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Review – Red Bazar – Blood Moon – by John Wenlock-Smith
Red Bazar are the band that Peter Jones uses when playing band shows as Tiger Moth Tales, in return for which he adds keyboards and vocals to their songs and elevating them in the process with his excellent voice and his deft keyboards. It’s a symbiotic relationship as both parties gain significantly from it’s existence.…
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Cosmograf announce release of tenth album, The Orphan Epoch, On 23rd May, 2025
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Review – Cyan – The Guardians – by John Wenlock-Smith
The Cyan release, ‘The Guardians’, comprises a mere three tracks, namely The Guardians Of Your Destiny, a 26 minute epic that has been resurrected from Cyan’s reimagining of the original 1994 album, reworked and extended from its original 12 minute run time with new parts and solo’s from all and sundry, All Around The World,…
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Review – Tiger Moth Tales – Inside The Cocoon – by John Wenlock-Smith
This Review is for a CD/dDVD set that delves deep into the highly successful and highly acclaimed ‘Cocoon’ album by Tiger Moth Tales (TMT) and comprises of a seventy-four minute audio document containing a mixture of conversations with Peter Jones, five live tracks from either the first TMT concerts and more recent ones from The…
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Review – John Holden – Proximity & Chance – by John Wenlock-Smith
‘Proximity & Light’ is John Holden’s fifth album in six years, it all started with ‘Capture Light’ in 2018 which was followed by ‘Rise and Fall’ in 2020, ‘Circles in Time’ in 2021 and ‘Kintsugi’ in 2022, all of which contained some remarkable and diverse music from John and his chosen cast of colleagues. Well,…
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Review – The Bardic Depths – What We Really Like In Stories – by JohnWenlock-Smith
The Bardic Depths formed when Canary Islands resident Dave Bandanna sought out musical contributions and assistance from fellow Big Big Train ‘passengers’ on a project that he was working on. The response being so positive that Dave decided to turn the project into a band to make an album, which became The Bardic Depths first…
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Review – Cyan – Pictures From The Other Side – by John Wenlock-Smith
This November sees the release of the second instalment of the Cyan story. If you recall, this project saw the resurrection of an album and concepts from the very earliest years in Robert Reed’s musical journey and development where Rob and his school friends made an album that was actually released in the 1990’s on…
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Magenta’s Robert Reed and Camel’s Peter Jones join forces once again with new Cyan album Pictures From The Other Side.?
Alongside Luke Machin and Dan Nelson, the second Cyan album will be released on Nov 17th 2023. Keyboardist and composer Rob Reed, known for his work with Magenta, Kompendium and Sanctuary solo albums, has once again joined forced with Peter Jones, along with Luke Machin and Dan Nelson for a new Cyan album titled Pictures…
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Review – Tiger Moth Tales – The Turning Of The World – by John Wenlock-Smith
This October sees the release of this latest album from Tiger Moth Tales which is, of course, the moniker under which multi-instrumentalist Peter Jones operates and releases his own music. Peter is a highly respected and regarded musician who also fronts Red Bazar as keyboardist and vocalist while also doing the same for Cyan and,…
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Review – Red Bazar – Inverted Reality – by John Wenlock-Smith
This October sees the release of this highly impressive and sonically rewarding third vocal album from Nottinghamshire Prog rock band Red Bazaar, featuring Peter Jones (Tiger Moth Tales) on vocals and keyboards. The album is fairly political in its subject matter with freedom of speech being a major topic. Now, some folks think that politics…