Dave Sinclair Revisits CARAVAN Classics On Solo Album

February 7, 2025

Digging in the past has never been Dave Sinclair‘s idea of making any progress with his music, yet stroke that CARAVAN’s master of ivories suffered in January 2023 made him rethink a lot of things. Overcoming difficulties with walking and talking, among other temporary impediments, the veteran found his inability to use right hand to play keyboards one of the most frustrating issues, something he’s been trying – successfully – to overcome ever since. Still, Sinclair’s idea of rehabilitation included work on his recording studio in Japan, whence the album titled “Tears In His Eyes” emerged two years after.

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Janis Ian Documentary Ready For Release

February 6, 2025

This year marks a five-decade anniversary of “At Seventeen”: the hit which made Janis Ian an international star. Only the American songstress began her fascinating journey much earlier, and that piece could be found on her seventh album, “Between The Lines” – one whose echoes are discernible even on the veteran’s latest longplay, “The Light At The End Of The Line” from 2022. This journey is the focus of the “Breaking Silence” documentary set for release on March 28th but has already won a few festival accolades.

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SLADE Drummer Don Powell Covers Cozy Powell’s Classic

February 5, 2025

They may not have been members of one family, but it would seem right to call Don Powell and Cozy Powell brothers in arms – or, rather, brothers in drums – yet it’s still surprising to see the former cover a tune recorded five decades ago by the late great latter. On the other hand, though, there’s certain logic in the ex-SLADE skin-hitter taking a shine to a piece the ex-BEDLAM thunder-master cut in 1974 for his single on Mickie Most’s RAK label that’s quite often associated with glam-rock.

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Interview with Dave Greenslade

February 4, 2025

“It’s a natural thing” is a phrase Dave Greenslade repeatedly uses to describe various happenings his long career was strewn with – still, isn’t it the most telling sign of a great talent: to accept what occurs due to the person’s own subconscious processes as something that’s par for the course? Of course, the venerated ivories-driver’s love for nature, which got manifested in quite a few pieces Greenslade composed over the years, and his spell with a band called NATURE seem purely coincidental in such a context, but Dave’s conceptual thinking – the cornerstone of the albums he recorded with COLOSSEUM and GREENSLADE as well as the veteran’s solo oeuvre – doesn’t feel like a matter of happenstance.

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AYREON Recalculate “The Human Equation” For Expanded Reissue

February 4, 2025

Perhaps, it’s a little bit late but such delayed occurrences are par for the course, so it’s not exactly two decades later that AYREON‘s “The Human Equation” will see an expanded edition yet the remixed three-CD set which is to appear on April 18th should arrive close enough to the date to be considered a 20th anniversary reissue. Naturally, while the refreshed sonics of the original two discs can reveal previously hidden details of what Arjen Anthony Lucassen and his kindred spirits presented all those years ago, most of fans would like to hear the additional material on the third platter.

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