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Of those I only have Ammerland, and I'm not familiar with any of the others. Are they in similar vein?

I do enjoy Ammerland quite a bit when in the particular mood for that kind of thing.

There's even more than one with vocals if you stick with it! I actually like them, a rarity for me with vocals on prog, but I can completely see why they are a turn off for some. They are...

I felt the same way about the earlier ones, but I like this one.

A new album Potential Deltas from Methexis (aka Nikitas Kissonas):

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I thought the last album Topos was magnificent. This one, whilst very different, is equally interesting. Kissonas...

I don’t know whether it’s true, but it’s always been my impression that Ash really failed to take further steps forward out of what could be thought of as an excess of caution. Four seemed like a...

I was able to get a used copy of the CD for three quid, result!

I gave it a blast last night and I think it's an outstanding release.

Learn drums you lazy bastard.

I started reading The Fountainhead once. Based on the hundred or so pages I managed to get through it amazed me that anyone could take her remotely seriously either on the level of ideas or as a...

At the risk of upsetting any Chelsea fans, I'm afraid to say I have taken a certain amount of amusement from the following:

1. Cole Palmer is in doubt for the Arsenal game because he is ill.
2. ...

Things could be worse after last night's match! Two birds with one stone.

I see he features in the video playing stretch grand piano at 2:03.

Terrible, terrible song.

But then you have to ignore the music...

Topi Lehtipuu of Höry-Kone:


https://youtu.be/rt3dJKKDEWY?si=8ik2MttQlRXAeBq4

Anyone who lived through the Britpop years in the UK has heard that voice more than enough for one lifetime. Exactly the same on every single bloody song! It makes me want to throw something at the...

Bugger.

I must say that until now I'd managed to avoid paying any attention to the lyrics of the song, which is part of my wider policy of trying to ignore all Pete Sinfield lyrics as much as I can. Now you...

Depressing but you're not wrong.

I saw them when they were still called Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash, which I gather he's not allowed to do now. The selling point of the gig was that they'd play the full Argus album, which they did...

And a new album by the (I suspect largely forgotten) Swiss post-modern funsters öz ürügülü is coming, entitled Della Morte dell'Artista:

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I wasn't expecting that.

Gotta love the idea of Chechen policemen getting trained how to count BPM.

Except of course that won't happen, and it will in actuality just be yet another a pretext to arrest / brutalise anyone...

I kinda wouldn't tar all politicians with exactly the same brush as the Chechen regime, who are a bunch of fascist homicidal goons with a side order of religious fundamentalism (when it suits them).

You know, I quite enjoy some of those Shadowfax Windham Hill albums, which I got into as part of a massive New Age kick I went on a result of seatrain's excellent thread:
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I just found Avalanche Kaito.



First album:

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But it has a string on its back, and if you pull it out a tiny West Country voice tells you which member of 1969 King Crimson was the biggest cunt.

It's a little-known fact that between 1969 and 1972 everyone in England was naked all the time*. The collective memory has suppressed it, for very good reasons.




*Apart from the Queen of...

It seems they can't manage to print anything that isn't crap even when they're just trying to be funny. Awful rag.

Personally I think the silliest aspect of the list is the token inclusion of five or six acoustic jazz bassists. They should have just made it what it really is, a list of rock/pop bassists, rather...

Would agree that solely based on chops he should not be there - as a competent musician well able to play his particular style of music, but not a virtuoso. Virtuosity was very much not the point of...

It certainly isn't fair on other clubs that have abided by the rules. If Leicester finish top two then whichever of Leeds or Ipswich ends up in the playoffs will be entitled to feel very aggrieved,...

Gruelling Easter for anyone following the top four in the Championship. Good Friday was ridiculous, with games involving those sides kicking off at 12.30, 15.00, 17.30 and 20.00. And both Leeds...

Good weekend for Leeds and Ipswich. I love it when we beat Milwall, and feel very happy to be going into the break at the top of the table. Now just have to hope none of our lads get crocked on...

