#ThrowbackThursday #reviews from 1998: "For the first time in who knows how long, the Ozrics really surprised me with this one. While still undeniably #OzricTentacles in every way, they have pushed further into territories they have always hinted at before, namely dance, electronica, #JazzFusion, and spacey ambient." #ExposeOnline #SpaceRock #ElectronicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/ozric-tentacles-curious-corn-2.html
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New #review today: "Back on their 2012 album A Little Bit of Big Bonanza, #BushmansRevenge covered #SonnySharrock’s “As We Used to Sing,” and that gives us a good idea where they get their idea of jazz from. On Ah, les Vaches! they carry on in the same basic vein they’ve been mining for as long as I’ve been aware of them. At one end of the spectrum, they play loose, noisy #jazz in Sharrock’s idiom, and at the other, they drift off into effects-laden atmospheric haze." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #KarismaRecords #IsItJazzRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/bushmans-revenge-ah-les-vaches-2.html
New #review today: "Sometimes you have to give up trying to make sense of the world and just accept things as they are. For example, why is there a band called #HoneyRideMeAGoat? I don’t know why they’re called that, but I do know that they’re a really interesting band, so I suppose they need a name. The group’s origins go back to 2000, when some students at Canterbury College bonded over a shared love of Captain Beefheart, Black Sabbath, and Soft Machine." #ExposeOnline #AvantJazz #AvantRock #AvantProg #CuneiformRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/honey-ride-me-a-goat-horns-hooves-2.html
#ThrowbackThursday #review from 2003: "Not to be confused with an identically named Polish act, this #Amarok is a seven-member band from Catalonia in northeastern Spain. On Mujer Luna, their fifth CD, they mix world and ethnic influences with #SymphonicRock to create one of the most exciting albums I’ve heard in some time." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/amarok-mujer-luna-3.html
New #review today: "#TheWinterResidence is the latest collaboration between British multi-instrumentalist #MikeSeed and #RLoftiss of #TheGrayFieldRecordings. Their debut album, How the Night Falls, presents eleven tracks in just under forty minutes, traversing territory somewhere between #DarkFolk, #wyrdfolk, hauntological folk, and experimental #folktronica. Ethereal vocals drift through indistinct electronic textures, #FieldRecordings, and spectral atmospheres that often seem to exist at the edge of perception." #ExposeOnline #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-winter-residence-how-the-night-falls-6.html
New #review today: "This set, recorded live at Orion Studio in April 1997 is powerful documentation that the instrumental powerhouse #BoudDeun (bassist #MatEiland, drummer #RockyCancelose, violinist #GregHiser, and guitarist #ShawnPersinger), could transcend their studio recordings, which numbered three at the time, and deliver a mindblowing set that could leave an audience speechless." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #JazzFusion #CuneiformRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/boud-deun-pronounced-booed-dee-un-3.html
New #review today: "The #ClaudioScolari Project is back once again with their trademark brand of modern #jazz sounds, ranging from composed and arranged to outright chaotic madness and everything in between. Those familiar with the six albums beginning with Upside Down (2019) will be in relatively familiar territory, this is a group that doesn’t change that much from one release to the next, at least as to the execution of their craft, though they tend to get more daring and fearless." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/claudio-scolari-project-lines-of-now-3.html
New #review today: "#RogerHoudaille's seemingly endless quest to rescue overlooked music from obscurity has unearthed another gem with The Recordings 1971-1981, a retrospective of Los Angeles cult favorites #Skooshny. More than a compilation, this #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords release serves as a document of the band's formative decade, gathering the Alien Records recordings, the 1979 single, unreleased tracks, Michael Penn sessions, demos, and the earliest recordings featuring vocalist Mark Breyer." #ExposeOnline #PowerPop http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/skooshny-the-recordings-1971-1981-6.html
New #review today: "#MarkWirtz remains one of pop's great outliers. Best known for the unfinished #ATeenageOpera project, he spent the late 60s pushing studio pop toward increasingly elaborate forms, then somehow carried that vision into 1973 long after the rest of popular music had moved on. #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords' new reissue pairs his two obscure Capitol albums, Balloon and Hothouse Smiles, restoring both LPs to their original configurations and adding the non-LP B-side "Nothing to Do." The first thing to know is that these albums don't sound much like 1973. They're rooted in #BaroquePop, music hall traditions, film-score orchestration, and #Beatles-inspired studio craft." #ExposeOnline #ArtPop #PsychedelicRock #PsychedelicMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/mark-wirtz-the-70s-albums-balloon-hothouse-smiles-6.html
New #review today: " In fact this live #Discus album was available two years ago as a bonus disc in a Japanese box set of the band’s first two CDs, subtitled The Official Bootleg, but this is the first time it’s been available as a stand-alone disc; and regardless of that earlier subtitle, this is no bootleg — the recording quality and mix of the six tracks presented is nothing short of stellar, especially given the difficulty of recording some of the Indonesian acoustic instruments." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #IndonesianMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/discus-live-in-switzerland-2005-3.html
