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Tag: John Jowitt

  • Review – The Tangent – Was

    Review – The Tangent – Was

    “Like songs built around samples of earlier songs, or cover versions that are more famous than the originals we build this map of our lives. My 1970s were all about the wonders of discovering music. Vietnam was on the periphery of my consciousness, and, like the lack  of those phones at Knebowrth were later realised,…

  • Review – Frost* – Life In The Wires – by Kevin Thompson

    Review – Frost* – Life In The Wires – by Kevin Thompson

    After a busy weekend I now find myself sat at home full of cold and in need of cheering up. Ooh! What’s this in my inbox Ooh! It’s the latest Frost* album for review. Ooh! It’s a double album. Ooh! It’s a concept album. Can this be what I need to perk myself up. Let’s…

  • FROST* return with their new double concept album Life In The Wires?

    FROST* return with their new double concept album Life In The Wires?

    UK progressive rockers Frost* are pleased to announce the release of their brand new double concept album Life In The Wires, due out 18th October 2024 via InsideOutMusic.  Every prog band worth their salt really should do a double album, shouldn’t they?  asks Frost* frontman Jem Godfrey.  We’ve always kind of had this idea of wanting…

  • Review – Nataraja – Spirit At Play – by John Wenlock-Smith

    This album, Natajara’s Spirit At Play’, really appealed to me having a fondness for jazz fusion and knowing the Mahavishnu Orchestra catalogue pretty well, as I do. Guitarist Jack Jennings is new to me but here, on this rather splendid album, he combines his love of Jimi Hendrix with his passion for the Raja’s of…

  • Review Phi Yaan-Zek – Interdimensional Garden Party – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review Phi Yaan-Zek – Interdimensional Garden Party – by John Wenlock-Smith

    I first came across Phi Yaan-Zek as many others may have, through the pages and tracks on Prog Magazine, although at that time it didn’t really grab me. I was probably on a different musical phase ,as is often the way with me. However, I recently read a review of his latest album from a…

  • Review – Drifting Sun – Forsaken Innocence

    Review – Drifting Sun – Forsaken Innocence

    Drifting Sun are a UK-based Progressive Rock studio project. Their music has been described as dramatic, theatrical, and atmospheric, in the true style of Progressive Rock giants such as Dream Theater, Queensryche, Genesis and Jethro Tull, to name but a few of the bands that influenced their sound. Or so says the PR material, well,…

  • Review – Rain – Singularity – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Review – Rain – Singularity – by John Wenlock-Smith

    Rain are a new project that came to light during the first initial period of lockdown in the UK. So some time after 23rd March when the powers that be realised that this virus and pandemic were a lot more serious than had previously been acknowledged. So much so that ‘Herr Boris’ got serious and…