POTTER’S DAUGHTER WITH ANNIE HASLAM – BLOOD AND WATER – INDEPENDENT
Starting with some rather dated keyboards this number soon turns into the melodic progressive music I have come to expect from Potter’s Daughter, this time aided and abetted by none other than the wonderful Annie Haslam whose voice is still as pure and wonderful as it...
L.A. GUNS – ANOTHER XMAS IN HELL EP – FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL
I thought I had managed to clear all my Christmas-released reviewing and then this arrived just before Christmas itself. Here we have five songs from L.A. Guns, the first of which starts with a somewhat rambling monologue from none other than William Shatner! I must...
PAUL K – THE FERMI PARADOX – INDEPENDENT
Paul Kirkpatrick, under his pseudonym Paul K, is a British composer, producer, musician and songwriter who is also known for being one half of the electro-rock duo Glitch Code. Here he is combining electronic music with strings, samples, fretless bass, electric and...
PAUL ROLAND – 1313 MOCKINGBIRD LANE – UNIFAUN PRODUCTIONS
’m guessing it must be 20 years since I last reviewed an album by Paul, but here he is with his 20th album in a forty-year musical career. Somewhat strangely this was actually completed as long ago as 2016 but was shelved at the time by the record label, but he...
PHENOMENA – X – ANTHOLOGY – EXPLORE RIGHTS
Many years ago I bought a copy of ‘M.U. – The Bets of Jethro Tull’ but was extremely aggravated by having to do so. The reason was that at the time I was an avid Tull fan, and was annoyed that there was one song on the collection which wasn’t available elsewhere,...
POTTER’S DAUGHTER – THE BLIND SIDE – Independent
The debut album by American band Potter’s Daughter was released towards the end of 2018, but I only came across it a few months ago, since when I have been trying to work out exactly how I can describe it. The band was formed when Dyanne Potter Voegtlin (piano,...
SOLITARY – XXV – EP – DOC RECORDS
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Solitary went back into the studio to re-record three of their older numbers, “Requiem”, “Within Temptation” and “Keep Your Enemies Closer” and also used two songs recorded at the Camden Underworld, namely “Architects Of...
VARIOUS ARTISTS – WINTER SONGS EP – MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDS
Nick Katona, head honcho of one of the finest music labels around, is back with this year’s charity offering. Seven songs by different artists who have all contributed the music so you have the opportunity to hear something very special indeed while also giving back....
MARCO RAGNI – OCEANS OF THOUGHT – MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDS
Multi-instrumentalist Marco Ragni (who here provides vocals, guitars, keyboards, piano, and bass) is back with his latest album. Peter Matuchniak (Kinetic Element, Gekko Project, Mach One, etc) returns on lead guitar, as does Dave Newhouse (The Muffins) on woodwind,...
NEAL MORSE – JESUS CHRIST THE EXORCIST – FRONTIERS MUSIC
Listening to the introduction had me checking I had put on the right album, as the first minute of this 109-minute-long epic had me convinced I was listening to a news release by Clive Nolan. In recent years Clive has moved away from his more overtly progressive...
