Get Ready to ROCK! » Steve Balsamo https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:49:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Album review: CHIMPAN A – Music Is Art Vol.1 https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/10/album-review-chimpan-a-music-is-art-vol-1/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/10/album-review-chimpan-a-music-is-art-vol-1/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:56:27 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=105279 CHIMPAN A - Music Is Art Vol.1Tigermoth Records [Release date 29.08.25] Chimpan A’s debut album was quite a revelation and one of the best low key releases of 2006. (We only got to hear of it some time later).  This off-on project is essentially Mike Oldfield … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/10/album-review-chimpan-a-music-is-art-vol-1/feed/ 0 Album review: THREE COLOURS DARK – Love’s Lost Property https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/09/album-review-three-colours-dark-loves-lost-property/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/09/album-review-three-colours-dark-loves-lost-property/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2021 21:07:33 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=74970 THREE COLOURS DARK - Love's Lost PropertyFirefly Music [Release date 10.09.21] www.threecoloursdark.com 2020 marked the musical reunion of Rachel Cohen and Jonathan Edwards founder members of long-standing prog rockers Karnataka.  In the hiatus following The Reasoning (Cohen) and Panic Room (Edwards) they released an exquisite debut … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/09/album-review-three-colours-dark-loves-lost-property/feed/ 0 Album review: STEVE BALSAMO – The Millennium Tapes https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/12/album-review-steve-balsamo-the-millennium-tapes-2/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/12/album-review-steve-balsamo-the-millennium-tapes-2/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2020 16:02:58 +0000 jason http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=69836 STEVE BALSAMO – The Millennium TapesFacebook [Release date 04.12.20] Steve Balsamo has unearthed these songs during lockdown that were recorded back at the start of the millennium as the album title suggests. Balsamo worked with Micky Lister on these songs. Lister was signed back in … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/12/album-review-steve-balsamo-the-millennium-tapes-2/feed/ 0 Feature: Albums that time forgot – CHIMPAN A https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/feature-albums-that-time-forgot-chimpan-a/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/feature-albums-that-time-forgot-chimpan-a/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2020 21:25:25 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=65822 Chimpan A (2006)F2 Music (2006) Chimpan A, released in 2006, was a project featuring Rob Reed (better known for his work in the prog-rock band Magenta), and two members of country rock band The Storys: Rob Thompson (guitar) and Steve Balsamo (vocals). … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/feature-albums-that-time-forgot-chimpan-a/feed/ 0 Album review: THREE COLOURS DARK – The Science Of Goodbye https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/album-review-three-colours-dark-the-science-of-goodbye/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/04/album-review-three-colours-dark-the-science-of-goodbye/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:31:57 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=65701 THREE COLOURS DARK - The Science Of Goodbyewww.threecoloursdark.com [Release date 27.03.20] In downtime in his Panic Room/Luna Rossa schedule, keyboard maestro Jonathan Edwards has revisited his roots in pairing up once again with fellow Karnataka founding member Rachel Cohen. Following casual reminiscence just over 12 months ago … Continue reading →

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