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The Sad Song Co.: Saudade

New album from Nigel Powell's brainchild. Powell is known for his work with Unbelievable Truth (with Andy - Thom's brother - Yorke) and Frank Turner.
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I based my opinion on a bootleg I got from an American friend. I believe I remember Holdsworth wasn't too happy when one of the old Soft Machine-compositions was announced to be played.

Yes, Mark did a great job remastering this. He tells about it shortly in the liner-notes. I really like this set and you can hear the band is a lot more tighter than during the Progman Cometh Music...

I was about to also, but Bill is - even speeded up - a pleasure to listen to. So, thanks for sharing.

Thanks! I will. ^^

As a fan of the music of Japan (which members are on this one too) I was lucky to find a copy of this one two. You could say No-Man returned to this sound somewhat with Love You To Bits.
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To stay a bit in the Canterbury-vein: the first two LP's by Solution were also released as double-album in 1976, a year after Cordon Bleu gave the Dutch band a lot of airplay....

Making my way through The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell. I must admit the first 50 pages weren't easy to get into the story (especially compared to Utopia Avenue). Lots of names...

Thanks!
As you might understand Alan I had to edit the original review in order to remove the address of the Advent-shopname (where the DVD initially could be ordered). Beautiful times!

Great Moog-solo in I Offered You The Moon.
And that last track sounds as if Al Stewart is singing it. Lovely.

Kenso’s Guide To Making Progressive Rock Music is a bit curious DVD in the Kenso-discography. Here a review I wrote many years ago.

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Kenso’s Guide To Making Progressive Rock Music...

If I remember correctly it was Jobson's choice to let it sound like this. He wanted to create the sound of a live-recording as if you were in the concert-hall, so no studio-trickery afterwards....

Thanks a lot for posting the Mike Beck-video. Wow, that was as you're looking into the kitchen and see how those heavenly things were made.

On the Happy The Fan-forum we sometimes had discussions...

Thanks for posting. Lovely.

Percy Jones also performes on Live And Zen with Ippu-Do. On that album they cover Time Of The Season too.
I have the Ippu-Do boxset Magic Vox and the Tsuchiya boxset Solo Vox Epic Years. It's true a...

In March a 3CD/1LP re-release of Quiet Life will be re-released: https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/japan-quiet-life-box-set/

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Funny to notice that the picture that is shown changes depending on which track you stood when you searched the code.

Thanks. Fine work of love. Charlie had some great multi-instrumentalists in his band ;)

Well, you can say internet changed a lot.
I used Terry Hounsome's New Rock Record as one of my main information-books on musicians and bands: on which albums did they play, which albums were...

It's in my top 10 too. I love some Bon Lozaga from time to time!

(I searched for Arcing Wires, but couldn't find it, probably because the search-function doesn't search in titles of youtubeclips.)

Almost two months after ordering Prime arrived from it's trip...

Thank god, no Starless ;)

:up Good to see some love for this one over here too!
Hopefully A Helmet Of Gnats will arrive in Europe soon, so I can add it to my list of 2020.

Or it contained elements, themes, etc. from the previous songs to make you want to listen to the album again.

RIP

Without the knowledge of English football in the early seventies I got to know You'll Never Walk Alone through my birthday-present, age 16: Pink Floyd's Meddle:

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The remaster is being discussed here: https://www.progressiveears.org/forum/showthread.php/25271-Discipline-s-Unfolded-Like-Staircase?highlight=unfolded

Based on the first clip I would recommend Anastasia Minster, who's recent album Father impressed me a lot:

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I guess, looking back, this album is also for me the "game changer" in progressive rock.

Although he/she/it appears only very short in the movie the dwarf in the red coat in Don't Look Now scared the hell out of me. (Spoiler!)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C-Y3oX5PyQ

Indeed, the second NOA isn't very much in the Holdsworth-vein, the first - in my ears - is almost a tribute.

Funny you mention "who's who", as I used the same words in my thankyou-mail to Greg (who also loves this one).
Nice to see Senri growing up. The amazing child has become a young woman.

