Tag Archives: Mark Andes

JJ CHARDEAU – Ombres And Lumières

November 23, 2023

L 2023 From Gallia and across the mainland, globe-trotting artist focuses on western fronts. Subtitled “In Terra Cognita 2 – Europa 1: Occidentals” and picking up where of the “Magical Musical Man” rock opera left off, this part of Jean-Jacques … Continue reading →

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FIREFALL – Comet

April 3, 2021

Sunset Blvd 2020 Country rock’s movers and shakers make an impressive creative comeback and convincingly claim immortality. If a well-known ensemble collect their old members, restoring prior robustness, nowadays, and record their first album of fresh material in a quarter-century … 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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SPIRIT – It Shall Be: The Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972

June 24, 2018

Esoteric 2018 Waiting for beauty to find them, unlike Californian collective surf into eternity with a string of early albums, their best. Somewhat eclectic, sometimes esoteric and somehow conceptual: there are the words that can describe the label who released … Continue reading →

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