Groovy. A German band I see, with some seasoned jazzers in the lineup. Need to get this.

That's a nice album!

A shame that you have to buy a box with both LPs and CDs. That makes it very expensive, especially if you don’t actually want the LPs.

Really good article - thanks Robin. Harvey's an interesting man.

Sad to think how many of those names you mention are no longer with us.

I would like to think you're right about this. But anyone who has followed Leeds over the years acquires a deeply ingrained sense of caution, such is our history of taking promising situations and...

It'll be an incredible achievement if they achieve back-to-back promotions, but I agree that without really serious investment to set up the team on a pretty different basis they would be straight...

It does feel like one of those situations where a manager has just reached the end of their rope at a club and nothing is really going to improve until the connection is severed. Football management...

Sorry to hear this. I haven't paid much attention to the PL this season, so although I knew he wasn't doing well at West Ham so far, I didn't appreciate the situation fully.

I think defence and midfield are both viable options for him, as with our home-grown starlet Archie Gray.

It's nice seeing what a good partnership Ampadu has with his fellow Welshman Joe Rodon. Of...

Typically unpleasant behaviour from Chelsea, but then I'm hardly unbiased on that topic.

It's a sad story that seems to be replicated again and again in the PL. One can hardly blame a young...

I think he's superb, and very reliable - possibly our most important single player this season. I read a quote from Clinton Morrison a few days ago about how his quality was apparent even when he...

Nobody posting about PL football this year...?

Beginning to think Leeds may actually be back at the first time of asking. The Championship is ridiculous this year, and pretty riveting (at least if...

I love both the Taal albums, but in my book they are far from being metal. Adventurous modern prog rock, to me.

You need to have a certain degree of self-belief to consider that your creative efforts deserve an audience, but maybe not to be a full-blown narcissist? Though I will admit there is no shortage of...

I have a download of that somewhere. It’s fair to say they hadn’t hit their stride yet. Really big jump from that to the first LP.

Dude, it was bad enough before. Stop already!

But that doesn't make sense given that Fripp was explaining his lack of surprise that Jakko was having a miserable time in the Schizoid Band. Anyone being a cunt who wasn't in the Schizoid Band would...

Thanks, man - really appreciate it.

If you ever unearth them, and feel like helping a brother out with a file share, I will be indebted to you. Don't normally hold with this kind of thing, but there are no legit options here.

I did...

I'm just a regular viewer, but the implication that MG was the cunt-in-chief according to Fripp seemed pretty damn clear to me. I don't really know what else one could take from the edit.
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I like 'em a lot, but they are pretty far out there, wherever "there" is.

Primarily Clavinet rather than organ, but I highly recommend Mumpbeak and especially their album Tooth:

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Roy Powell is the Hendrix of the Clavinet.

A shame they only have one album up there. I still want those live CDRs!

I absolutely loved that band. Apart from the two studio albums, and a couple of live tracks on the ProgDay 2001 CD, they also had a couple of live CDRs that I’ve sadly never been able to track down.

“On Ilkla Moor” is a bit of whimsical nonsense that is printed on mugs, teatowels and other items of tat that are sold to tourists of the least discerning kind. The dialect involved is a reflection...

I realise that many people think of Yorkshire as a medieval shithole where people sleep next to their cattle, marry their siblings and have an instinctive distrust of book learning. Speaking as a...

The chairman of a company I once worked for (an elderly, wealthy and highly cultured Old Etonian) lived in a grand house in north London which I visited on one occasion. His next door neighbours on...

Well, there is Canario, I suppose. Which could with a favourable wind be described as achieving mediocrity. Most of the rest of the album is so far below that level that the mediocre would only be...

The last time I saw him play was with Jakob Bro at a small club in London. Shocked to realise that was eleven years ago! On that occasion he was using a minimal drum kit and played using his hands to...