The Griots Speak: Destiny Calling (2023) The complete credit for this album is Charlie Apicella & Iron City meet The Griots Speak, and the concept was to bring together two sets of musicians […]

Doug MacDonald Trio: Edwin Alley (2023) Here we have the latest release from jazz guitarist Doug MacDonald and his trio. ‘Edwin Alley’, named after a historic location in Old Town Pasadena, whe […]

Albi & the Wolves: Light After the Dark (2023) Back in 2015 I was fortunate enough to attend The Big Nui festival, and one of the bands I saw that day impressed me tremendously was Albi & The Wolves, […]

Single Helix – Prog Gnosis Single Helix is the recording handle of British multi-instrumentalist, Rik Loveridge, and 2023 sees the release of Prog Gnosis, which you can listen […]

Galahad – The Long Goodbye Last year, I reviewed The Last Great Adventurer by classic British progressive rock band, Galahad, and this was accompanied by an interview with […]

Gayle Ellett & The Electromags – Friends   I recently reviewed the highly impressive Paradigms, the debut album by collective T.A.P. which included the founding member of Djam Karet, […]

GALAHAD (UK) The Long Goodbye Receiving a new Galahad album is like being a parent to a newborn child, each one a joy to behold and lately, the band has been as timely as any […]

Advent Horizon: A Cell To Call Home A Cell To Call Home is the third studio album released by American outfit Advent Horizon, and their first for eight long years. The band consists of […]

Ian HILL (UK) Arik's Journey For some fans, its the World Cup, the Stanley Cup, or the World Series. For others, its Michelin starred restaurants. Back once long ago, there was […]

Dewar: Rudiment (2023) Last year I reviewed the six-track EP ‘Influence’ by Kirsty Dewar, and now she has returned with her debut album and a slight change in name. Two of the […]

The Larry Normans: Dirty Living (2023) The Larry Normans formed at the turn of the century and went through the usual revolving door of musicians before releasing their debut album back in […]

CONFUSION FIELD (FINLAND) Future Impact of Past Diversions Tomi Kankainen is a veteran lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist from Finland whose 2021 debut “Disconnection Complete” attracted my attention as a p […]

Marduk: Memento Mori (2023) In some ways Marduk have been incredibly stable in that founder guitarist Evil (Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson) has been at the helm for more than 20 years […]

Noisepoetnobody: This City (2023) According to such notable magazines as Rolling Stone and GQ, the worst song of all time is Starship’s “We Built This City”, so one can only wonder what […]

Split Decision: Radio Hearts (1992) I received a package from Nick Katona recently, and it included this CD which is on BW Records but distributed by MRR. It is actually an album which was […]

Ted Falcon: Tô Chegando – Almost There (2023) When people think of Brazilian music, the first thing that comes to mind is bossa nova. But Ted Falcon (violin, mandolin) fell in love with a different […]