Tag Archives: John Helliwell

MANDOKI SOULMATES – Living In The Gap + Hungarian Pictures

August 17, 2020

Red Rock 2019 Delivering a paean to togetherness, cosmopolitan defector calls on stellar comrades to close ranks and create celestial noise. Leslie Mándoki has always been going against the grain – ever since he fled Budapest in mid-’70s to end … Continue reading

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JJ CHARDEAU – In Terra Cognita?

January 22, 2020

The Right Honourable 2019 French composer brings rock opera down from the stage into a listener’s living room, losing some vital images in the globe-trotting transition. Jean-Jacques Chardeau has been applying his talents to pop idiom ever since 2005’s – … Continue reading

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Anthony Phillips Tribute With Stellar Guests Is Ready For Release

September 26, 2019

It takes a lot of taste and talent to be covering ‘ music, yet ROCKING HORSE MUSIC CLUB have these qualities in spades, which is why the American collective decided to deliver the English composer’s music on a follow-up to … Continue reading

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ALAN SIMON – Big Bang

November 1, 2018

The Right Honourable 2018 Out of Avalon and on to Andromeda, aural seer from Gallia travels back where it all began. Alan Simon may alternate between such sagas as “Excalibur” – its preceding “Big Bang” – or even large stage-bound … Continue reading

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ALAN SIMON – Excalibur IV: The Dark Age Of The Dragon

January 21, 2018

Babaïka 2017 New chapter of Arthurian saga brings a half-full cup of wonder to the Round Table. After a five-year hiatus Alan Simon returns to the cycle he had started two decades earlier with what was planned as another spin … Continue reading

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