Tag Archives: King Crimson

Album review : PALLAS – Eyes In The Night (The Recordings 1981-86, 7CD boxset)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by brianmc

Cherry Red [Release date : 28.06.24] You have to credit Cherry Red with their even handed approach to reissues/remasters. No offence to fans of neo-Prog band, Pallas, but the band is not front page news, and never have been, but … Continue reading →

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Album review: VARIOUS – Reimagining The Court Of The Crimson King

Posted on April 30, 2024 by GRTR! HQ

Purple Pyramid Records [Release date 19.04.24] King Crimson’s 1969 album is one of the most significant and influential prog albums and here gets a fresh coat of paint courtesy of a stellar gathering of prog and fusion A listers. And, … Continue reading →

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Album review : VAN DER GRAAF – Vital (2 CD Remaster)

Posted on March 27, 2024 by brianmc

Cherry Red [Release date : 29.03.24] The year after England won the world cup, English musician Chris Judge Smith took a “summer of love” trip to San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury, a pivotal point on the Flower Power map. It is … Continue reading →

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Book review: SKY TRAILS & PIE TALES – by Trev Turley

Posted on April 7, 2023 by petefeenstra

The Cherished Synapse [March 2022] Trevor Turley’s ‘Sky Trails & Pie Tales’ is described as an autobiographical memoir and for the most part that of a semi-pro musician. It’s a heart felt work that celebrates an ongoing musical heritage driven … Continue reading →

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Album review: SARO COSENTINO – The Road To Now

Posted on November 17, 2022 by brianmc

Cat Sounds Music [Release date 18.11.22] If only we knew just how much musical talent flies below the mainstream radar. You look at the line up on this, Saro Cosentino’s third “solo” album, and you find, amongst others, Gavin Harrison, … Continue reading →

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Album review: DAVID CROSS & ANDREW KEELING – October Is Marigold

Posted on December 4, 2021 by GRTR! HQ

Noisy Records [Release date 03.12.21] David Cross releases fine instrumental music via his own Noisy Records imprint. Cross was with King Crimson in the 1970s whilst Keeling has scored new versions of the band’s repertoire. You’d expect that their music … Continue reading →

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Album review: ASIA – The Official Live Bootlegs (10 CD Boxset)

Posted on November 20, 2021 by brianmc

BMG UK [release date 26/11/21] Asia : In 1997, Paul Stump wrote in “A History Of Progressive Rock” that the band’s “links with the genre were as tenuous as George Formby’s links with Mozart”. It is a memorable quote. And … Continue reading →

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Album review: LAST OF THE MISFIT HEROES – Hope For The Hopeless

Posted on June 28, 2021 by petefeenstra

The Last Of The Misfit Heroes - Hope For The Hopeless

Self release [Release date 26.03.21] South London trio Last Of The Misfit Heroes confidently tap into rock’s pre-corporate ability to channel anger and frustration into socially conscious and meaningful songs with enough intensity and frisson to bottle the excitement. As … Continue reading →

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Album review: ROB KORAL – Wild Hearts

Posted on June 2, 2021 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Rob Koral for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio playing tracks from the album ‘Wild Hearts’. First broadcast 13 June 2021. RKUK [Release date 28.05.21] Rob Koral’s ‘Wild Hearts’ is an exhilarating instrumental album comprising guitar, Hammond … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: CARL VERHEYEN, THE MASTELOTTOS

Posted on April 2, 2021 by GRTR! HQ

CARL VERHEYEN Sundial (Cranktone Entertainment) [Release date 01.04.21] More laid back Lockdown noodlings, this time from a guitarist perhaps best known for his work with Supertramp. Verheyen’s idea was to create something varied and there were no constraints in terms … Continue reading →

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Album review: TROY REDFERN – Thunder Moon

Posted on March 3, 2021 by petefeenstra

In this interview special for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Troy Redfern chats to Pete Feenstra with tracks from the album ‘Thunder Moon’. First broadcast 7 March 2021. Self release [Release date 03.12.20] When it comes to recording, Troy Redfern … Continue reading →

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Album review: JAKKO M. JAKSZYK – Secrets & Lies

Posted on October 7, 2020 by GRTR! HQ

On Sunday 11 October, in the first hour of his weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, David Randall chatted to Jakko M. Jakszyk about his career with tracks from the new album. InsideOut Music [Release date 23.10.20] Jakko … Continue reading →

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News – KING CRIMSON, NEIL YOUNG, ULTRAVOX (September 2020)

