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Kev Rowland wrote a new post 4 years, 5 months 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 4 years, 6 months 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 4 years, 6 months 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 4 years, 6 months 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 4 years, 6 months 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 4 years, 6 months 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 4 years, 6 months 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 4 years, 7 months 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 4 years, 7 months 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 4 years, 7 months 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 4 years, 7 months 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 4 years, 7 months 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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Kev Rowland wrote a new post 4 years, 7 months ago
Outside In are a rare beast indeed, as not only are they a progressive rock band, but they are a progressive rock band from New Zealand! Our wonderful country has a geographical mass a little larger than the […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post 4 years, 7 months ago
In 2015, after a gap of some sixteen years, Drifting Sun returned with their third album. Keyboard player Pat Sanders had decided it was time, and created a brand-new version of the band, with himself being […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post 4 years, 7 months ago
When Frank Wyatt was diagnosed with cancer, it led him to think he ought to release at least one more album, and for the assistance, he turned back to his old friends. This means that on this album we have […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post 4 years, 8 months ago
I have been writing gig reviews for more than 30 years, but always from notes taken at the time which act as memory joggers, so this is the first time I have ever written a full review while the concert […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post 4 years, 8 months ago
In the middle of last year, I received an email from Daria Kulseh, who has been given my details by the wonderful Elfin Bow. She described her music to me as “a bold fusion of cultures and styles – my R […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post 4 years, 8 months ago
Babal – The Big Everything – Melodic Revolution RecordsReleased at the beginning of 2020, ‘Frank’s Lament’ is the third of the EP’s completing the second part of the trilogy, which will be finalized with the […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post 4 years, 9 months ago
One of the unexpected side benefits from my books being published is that I am being contacted from even more bands than before, and such is the case with PsychoYogi. I heard from Chris Ramsing, who wrote all […]
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Kev Rowland wrote a new post 4 years, 9 months ago
I must confess that when I saw this album and read about it, I was more than a little intrigued. Like many people my age I have been fully aware of Pat Travers and remember him from the Seventies and Eighties […]
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