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Richard Guba: Songs for Stuffed Animals (2024)
by Kev Rowland | January 1, 2025 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Matt Panayides Trio: With Eyes Closed (2024)
by Kev Rowland | January 1, 2025 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Manic Abraxas: Skinformation (2024)
by Kev Rowland | January 1, 2025 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies (2024)
by Kev Rowland | January 1, 2025 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Blair Dunlop: Out Of The Rain (2024)
by Kev Rowland | January 1, 2025 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Thin Lizzy: 1976 (2024)
by Kev Rowland | January 1, 2025 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Sullvation: The Beginning of the End (2023)
by Kev Rowland | December 25, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
The Folk Implosion: Walk Thru Me (2024)
by Kev Rowland | December 25, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (2024)
by Kev Rowland | December 25, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Doug MacDonald: Live at the Rancho Mirage Library (2024)
by Kev Rowland | December 25, 2024 | Reviews | 0 Comments
Robert REED & FRIENDS (UK) Sanctuary Live at Newbury 2023
by rogue | Jan 12, 2025 | Latest News
Robert needs no introduction, as he remains a pillar of Progressive Rock for over 2 decades now, his career with Cyan, Magenta, Kompendium, and vast array of solo albums there for the choosing. As a Rogue rule, a recorded concert review should stay away from the...
ELEPHANT 9 with Terje RYPDAL (NORWAY) Catching the Fire
by rogue | Jan 9, 2025 | Latest News
After a slew of albums featuring the legendary Reine Fiske on guitar, this prolific Norse trio have elevated their star power by recruiting that other mythical compatriot Terje Rypdal to play on this massive 82-minute 2017 live concert recording of some of their...
SOUND ON PURPOSE (GERMANY) Voyage
by rogue | Jan 9, 2025 | Latest News
Intrigued by what seems like a wonderful line-up, an electronic trio of keyboards, violin and real drums, I did my proper audio reconnaissance and pressed the buy button. Frank Tischer, Klaus Marquardt and Tommy Fischer respectively have created a stunning debut. The...
PHONYA (BELGIUM) Heli1025
by rogue | Jan 1, 2025 | Latest News
Out of the blue, an unexpected, e-mailed request with a picture of a vintage old radio, found in some abandoned attic in Liège (or so, I presume) by a former member of a band I quite enjoyed, back in the day 1999, Ken’s Novel. Phonya is a new musical project that...
Richard Guba: Songs for Stuffed Animals (2024)
by Kev Rowland | Jan 1, 2025 | Reviews
Richard Guba (alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones) has brought together an eight-piece outfit to record his debut as bandleader with Ken Zimmerman (acoustic piano and Ensoniq ESQ 1 digital wave synthesizer), David Mueller (electric bass), James Burcky (drums), and...
Matt Panayides Trio: With Eyes Closed (2024)
by Kev Rowland | Jan 1, 2025 | Reviews
On this album guitarist Matt Panayides is joined by bassist Steve LaSpina and drummer Anthony Pinciotti, and they take on eight songs by six jazz composers (including two apiece by Cedar Walton and Wayne Shorter) plus reinvented versions of three standards. There is...
Manic Abraxas: Skinformation (2024)
by Kev Rowland | Jan 1, 2025 | Reviews
I knew absolutely nothing about this band when I agreed to review them, just that I thought that artwork was cool and interesting so why not? From the wooded realms of Northern Maine, Manic Abraxas comprise drummer Tom Bennett, bassist/vocalist/synth player Justin...
Jason Kao Hwang: Soliloquies (2024)
by Kev Rowland | Jan 1, 2025 | Reviews
The subtitle of this album is ‘Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations’, which tells you exactly what this album is about. Recorded in two days at the beginning of 2024, here we find Hwang in a studio plucking his violin and going where the muse takes him....
Blair Dunlop: Out Of The Rain (2024)
by Kev Rowland | Jan 1, 2025 | Reviews
Although I have reviewed countless albums from his father, Ashley ‘The Guv’nor’ Hutchings as well as others featuring his mother, Judy Dunlop, this is the first time I have reviewed an album by Blair himself. Given the importance of his parents in the folk rock scene,...
Thin Lizzy: 1976 (2024)
by Kev Rowland | Jan 1, 2025 | Reviews
1976 was the year when Thin Lizzy started to find their feet. After the initial wanderings as a trio with Eric Bell, Phil Lynott and Brian Downey had settled on the deal guitar attack of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson, and while they were certainly not the first to...
Marcin Pajak (POLAND) In the Space
by rogue | Dec 31, 2024 | Latest News
Polish ex-pat Marcin Pajak makes London, England his current home, a proto-typical guitarist/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist with a well-rounded career as this is his sixth solo album. I particularly enjoyed his last three previous recordings, the apocalyptic “Last...
Sullvation: The Beginning of the End (2023)
by Kev Rowland | Dec 25, 2024 | Reviews
Sullvation is a solo project by bassist Brent Sullivan, who here also provides keyboards and guitar. He has been in the scene for a long time, co-founded legendary underground bands Slauter Xstroyes, Winter Kill, and Mindwarp Chamber and felt it was time to do...
The Folk Implosion: Walk Thru Me (2024)
by Kev Rowland | Dec 25, 2024 | Reviews
I really ought to read press releases more carefully before downloading albums as I saw the name of this band and just thought they were a folk act, which is not exactly the case. The band were originally formed in 1989 when John Davis sent a tape to Lou Barlow (Deep...
Doug MacDonald: Santa Monica Session (2024)
by Kev Rowland | Dec 25, 2024 | Reviews
Doug provided a quick follow-up to ‘Live at The Rancho Mirage Library’ with this album which finds him working with different musicians in a slightly different style. This time around, his arrangements have taken five veteran standards and three of his originals into...
Doug MacDonald: Live at the Rancho Mirage Library (2024)
by Kev Rowland | Dec 25, 2024 | Reviews
Over the years guitarist Doug MacDonald has operated in many different settings, including his own big band and an all-star group (the latter is featured on his previous recording ‘The Sextet Session’) and this time around we find him operating in a trio/quartet...
HAZE (UK) The Water’s Edge
by rogue | Dec 23, 2024 | Latest News
Stubborn resistance, artistic integrity and boundless fortitude are the first words to come to mind with this UK band that has been around for 46 years now, perhaps easier when it’s a pretty much a family affair. To further highlight their incredible story, their...
CASTLE MOUNTAIN MOON (GERMANY) Six Tales of Perception
by rogue | Dec 22, 2024 | Latest News
In a classic Prog pincer movement and with exquisite timing, I received a request to review from Bad Dog Promotions, where I immediately recognized the keyboardist as being a former member of Inquire and a few days later, an album analysis appeared from Lazland (we...
PHOG (France) Elements
by rogue | Dec 22, 2024 | Latest News
While on the subject of one-man multi-instrumentalists, Frenchman Philippe Ogier has been a prolific and consistent artist, releasing an album on a near yearly basis since 2018, with “Elements” being his sixth offering, all displaying a wealth of superlative material...
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