I didn't no it either, but noticed it on an email from Greg Walker with an update of the latest additions to his shop (I guess it contained new releases from about the last 2 years ;)).

Taku Yabuki's Modern World Symphony No. 3 was mentioned in the New Releases Only-thread, but deserves a place right here too.
Wow, what a fine album this is, and what an amazing group of musicians...

The Soft Works-live double album is brand new!

Just discovered the Japanese band NOA and their first album Tri-Logic from 1987 is very much in the Allan Holdsworth-vein.
Guitarist Hirofumi Mitoma does a good job (also on guitar-synth). People...

Canterbury legends gathered in Soft Works: Abracadabra In Osaka.

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Melanie Mau + Martin Schnella just released Crowdless Sessions, a CD/DVD-set featuring live (yeah, without audience) performed songs from some of their albums, including a Flaming Row-medley.
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Very nice words by Derrick!

Wasn't the band called You Were Spiraling? Well, I got that one when it was released and enjoyed it. I always hate it when reviewers come with the "into the garbage can"-line.

Love that one too. Got a promotional copy earlier this year, but I thought it was so nice I had to buy the real album too. Great Nick Drake-like guitar-playing and hypnotic voices.

It's not my...

Discussed in another thread, the album Protal by Lorenzo Felicati and Pat Mastelotto.

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PS There;s a Dutch website that shows the information above: http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/ZZD/ZZD_5C.shtml

It was the saxophone-solo (13:05-15:07) that was used by Radio Veronica. It inspired two Dutch musicians, Peter Koelewijn and Harry van Hoof) to perform a cover: Hal Dorado: 240024 (What Is Love)....

Just started a new book by an - for me - unknown author called Trent Dalton from Australia. The novel is called Boy Swallows Universe (2018 in a 2019 translation).
Only one chapter in, but already...

Wow! 2021 begins very good. Thanks and good luck.

Well spot, yeah, I assume it's a 1CD/1DVD; The "(" is above the "9", which explains a lot ;-)

Lots of albums in the mail, which takes a long time. But this one came rather quick from the USA:

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And again two archive-releases:

Soft Works: Abracadabra In Osaka:

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Very good sounding recording direct from the live mixing desk. restored and Mastered by Mark Wingfield.

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Before I clicked on the YT I thought I remembered Mathilde Santing was involved. Yes! Memory still working.

One of my favourite albums from the sixties. Both the short songs on side one and the epic on side 2 are dear to me. I believe the saxophone-theme from What Love was once used as a tune for a...

New on MoonJune: Phoenix by Vasko Atanasovski Adrabesa Quartet. Fine etno-jazz.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXG-b7m1u2c

Funny you mention Genesis: Yano produced an album with Peter Gabriel, David Rhodes and Akira Inoue called Snowflake based on the story by Paul Gallico:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBPDFcS4oAs

Funny you mention Genesis: Yano produced an album with Peter Gabriel, David Rhodes and Akira Inoue called Snowflake based on the story by Paul Gallico:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBPDFcS4oAs

ODERAN by Peter Swart. Like a modern Bo Hansson.

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The music on ODERAN is inspired by KRONIEK van ODERAN, a sciencefiction trilogy, written by the composer and (alas) only available in...

NOA is a progressive jazz-rock fusionband that released an album in 1987 and two years ago more or less reunited for a second album.
Here's a live piece from the second album:

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I love his two recent solo-albums, especially ...And The Truth Will Set You Free...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE9ATrlckI

As a bonus my friend found this:

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I've asked a friend and Camel-specialist about this issue.
He compaired the following recordings:

1. Nude remaster CD with the live bonus tracks
2. On The Road 1981
3. Originele BBC...

Loved the way David Mitchell even got Nick Drake into the story, in the scene where the studio is being booked by Joe Boyd for some singer called Nick Lake or something.

Don't know, but there is a remaster from 2004 (Roadrunner), which also includes some bonus tracks and liner notes. Can't compare, but maybe that one is mixed better?