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Category Archives: ALBUM REVIEWS (Mobile)
Album Review: CAROUSEL VERTIGO – Mighty
Self-Release (Release date – 21st Oct 2013) Carousel Vertigo is the brainchild of two individuals brought together by a love of guitars and classic rock. Jansen Press and Vincent Martinez, both endorsed by Gibson Guitars, found themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged album, blues, Carousel Vertigo, CD, Gibson Guitars, Mighty, review, Rhino Edwards, Rick Parfitt, rock, Status Quo
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Album review: LITTLE RIVER BAND – Cuts Like A Diamond
Frontiers www.frontiers.it Led by vocalist/bassist Wayne Nelson, who has been with the band since the early 80’s, the band may lack original members or the 80’s AOR sound of the John Farnham fronted days, but they still sound like the … Continue reading
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Tagged album review, Cuts Like A Diamond, LITTLE RIVER BAND
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Album review: GORDON GILTRAP – Reissues
Esoteric [Release date 29.07.13] Gordon Giltrap should be certified A National Treasure. He’s laboured tirelessly since the late-1960′s honing and preening his guitar style, dipping into various genres including prog, and generally maintaining the highest quality standards. These new reissues … Continue reading
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Tagged album, classical, Fear Of The Dark, Gordon Giltrap, guitar, guitarist, John G Perry, Perilous Journey, reissue, review, rock, Simon Phillips, Visionary
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Album Review: STATUS QUO – The Frantic Four Reunion – Live At The O2 Academy, Glasgow
Fourth Chord Records [Release date 30.09.13] Anyone with even a passing interest in Quo will know the special relationship the group have with the city of Glasgow and, in particular, the late, lamented Glasgow Apollo. Many ageing rockers in the … Continue reading
Album review: SONS OF HIPPIES – Griffons At The Gates Of Heaven
Cleopatra [Release date 16.07.13] Described as psych-space rockers, and more memorably as: ‘The Bangles on acid’, Sons of Hippies explore retro musical influences with colourful imagery and gothic moods. Their imposing wall of sound is interwoven with ominous poetic lyrics … Continue reading
Quick plays: BALFLARE, CHRIS NORMAN
Album review: BALFLARE – Downpour Balfare are a Japanese power metal band who have been around since 2004 and this is their fourth studio album. The music is keyboard led and keyboards player Tommy is the star of the show, … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Balflare, Chris Norman, Downpour, Japan, pop, power metal, review, Smokie, There And Back
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Album review: ROVO AND SYSTEM 7 – Phoenix Rising
G-Wave [Release date 23.09.13] Steve Hillage owes his unique position as the godfather of techno and an all-round psychedelic overseer – he’s a contributing musician, producer and DJ – to his psychedelic rock past and his innovative techno, trance and … Continue reading
Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Slaves And Masters
Hear No Evil Recordings [Release date 22.07.13] Slaves And Masters might be remembered as the album that split the Purple fans (and some critics) in the early-1990s, launched in an era that spawned albums such as Tyketto’s ‘Don’t Come Easy … Continue reading
Album Review: SYNESTHESIA – Synners and Saints
Steeltown USA Records ( Release date – out now) Synethesia claim to encompass many rock styles, taking in power and prog metal, thrash and punk, quite a heady mix. The results of this rock mash-up are rather … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, metal, Pittsburg, review, rock, Synesthesia, Synners and Saints
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Album Review: OVERTURES – Entering The Maze
Sleaszy Rider Records (Release date – Out now) Overtures are an Italian metal outfit from Gorizia and ‘Entering The Maze’ is the band’s third album. Metal infused with a large dose of melody is the order of … Continue reading
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Tagged album, CD, Entering The Maze, Italy, metal, Overtures, review, rock
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Album review: MARTIN BARRE – Away With Words
Edifying Records [Release date 30.09.13] Perhaps the most constant revolving door of rock is that of Jethro Tull, and all the more intriguing for the recent ‘loss’ of Martin Lancelot Barre. For several centuries, it seems, Ian Anderson’s right hand … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Away With Words, Dan Crisp, folk, guitar, guitarist, instrumental, Jethro Tull, Martin Barre, review, rock
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Album review: FLY LIKE AN EAGLE – An All-Star Tribute To Steve Miller Band
Cleopatra Records [Release date 30.07.13] Producer, engineer and multi instrumentalist and sometime Yes member Billy Sherwood has carved out his a niche for himself with a number of wide ranging all star tribute albums, and now it’s the turn of … Continue reading
Album review: GOV’T MULE – Shout!
