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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, Phideaux Talks Aspirations of Becoming A Musical Visionary with Kev Rowland. 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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Some 16 years ago I first came across Phideaux Xavier and his band and was incredibly impressed not only by the music they were making but also by the fact he was giving CDs away to […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, Potter's Daughter – Casually Containing Rage – Melodic Revolution Records 2 months ago
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 V […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, Marco Ragni / Björn Riis – Carnival of Ghosts – Melodic Revolution Records 2 months ago
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, […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, NEKTAR – LIVE FROM WILDEY THEATRE – INDEDPENDENT 2 months, 3 weeks ago
This album was recorded on Nektar’s ‘Up Close and Intimate’ Tour of North America and focuses on new and classic Nektar tracks spanning their 50-year career. Recorded at their sell-out show on March 7th , […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, GARY HUSBAND & MARKUS REUTER – MUSIC OF OUR TIMES – INDEPENDENT 2 months, 3 weeks ago
There is no doubt we are living in very strange times indeed. The whole world has succumbed to a pandemic, and as for politics, let us just say I am incredibly glad to be living at the end of the world. But […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, PETER MATUCHNIAK – SESSIONS – MELODIC REVOLUTION RECORDS 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Although Peter Matuchniak is known for his solo releases, as well as being in bands such as Mach One, Gekko Projekt, Bomber Goggles, and many others, he is also an in-demand session guitarist. This album sees […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, JARGON – THE FADING THOUGHT – INDEPENDENT 2 months, 3 weeks ago
This is the debut solo release from Jargon (who provides vocals, keyboards, and piano), the lead singer from Greek band Verbal Delirium. He has been joined on the album by Nikitas Kissonas (guitars), Leonidas […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, GANDALF’S FIST – STAKES AT LOW TIDE – INDEPENDENT 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I was somewhat surprised when I started playing this, as while I knew it was a re-imagining of a song originally written as an instrumental back when Gandalf’s Fist was first starting out, I had no idea t […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, THIS WINTER MACHINE – THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS – PROGRESSIVE GEARS 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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 ha […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, BLIND EGO – PREACHING TO THE CHOIR – GENTLE ART OF MUSIC 5 months, 1 week ago
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 giv […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, BLANK MANUSKRIPT – KRÁSNÁ HORA – INDEPENDENT 5 months, 1 week ago
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, […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, DARK BEAUTY – FALL FROM GRACE – INDEPENDENT 5 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, DAVID CROSS & PETER BANKS – CROSSOVER – RIGHT HONOURABLE RECORDING CO. 5 months, 1 week ago
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 […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, GERD WEYHING – JOURNEYS TO IMPOSSIBLE PLACES – INDEPENDENT 5 months, 1 week ago
Gerd’s 2014 album really does want to take us on a journey, as he brings us five numbers where the shortest is more than 21 minutes long, with a total album length of more than 135 minutes. He states they w […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, GERD WEYHING – SUBTERRAMACHINEA – INDEPENDENT 5 months, 1 week ago
Gerd’s 2018 album, ‘SubTerraMachIneA’, is quite different indeed to ‘Journey’. Here he took some five years on the three tracks (again two are lengthy while one is “only” 12 minutes), which has allowed him t […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, FAINT SIGNAL – FORMULA – INDEPENDENT 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Faint Signal originally came together when a post on Craigslist asked if prog rock was dead in Cincinnati. As a result, Henri Eisenbaum (guitars, keyboards, vocals, percussion) and Randy Campbell (vocals, […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, FERNANDO PERDOMO – THE CRIMSON GUITAR – INDEPENDENT 6 months, 3 weeks ago
It isn’t a new idea to undertake a work that is dedicated to covers of already known and loved songs, but it is somewhat unusual for one person to take the music of just one band and translate it into the c […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, LES PENNING WITH ROBERT REED – RETURN TO PENRHOS -TIGER MOTH RECORDS 6 months, 3 weeks ago
To fully understand this album, one first needs to provide a small history lesson. Les Penning a famed folk musician who first started working with Mike Oldfield with ‘Ommadawn’. He also introduced Old […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, LIFE IN DIGITAL – SIGNS TO THE FAR SIDE – WHITE KNIGHT RECORDS 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Life In Digital were formed in 2016 by John Beagley and Robin Schell, and this is their second album together. Doing some research, it appears that Robin Schell was in the running to become singer for Yes at […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post, LOBATE SCARP – SPIRALS AND PORTALS EP – INDEPENDENT 6 months, 3 weeks ago
This is the first time I have come across Lobate Scarp, who released their debut (and to date only) album back in 2012, followed it up with a single in 2016, and are now back with as EP. The band is based […]
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