis – Carnival of Ghosts – Melodic Revolution Records
As a taster for the new album ‘If’, which will be out in November, Marco has released the single “Carnival of Ghosts” which comes in at a tad under eight minutes in length. As can be seen from the title, on this album he is working with Airbag guitarist Bjorn Riis,...
UDO PANNEKEET – ELECTRIC REGIONS – IN AND OUT OF FOCUS RECORDS
‘Electric Region’s is the latest solo album by Focus bassist, Udo Pannekeet, and since he started work on it, it has taken some five years to complete amidst his other recording and touring duties. It also features guest appearances by current Focus guitarist Menno...
TWELFTH NIGHT – A NIGHT TO REMEMBER – INDEPENDENT
It has been a very long tine indeed since I have been able to write anything remotely critical about one of the best progressive rock bands to come out of the UK and I am certainly not going to start now. They may have released just four studio albums during their...
THIS WINTER MACHINE – THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS – PROGRESSIVE GEARS
After hearing and really enjoying the recent second album from This Winter Machine, ‘A Tower of Clocks’, I have worked backwards and am now playing their debut from 2017, ‘The Man Who Never Was’. This does have a slightly different line-up from the next album, as here...
BLIND EGO – PREACHING TO THE CHOIR – GENTLE ART OF MUSIC
For a band who are on their fourth album, releasing their debut ‘Mirror’ as long ago as 2007, it seems a little mean to point out that this is actually a side project of RPWL guitarist Kalle Wallner, but given he will always be associated with them, it has to be done....
BLANK MANUSKRIPT – KRÁSNÁ HORA – INDEPENDENT
Blank Manuskript are yet another of those bands who have been happily going around releasing albums and somehow never making it into my orbit until now. Formed in Austria in 2007, this is their third album, and I really am not sure what to say about it, apart from I...
DARK BEAUTY – FALL FROM GRACE – INDEPENDENT
Most of my Facebook feed is connected with music in one way or another, and one day I came across some posts featuring Liz Tapia talking about her band Dark Beauty, and I quickly became intrigued by what I was reading so got in touch. This is the first of a planned...
DAVID CROSS & PETER BANKS – CROSSOVER – RIGHT HONOURABLE RECORDING CO.
Although Peter Banks sadly died in 2013, this new studio album features some of his work which has never been released until now. On 10th August 2010 he and David Cross got together for an afternoon of improvisation and all guitar and violin parts are from that...
DIFFERENT LIGHT – BINARY SUNS (PART 1, OPERANT CONDITION) -PROGRESSIVE GEARS
This is the fourth album from Different Light, who were originally from Malta. They released their debut back in 1996, but it was only after moving to Prague that singer/keyboard player Trevor Tabone decided to create a different version of the band in 2009...
