Hiromi – Spark (Telarc, 2016) Spark is the 10th album by Hiromi, one of the greatest pianists in the current jazz music scene. In this…
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Category: CD Reviews
Steven Wilson’s Impeccable Music Sensibility
Steven Wilson – 4 ½ (Kscope, 2016) Steven Wilson is welcoming the New Year with a half album of pieces that serve as an appetizer…
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Tribal Minsdcapes
Steve Roach and Byron Metcalf – Tales from the Ultra Tribe (Projekt, 2013) On Tales from the Ultra Tribe, electronic music maestro Steve Roach teams…
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Tundra Jazz
Oddjob – Folk (Caprice, 2015) Swedish jazz-rock band Oddjob has recreated traditional folk songs related to herding and transformed them into contemporary jazz pieces. There…
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The Whiskey Mountain Sessions contains a series of lengthy jams by Hillmen, a band that features two members of progressive rock band Djam Karet. These…
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Revisiting other Worlds
Dan Pound – “Return to other Worlds” (Pound Sounds, 2012) This is the first two CD set released by ambient electronic music artist Dan Pound.…
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Octopus Remixed
Gentle Giant – Octopus (Alucard, 2015) Octopus, one of the great progressive rock classics of the 1970s has received the masterful treatment of English musician…
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Splendid Renditions of Classics on Electric Guitar
Sam Coulson – Electric Classical Rising guitar hero Sam Coulson recreates some of his favorite classical music pieces on Electric Classical, using two Fender Stratocaster…
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Divided By One
Billy Sherwood – Divided By One (Cherry Red Records, 2015) This studio album by multi-instrumentalist Billy Sherwood is a solo effort in which Sherwood plays…
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Rising Star of American Progressive Rock
Jane Getter Premonition – On (Madfish, 2015) Jane Getter Premonition’s latest album, On, is one of the greatest surprises of the year in the progressive…
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