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Album review: TED & MAJELLA – Divine Timing (Ted Turner, ex-Wishbone Ash)

www.tedturnerandmajella.com [Release date 21.12.20] Ted Turner is best known as the one time original guitar slinger in Wishbone Ash with whom he remained until 1974 and then on and off until 1994. Ted reappeared in 2018 together with his partner … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, chill-out, Divine Timing, guitar, guitarist, new age, pop, review, Ted & Majella, Wishbone Ash
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Album review: EXCALIBUR (Alan Simon) – Ladies Of The Lake

Babaika [Release date: 02.11.18] Girl Power: albeit nary a Spice in sight, but the whiff of joss hangs pendulously over this female vocalist-fronted compilation trawl through the four Excalibur sword-and-sorcery releases by French composer Alan Simon. Alan explains in his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Simon, album, Celtic, Excalibur, Karan Casey, Ladies Of The Lake, Maddy Prior, Moya Brennan, new age, prog, progressive, review, Sonja Kristina
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Album review: TED & MAJELLA – Better Together (Ted Turner, ex-Wishbone Ash)

David Randall chatted to Ted Turner about the album for his weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. (24:41) The full interview is repeated on Friday 11 May at 22:00 GMT. Turneround Music [Release date 06.04.18] Since 1974, when … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Better Together, interview, new age, review, rock, soul, Ted & Majella, Ted Turner, Wishbone Ash
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News: VANGELIS 13-CD Box Set released via Universal on 3 February – win a copy! (Competition)

Modern music visionary Vangelis has announced the release on 3 February of a new 13-disc box set entitled ‘Delectus,’ featuring a chosen selection of his early discographic work. The mammoth collection will include all of his albums on Vertigo and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, box set, CD, competition, Delectus, instrumental, Jon Anderson, new age, retrospective, soundtrack, Vangelis
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Album review: VANGELIS – Delectus (Box set)

Win the box set!! (Comp. closes 19.02.17) UMC [Release date 03.02.17] Just too late for Xmas, comes this mammoth 13-disc box set of Vangelis’ albums on Vertigo and Polydor, remastered from the original first generation tapes under the big man’s … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, boxed set, Delectus, instrumental, Jon Anderson, new age, orchestral, reissue, review, rock, soundtrack, Vangelis
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Quick plays: GRAND DESIGN, 220 VOLT, JUDE GWYNAIRE

GRAND DESIGN – Thrill Of The Night AOR Heaven [Release date 29.09.14] Grand Design are back with their 80’s influenced hard rock, or as I like to think Def Leppard with a helium infused vocalist! Vocalist Pelle Saether has a … Continue reading
Album review: JOHN LUTTRELL – The Dream Exchange

www.johnluttrell.com [Release date 15.05.14] In the mid-late 1980s there was a fad for what was termed ‘new age’ music which produced ambient albums in their abundance and presaged the “chill-out” genre a decade later. Some nasty critics likened the genre … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, guitar, guitarist, instrumental, John Luttrell, new age, review, The Dream Exchange
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Album review: TONY LOWE & ALISON FLEMING – Human Sleeping

Sunn Creative [Release date 01.07.14] Tony Lowe came to our attention for his contribution to the latest Bram Stoker album. He wasn’t on that band’s debut in 1972 but has worked with Julian Lennon, Roger Daltrey and many others as … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alison Fleming, ambient, Bram Stoker, Human Sleeping, new age, prog, progressive, review, rock, Tony Lowe
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