Posted on August 31, 2020 by jason

Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Hyde Park, 12 July 2014

King Crimson release a 26-disc set, ‘The Complete 1969 Recordings’, through Panegyric on October 23. It features a brand new Dolby Atmos mix by Steven Wilson of the band’s 1969 debut album ‘In The Court of the Crimson King’, and includes … Continue reading →

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Album review: DAVID CROSS & PETER BANKS – Crossover

Posted on March 8, 2020 by GRTR! HQ

Noisy Records [Release date 17.01.20] David Cross will be best known for his time with King Crimson in the 1970s. His more recent solo works and collaborations (with the likes of one-time Van Der Graaf sax player David Jackson and … Continue reading →

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Album review: ADRIAN BELEW – Mr Music Head/Inner Revolution

Posted on November 29, 2018 by jason

BGO Records [Release date 26.10.18] Adrian Belew is a well respected guitarists having worked with the likes of Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, King Crimson and David Bowie amongst others. Even today he is forging ahead in music with his FLUX … Continue reading →

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Album review: VOLA – Applause Of A Distant Crowd

Posted on September 25, 2018 by petefeenstra

Pete Feenstra chatted to Vola’s Asger Mygind in a show first broadcast in October 2018 for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. This hour special features tracks from the new album. Mascot records [Release date 12.10.18] Vola’s name means flying in … Continue reading →

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Album review: TAYLOR’S UNIVERSE – Almost Perfected

Posted on August 5, 2018 by petefeenstra

Marvel Of Beauty Records [Release date 17.11.17] If it’s hard to retain a serious notion of progressive rock in a genre that arguably ran its short lived course in the early 70’s, then Robin C. Taylor takes the instrumental jazz-rock … Continue reading →

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Gig review: ESP 2.0 – Half Moon, Putney, London, 17 April 2018

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Davoski

My first trip to the Half Moon for a good few years and although the pub at the front had had a sharp makeover, it was good to see that the venue through the swing doors had not changed at … Continue reading →

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Album review: VON HERTZEN BROTHERS – War Is Over

Posted on November 21, 2017 by petefeenstra

Music Theories Recordings [Release date 03.11.17] ‘War Is Over’ isn’t so much a concept album as a dramatic prog rock album with associated musical influences, ranging from classic, hard and symphonic rock, to more poppy and synth influences. There’s plenty … Continue reading →

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Album review: KOTEBEL – Cosmology

Posted on August 14, 2017 by petefeenstra

Musea [Release date 06.07.17] Kotebel is a Venezualan/Spanish prog rock band with classical and fusion influences. ‘Cosmology’ derives its title from the study of the universe and it’s an exploratory, quasi- conceptual prog album, that draws on composer and keyboard … Continue reading →

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Album review: GIZMODROME (Stewart Copeland, Adrian Belew, Mark King, Vittorio Cosma)

Posted on August 7, 2017 by GRTR! HQ

earMUSIC [Release date 15.09.17] What do high profile musicians do when they’ve experienced sustained success and are staring at the twilight zone? Gizmodrome. That’s what. Spearheaded by one-time Police alumni Stewart Copeland who has co-opted PFM progster Vittorio Cosma, Adrian … Continue reading →

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News: JOHN WETTON 1949-2017

Posted on January 31, 2017 by GRTR! HQ

In this interview extract from April 2009 John Wetton tells David Randall about his early influences, and the immediate aftermath of his departure from Asia in 1991 which led to the release of his second, and favourite, solo album ‘Battle … Continue reading →

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Gig review: KING CRIMSON – Aylesbury Waterside, 3 September 2016

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Davoski

This was a journey deep into hard core prog territory and a little beyond. King Crimson have been on the go – give or take the odd hiatus – since 1968. However, our paths had not crossed until this steamy, … Continue reading →

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Album review: THE GALACTIC COWBOY ORCHESTRA – Earth Lift

Posted on January 12, 2016 by petefeenstra

Loud Folk [Release date 22.09.15] Minneapolis art rockers The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra take us back to the experimental and adventurous days of early 70’s prog rock and fusion, when bands like King Crimson, Jethro Tull and later the Mahavishnu Orchestra … Continue reading →

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Album review: ANDREAS VOCKRODT – Adventures In Foggyland

Posted on August 28, 2015 by petefeenstra

7music (Membran) [Release date 13.03.15] From his opening shred on ‘21 is Only Half The Truth’, through several shifting rhythm patterns, an ever present melodic undertow and the gnawing riff conclusion of ‘Transition To Reality’, its obvious that German guitarist … Continue reading →