Provogue [Release date 23.09.13] It’s a measure of Gov’t Mule adventurous self confidence and their essential connection with their fans, that their new album ‘Shout’ offers a groundbreaking bonus disc, with alternate versions of the same songs featuring different singers. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Harper, Dave Matthews, Dr John, Elvis Costello, Glenn Hughes, Gov't Mule, review, shout, Steve Winwood, Toots Hibbert, Ty Taylor, Warren Haynes
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Album review: PARTHENON HUXLEY – Thank You Bethesda
www.parthenonhuxley.com Parthenon Huxley is fine purveyor of pop rock tunes and over here in the UK maybe best known as the guitarist in The Orchestra, the band that features former ELO members (one of these, Eric Troyer helps out on … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Cheap Trick, ELO, Eric Troyer, Gordon Townsend, PARTHENON HUXLEY, pop, review, rock, singer, songwriter, Thank You Bethesda, The Orchestra
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Album review: THE KEV WALKER BAND – Biding My Time
[Release date 09.09.13] A carpenter by trade, it’s been 30 years since Essex singer songwriter Kev Walker released his last album (The Dusk, 1983). Sadly, it was the loss of his wife to cancer that inspired Biding My Time – … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Biding My Time, Kev Walker Band, review, rock, soul
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Album review: LEEROY STAGGER – Truth Be Sold
Clubhouse Records UK [Release date 04.06.13] ‘Truth Be Sold’ is an album full of linguistic exuberance and boisterous musical vitality. Leeroy Stagger is a Canadian wordsmith with a punk indie past who is joined on this album by the experienced … Continue reading
Album Review: ACTIVE HEED – Visions From Realities
Self Released – 30 June 2013 Active Heed, despite having a name that suggests something a Glaswegian would use in a Saturday night ruckus, is actually the musical brainchild of one Umberto Pagnini – an Italian composer and lyricist who … Continue reading
Album review: MARK PONTIN GROUP – Days Of Destiny
Moochee Records [Release date 08.05.13] Mark Pontin Band’s liner notes on ‘Days Of Destiny, makes clear the essential connection between his struggles to get this recording made and the thematic title track of a power trio album with real substance. … Continue reading
Album review: JOHNNY DOWD – Do The Gargon
Mother Jinx Records [Release date 05.08.13] ‘The record took two weeks to make, which is plenty if you know what you’re doing’, says New York based Texan exile Johnny Dowd. He seems to know what he’s doing, as he … Continue reading
Album review: TOMMY BOLIN – Whirlwind
Cleopatra Records [Release date: 26.08.13] Guitarist Tommy Bolin has an interesting pre-Purple history and this 2-CD set is an excellent chronicle of the band he formed in 1972 after Zephyr and before James Gang. Energy, with a mix of rock … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Billy Cobham, Deep Purple, Energy, guitar, guitarist, James Gang, jazz fusion, review, rock, Tommy Bolin, Whirlwind
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Album review: SOIL – Whole
AFM Records [Release date 19.08.13] Soil – or should that be SOiL – have been with us for a while now as their major label debut album Scars was released back in 2001. The band hail from Texas and are … Continue reading
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Tagged AFM Records, album, grunge, metal, post grunge, review, Soil, Whole
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Album review: ANTOINE FAFARD – Occultus Tramitis
Unicorn Digital [Release date 01.06.13] Fusion music often throws an unexpected curve ball at the humble listener, and prog fusion such as this with its musical density, ever changing time signatures and challenging improvisation sometimes pushes the envelope beyond the … Continue reading
Album review: THE PROOF – 100% The Proof
Note Records [Release date 31.05.13] Paul Cox has always been a singer in search of the perfect song and when the two meet head on, sparks tend to fly. And so it is with ‘100% The Proof’, an album that … Continue reading
Album review: WILLIE NILE – American Ride
Blue Rose Records [Release date 24.06.13] Willie Nile is a true blue collar troubadour with a poet’s eye for colourful analytical prose. He’s worked every bar, club and theatre in town, world-wide and he’s excited audiences big and small with … Continue reading
Album review: DICKEY BETTS – Pattern Disruptive
Retroworld [Release date 29.07.13] Listening to this kick ass record, it’s hard to imagine that the Allman Brothers Band legend Dickey Betts was without a record contract and hadn’t recorded for the best part of 7 years. He came back … Continue reading
