by Kev Rowland | May 23, 2021 | Reviews
Some seven years on from the release of their debut album, ‘The Human Burden’, Irish band Atheos have returned with the second. There have been some changes in the ranks, so although drummer Wayne Walsh and guitarists John Sullivan and John Byrne have been there since...
by Kev Rowland | May 23, 2021 | Reviews
These days most people think of David Kollar as Steven Wilson’s right hand man, but I first came across him in the band Komara which he formed with drummer Pat Mastelotto and Italian trumpeter Paolo Raineri back in 2014. Here we have a beautifully presented two CD...
by Kev Rowland | May 23, 2021 | Reviews
For this album David composed as he recorded, over a period of four days. Each day he layered together baritone guitar and strings, and the length of this then decided the total length of the song, with another three layers then recorded on top. For this he is...
by Kev Rowland | May 23, 2021 | Reviews
2020 was of course the year when many of us found ourselves in unexpected isolation, and with their Prague concert cancelled in March 2020, David and Arve decided that if they could not express themselves together onstage then they would do so in the recorded medium....
by Kev Rowland | May 23, 2021 | Reviews
There have been a few changes since 2018’s, ‘Chaos Manifesto’, with original drummer Ronnie Bergerstål re-joining the band (he played on the first three albums, leaving in 2011) and a new singer in Christofer Säterdal, but founder bassist Martin Schulman has...