New #review today: "Earthman is the first #FruitsDeMerRecords vinyl release by #ManAndMachine, the project of Scottish singer, guitarist, and songwriter #TomRoche. Familiar #PsychedelicRock and #ProgressiveRock reference points appear throughout, but they are arranged at improbable angles..." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/man-machine-earthman-6.html
New #review today: "For over three decades and nearly a dozen albums, Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist #SimonSteensland has been an irregular and unpredictable entity on the progressive music scene, his music embracing elements of symphonic, rock, folk, #AvantGarde minimalist, maximalist, and everything in between; some may call it #AvantProgressive although I believe it’s closer to classical music executed on mostly electric instruments." #ExposeOnline #áMARXE #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/simon-steensland-explosion-of-bad-music-3.html
New #review today: "#GabrielMás is the latest chapter in the long-running creative partnership between former #GabrielBondage founder #RexBundy and longtime collaborator #RichReardin, a pair whose roots stretch back to Chicago's fertile progressive underground of the 70s. Gabriel Bondage occupied a unique corner of American #ProgressiveRock. Active from 1970 to 1984, they released two albums, Angel Dust and Another Trip to Earth, combining progressive rock, acid folk, #ArtRock, country influences, and occasional touches of funk into a sound that often felt more British than Midwestern." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/gabriel-mas-hav3-a-good-trip-6.html
New #review today: "Different Voices is a remastered collection that contains all of the tracks recorded as #WaxTheatricks, plus the songs from #Earwacks’ second single in 1980. Their sound was a mix of #NewWave pop informed by jazzy and progressive elements, mixing clever hooks, interesting lyrics, with great solos on saxes and guitar and more." #ExposeOnline #ArtRock #ArtPop #DavidUdell http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/wax-theatricks-different-voices-3.html
New #review today: "#FergusQuill spans the whole range of #BigBand history with his #ImaginaryBigBand (which does seem to actually exist), now at their third album." #ExposeOnline #Jazz #FergsImaginaryBigBand http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/fergs-imaginary-big-band-the-new-atomic-2.html
New #review today: "Any listeners who have followed #Passionfix since their 2020 album This and That will not find any astonishing surprises on this latest album, Secret. The sound and style of singer #KellySecret is instantly identifiable immediately when the first song starts, and carries through to the very end." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/passionfix-secret-3.html
New #review today: "#KingOfSweden is a really good #ProgressiveRock band that builds their sound out of the classic building blocks of prog, but does such a good job of it that they don’t sound retro or nostalgic. In the four tracks on Interregnum, which is their second full-length album, they remind me at times of the French band #Atoll, #PeterBanks’ #Flash, and (for current references) #MoonLetters." #ExposeOnline http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/king-of-sweden-interregnum-2.html
New #review today: "On their previous album, #AtsukoChiba augmented their sound with strings, brass, and woodwinds, but for their latest they go it on their own. This self-titled release is their fourth full-length album, and it features six tracks of moderate length. While the music exhibits a wide range of sound and influence, there’s a thread of #psychedelia running through it all no matter what the surface trappings may be." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #krautrock #PostRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/atsuko-chiba-atsuko-chiba-2.html
New #review today: "#Yowie’s follow-up to Synchromysticism is the equally baffling and impressive Taking Umbrage." #ExposeOnline #MathRock #SkinGraftRecords http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/yowie-taking-umbrage-2.html
New #review today: "Unlike previous #Glutton releases, this one is entirely instrumental, but they’ve got enough ideas to maintain listeners’ interest throughout." #ExposeOnline #ApollonRecords #ProgressiveRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/glutton-skiva-heter-vishnu-2.html
New #review today: "#TheAction was one of the great "what if?" stories of the British 60s. Produced by #GeorgeMartin, celebrated as a live act, revered on the London mod circuit, and responsible for a remarkable string of singles, they somehow never managed to place a record on the charts." #ExposeOnline #ThinkLikeAKeyRecords #PsychedelicRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/the-action-rolled-gold-the-complete-1967-68-recordings-6.html
New #review today: "#7dMedia has made #AndreLaFosse’s entire back catalog available via Bandcamp. Entry Level is a calling card of sorts, presenting 14 tracks from 13 different albums, including both the debut and the latest. This sampler presents a stunning array of different sounds—as the years have advanced, LaFosse has kept up with the latest in technology for both his looping and his effects, sometimes accompanied by a drum machine." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/andre-lafosse-entry-level-then-again-2.html
New #review today: "With #HadalSherpa's fourth full-length release Mountains, the Finnish quartet returns to the heavy world-influenced rock that made their second album Void Weaver such a standout, a purely instrumental style that meets somewhere at the crossroads of the ripping heady power jam sound as it crosses from Morocco to Istanbul." #ExposeOnline #ProgressiveRock #SpaceRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/hadal-sherpa-mountains-3.html