Two Of Brian Auger’s Montreux Adventures To Be Out

September 12, 2024

For about a year now Brian Auger fans have been busy with obtaining his releases – only while these were, for the most part, reissues of material previously available in some form or other, a couple of forthcoming recordings from two of the great man’s ensembles, THE TRINITY and OBLIVION EXPRESS, will see the light for the first time ever. Both of them, scheduled for October 25th, document the organist’s bands’ outings to Montreux, where the famous jazz festival takes place, yet there’s a great difference between the 1968 and 1970 concerts.

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Roedelius Celebrates His 90th Birthday With A Box Of Experiments

September 12, 2024

Even though Krautrock is often seen as something secondary to prog, the German genre started somewhat earlier than that, continental experimentation with sound preceding the fleshing out of British psychedelia, which why the fact of Hans-Joachim Roedelius, one of kosmische musik’s prime movers, turning 90 years of age on October 26th shouldn’t come as a surprise. Only it does, and the man behind such classics as CLUSTER’s second album HARMONIA’s “Deluxe” celebrates his anniversary in style – with a series of concerts and a four-LP box set.

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Shawn Phillips – 10/9/2024 – Hugh’s Room, Toronto

September 12, 2024

It’s special when a musician can keep his audience mesmerized for more than two hours simply through sitting together with them, facing each other, playing and singing.

However, Shawn Phillips made an art out of his constantly evolving single-figure act, and the 81-year-old concert in Toronto’s “Hugh’s Room” – currently a culture cathedral, rather than the aurally-focused restaurant of yore – found him creating wonders on the spot.

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Captain Mark Farner Heads Homeward One More Time

September 11, 2024

This year marks 55 anniversary of GRAND FUNK RAILROAD being sprung onto an expecting world, and there’s no better excuse for the American band’s figurehead Mark Farner to cut a fresh version of their epic “I’m Your Captain (Closer To Home)” – yet this would be cashing in on past successes. That’s why the singing guitarist decided to add an entire album to it, his first studio effort since 2008’s “For The People” and, thus, a long-overdue opus.

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QUEEN’s First Album Goes Regally Deluxe

September 11, 2024

It may be a little bit late for the 50th anniversary edition of QUEEN‘s debut album, yet what will see the light of day on October 25th to celebrate the band’s eponymous platter is worth paying attention to. If not for the foursome’s eventual magnificence, the record itself would barely stand the test of time, the quartet’s meandering between progressive rock extravaganza and heaviness hardly sounding impressive now, but all the elements that made the foursome awesome were there from the start. This is the point the forthcoming box set focuses on.

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