Peter Hammill Refreshes Two Obscure Classics

September 2, 2023

Following Peter Hammill is an adventure because even his aficionados cannot predict what the veteran experimentalist’s next step would land. It may be a VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR concert document or a joint effort with ISILDURS BANE – but Hammill’s latest offering may seem like the most unexpected turn he might take. Wanting to reissue a couple of his obscure classics – such an oxymoron should feel fitting for this artist – yet unable to clear the rights which allow 1988’s “In A Foreign Town” and “Out Of Water” from 1990 to see the light of day again, Peter decided to cut the two albums afresh.

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Duke Robillard Embraces Organic Vibes

September 1, 2023

THE DUKE ROBILLARD ORGAN TRIO: here’s a strange-sounding ensemble name – yet, fortunately, the music this enterprise perform isn’t strange at all. It’s as captivating as any proposition coming from Duke Robillard, the tireless guitarist whose latest platter "Six Strings Of Steel" was released only a couple of months ago and who found himself excited enough with a new recording to schedule the issue of what he titled “A Smooth One” for September.

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GONG Go On Going Down

August 31, 2023

Last decade wasn’t been easy for GONG – but, then, what decade wasn’t difficult for this band? – as 2016’s "Rejoice! I'm Dead!" saw the collective say farewell to Daevid Allen and “The Universe Also Collapses” from 2019 saw the orphaned veterans soldier on, gloriously so, completely on their own. Continuing to delve deeper and deeper into the progressive rock’s future, they gradually constructed a new narrative and their recent concerts saw the group premiere new songs of which one has been released, in a studio version, today as a precursor to their forthcoming album.

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Colin Carter Of FLASH Fame Offers Sophomore Solo Effort

August 30, 2023

It’s been five years since former FLASH warbler Colin Carter unexpectedly for his erstwhile listeners decided to deliver a solo album, the veteran’s debut under his own name – and now "One" proves to be not a one-off event, as CC, who recently struck a deal with Melodic Revolution Records, is ready with a new offering.

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Francis Dunnery Gets The Blues

August 29, 2023

Ha may have experimented with prog and pop as a frontman of IT BITES and switched between styles on his solo albums, but nobody expected Francis Dunnery to go as far as to embrace such traditional genre as blues which originally inspired him ages ago, when the future singer listened to Robert Johnson and other old masters. Still, it was not as a vocalist yet as guitarist that Dunnery was kept in high esteem by the likes of Robert Plant – on whose “Fate Of Nations” Francis played before going on tour – and back in 2021 his two facets came together, and a band called TOMBSTONE DUNNERY emerged on the scene to first go on the road and then to deliver their studio debut in the nearest, as of now, future.

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