Category Archives: Reissues

ROBIN GEORGE – History

October 25, 2014

Arista 1983 / Angel Air 2014 Guitar potentate pretender’s deliciously flawed debut – expanded to all its full-length glory. could have been an ultimate poster boy with a stringed axe, a Peter Frampton for the ’80s, if not for bad … Continue reading →

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VANGELIS – Beaubourg

October 6, 2014

RCA 1978 / Esoteric 2013 Pictures of Paris as seen through synthetic oscillations of a singular mind. Abstract or not, Evangelos Papathanassiou has always been a master of melody, yet his dark streak started to loom large as early as … Continue reading →

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MAN – All’s Well That Ends Well

September 23, 2014

MCA 1977 / Esoteric 2014 The last hurray from the Welsh finest – preserved in a time capsule and restored in all its proggy glory. As punky as they’ve often sounded, MAN didn’t feel good in the atmosphere of 1976 … Continue reading →

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JACK BRUCE – Monkjack

September 20, 2014

CMP 1995 / Esoteric 2014 No bass, no fuss: one of the maestro’s most unusual, and most beautiful, records sees ivory magic in the air. Although Jack Bruce has always been an experimentalist – the “Things We Like” LP, recorded … Continue reading →

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GARY WINDO – Dogface

September 14, 2014

Europa 1982 / Gonzo 2013 Unsung hero of British brass brilliance goes for a howl and a haul of a canine-themed bender. For all his jazz brilliance, the great late Gary Windo had always been a rocker who used to … Continue reading →

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